A voice-first journal that listens, writes the entry for you, and tells you what you were actually feeling.
Nobody writes four hundred words at eleven at night, but everyone can talk for two minutes. dyeary takes the talking and gives back a journal: the entry written out, the feelings named, the people who kept coming up.
I designed it and built it: the iPhone app, the Mac app, and the backend, shipping both apps to the App Store in five weeks. The hard part was never the model. It was deciding what a machine should say back to you about your own feelings, and how often, and in whose voice.
An early version read emotion from your voice alone, and it confidently told people they were calm on days that were anything but. Tone carries how activated you are; it cannot tell wistful from lonely. So the reading starts with the words. An on-device model listens for intensity while the transcript is read for meaning, and every caption traces back to a sentence you actually said.
A journal is worthless until it has history, and everyone’s history already exists somewhere else. dyeary imports it from ChatGPT, Claude, Apple Journal, Day One, or your voice memos, and every entry lands on the day it happened, with its own mood and its own words intact. The app is useful on the first evening instead of the thirtieth.
Every entry leaves a mark, and a year of them makes a picture you can’t get any other way: which months were heavy, where the calm stretches were, what a good week actually looks like for you. You never tag anything either. The people and worries that recur are pulled out of what you said and gathered onto their own pages, each one quoting you back.
On Sunday your week comes back as something you listen to: the lines you actually said, in your own voice, over a bed of music the entries themselves arranged. Each feeling carries its own chord, so a heavy week and a light one don’t just read differently, they sound different. The sound rotates weekly, and the mix is assembled on the device, so your voice never leaves it to be edited.
Both apps are live, and there’s a free tier, so you can talk to it tonight.