One year ago
“Asked to lead the new team. Said I’d think about it. I already know I’ll say no. I always find a reason not to be seen.”
Free for your first 21 writing days. No account needed.
Zen mode
No sidebar, no counters, no audience. Nobody to perform for, so you write what actually happened.
You make thousands of choices a year with a memory that keeps almost none of them. Plume keeps them. What you feared, what you chose, how it turned out. Until the one person you never quite understood starts to make sense: you.
Patterns
One entry is a mood. Fifty are a portrait. Written down, the loops you live in stop hiding inside single days.
Asked to present the roadmap. Said I wasn’t ready.
Good idea in the meeting. Stayed quiet. Someone else said it.
Offered the workshop. Said I’d think about it.
Why do I wait for permission that nobody is going to give?
Hard conversation with Léo. Kind, and clear.
Ran 5k without stopping. Didn’t tell anyone. Proud anyway.
Shared the draft before it was perfect. They loved it.
Said no to a project. Nothing broke.
Illustrative entries.
One year ago
“Asked to lead the new team. Said I’d think about it. I already know I’ll say no. I always find a reason not to be seen.”
Today
“Ran my first offsite. Spoke first, stumbled once, kept going. Two people asked if I’d mentor them.”
One year ago today
Not a flattering memory. The exact sentence you wrote that night, before you knew how it would turn out.
Introspection
Past month32 entries
Last week, the past month, the whole year. Only those entries come along. Everything else stays shut.
It names the people and moments from your own pages, and gently points out the mistake you keep repeating. Ask a follow-up, push back, go deeper. Every session is kept for next time.
Reads only the entries you choose, only when you ask. Uses the AI provider you configure.2
Decision support
Friends remember last week. Your coach remembers March, and the three times you said you wanted this, and the night you almost gave up. Advice drawn from your life, not from the average one.
I’ve been asked to lead the Lyon team. Should I say yes?
Three things from your own pages:
Before you decide: if nobody would ever find out you were scared, what would you answer?
Yes. Obviously yes.
Every single day
Your goal sits at the top of the page, so the small decisions have something to answer to.
“Speak before I’m sure.”
A line on the train. A to-do before it slips. Mac, iPad, iPhone: the same journal, wherever you are.
Three gratitudes, a memory, what you got done. Or press Tab, and write until it’s out of your head.
Ask how the week really went. Plume answers with your own words, and one question to carry into Monday.
Take a closer look
Press Tab and the app disappears. A page with nothing on it but your words.
The day arrives already structured: a gratitude, a memory, what you got done, and room to think.
Months of your life at a glance. Click any day and the entry opens beside it.
Your writing sorted into life themes, week by week, next to your streak and word count.
Ask your journal a question about a period you choose, through the lens you pick.
Rituals and guided journeys, one step a day. Skipping a day never skips a step.
Growth
Life themes
Word cloud
Word count
Illustrative sample year. Everything is counted on your device.
Privacy
With sync on, entries are sealed with a key derived from your own passphrase, then stored in your private iCloud database.1
Every entry lives in an encrypted database on the device in your hands. Face ID or Touch ID keeps it closed.
AI is off by default. When you do ask, only the entries in the period you picked are sent, to the provider you chose.2
Export whenever you want, free, forever. Nothing is locked in and there is no fee for leaving.
Your coach, your choice
Plume never reads over your shoulder. Summaries, reflections and coaching sessions run only when you start them, on the intelligence you pick.
Only the days you actually write count, so a busy week never eats your trial. No account, no card.
When the trial ends, Plume becomes read-only. Every entry stays yours to read, search and export, whether you buy or not.
The whole app, a year at a time.
$1.67 a month4
$19.99 billed once a year
One purchase, all three devices.
Start writing freeBest value
Pay once. A companion for life.
$59.99 once4
About 5¢ a day over three years, then free forever.
One purchase, all three devices.
Start writing freeIntrospection, eight coaching lenses over the entries you choose: patterns, values, decisions, a 30-day plan
One year ago, last year’s entry beside the page in Zen mode on Mac, and “On this day” in ⌘K
Zen mode, full-screen writing with a global hotkey from any app
Insights, streaks, heatmap, word clouds and life themes
The daily ritual, gratitudes, memory, accomplishments, mood
Goals and to-dos, linked to the day they belong to
Encrypted sync, iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a passphrase only you know
Library, rituals and guided journeys, one step a day
Calendar and full-text search, across every entry you have written
Dictation and voice commands, for the days typing feels like too much
Local-first and locked, on-device storage, Face ID or Touch ID
All future features, included, forever
By keeping what memory drops. A few lines a day become a record of what you felt, chose and did. Insights show the themes of your weeks, the entry from one year ago shows how far you’ve come, and Introspection lets you ask questions of any period of your journal through a lens such as pattern recognition, values alignment or decision support.
Only the entries in the period you pick, and only when you start a session. AI is off by default. Introspection uses the AI provider you configure with your own API key, which stays in your Keychain; the entries included in a request are sent to that provider.
No. Plume is a journal and a reflection tool, not a therapist or a medical service. If you’re struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional or someone you trust.
Your entries live in an encrypted database on your device, and Plume doesn’t need an account. Plume’s App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected”.5 If you turn on sync, entries are encrypted on your device, with a key derived from your sync passphrase, before they’re uploaded to your private iCloud database.
You get 21 writing days with every feature unlocked, and only the days you actually write count. No account or card is needed. When the trial ends, Plume becomes read-only: you can still read, search, sync and export everything you wrote.
Both unlock the same app, including every future feature. Yearly is $19.99 a year and you can cancel anytime. Lifetime is a single $59.99 payment. U.S. prices; the App Store shows the price for your region.
An iPhone with iOS 26, an iPad with iPadOS 26, or a Mac with macOS 26, or later. Plume is available in English, French and Spanish.
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Download Plume free on Mac, iPad or iPhone. Tonight’s entry is the first step on the path you’ll read back next year.