Launched this week
Cozy
Your journal, yours to keep
23 followers
Your journal, yours to keep
23 followers
Cozy is a journaling app where your entries live on your computer, the same way your thoughts live in your mind. They stay yours to keep and yours to share with whoever you want, never trapped in a server or fed into someone's AI.
Really like the philosophy here. Quick question — when iOS and Android land, how will entries move between devices if nothing syncs to a server? Manual export/import, or something local like iCloud/folder sync? @alberto gallego
@alberto @dukewood Hi! Thank you. Yes, you can use iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive. If this gains traction, I would consider adding a server in the future. However, I need to research how to do so properly while taking the privacy of users and the storage of sensitive information from their personal journals into consideration.
Hi!
Alberto here, the developer of Cozy.
I don't love naming names, but Cozy sits somewhere between Day One and Obsidian. I always wanted to build a kind of "interface for your thoughts": your writing stays on your computer, all the time, and you never have to wonder where it lives.
I used Day One for years. The day they added AI was the day I went looking for something else. I want a dedicated app for journaling, and for a while I used Bear for that (still love it for notes).
Your private thoughts shouldn't be fed into any AI. You're the one who decides whether they ever are.
That's why Cozy runs on a few simple principles:
Nothing synced to a server. No mystery cloud. Your journal lives right where you write it, on your own machine. No breach to worry about, no subscription, no stranger who can open your diary.
Nothing fed to an AI. Your private writing shouldn't train anyone's model. Nothing you write in Cozy is scraped, read, or shipped off to an algorithm. No AI, simple as that.
Your words are yours. What you write belongs to you. Maybe you're working through a rough day, maybe you're just keeping track of life as it happens. Either way you stay in charge: keep your entries to yourself, or export and share them whenever you like.
I've kept a journal for seven years, and I want to build a good app for people like me who are tired of subscriptions. So Cozy is a one-time payment, now and always, because there's no monthly server bill for me to cover.
For now it's desktop only (Windows and Mac), with iOS and Android planned.
If you have any question please let me know :)
Handinger
Awesome product! I'm glad more people are betting on local-first applications.
@paoramen thank you Pau!
Finally, a beautiful journaling app that doesn't lock me behind a monthly subscription. Local-first is the way to go. Congrats on the launch Alberto!
@jacinto_fleta Thank you Jacin :)