Alcove
Private AI journal · iPhone

Alcovea quiet place for your life

Said softly. Kept yours.

An end-to-end-encrypted journal that fills itself — your photos, places, and days, gathered into a warm record that only you can open.

Coming to iPhone · 2026

Alcove

What do you want to remember from today?

Today
A walk · 2.4 km
5:12 pm · near the shore

Built so no one else can read it

Not Apple, not us, not anyone who takes your phone or your iCloud backup. That isn't a policy we could quietly break — it's the architecture. There's no server we run, and nowhere for your journal to go.

Encrypted, always

Everything you keep is sealed with AES-GCM-256 before it touches disk, under a key only your devices hold.

On your device

Your entries, your places, and the AI that reads them all live and run on your iPhone. No cloud model, ever.

No account, no tracking

No sign-up, no email, no analytics, no ad identifiers, no third-party SDKs. The App Store label is “Data Not Collected.”

Sync is yours

If you turn it on, sync runs over your own iCloud as encrypted blobs Apple can't read — never a server we operate.

Leave with everything

Full plaintext export and full local erase, any time. Your journal is portable, and it's yours to take.

Honest by design

Our privacy story describes the code as built — and names its own seams. Nothing aspirational.

A warm place that fills itself

Keep a moment

Open the chest, keep what matters

Write a line, dictate on-device, or keep a voice note. A warm little ritual — light from the seam, and a quiet “Kept.” when it closes. What you say is sealed the instant you keep it.

Saturday · June 7
“You walked to the shore as the fog lifted, and kept two photographs.”

It gathers for you

Your days, arranged without a word from you

With your permission, Alcove quietly places your photos, walks, workouts, and plans onto a timeline — reading only dates and places, never uploading a single pixel.

≈ 46 km² explored

Your world, revealed

Watch the fog clear as you move

An Atlas map that lifts the fog from the ground you've actually walked. Trails and places stay on your device — the map is yours to grow, and yours alone to see.

When was I happiest this spring?
You wrote most warmly about the mornings by the water in early May — “everything felt unhurried.”

On-device intelligence

An assistant that never leaves your phone

Ask about your own life, and read gentle narrations of your days — every word written by Apple's on-device model. Your entries are never sent to a server to be understood.

Kept.

There is no server we run. No account. Nowhere for your journal to go but with you.

Privacy isn't a setting in Alcove — it's the architecture. Read the whole story →

A private alcove for your life

Said softly. Kept yours.

Coming to iPhone · 2026