Diary TalkToMe vs Softly

Turn everyday moments into a diary you can return to—with AI as your personal journaling assistant. Make space for your mental health, express your feelings, and take time to reflect. TalkToMe gives you two ways to journal: write freely, or answer thoughtful AI-generated questions to help shape your day into a diary entry. WRITE OR SPEAK Type your thoughts or tap the microphone to speak. Review and edit the text before saving. Speech recognition follows your keyboard language where on-device recognition is supported. FIND THE WORDS WITH YOUR AI ASSISTANT Not sure where to begin? Your AI diary assistant offers guided questions to help you explore your day, then creates a diary entry from your answers. Choose a tone and length that suit you. KEEP YOUR MEMORIES CLOSE Attach photos from your Photos library, record how your day felt, and revisit entries through the calendar. DESIGNED FOR YOUR PRIVACY Start journaling without signing in. Protect your diary with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Diary entries are stored locally on your device. Attached photos remain in your Photos library and are not uploaded to our servers. When you use AI features, the text needed for those features is sent securely for processing. EXPORT AND BACK UP Export your writing and create manual diary backups. Backups include photo references, not copies of the photos. MAKE IT AD-FREE An optional one-time in-app purchase removes ads, including video ads for diary regeneration. No subscription is required for this upgrade. AI usage limits still apply. Whether you have a few words or a full story, TalkToMe gives you a place to begin. TalkToMe supports personal journaling and reflection. It does not provide mental health diagnosis, treatment, or professional advice.

Softly is a private journal for your days. No achievements. No streaks. No productivity metrics. Just you, a word when you want one, and a space that comes back every night to receive you the way you arrived. WRITE HOWEVER FEELS RIGHT Free diary, gratitude in three lines, a mood with a tap of a moon, or an affirmation when you need to hear it. Four ways to leave the day without losing it. YOUR MONTH IN WATERCOLOR Each day lights up with the color of how you felt. A hand-painted emotional calendar — not a bar chart. YOUR CONSTELLATION OF WORDS The words that return most to your writing appear as a constellation that shifts with you. You see patterns without anyone interpreting them for you. TIME CAPSULES Seal a piece of writing today (AES-GCM encrypted). Open it in a month, a year — whenever you're ready to listen to yourself again. TOTAL PRIVACY Everything lives on your device. On-device speech recognition. Face ID for your space. No tracking, no accounts, no server watching. WATERCOLORS THAT BREATHE Each time you return, a new variant of a sprig, flower, or lavender greets you. The notebook changes with you. Softly is for the days you want to write — and for the days you only wanted to open the app. Here, both count.