Jurnl Early access

How it works

Inside Jurnl, page by page.

How a page begins, what the AI companion notices as your journal grows, and how photos stay with your words.

Begin

Begin, write, close the book.

  1. Begin

    A question to start from. Or a blank page.

    Pick a word for how you’re arriving, and Jurnl’s AI companion offers a question to begin with. Not quite right? Ask for Another, or go straight to a blank page.

  2. Write

    Write what’s on your mind. Take the space you need.

    If you stop, the page waits where you left it, until you finish it or tear it up.

    A page you leave open is saved, but isn't sent for AI reflection while it's unfinished.

  3. Close the book

    A small ending. Then back to your day.

    Closing the book keeps the entry as you wrote it, among the pages the companion can draw on.

    Optional page sounds for opening and closing the book.

Jurnl’s arrival screen. It asks “How are you arriving?” and offers words to choose from — steady, bright, hopeful, tender, tired, foggy — with tender selected. Below, a question to begin with: “What would you like to remember about right now?”, with Another, a Begin writing button, and Start with a blank page.
The arrival screen, with an example question. Full size

The companion

The more you write, the more there is to notice.

Jurnl’s AI companion reads back what you’ve written. When something is really there, it writes a short note grounded in your words, and the view widens as your pages build.

Shown with an example journal.

  1. A page

    Your own words, seen again.

    • A thought, noticed

      Close the book, and a short note can appear with the entry. It can underline a word from your page.

    An entry in Jurnl. Under Fri · 11 Sep · 20:49 and Day one, the question “What caught your interest today?” and an entry about a heron on the canal, standing so still by the lock that the writer missed their turn. Below it, a note headed “A thought, noticed” reads: “The heron came up by the lock, and then the long way back to see if it was still there,” with the word heron underlined.
    An entry and its note. Full size

  2. Recent writing

    What keeps coming back.

    • Your week

      Write on a few days, and it can notice what came up more than once.

    • This stretch

      The last couple of months in perspective. It can lead you back to the pages behind the thought.

    This week in Look back: three short entries. Today, 9 Sep: “Sleep is the thing underneath the thing. Said it out loud on the walk and it landed.” Tue 8 Sep: “The week caught up. I think I knew it on Wednesday and ignored it — not sleeping…” Mon 7 Sep: “Bins out. Then I stood in the kitchen longer than I needed to. First quiet I’d ha…” Below, a sage note headed “A thought from your week” reads: “Sleep came up more than once this week — the evenings reading a little quieter than where they started,” with Sleep underlined.
    A week, and what came up twice. Full size
    An amber note headed “A thought from this stretch” reads: “The garden has come up again and again, and work alongside it, through these weeks.” Beneath it, Pages behind this thought.
    This stretch. Full size

  3. The longer view

    A wider view, built over months.

    • Seasons

      When a three-month season closes, look back on it as a whole.

    • Chapters

      Jurnl can suggest a chapter that follows what you’ve been writing about. Keep it, rename it, adjust it or let it go.

    • What stays

      After many months, what keeps mattering across your journal.

    Summer ’26, 18 pages, June to August. An amber note headed “A thought from the season” reads: “Across these months the garden ran through the writing, and work kept returning beside it.” Beneath it, Pages behind this thought.
    A closed season. Full size
    A card headed “A possible chapter”: The roof survey, 23 Jul – 31 Aug. It says “Nothing is saved unless you keep it.”, links to some of the pages behind it, and offers Keep this chapter, Rename, Adjust dates and Not this one.
    A possible chapter. Full size
    Under Always, a clay note headed “What stays” reads: “The garden needed cutting back, both then and later.” Below it, two words that keep returning: garden and river.
    What stays. Full size

Notes appear when your writing gives the companion something real to point at, so each one is there for a reason.

Photos

Keep the picture with the words.

Add up to four still photos to a page as you write, or later to one you’ve closed. Your words stay as you wrote them.

Stack them, fan them out, arrange them your way, and swipe through them full screen.

Jurnl’s writing page. At the top, Leave open, then Sat · 26 Sep · 14:23 and Day four, above the entry: “The heron was by the river again. I took the long way home. Tea in the kitchen, then a few minutes in the garden before the light went.” Below it, three photos overlap at slight angles: a heron in the reeds by a river, a patterned mug on a sunlit kitchen table, and a garden path with orange flowers. At the bottom are a paperclip button, Tear the page and Close the book.
A page from an example journal. Full size

  • Your own pace.

    Come back after a week or a season: an unfinished page waits where you left it, and a question is ready. Starting again

  • An extra door, if you want one.

    Turn on journal lock, and Jurnl asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode before it opens.

Questions

A few things worth knowing.

Can I just write?

Yes. A blank page is always one tap away, and a question is only ever an offer: take it, ask for another, or skip it.

What if I stop for a while?

Nothing breaks. Everything you wrote is still there, an open page stays where you left it, and a question is ready when you’re back.

Starting again

Does the companion read everything I write?

Each request uses relevant writing. When you close the book, that entry and a few relevant earlier passages may be used for a note. A page you leave open isn’t, and longer views draw on a few short passages from the stretch they look at.

What a note needs

How is this different from chatting with an AI?

Jurnl is built around a journal you keep. Your pages come first, and the companion’s notes sit beside them, grounded in what you wrote. There’s no conversation to keep up: you write, close the book, and come back when you like.

Is the companion a therapist or a coach?

No. It notices what’s in your writing and reflects it back; it doesn’t give advice or treatment. Jurnl includes a list of support services for where you are, but it isn’t one.

What does it cost?

Jurnl will be a paid app: one complete journal, with nothing held back for a premium tier. The price will be announced when it’s released.

When can I use it?

Jurnl is coming to iPhone. It isn’t available yet, and early access isn’t open.

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Your journal starts here.

Coming to iPhone. Early access isn’t open yet.

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