Echologue vs Marklens

Echologue: A Private Voice Journal You Can Ask Later Most journals are great for capture and terrible for retrieval. Echologue turns raw voice notes and daily entries into a structured memory you can actually ask about later. CAPTURE Use voice when typing is too much friction. Record what happened, who was there, how it felt, and the small thoughts you don't want to lose. Echologue handles the structuring. ASK YOUR HISTORY Entries become retrievable memory instead of dead text. Ask about a person, trip, mood, or time period and get an answer grounded entirely in what you actually recorded: * "What were the highlights of my trip in Barcelona?" * "How do I usually feel around this person?" * "What small insights keep coming back?" FACTS + FEELINGS Echologue separates objective facts from your emotional states, extracts people and themes, and indexes entries. By keeping what happened and how you felt distinct, your recall stays trustworthy instead of vague. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 100% LOCAL-FIRST PRIVACY Your personal archive shouldn't be a cloud database. * On-Device Storage: Your journal history, semantic memory, and profiles live exclusively on your device's local database. * Zero-Retention AI: When AI helps structure an entry or answer a question, the processing is strictly ephemeral. Data is sent securely for processing and deleted immediately. It is never logged or used for training. Total Portability: You own your data. Export to JSON/CSV, or wipe your archive completely at any time. No account required.

Marklens is a fast, native Markdown viewer for macOS, iPadOS, and iPhone. Open any .md file with a click and see it rendered immediately — beautiful typography, light and dark themes, syntax-highlighted code, and Mermaid diagrams. No editor, no library, no friction. HIGHLIGHTS • Instant render — every .md opens in a clean, focused window • 30+ language syntax highlighting via highlight.js, bundled offline • Mermaid 11 diagrams — flowcharts, sequence, state, xy-charts and more • GitHub-Flavored Markdown — tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough • Light and dark theme matching the system appearance • Quick Look on macOS — press Space on any .md in Finder for a rendered preview • Export to PDF on every platform • Pinch-to-zoom on iPadOS and iPhone, ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 on macOS • Open files via drag-and-drop, the Share Sheet, or the Files app MADE FOR READING Marklens doesn't try to be a notes app or a knowledge base. It opens a file, renders it perfectly, and gets out of the way. If you write Markdown in another tool — VS Code, Obsidian, GitHub, your favorite text editor — Marklens is the viewer you reach for to look at the result. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Marklens collects nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports, no network requests. Every rendering asset — Mermaid, highlight.js, fonts — ships inside the app. Read the full privacy policy at https://donald-jackson.github.io/marklens/privacy/ OPEN SOURCE Marklens is MIT-licensed and developed in the open. Source, issues, and contribution guide live at https://github.com/donald-jackson/marklens.