Reflection: AI Journal & Diary

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About this app

Reflection is a journal that writes back: a private diary for self-reflection, mental health and personal growth.

Write or speak about your day, and Reflection's AI Coach replies right inside your entry with a question that helps you go a layer deeper. Over time your journal becomes something you can ask: what has been weighing on you, what brings you joy, how your mood has shifted since spring.

NEW IN REFLECTION 7
A complete redesign. The journal is calmer and more spacious, with nine color themes, a rebuilt Coach, one + button for everything you add to an entry, and Focus Mode for longer sessions. It's faster, too.

A COACH IN EVERY ENTRY
• Instant Chat: press Enter and the Coach replies on the next line.
• Go Deeper, Get Perspective, Coach Me and Action Items when you want more.
• Voice Call (Premium): talk it through out loud. When you hang up, the conversation is written into your entry.

ASK YOUR JOURNAL ANYTHING
Search by meaning, not only by keyword. Ask "What have I been grateful for lately?" and get an answer drawn from your own entries, with the dates you wrote them.

WRITE, SPEAK OR SCAN
• Voice journaling with accurate transcription
• Scan a handwritten page into text
• Add photos, and catch up on missed days from your photo library
• Templates and daily journal prompts for when you don't know where to start

SEE HOW YOU'RE GROWING
Track your mood and emotions over time, keep a writing streak, and get weekly, monthly and annual reviews that show where your head has been.

100+ GUIDED JOURNALS AND PROMPTS
Gratitude, anxiety, self-care, shadow work, relationships, work and more, including multi-day programs like the 14-day Reflect & Reset. A fresh prompt is waiting on your Today page each morning.

A PRIVATE DIARY BY DESIGN
• Your entries are encrypted
• Lock the app with your fingerprint, face or a PIN, and keep single entries private
• Your entries are never used to train AI models
• Turn AI off entirely, or exclude any entry from it
• Export your journal as PDF, CSV or JSON whenever you like

EVERYWHERE YOU WRITE
Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web, all in sync.

FREE TO START
Journal for free, with AI Coach replies each day and insights after every entry. Reflection Premium adds unlimited AI and voice, Voice Call, all 100+ guides, all nine themes, App Lock, export and unlimited sync.

Reflection is a tool for self-reflection. It is not a substitute for professional mental health care.

Questions or feedback: hello@reflection.app
Terms: https://www.reflection.app/tos
Privacy: https://www.reflection.app/pp
An AI journal that writes back. Prompts, voice journaling and mood insights.
Updated on
1 Sept 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info and Audio
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.25K reviews
Sarah Millett (Violet)
23 April 2026
It's a good journal app that you can access on your phone and computer. You have limited access to Ai in the free version to help go deeper into issues, see patterns from entries, summarize or be coached to write more. It's a creative and good way to use AI. The Ai helps me to write more and to get more from Journaling. If you don't mind paying there are also guides that you can complete on various topics.
14 people found this review helpful
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Reflection.app
23 April 2026
thank you for such a thoughtful review, violet. so happy the ai is helping you go deeper and get more from journaling. that's exactly what we hoped it would do.
michael manenkoff
13 June 2026
I have been enjoying the layout of this journal app, as well as the tools it has available. I find the coaching AI tool as a good way to dive deeper into your thoughts and often feels like a combination of a friend and a therapist asking questions to get you to go into further detail, or think about a different aspect of the entry you're making. I haven't tried all of the tools yet, but I do plan on using some of the guides to help with some self reflection.
8 people found this review helpful
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Reflection.app
14 June 2026
thank you for taking the time to write this up, michael — "a combination of a friend and a therapist" is a phrase we'll be sharing with the team. so glad the coaching is landing the way it was meant to. more tools waiting when you're ready. 🙏
Kyle Kellum
13 June 2026
don't let you do much. they hide everything behind paywalls and they keep trying to make you pay money. if you haven't Journal before this is the worst app in the world because they are not trying to help you Journal they just want your money. maybe it is good for an experienced journalist but it's not good for someone who's trying to learn how to start journaling. all they want is to keep offering the membership and they won't give you services.
4 people found this review helpful
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Reflection.app
14 June 2026
hi kyle, thanks for the honest feedback. we do have free journaling — sorry if the premium prompts felt like they got in the way before you could settle in. email us at hello@reflection.app and we'd love to help you get more out of it.

What's new

Reflection is now more reliable and helpful! Personalised prompts and other AI coaching features recover faster from connection issues, journal-wide Search now has improved accuracy with larger journals, and responses better match your language and tone. We also made sign-in navigation more reliable, improved web performance, and many more more bug fixes and stability improvements.

Love using Reflection? We’d appreciate a review.

Questions? help@reflection.app.