A Belvantis product

Write the things you'd
never paste into a chatbot.

Candor is a private journal with an AI brilliant enough to be useful — and architected so it can never read you. Encrypted on your device. Intelligence on your device. Yours for life.

Candor for Android Candor for iPhone & iPad

Candor's Write screen — a calm, cream-colored page with the prompt 'Anything you write counts.'

The problem

You stopped journaling. You had a reason.

You don't want a paper notebook your kids might find. You don't want a cloud journal that, somewhere in its terms of service, reserves the right to be acquired. And you definitely don't want to paste the worst week of your year into a chatbot trained on a hundred million strangers.

So you stopped. Or you only write the safe version. Or you keep meaning to start again.

The problem was never the writing. The problem was that no journal had earned the right to hold what you actually have to say.

The solution

Candor is the journal that earns it.

Every entry — typed, spoken, photographed — is encrypted on your device the moment it lands. The AI that helps you reflect runs on your phone, not in someone else's cloud. There is no server reading your text. There is no model training on your life. There is a vault, a key, and you.

Write honestly. Get the intelligence anyway.

Why Candor

Four things every other journal asks you to compromise on.

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Private by architecture, not by promise.

Per-record authenticated encryption. Full-database encryption underneath. Master key wrapped by your device's Secure Enclave / Keystore, unlocked by your biometric. We don't have a "we won't read it" policy because we structurally can't.

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An AI that reads you. And only you.

A modern open-weight model runs on your device — for chat, summaries, reflections, action-item extraction. No cloud round-trip. No telemetry. No training. Verify it yourself in the on-device privacy receipt.

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An archive that compounds.

Snapshot recaps your week. Year-in-Reflection maps the whole year. On-This-Day surfaces what you were thinking about a year ago today. Every entry makes the next one more valuable.

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A vault for life — on your terms.

One encrypted vault format. Auto-backed-up to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Exportable to plain markdown into Obsidian or anywhere else. The day you want to leave, you take everything with you.

See it

Anything you write counts.

A calm, paper-feeling place to write. A library that turns into a self-portrait. An AI hub that does the thinking work, on your phone.

Write · type, talk, attach a photo. Encrypted before it touches the disk.

Library screen — a chronological timeline of journal entries

Library · your collected thoughts, with mood at a glance.

AI Hub · seven ways to think with your archive. All on-device.

Why choose Candor

The architecture is the product.

Most journaling apps add AI by adding a cloud call. Candor adds AI by running a model on your device. The difference is structural, not marketing.

We can't read your journal. Not because of a promise. Because we don't have your key, and we don't have your text in plaintext.
Built by Belvantis. Same team behind OmniThink. Same thesis: AI products where the user holds the keys, not the model vendor.
Cross-platform from day one. A single encrypted vault format across Android, iOS, and web — not three half-good apps.
You can always leave. Plain markdown export and an open .ilbk vault format. The day you want to walk away, you take everything with you.

Read the full privacy policy: Candor for iOS · Candor for Android

Start being honest in your own journal.

Free for the journal itself — unlimited entries, on-device AI, voice transcription, photos, mood tracking, year-in-review. Pay only for the safety net: encrypted cloud backups, full-vault export, restore on any device.