Twinkly vs Desandar

The companion app for Twinkly, the smart light decoration system to make your Christmas unforgettable. It is the evolution of the classic Christmas lights and a true innovation in how you light up your tree. It features a smart design that gives you the ability to personalize your lighting effects for an even greater experience. Designed for intuitive use, just connect over Wi-Fi and you will be playing with your lights in a matter of seconds.

I created Desandar after more than six years of journaling. I had accumulated hundreds of entries, but they had become difficult to meaningfully revisit. I could search for a word or scroll through old writing, but I wanted to understand what kept returning, see how I had changed, and reconnect with moments I might otherwise forget. Desandar is a Spanish verb meaning “to retrace your steps”—to return to the path you have taken and see it from a new perspective. That idea is at the heart of Reflect, which lets you chat with your journal. Ask about something you remember, follow up on an answer, explore recurring themes, or revisit the people and experiences you’ve written about. Reflect draws on your entries and links back to its sources, helping you reconnect with your own words. Desandar also makes it easier to capture the moments you’ll want to return to. Write naturally, or just talk when writing feels like a chore. Record a voice entry, transcribe it privately on your device, and preview a cleaned-up, organized, or summarized version. Your original recording and full transcript stay with the entry, giving your voice memos a lasting home in your journal. With Desandar, you can: • Write or record entries, with photos, places, weather, and moments from your day. • Transcribe recordings privately on your device and import audio shared from other apps. • Preview cleanup, organization, or transcript summaries while preserving your originals. • Start entries from templates and save your own refinement prompts for each journal. • Format entries with headings and nested lists, and find words within an entry. • Chat with your journal through Reflect and revisit the entries behind its answers. • Search by meaning, discover related entries, and return to past memories. • Create daily, weekly, and monthly recaps. • Organize with journals, tags, places, and favorites. • Import your existing entries from Day One. • Export your journal whenever you choose. Your journal belongs to you. Reflect and AI writing tools use Apple’s intelligence models and require a compatible device with Apple Intelligence enabled. Processing runs on your device by default. On supported systems, you can opt in to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute for selected features. It is off by default, with separate controls for Reflect and Deeper Recaps, Organize, Light Cleanup, and Summarize. Each control explains what text is sent, and generated results show where they ran. Desandar uses no third-party AI, third-party transcription, advertising, or tracking. There are no developer-operated servers storing or analyzing your journal. Reflect conversation history and semantic search stay on your device. You can choose to sync your journal through your own private iCloud account and protect access with Face ID or your device passcode. Apple Intelligence features require supported hardware and Apple Intelligence enabled. Core journaling remains available without it. Capture what’s happening now. Return to it with a new perspective.