LifePilot vs May Diary

Some days you need to get it out. Other days you want to look back and understand what changed. LifePilot gives your thoughts a private place to land, then helps you return to them. JOURNAL IN YOUR OWN WAY Write or speak as much as you like. Add photos, mark your mood, and turn thoughts into reminders. Quick Drop helps you capture an idea fast. ASK YOUR JOURNAL Search your entries locally for free. Ask a question and LifePilot can offer a thoughtful AI reflection grounded in relevant journal entries, with the entries shown alongside the answer. You can write or record a new entry in response. Your first three AI searches are free; Premium includes unlimited AI search. SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE Premium unlocks the full Memory Map to explore themes across entries and Time Machine to revisit earlier moments. The free plan includes a Memory Map preview. KEEP A COPY, SHARE BY CHOICE Print a single entry for free. With Premium, print a whole day or choose a date range or monthly journal volume, and save it as a PDF. Create two free shareable capsules; Premium adds unlimited capsules and AI-assisted redaction. Review what you share. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Journal entries and photos are encrypted on your device with a passphrase you control. Face ID or Touch ID can make reopening easier. Export an encrypted backup when you choose; your journal does not sync to a PilotSuite account. Optional AI features send the text or audio needed for a request to processing providers. Writing and local search work without AI. FREE JOURNAL, OPTIONAL PREMIUM Core journaling, built-in voice dictation, photos, reminders, local search, and single-entry printing are free. Premium adds enhanced voice transcription and takeaways, unlimited AI search and capsules, full Memory Map and Time Machine, journal printing by range, AI redaction, and natural AI read-aloud.

MayDiary is a private journal. Write, or dictate, and ask about what you wrote. KEY FEATURES: DIARY ANALYSIS: Ask for a summary, the important moments, your mood, recurring patterns, or practical suggestions. You can also ask your own question. Choose a week, a month, a year, or the whole diary. The answer uses your entries. A shorter period is still read in the context of the rest of the diary. DICTATION: On iOS 26, Apple transcribes supported languages on your iPhone. The recording stays on the device, and the speech model downloads once. Where Apple has no on-device model for your language, dictation is sent to OpenAI. After you stop, the transcript is written into the entry. An optional cleanup pass can tidy grammar and formatting; that pass sends the text to OpenAI. TAGS: Keep up to five tags. Add them yourself or let the app suggest them from the entry. Filter the list by a tag. The same tags are used for analysis and for finding entries. FIND ENTRIES: Ask in your own words. MayDiary returns the matching entries. It looks at the wording, the dates, and the tags, not only at an exact phrase. PRIVACY: Entries stay in the app and, if you turn sync on, in your private iCloud. Lock the diary with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. MayDiary shows no ads and does not collect your writing. Analysis, finding entries, suggested tags, and OpenAI dictation use your own OpenAI key. Those requests are sent with storage turned off. The key is kept in the iPhone Keychain. EDITOR: A plain editor with Markdown: headings, quotes, lists, bold, and italic. NOTE: Apple dictation does not need an OpenAI key. The other AI features do. Setup instructions are in the app.