Frequently asked questions

Wonaby is a private record of the life you actually lived. You catch a moment in a few seconds: a few words, how it felt, an optional photo. Then you look back at recaps built from what you saved, with the patterns running through them pointed out. The free plan includes one weekly recap a month; Pro opens every week, plus your months and years. Everything is encrypted on your device, and Wonaby's own AI runs on your phone.

A recap: a short, readable story of your week, written on your phone from the moments you recorded. The free plan includes one weekly recap a month; Pro opens every week, plus a story of each month and year. It shows which parts of your life kept coming up, how the feelings you chose moved across the days, what was new, and what you came back to after a break. Tap any pattern and you land on the real moments behind it. This is the point of the whole product. Capture is only what makes it possible.

A few seconds. A few words about what's going on, a feeling you pick yourself, and a photo if you want one. There's no template, no prompt to answer and no blank page. You can speak it instead of typing it, too.

Yes. The free plan has no time limit and isn't a trial. It includes five moments a day with a photo on each, a day note written for you from each day's moments, every feeling, every built-in tag, and one weekly recap a month so you can see what one reads like. Your journal is end-to-end encrypted, capture and reading work offline, and you can export all of it.

Pro is €11.99 a month or €84.99 a year. Your app store shows the price in your own currency. It opens every weekly recap plus the monthly and yearly retrospectives, Ask Wonaby, ten moments a day, up to 100 tags of your own, and dictation transcribed on your phone. First-time subscribers get a 14-day free trial. It is the store's own offer, so it asks for a payment method up front and can be cancelled any time. There are no ads.

Yes to AI, and none of Wonaby's AI runs in the cloud. Day notes, every retrospective, pattern detection and the Ask Wonaby chat all run on your phone. Nothing you write is sent to a cloud AI or used to train any model. Free dictation is your phone's own speech service, not Wonaby's AI, and it may use a connection. Your journal does sync to our server, so it can reach your other devices. It is sealed on your phone first, so only you can read what you write. Finding the patterns is deterministic maths, with no language model involved. A small on-device model is used only to write the opening scene and the details of your recaps and daily recaps, and to answer your questions. It never decides how you felt: you pick every feeling yourself.

Your journal is end-to-end encrypted; only you can read what you write. It's sealed on your device before it ever syncs. The key is locked by your recovery code and never leaves your phone unwrapped, so not even the Wonaby team can read it. That covers your moment text, feelings, retrospectives, Ask Wonaby chat, name and photos. Being straight about the boundary: for sign-in and sync to work, the server does see your account email, which tags each moment holds, a short label made from the name of each tag you add, and some schedule and behavioural detail such as when you journaled. It also sees each photo's dimensions and a tiny blurred placeholder of it. The contents stay sealed. If you say yes to sharing usage data, Wonaby also sees which features you use, crash reports and your setup answers. That data is linked to your account and never includes what you write, and switching it off in Privacy & data stops it and deletes it. Separately, our analytics provider receives every account's plan details, such as a free trial starting, a subscription renewing or a cancellation, so we can count how many people subscribe and how many leave. It never includes your email address or anything you write, and you can object by writing to the privacy address. Wonaby sells no data, runs no ads, and never trains a model on what you write.

Yes, with Pro. Ask Wonaby is a private chat that answers using only the moments you recorded, running entirely on your phone. Ask what made you happy last week or how March was, and the answer is built from the moments you wrote in that stretch. When there's nothing to go on, it says so instead of inventing something. Counts are real tallies, not estimates. On the free plan the chat is there to read: past conversations stay open to revisit, rename, delete and copy, but starting one or sending a message needs Pro.

Nothing breaks. Miss a day, miss a month, come back whenever: nothing nags you to keep a streak, and no notification shames you for being away. If you'd rather not see the streaks at all, Zen mode hides them. If you do want a nudge, you set one yourself: one reminder a day, at a time and in a tone you choose, and one switch turns it off.

Yes, almost all of it. Capturing and reading work with no signal, and so do day notes, retrospectives and Ask Wonaby once the on-device AI is downloaded, because they run on your phone. Moments save the instant you tap and sync privately across your devices when you're back online. The on-device AI needs a connection once, to download. With Pro, dictation is transcribed on your phone too, after a one-time voice model download, and Wonaby checks with you before using mobile data for it. On the free plan, dictation goes through your phone's own speech service, which may reach for the network.

Two things. Most apps are good at storing and poor at giving anything back. Wonaby is built around the retrospective, the moment where a week you'd already lost comes back with three things in it you'd forgotten. And every other app that tells you something about your journal has to read it to do that, usually by sending your entries to a model it doesn't control. Wonaby's AI runs on your phone, so you never trade privacy for insight, which is what makes it safe to write the honest version rather than the presentable one.

Your camera roll stores everything and explains nothing. Thousands of photos, and you still can't say what that week was. Wonaby is built for the other half of the job. It takes the moments you saved and turns them into something readable, waiting in Insights whenever you look back.

No. Wonaby is not therapy, not wellness and not a clinical tool. It doesn't diagnose, score, coach you or assign you a feeling you didn't choose. It's a private record of your own life that reflects real patterns from what you actually recorded: recognition, not self-improvement.

You keep it. Export everything you've written, photos included, into one file you hold (readable text, a data file, or both) and move it anywhere you like. Wonaby deletes its copy the moment you've saved it. Your record of your own life shouldn't depend on whether a company still exists in ten years, so the export is on every plan, free included.

If privacy is what you're weighing, the question to ask is where the AI runs. Any app that generates insight across months of entries normally has to send those entries to a model it doesn't control. Wonaby refuses that trade structurally: day notes, retrospectives, pattern detection and the chat over your own journal all run on the phone, and your content is end-to-end encrypted before it syncs, so only you can read it.

No. Wonaby never sends you a recap. Open Insights, tap your week, and it's written for you on the spot, mid-week included, with no time locks. On the free plan, opening a week uses that month's weekly recap. The one regular thing in Wonaby that comes to you is a reminder, and only if you set one: one a day, at a time and in a tone you choose, which opens that day's note. One switch turns it off.

Nothing you wrote changes. Every moment and day note stays on your phone, and the export works on every plan. You go back to the free plan's limits: one weekly recap a month and five moments a day. Past moments keep their tags. Your own tags are switched off, never deleted, and Wonaby tells you so. Past Ask Wonaby conversations stay on your phone to read and keep, but starting a new one needs Pro again.

Yes. A moment is saved on the phone in your hand the instant you tap, and syncs privately across your devices when you're online. Your journal is sealed on your device before it syncs, so the copy that travels can't be read by anyone but you. Reminder settings and Ask Wonaby conversations stay in sync too.

Android only, on Google Play. There is no iOS version. It's free to start.