HTL: Private Diary & Journal

HTL is a place to unload your head.

Write the thought the second it lands — a line, a photo, a document, a link, where you were, what was playing. It goes into one quiet feed and stops taking up room in your head.

Plans holds the other half of a day: your tasks and your calendar on one page, so today is today and everything else waits its turn.

THINGS NO OTHER NOTEBOOK DOES

Think. A dark, quiet room. Say anything, at any length, with nobody reading over your shoulder. Keep it, or let it go.

Burn. Some thoughts should not be kept. Write it, burn it, watch the words come apart. Nothing is saved — not a copy, not a trace.

Letters to the future. Seal a letter to yourself. It stays shut until the day you chose, then arrives in your feed like a message from someone who knew you well.

Rituals. A morning that sets the day up: the weather, how you slept, the few things that matter. An evening that closes it: how far you walked, what you wrote, what you finished. Hit the lights, and the app dims with you.

On iPhone, optional Apple Health integration uses HealthKit to show sleep in the morning and steps in the evening. HTL only reads this data and never writes to Apple Health.

Storage. Links, documents, places, songs and quotes gather on a shelf by themselves, so you can find what you saved without remembering where you put it.

Templates. A shopping list, a quote, measurements, a countdown, a dream. Not every note is a paragraph.

EVERYWHERE YOU ALREADY WRITE

iPhone, iPad and Mac, kept in step through your own iCloud. Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. A Live Activity while you focus. The Action Button. The share sheet, from any app. Spotlight search across everything you have ever written.

PRIVATE BY BUILD, NOT BY PROMISE

There is no account and no sign-in, because there is no server to sign in to. What you write is stored on your device and mirrored to the private part of your own iCloud — your Apple Account, not ours. The developer receives nothing: no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party code of any kind.

Tag a thought #private and it stays behind a veil in the feed, out of search, out of Spotlight and out of notifications. Lock the whole app behind Face ID if you like.

ONE PURCHASE

Bought once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, nothing to unlock later.