Mindspace is a private journal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac — a quiet journal for loud minds. A place to catch what you're thinking, keep what you don't want to forget, and notice what's actually working.
What is Mindspace?
Mindspace is a private journal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. You write entries, track your mood and daily habits, and sketch on a freeform Apple Pencil canvas — in one place, with no account to create. It's free to start, made by a small team in Tokyo, and not related to the meditation, mind-map or office-space apps that share the name.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Journaling, mood and habit tracking, prompts and the Pencil canvas are all in the free tier. Pro is optional.
- Where does my journal live?
- On your device, synced privately through iCloud. No account, no servers of ours reading it.
- Which devices?
- iPhone, iPad and Mac. Write on the phone, draw on the iPad, read it all back on the Mac.
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A mind
like yours.
You know where your life is headed. It's the two hundred daily tabs that keep burying it. Mindspace is the quiet place to empty your head — and turn the noise into a life you're actually choosing.
Too many tabs. One calm home.
For the founder, the operator, the person running at full tilt — clear about where life is headed, but buried under a hundred daily tabs. Dump the pile in your head into one quiet, scrollable day, and let it settle into something you can actually act on.
- 01Capture before it slips. A home-screen widget opens straight to a blank page. Get the thought down in seconds — before the next meeting swallows it.
- 02Turn noise into intentions. On-device AI reads your own words back and surfaces what actually matters this season. Nothing leaves your device.
- 03A weekly rhythm you keep. Intentions and trackers tied to the days you write — progress you can feel, not another dashboard to maintain.
A few calm views.
One quiet world.
No dashboards. No feeds. Just a few calm views for a day, a week, and a life.
Small tools. Big room to think.
Widget, one tap.
One tap from the home screen opens straight to today's blank page. Write before the thought evaporates.
Prompts that read you back.
On-device AI surfaces a gentle question based on what you've already written. Prefer to pick your own? Browse our 270+ journal prompts.
Mood & trackers.
A 1-to-5 scale. Quiet weekly charts — not a dashboard.
A library that remembers.
Every photo you attach, pinned to the day and the words that surrounded it.
A canvas, with Apple Pencil.
For the thoughts that don't fit in a paragraph. Sketch, annotate, come back tomorrow.
AI runs on your phone.
Powered by Apple Intelligence. Your entries never pass through our servers. iCloud sync uses Apple's built-in encryption.
Eight small verbs.
One quiet place.
From people who don't love apps.
I finally have somewhere to put the mental tabs. Not another to-do list — a place to think.
My therapist asked what I'd been using. I was a little sheepish — it's an app. Then I showed her, and she wrote it down.
Three months in, my entries read like letters from a slightly wiser version of me.
Start free.
Pay when it sticks.
No paywall on the writing itself. Ever. Upgrade when journaling becomes a practice.
Everything you need to start the habit.
- Unlimited entries
- 1 photo per entry
- Up to 2 trackers per journal
- On-device AI prompts
- JSON export
For when journaling becomes a practice.
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad & Mac
- Unlimited photos & trackers
- Apple Health integration
- Custom themes & prompts
- Canvas export
Journal the life
you’re actually living.
Free. Five minutes to set up. A lifetime of pages ahead.
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