MindJrnl is built by a small independent team. We are not a clinic, a research institution, or a large company, and we would rather tell you what we actually are than borrow authority we have not earned. Here is what we have built, who we built it for, and where its limits are.
Write freely, or start from one of 8 guided templates and a daily prompt drawn from a library of 64. Entries are encrypted at rest and protected by row-level security, so they stay yours.
Track habits with streaks, log your mood, and record wellness metrics like sleep, exercise, stress, hydration and meditation next to the writing that explains them.
Sentiment and topic analysis runs on our own servers using an analyser we wrote — no third-party language model ever sees your entries, which is what lets us make the privacy promise at all.
A shared couples journal with its own prompts, weekly check-ins, and a Couples plan that covers both partners under a single subscription.
MindJrnl is early, and being early means being specific about who it suits rather than claiming it suits everyone. These are the people we build for.
If you have opened a blank notebook and closed it again, the prompts and templates exist to remove that first decision. A free account gives you 30 entries a month and 3 habits, with no card and no expiry.
If you keep a practice already, the tracking and analytics are there to show you what a year of your own entries actually says — which is hard to see from inside a paper notebook.
If the reason you have avoided journalling apps is that you did not want your most private writing sitting inside somebody else's model, this one was built for that objection specifically.
Two people who want a shared space to write to each other, check in each week, and keep something going that is not another messaging thread.
MindJrnl is not a medical service. It is not therapy, it does not provide medical advice, and nobody on our team is a licensed clinician.
Nothing in the app or on our blog is a substitute for a qualified professional who knows you. Journalling has genuine research behind it as a practice, but it is not a treatment for a mental health condition, and we will not pretend otherwise to sell a subscription. If something in your life warrants a professional opinion, please get one.
If you are in crisis, or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line in your country right now. Services differ by country, so we do not print numbers here that might be wrong where you are — search for the crisis line in your own country, or go to your nearest emergency department.
Our articles are written by the same team that builds the product, and published under one shared byline rather than a cast of contributors. We research from published, citable sources, cite them in the piece, check the piece back against them before it goes live, and correct it when a reader shows us we are wrong.
No licensed clinician reviews our articles, and we do not claim one does. What we can show you instead is every source behind a claim, which is the part you can actually check.
Research and writing
MindJrnl articles are researched and written by the small team that builds MindJrnl. We are not clinicians, and we do not claim to be. What we publish is built from published, citable research, checked against those sources before it goes live, and linked so you can read the evidence yourself and disagree with us.
Privacy is a constraint, not a feature. We deliberately do not send journal text to any third party, which rules out a whole category of features other apps ship. We think that trade is worth making for a product people write their most private thoughts into.
We would rather be checkable than impressive. We do not publish user counts, ratings, or credentials we do not have. Where we make a claim about the product, it should be something you can verify by signing up; where we make a claim about research, it should come with the study attached.
We build in the open with early users. MindJrnl is early, and the people using it now have a real say in what ships next. If something is missing or broken, telling us genuinely changes the roadmap.
Feature requests, bug reports, a source we misread, or a question about how any of this works — it reaches the people who build MindJrnl, because there is nobody else for it to reach.
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