# HIBIZO — Your days, carried quietly. > Your days, carried quietly. (iPhone/iPad app by Matthew Mark.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hibizo/id6762427240 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Matthew Mark](https://appshunter.io/developer/1894126244) - Category: Utilities, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 66 MB - Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) - Released: 2026-05-05 - Data updated: 2026-09-23 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hibizo/id6762427240/reviews.md ## What is HIBIZO? HIBIZO is a quiet, private place to keep thoughts, memories, and feelings — built for people who want their journal to stay theirs. Every entry, photo, and tag is encrypted on your device with AES-256 before it ever reaches storage. If you turn on iCloud sync, your other devices receive the same encrypted bytes — Apple's servers never see your words. · A 12-word recovery passphrase unlocks your vault on a new device. HIBIZO never sees it, never stores it in plain text, and cannot recover it for you. · Face ID or Touch ID guards the vault on every open. · Photos, mood, location, and calendar context are all optional. Pick what fits, skip what doesn't. · The Sanctuary Garden quietly grows alongside you — 31 watercolor badges, butterflies and fireflies that drift past on the right days, a tree that flourishes as the journal does. · Three onboarding paths: brand-new vault, recover from iCloud, or import an encrypted archive file. Whatever your starting point, your data stays encrypted under your control. · Free across the lifetime of the app: every text feature, photo capture, location and calendar integration, the full Sanctuary Garden, encrypted iCloud sync, encrypted archive export, four languages (English, 日本語, 简体中文, 繁體中文). · HIBIZO Pro is a one-time, lifetime unlock. It adds: unlimited entries (free tier supports up to 250), ambient garden creatures (butterflies by day, fireflies and will-o-wisps by night), an alternate pro app icon, the Flourishing tree stage, and watercolor moods inside PDF exports. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. There is nothing in HIBIZO that calls home about you, because we built it to be private from the inside out. Now with a custom value tag per journal, and [PRO] Spreadsheet export. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | HIBIZO Pro | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.11 — 2026-09-08 v1.2.11 — faster to come back to, and clearer about your iCloud sync. Coming back to HIBIZO is faster, and the longer your journal, the bigger the difference. When you pull down to refresh and HIBIZO can't reach iCloud, it now tells you. An entry you delete forever now stays deleted, even while HIBIZO is syncing. ### 1.2.10 — 2026-08-31 v1.2.10 — A deep reliability and privacy pass. Sturdier iCloud sync. HIBIZO now shrugs off malformed sync data instead of getting stuck, keeps your recovery passphrase consistent across devices after you reset it, and makes sure archive imports and encryption changes always reach iCloud. More honest photo saving. If a photo can't be loaded, saved, deleted, or rotated, HIBIZO tells you and keeps your photos and their order safe for a retry — nothing fails silently anymore. Privacy polish. The app-switcher privacy cover now shields your entries, photos and recovery passphrase wherever they appear — including an entry you're writing — and creating a Wallet recovery card asks for Face ID first. ### 1.2.9 — 2026-07-25 v1.2.9 — A stability fix for adding many photos. Fixed a crash — and photos unselecting themselves in the picker — when adding many large photos to an entry at once. HIBIZO now prepares each photo at its storage size the moment you pick it, instead of holding the full camera files in memory, so selecting a big batch is fast and stable. Nothing about your saved photos changes: entries keep exactly the same photo quality as before. ### 1.2.8 — 2026-07-19 v1.2.8 — Photo rotation, smoother picking, and clearer guidance. Rotate photos both ways in the Composer. Long-press a photo while writing or editing (right-click on Mac) to rotate left or right; rotations apply when you save, so Cancel leaves everything untouched. The photo viewer gains a rotate-left button too. Fixed photo picking: selecting several photos at once no longer unselects your picks while you're still choosing. Pressing Sync now on cellular now asks whether to sync over mobile data or wait for Wi-Fi — no more silent waiting. And setting up on a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac is clearer: HIBIZO explains the one-time re-link, guides you through Face ID setup if it isn't ready yet, and puts your Wallet card front and centre for one-tap recovery. ### 1.2.7 — 2026-07-12 v1.2.7 — Faster iCloud sync, Photo info, and more scrolling polish. iCloud sync is faster now — HIBIZO uploads just what changed instead of your whole journal each time, so your entries and photos reach your other devices much more quickly. Tap the ⓘ on any photo to see how it was shot — camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, and the date it was taken. The details are read from the photo when you add it and saved encrypted on your device only — never synced to iCloud, and your location is never captured. (Camera details are saved for photos you add from this update onward; older photos show "No photo info available".) We also smoothed scrolling further: long, photo-heavy journals and the Settings screen scroll more cleanly. ## Apps similar to HIBIZO | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Provato - Food Reviews & More](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/provato-food-reviews-and-more/id6760456123) | — | Free | Utilities | | [Where Now?](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/where-now/id6757414541) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Utilities | | [myDSG](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mydsg/id1420420339) | — | Free | Utilities | | [Cleft - For Verbal Thinkers](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cleft-for-verbal-thinkers/id6479458038) | 4.7 (67) | Free | Utilities | | [Data Guard by SmarTone](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/data-guard-by-smartone/id1113208934) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Utilities | | [法鼓山香港道場](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6477424054) | — | Free | Utilities | ## More apps by Matthew Mark - [Dāna](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dana/id6763679783) All apps by Matthew Mark: https://appshunter.io/developer/1894126244 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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