Oriora Journal
LiveWrite freely. The AI reflects on your rhythm, not the words inside.
A quiet, distraction-free place to write every day, with your entries and photos kept on your device. Search back through everything you have written, see your months as a calendar of the days you wrote, and save the whole journal as Markdown or plain text whenever you want it. Once a week you can get a gentle reflection on how your writing is going — built only from when and how much you wrote, never from what you actually said. The words themselves stay yours and are never sent anywhere.
What you get
- ✓A clean, distraction-free page to write on — add a photo, a tag, or the weather where you wrote, if you want them
- ✓Search back through everything you have ever written, right on your device
- ✓Your months as a calendar of the days you wrote, and how the writing has gone over time
- ✓A daily reminder to write, at a time you pick — it comes from your phone, not from us
- ✓Save your whole journal as Markdown or plain text: readable, printable, yours to keep
- ✓A weekly reflection on your writing rhythm, built from when and how much you wrote rather than from the words
- ✓Write or ask by chat, or speak the page on a live call — it finds old entries too, and can file a note in your own cloud
Example outputs
How it works
Write an entry
Open a clean page and write; attach a photo if you like. It saves to your device.
It stays yours
Entries and photos are kept on your device. Your writing is only sent when you ask the assistant about it — and Oriora keeps none of it.
Ask for a reflection
Get a gentle weekly note on your rhythm, built from when and how much you wrote.
FAQ
What happens to my entries if I stop using the app?
Nothing — they are a file on your device, not rows in an account of ours. You can save the whole journal as Markdown or plain text at any time and keep it wherever you like, and you can back it up to your own GitHub or Google Drive. There is no subscription that can lapse and take your writing with it.
Does the app know where I am?
Only if you ask it to. Tap “Add weather” on an entry and your phone asks your permission, then the app rounds your position to about a kilometre and uses it once to look up that day’s weather. That rounded position is kept with the entry on your device so your journal remembers where it was written — it is never sent to Oriora, and never to the AI. Every other entry has no location at all.
Does the AI read what I write?
Not for the weekly reflection — that is built only from when you wrote and how long the entries were, never from the text. If you explicitly ask the chat about an entry, that entry's text is sent for that one request and is not retained.
Do I need a subscription?
No. The app is free; you only pay for the AI reflections you run — a fraction of a cent each, billed to your Oriora wallet.
How do I sign in?
With your Oriora account — an emailed code, or Continue with Google, GitHub or Apple. It's the same Oriora sign-in page the website uses, shown inside the app, and one account covers every Oriora app.
Does it sync between my devices, and how does backup & restore work?
There is no automatic sync, and that is deliberate — it would mean us holding your diary on our servers. Instead your journal lives on your device and you back the whole thing up to your OWN cloud: connect Google Drive (one tap) or GitHub (a token) once in your Oriora account, and every Oriora app backs up there — restore it on any other device whenever you choose. Files need no connection at all: export a backup file and import one back through your phone's own Files picker, where iCloud Drive (and Google Drive, if it's on your phone) simply appear. The Back-up panel shows exactly where your backups live and when the last one was saved, and you can just tell the chat "restore my data" — it names the source and asks you to confirm.
AI actions are billed to your Oriora wallet.
Anyone who wants a private daily writing habit — and wants the writing to still be theirs in ten years, not locked inside someone else's subscription.