iglu vs Tintello

iglu is the new and better way to journal: micro-journaling. Record your life as it happens and come back to revisit with our AI-powered feed and semantic search. And most importantly, without sacrificing your privacy. Building a journaling habit has never been this easy! MICRO-JOURNALING Forget sitting down and writing everything at once — that’s boring. Instead, write short entries (like tweets) on the go, as you move through your day. Micro-journaling makes both writing and exploring a breeze! THREADS Fully express your most intricate chain of thought by making threads with your entries. You can write as many nested entries as you want, and they will always be linked together. RECOMMENDATIONS Rediscover your older entries with iglu’s recommendations, selected by our AI based on what you’ve been writing recently. It’s a fun way to explore and get insights into yourself. SEMANTIC SEARCH Looking for an entry but don’t remember the exact words you wrote? Don’t worry, iglu’s semantic search engine gets the general idea of what you’re looking for and shows you the most relevant entries. WRITE SHORTCUT A new entry is always one tap away with iglu’s shortcut. Use it from the Action button, Lock Screen (as a control and as a widget), and Control Center. Say goodbye to friction! ACTIVITY WIDGET Keep track of your writing activity with the activity widget. It shows how much you’ve written in the past few weeks using a beautiful ‘heat map’ design, right on your Home Screen. FACE ID Lock iglu with Face ID to make sure no one snoops around your personal space. JOURNALING REMINDERS Get reminded to take a few seconds to journal every now and then. You can get reminders randomly throughout the day or choose specific times you prefer. PRIVACY Your data is always safe and only ever accessible to you. Our AI runs directly on your phone to make sure your data is not shared with anyone (not even us). We don’t collect anything. All your entries are safely backed up on your personal iCloud account. Free features: Micro-journaling, Threads, Privacy, iCloud Backup, Photos & Videos. Paid features: Recommendations, Semantic Search, Write Shortcut, Activity Widget, Face ID, Reminders. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Tintello is a calm daily practice built around color and curiosity. You look at a color name, choose from four swatches, and find out where that color came from and why it matters. No timers. No scores. No streak pressure. Just a few minutes of focused attention and a growing vocabulary for something most people never slow down to notice. --- WHY IT SETTLES YOU DOWN Behavioral researchers have long observed that brief, absorbing tasks, ones that occupy attention at a level matched to skill, without time pressure or competition, shift the mind toward a calmer state. Mindfulness research supports the same mechanism: slow, deliberate attention to sensory detail quiets the kind of mental chatter that drives daily stress. Tintello is designed around that. The pace is yours. The stakes are low. The engagement is real. --- 700+ COLORS WITH REAL STORIES Every color in Tintello comes from somewhere. Cobalt is named after a goblin that German miners blamed for poisoning their ore. Vermilion fueled the Renaissance. Saffron costs more per gram than gold. After each answer, you get the lore: a short fact drawn from art history, etymology, natural science, or cultural context. Three to five facts per color. The kind of things that make you look at the world differently afterward. --- 200+ PALETTES. EACH ONE A WORLD. Every color belongs to a themed palette built around a place, a season, a cuisine, a mood, or an architectural tradition. Venice. High Desert. Raku Ceramics. Parisian Cafes. Coastal Japan. The Dead Sea at Dusk. Browse 200+ palettes organized by theme and mood. Pick what calls to you. Take your time. --- A SMALL RITUAL THAT EARNS ITS PLACE A new palette waits each morning. Ten colors, a few minutes, no pressure. The kind of thing you can fold into a morning routine, a lunch break, or the quiet before sleep, and actually look forward to. --- Download Tintello. Find out how many colors you already know, and how many have been waiting for you to notice them.