Softly vs Kubo Journal

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.

Most journals ask you to record your life. Kubo helps you rewrite it. Kubo is a new kind of journaling practice built on an old understanding — one carried by the great teachers of imagination and manifestation, twelve-step rooms, and now echoed by the science of neuroplasticity: you don't change your life by thinking harder about what's wrong. You change it by choosing where your attention lives, releasing what you can't control, and rehearsing the person you're becoming. What you repeat, you rewire. Kubo gives that repetition a home. THE RITUAL Write what's weighing on you. Seal it into your box. Let it go. Sealed notes can't be reread or edited — that's the point. Recovery rooms have passed this practice down for generations: put it in the box, turn it over, stop carrying what was never yours to carry. A month later, Kubo quietly asks how heavy it feels now — without opening a word. Most things get lighter. Not magic; just what happens when a mind finally stops rehearsing a worry. A COMPLETE DAILY PRACTICE • GRATITUDE — appreciation is the fastest way to change the way you feel, and the way you feel shapes what you notice, choose, and attract into your days. Quick entries for what's good now and what you're looking forward to. • REFLECT — free writing plus guided tools like Reframe, built on a simple truth: your thoughts are not facts. Catch the story you're telling yourself and trade it for a truer, kinder one. • RELEASE — the box. Seal a worry away and choose when it opens: thirty days, a year, or a date that matters to you. Kubo holds it, unreadable, until then — and when the seal breaks, see with your own eyes how far you've come. TOOLS FOR BECOMING (Premium) • FUTURE SELF — write from the life you're creating, as the person already living it. • REVISION — revisit a scene and rewrite it the way it should have gone. Imagination teachers have sworn by this practice for a century; your brain rehearses what you vividly imagine. • ENVISION — dwell in the end result until it feels like home. • Plus expanded prompt packs, up to 10 photos per entry, Insights — including proof of how much lighter your released worries actually got — and a beautiful PDF book of your year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No servers. No analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and sealed notes are encrypted so no one — including us — can read them. Optional Face ID lock. FREE FOREVER Unlimited gratitude, reflections, sealing and release with timed opens, streaks, and a photo per entry. Some people call theirs a worry box. Some call it a God box, a serenity box, a manifestation practice, or simply letting go. Whatever you call it, this much is true: the life you want starts with what you put down — and what you pick up instead. Kubo is a journaling tool, not medical or mental-health care. Privacy Policy: https://deanhuff.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/