when you can’t find the words

How do I keep a voice journal on my iPhone, privately?

In Moss, you hold to talk. Your voice is kept on the page as a voice note, and your iPhone writes out the words underneath. The listening and the writing happen on your iPhone, never on a server, and there is no account to make.

Some days are easier to say

Typing can feel like too much at the end of a long day. Saying it out loud, on the walk home or in bed with the lights off, is often closer to what you meant. A voice journal lets you keep that, in your own voice.

How it works

Open today’s page and hold to talk. Let go when you’re done. The recording stays on the page, so a year from now you can hear how you sounded, not only what you said. The words appear underneath, so the page can be read, searched and found again.

Speech is turned into words by Apple’s on-device speech recognition. If your language can’t be recognised on the iPhone, Moss tells you, rather than send your voice anywhere.

Where your voice goes

Nowhere but your own devices. Voice notes are kept on your iPhone and, if you turn it on, in your own iCloud, which only your Apple Account can open. There is no Moss server, so we never hear them.

You can keep Moss behind Face ID or your own Moss code, and give any journal its own code.

More than a recording

A voice note sits on the same page as your words, photos, video and stickers, so a day can hold all of it. Pick a sky for how the day felt. Later, if your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence, you can ask your own pages a question; it works on the iPhone and offline.

Moss is free, has no ads, and runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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