a journaling app without subscription, ads, or ai

shizumu is a journaling app without subscription, ads, or ai writing. those are the three things people rule out before they look. here is what it does instead.

free, on every platform

the app is free on linux, android, and windows, and stays free. the writing is a database on your device. a diary app without payment is what most people search for first, and the honest version of that is: the app costs nothing, and sync between two devices costs nothing either. a hosted relay for more devices is the one paid thing, and you can run your own instead.

nothing that watches you

a journal app without ads is also, here, a journal app without an account: there is no login, and the app does not know who you are. free writing software without login is a rare thing because the login is how the ads find you. shizumu has neither. what it has is a page, and the page starts empty every day.

it will not write for you

a journaling app without ai is the third thing people ask for, and the reason is the product's own: thinking happens while you produce the sentences, so an app that produces them for you removes the thing it exists to do. shizumu will not write for you, because the writing is the thinking. tools that help you find and return to what you wrote are a different matter; text generation is the line.

what a page does

every day starts on an empty page. you write to think. when something turns out to matter, you pin it. when a thread continues past today, you put the page on a trail, and the pins you kept there come back onto the page the next time you open it. everything else stays in memory, searchable. a diary app without subscription is where the search starts; a page that asks nothing is why people stay.

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