Writestone Writestone is a journal for people who stopped journaling. Each evening it asks you one small question. On busy days, one tap counts.
Free to download on iPhone, iPad and Android.
What's a small comfort you enjoyed today?
How are you right now?
5 secLast 7 days
Tap a stone to try it. Nothing here is saved.
Below the surface: a sample year, one stone a day.
October
Tap how you feel and what was part of your day. Five seconds keeps your streak going. Miss a day and a freeze holds your place: no flames, no guilt.
September
Use Apple Pencil, a stylus or your finger. Choose a paper, an ink and a handwriting for your language, stamp the date and the weather, and tape in today's photo.
Two papers, three inks, a handwriting for your language, and a photo and a sketch in every entry are free. Plus opens the whole kit.
Sunrise on the ridge
Left before five with a flask and a head torch.
August
Sample data Plus
Walk
Mood 4.4 on these days vs 3.2 otherwise
+1.2
Friends
Mood 4.3 on these days vs 3.4 otherwise
+0.9
Slept well
Mood 4.1 on these days vs 3.3 otherwise
+0.8
Slept badly
Mood 2.6 on these days vs 3.8 otherwise
-1.2
Writestone compares your mood on days with and without each thing you do. Walks, friends, a bad night's sleep: you see what moves you, worked out from your own days.
July
Gratitude, calm, hard days, growth, the people you love: ten themes of questions, written in your language. Or take a 7-day Journey, one day at a time.
June
Turn any page into a picture, with its paper, ink and stamps, and choose which lines go on it. Everything else stays in your journal.
Free for everyone.
May
A journal only works if it's safe to be honest in it.
No ads, ever.
Writestone is paid for by Plus, not by your attention.
Never sold. Never used to train AI.
Your entries aren't sold, rented or used to train AI models.
Locked when you want it.
Face ID, Touch ID or a PIN keeps your journal closed.
No account needed to start.
Your journal is backed up from the first entry, even before you sign in.
Delete means delete.
Delete an entry and it's gone from the cloud too. Export everything, any time.
Day one
Tonight, answer one question. It takes two minutes. Tomorrow there will be another.
Plus is an optional subscription through the App Store or Google Play. Cancel any time.
Yes. Writing, the daily question, check-ins, streaks, backup, export and app lock are free, with no ads. Writestone Plus is an optional subscription for the full prompt library, Journeys, deep insights and the whole Field Kit.
Your entries are kept on your device and backed up under your own account, where only you can read them. We don't show ads, sell data or use your entries to train AI. You can lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID or a PIN.
Yes. Write or sketch right on the page with Apple Pencil, any stylus or your finger, on iPhone, iPad and Android.
No. Start right away and your journal is still backed up. Sign in with Apple, Google or email whenever you want it on another device.
The app, its questions and its handwriting come in English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi.
Yes. Export your whole journal from Settings at any time. You can delete any entry, or your whole account, whenever you like.