# Mento: AI Journal & Diary — Voice notes & memory search > Voice notes & memory search (iPhone/iPad app by Daniil Diachenko.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mento-ai-journal-and-diary/id6786782587 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Daniil Diachenko](https://appshunter.io/developer/6786782589) - Category: Lifestyle, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 32 MB - Languages: American English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Canadian French, German (Germany) and 23 more - Released: 2026-07-24 - Data updated: 2026-10-24 ## What is Mento? Turn a voice note into a journal entry you can find again. Write, speak or scan a handwritten page, then ask Mento, "What did I write about that trip?" Companion searches your entries to help you recall the details. AI features are optional: you choose whether to enable them. • Capture your thoughts with headings, lists and rich text formatting. • Turn voice notes and handwritten pages into readable text. • Ask Companion about your entries, explore an earlier moment or get a personal question to start a conversation. • Look back on your week and month with AI reflections on moods and recurring themes. • Build a writing habit with prompts, an activity calendar and memories from this day in past years. • Attach photos and videos. Optional AI descriptions help you find them by what they show. More ways to revisit your life • Your year: create a page-by-page review and a personal PDF book from a completed calendar year's entries. Premium allows up to two editions of each year. Generation takes time. • Apple Moments: start an entry with photos, places and activities you select in Apple's suggestions picker. • Apple Health: add sleep, activity and State of Mind to your journal. Import, server sync and AI use are separate, optional choices. For personal reflection, with no diagnosis or treatment. • Export journal text and metadata as JSON or Markdown. Premium can import Mento JSON archives. Exports do not include media attachments. Your entries save on your device and sync when you're online. You can start without an account. AI features are optional and can be turned off in Data & Privacy. Protect your journal with Face ID or a passcode, and delete your account and data from the app whenever you choose. Start with the free plan. Premium expands your limits and adds features such as chats about individual entries, media attachments and AI photo descriptions. Reflections beyond the free allowance can be unlocked with Premium. Some features require an account and an internet connection. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Privacy policy: https://mentoapp.app/privacy Terms of use: https://mentoapp.app/terms ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Mento Premium Monthly | $4.99 | per month | | Mento Premium Yearly | $49.99 | per year | | Mento Premium Monthly Special Offer | $2.99 | per month | ## Is Mento safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Mento. ## Is Mento legit? Mento: AI Journal & Diary has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Mento is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-21 Your journal now has more ways to tell your story. • Your year: turn entries from a completed calendar year into a page-by-page review and a personal PDF book. Create up to two editions of each year with Premium; generation continues while the app is closed. • Apple Moments: choose memories in Apple's suggestions picker and bring selected photos, places and activities into an entry. • Apple Health: add sleep, workouts, steps, active energy, mindful minutes and State of Mind. Choose separately whether to import, sync or use this context with AI. • Export & Import: save journal text and metadata as JSON or Markdown, and import Mento JSON with Premium. Media attachments are not included in exports. • A smoother editor: write on one scrolling page with headings, bold, italics and lists, attachments below your text, and an easier date picker. • Simpler setup: explore features in one optional overview, or use Enable all to review each choice. Permissions stay under your control. ### 1.2.11.1 — 2026-10-12 Fixed an issue that could prevent Mento from opening on iOS 26.0. ### 1.2.11 — 2026-09-30 • Companion can now start a conversation with a personal question inspired by your journal. A badge shows when a greeting is unread, and you can turn greetings off in Profile. • Scan a page or start dictation from the top of the entry editor. The recording timer stays visible while you write. • Improved dictation retries when a recording fails to produce text. • Weekly and monthly reflections now follow the language of your journal more consistently. • Extra reflections beyond the free allowance appear as locked cards you can unlock with Premium. • Fixed an issue that could show technical instructions in Companion replies. ### 1.2.8 — 2026-09-24 Your photos are part of your memory now, and the chat about an entry knows who it's talking to. • Attach a photo or a video and Mento can describe what's in it, so "where was I in July" finds the picture, not just the words. You'll be asked once whether to turn this on; it stays off until you say yes, and the switch is in Data & Privacy. Each description appears under the entry's Metadata • The chat you open from an entry now draws on your long-term memory, opens with a line about that entry and a question, and can offer to rewrite it: you see every line that would change, and nothing is saved until you tap Apply. It explains itself the first time, and ? at the top brings that back • A recording can no longer be lost to a bad connection: it is kept until it has become words, and if the upload keeps failing you decide — Try again or Discard • Weekly and monthly reflections are written with your long-term memory in mind, and dictation and page scans get the names in your life right more often • Page scanning and dictation explain themselves before their first use: what happens to the photo or the recording, and how much of your allowance is left • Editing an entry has it read again, so search finds what you just wrote, not what you deleted ### 1.2.0.1 — 2026-09-03 Mento can look at your photos now — and the chat about a single entry became a real conversation. • The photos and videos you attach can be described by AI, so you can ask the companion "where was I in July" and it finds the picture. Off by default: turn it on under Data & Privacy, and the description appears in the entry's Metadata • The chat you open from an entry now knows your long-term memory, so it answers as something that knows you, not just the page in front of it • It opens with a line about that entry and a question, instead of a blank screen • It can offer to rewrite the entry: you see exactly what would change, line by line, and nothing is saved until you tap Apply • Editing an entry now has it read again, so search finds the words you have just written instead of the ones you deleted • Page scanning and dictation explain themselves before their first use — what happens to the photograph or the recording, and how much of your allowance is left ## Apps similar to Mento | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Reflect: AI Journal & Diary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reflect-ai-journal-and-diary/id6779113415) | — | Free | Lifestyle | | [Vesta: AI Journal & Diary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vesta-ai-journal-and-diary/id6778796267) | — | Free | Lifestyle | | [haru journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/haru-journal/id6807111673) | — | Free | Lifestyle | | [Private AI Journal: Diary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/private-ai-journal-diary/id6774088157) | — | Free | Lifestyle | | [Reverie Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reverie-journal/id6760568254) | — | Free | Lifestyle | | [Journal - TalkToYou](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/journal-talktoyou/id6758448983) | — | Free | Lifestyle | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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