Candela — Diary & Journal

A quiet place for your days.

Candela is a diary. You write a line, a page, a photo, a sketch or a voice note — and it stays yours. No feed, no likes, no one reading over your shoulder.

WHAT IT DOES

• Write the way you think. Build a page out of blocks: headings, quotes, bullets, numbered lists, checkboxes, dividers. Every page saves itself as you type — there is no Save button to forget.

• More than text. Snap a photo straight into the page or pick one from your gallery, handwrite with a finger or a stylus, attach a file, record a voice note, or speak and watch it become text.

• Your days on a page. A calendar of everything you wrote and every plan you set. Turn a plan into a journal entry when it turns out to be worth writing about. Eight calendar systems, including Hijri, Hebrew, Persian and Buddhist — laid over the Gregorian grid, so you never have to convert.

• Locked, your way. A six-digit PIN, opened by your fingerprint or face if you like, and it locks the moment you leave the app. Discreet mode keeps the app's name off your notifications.

• A gentle look back. The Stillness tab draws the moods you recorded as a soft line — no scores, no streaks, no judgement. A diary should not grade its owner.

• Yours to take. Export the whole journal as a plain, readable file any time. Delete everything, for good, in a few taps. Both are free whether or not you have paid.

NO ACCOUNT, AND NO SERVER OF OURS

There is nothing to sign up for. Your journal is written to your phone and stays there. We run no database for it, we have no way to read it, and nothing you write is sent anywhere to be analysed. There is no AI feature. Anonymous usage counts are sent only if you switch them on in Settings — never a word you write, and you can switch them off again at any time.

The app is deliberately kept out of Google's automatic backup and out of the phone-to-phone transfer, so your diary is not copied into a cloud you forgot was switched on. The trade-off is real and worth saying plainly: the way to carry your journal to a new phone is an encrypted file you export yourself, and it opens on Android and on iPhone alike. Export it now and then.

The app asks for the microphone only when you record or dictate, and for notifications only when you switch the reminder on. There is no camera permission and no storage permission — taking a photo hands the job to your camera app, and picking a photo or a file goes through the system picker, so Candela only ever receives the one item you chose.

Dictation runs on the device. If your phone cannot transcribe your language offline, the app says so rather than sending your voice to a server.

WHAT IT COSTS

Free for 14 days. After that, one payment and Candela is yours for good. No subscription, no renewal, no monthly reminder that your own diary costs money.

If you have not bought it yet, there is a second door: watch a short rewarded advert and keep writing. You choose it, it never interrupts you, and it never appears while you are writing or reading. In countries where far fewer people can buy an app at all, there is no wall — one ad simply opens one more page, as often as you like. Buying removes all of it.

If you decide not to buy, everything you have already written stays yours. You can keep reading it, editing it, exporting the whole journal or deleting it — all without paying. Only writing new pages stops.

NOT A MEDICAL APP

Candela is a journal. It does not provide therapy, diagnosis or treatment, and it is not a medical device. If you are struggling, please talk to someone who can help.

Minimum age 16.

Privacy policy: https://candela-journal.web.app/privacy
Support: https://candela-journal.web.app/support

Recent changes:
Fixes to internal measurement. No changes to how the app works.