Intelligent Diary — Press kit

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A private video, voice, photo and text diary for iPhone whose AI runs entirely on the phone: it transcribes, searches and charts your own words and never sends them anywhere.

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Intelligent Diary is a journaling app for iPhone and iPad that keeps everything on the device: recording, transcription in 27 languages, search, charts, a podcast that reads your entries back, and generative art from your own words. No account, no subscription, no server. Free, with three one-time unlocks.

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Intelligent Diary is a private diary for iPhone and iPad. You talk to it for a minute a day, on video, voice, photo or text, or scan a handwritten page, and it transcribes, indexes and understands the entry on the phone itself. Nothing is uploaded, no account exists, and the diary is a folder of ordinary files you can export at any time. Over months it shows you your own life back: which people and places you mention, how your feelings move, the words you keep using, every wish and regret you voiced, all quoted and dated from your own entries. It never gives advice. A Podcast mode reads your diary aloud with an on-device voice; Hallucination Station turns entries into dream-like images and answers questions from your own quotes, again on the phone. The basics are free forever; Charts, Words and Hallucination Station are one-time unlocks of $4, $2 and $4, each with a 60-day free trial.

Fact sheet

The numbers and the claims, as shipped.

NameIntelligent Diary
DeveloperBryan Wood — just another software developer from Dallas, Texas.
PlatformsiPhone and iPad, iOS / iPadOS 26.5 or later.
PriceFree. Three one-time unlocks: Charts $4 · Hallucination Station $4 · Words $2. Each has its own 60-day free trial. No subscription, no account.
Privacy100% on-device AI. Nothing is sent anywhere; no analytics; no training on your data. The only thing that can leave the phone is opt-in, end-to-end iCloud sync between your own devices, off by default.
Insight featuresCharts, Hallucination Station, scenes, intentions and feelings are computed with Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro or later, A17 Pro, M-series iPad) on this device or a synced one. Without it the app still records, transcribes and searches everything.
LanguagesTranscription in 27 languages, on-device. Interface in English.
Download sizeAbout 3.7 GB. The speech, vision and image models ship inside the app.
Released1.0 in August 2026 · 1.1 (Words tab, Podcast) in September 2026 · current version 1.1.4.
Your dataThe diary is a real folder of ordinary files. Import from Day One, Apple Journal, Photos or loose files; export as an Intelligent Diary bundle or a Day One–compatible archive.
LinksApp Store · intelligentdiary.app · support@intelligentdiary.app

Story angles

Three ways in.

A diary whose AI never phones home

Every model the app uses — speech, vision, language, image generation — ships inside the app and runs on the phone. There is no server to trust, no account to create, no analytics. The privacy claim is structural, not a policy.

Listen to your diary like a podcast

Any set of entries — a year, a month, a search, shuffle — read aloud by an on-device voice, with stations that remember where you stopped, Lock Screen playback and chapter pills. Video and audio entries play as recorded.

Your vocabulary is a place

The Word Map lays out every word you have ever used, arranged by meaning on one stable map. Tap a word to find the entries where you said it. Beside it: every question you asked yourself, every wish, every regret — quoted and dated.

Latest release

1.1.4 — the podcast's voice menu

Opening Voice Options or switching a Kokoro voice could freeze the app for a minute or more, and on some devices end in a crash. The Kokoro voices are now prepared once in the background and never re-fetched while you use the podcast.

1.1.3Every language on iOS 27: the app checks each language's analysis on its own, so non-English entries get their full insights again.
1.1.2Working through an iOS 27 issue: the app carries its own English word analysis while Apple's fix is pending.
1.1.1Insights and voices, fixed: new installs analyze entries at once; the Podcast reads with the app's own voices.
1.1Words, its own tab; the Podcast player; sharper feelings.
1.0A private video diary for your life. Everything stays on your device.