AI journaling for iPhone
Every entry gets a reflection in your own words and an original photograph of how it felt. It is the feeling of being read clearly, especially when you cannot name what you are carrying. Over time, you watch yourself grow.
How it works
You write what's true, on a good day or a hard one. The app reads the feeling underneath it, says it back to you, and turns it into a photograph you can sit with.
We didn't do anything special. Coffee on the kitchen floor, talking until the light moved across the wall. At some point I thought: I could do this for the rest of my life and it would be enough.
This is happiness that doesn't announce itself. Nothing special happened, and that's the whole point. You stayed, you talked, you watched the light move, which means you were here for it instead of somewhere ahead of it. The moments we call enough are usually the ones we weren't trying to improve. Worth keeping: what made an ordinary morning feel like plenty?
I keep saying I'm fine. I packed the last box today and the apartment echoed. I am not fine, and I don't have a word for what I am.
This is grief with no funeral. The kind that arrives at the end of something ordinary, where there's nothing to celebrate and no one thinks to console you. You don't have a word for it because it was never given one. And the echo in that apartment isn't emptiness. It's everything that happened there, still answering back. Here's the question worth sitting with: what are you actually saying goodbye to, underneath the boxes?
That's the whole point. Not advice, not a mood score. Being read clearly, the way you'd want a person to read you, on the day you needed it.
The reflection
The Echo validates what you're feeling and quotes you back, so you know it actually read you. The Amplify offers one new way to look at it. No generic empathy, no "thank you for sharing."
Why it works
Stuck rarely looks dramatic. It's the same week on repeat, a feeling you keep talking yourself out of, a thing you can't quite say out loud. RTF Journal reads what you actually wrote, not a checklist, and reflects it back clearly enough that you recognize yourself in it. Naming a thing is how you start to move it.
The app doesn't tell you what to feel. It shows you that you were already feeling it.
Every feeling, made visible
Joy is easy to picture. The quiet grief, the in-between, the days you can't name: those are harder, and they're the ones this is built for. Each entry becomes its own photograph, matched to what you actually felt.
What you get
Five dimensions, scored from your own writing: emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, self-awareness, resilience, and meaning-making. Read as plain bands, Emerging through Flourishing, not clinical numbers. The app even writes the story of your month back to you, and tells you which pattern is worth your attention right now.
Every entry becomes one cinematic image, built from its emotional fingerprint, never the literal events. They collect into a gallery of your inner year, a record you can actually look at.
Keep a journal to yourself, open one to a partner or therapist by QR code, or make one discoverable so others can read and follow. You always control who reads and who writes. Crisis resources stay free for everyone.
Private by design
Your journal is protected by Face ID, TLS encryption in transit, iOS Data Protection on your device, and Google-managed encryption in the cloud. AI analysis runs through Anthropic (Claude) and OpenAI; image generation through fal.ai receives only abstract prompts, never your words. None of them train on your data. No ads. Your data is never sold.
Pricing
Then $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. One subscription, everything included. Crisis resources are always free.
Questions
There's a 7-day free trial with everything included. After that it's $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year. Crisis resources stay free either way.
Software, not people. Entries are analyzed by Anthropic's Claude to generate your reflections, screened by OpenAI for safety, and image prompts derived from the analysis go to fal.ai. None of them train on your data. We never sell your data or show ads.
No. RTF Journal is a journaling tool, not therapy or medical care. If you're struggling, the app surfaces real crisis resources, including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (US).
RTF Journal is an iOS journaling app by Neon Peach, LLC. It analyzes each journal entry with AI to produce a two-part reflection (Echo and Amplify), generates one cinematic photograph per entry from the entry's emotional fingerprint, and tracks growth across five dimensions: emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, self-awareness, resilience, and meaning-making. It costs $9.99/month or $79.99/year after a 7-day free trial and requires iOS 17 or later.
