Hi Product Hunt. I'm Victor, an iOS dev. Inkput is the journaling app I ended up spending eighteen months on. Here's the thing I keep coming back to. We're all handing more of our thinking to a machine, and most days that's fine. But writing was never really about producing text. It's how you find out what you actually think. If something else writes it for you, you got the paragraph and skipped the part that changes you. Writing has always been hard for me. Facing a blank page, my head is a tangle. But every time I actually get the words out, the knot loosens and my thoughts go clear. I knew it worked. I just couldn't keep it up. Apple Notes, paper notebooks, every journaling app I could find: none survived two weeks. They all treated writing as data entry. So I built the opposite, and I built it in a strange order. My first commit wasn't a data model or a list screen. It was an ink sphere drawn with a Fourier curve. Then a marble shader, a rotating stack of cards, a pile of gesture toys. For weeks I didn't touch the journal feature at all, because I knew early on that the value here isn't that it records things. It's a feeling. Get that right and the product grows out of it. What that turned into: Finish a page and the corner curls, the way paper does. Tap the curl and the sheet peels off with your words on it, Metal shader and all. Ending a page is a ritual, not a tap on Done. And if a page was only ever written to be rid of, you can tear it across and throw the pieces away. Each notebook holds thirty sheets, like a real one. Running out is the point. When you do, you slide a refill into the same cover and keep going, and you can change the paper while you're at it. Covers in leather, cloth and kraft, five kinds of paper, all of it yours to name and color. Writing happens in sessions with a clock, prompts one at a time. Close one and it becomes a thing with a name and a sphere that takes its color from the tone of what you wrote. You can seal a session for up to eight weeks and nobody reads it, you included, until it opens. Or answer an old one later, and the two stay linked. There are guided methods in there too, gratitude, ideation, free writing, and the Pennebaker protocol if you want real structure. But the methods aren't the pitch. The pitch is that this is a place where you do the thinking yourself. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no server to send your words to. iCloud sync is opt-in and stays inside your own iCloud. The landing page has a real notepad on it if you want to feel the peel before you download anything. Nothing you type there is saved or sent. Curious what people here think: is there anything you've deliberately kept doing by hand, even though a model could do it for you?

Inkput

Mindful Journaling

Mindful Journaling