Sanctuary: Private Journal

Sanctuary is a quiet place to write, and it keeps what you write on your phone.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Sanctuary doesn't request internet access, so it has no way to send your journal anywhere on its own. You can check this in the app's permissions.
• No account, no sign-up, no cloud servers. No ads and no analytics.
• Your entries and photos are kept encrypted on your phone.
• Lock your journal with your fingerprint, face, or screen lock. While App Lock is on, Sanctuary also blocks screenshots and hides its preview in recent apps.
• Export a copy or a plain PDF whenever you like. You decide where it goes.

A CALM PLACE TO WRITE
• A distraction-free editor. Nothing pops up while you write.
• Write a letter to your future self and seal it until the day you choose.
• Stuck for words? Echoes offers cards to help you start, some drawn from your past entries. It opens up after 10 entries.
• Speak instead of typing, with dictation recognized on your phone where supported.
• A Timeline of your entries, with moods, tags, and keyword search. Pin entries, filter by mood or photos, sort by date or mood, and rename or merge tags everywhere at once.
• A Calendar that marks the days you wrote, and a garden that grows with your words. No streaks.
• Save a line you love as a quote card.
• Add up to three photos to an entry, caption them in your own words, choose a font, and give its card a soft color.
• "On this day" gently brings back what you wrote before.
• An optional daily reminder at a time you choose.
• Home-screen widgets in your app's theme. Quick Capture lets you write without opening the app.
• Deleted entries wait 30 days in Recently deleted.

GENTLE HELP, ONLY WHEN YOU ASK
• Clean Up Text fixes typos and punctuation while keeping your own words.
• One-line recap sums up a longer entry on your Timeline.
On supported phones these use Gemini Nano, Google's on-device AI, which runs on your phone. Google's model is downloaded and kept up to date by your phone's system, not by Sanctuary, and Sanctuary never sends your words anywhere. Supported phones include the Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 10 and Galaxy S25, among others. On other phones, Clean Up Text does a simpler tidy-up of its own, One-line recap tells you it isn't available, and everything else works the same. A switch in Settings turns them all off.

MAKE IT YOURS
• Six color themes included, among them a true-black AMOLED theme, with light, dark, and system modes. Or match your wallpaper with dynamic color.
• Four entry fonts included.
• Available in English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, and Português (Brasil).
• Bring your past writing with you: import from Day One, or from text and Markdown notes.

SANCTUARY PRO: ONE PAYMENT, YOURS TO KEEP
Everything above is included. If you'd like more, Pro is a single one-time purchase, not a subscription:
• As many photos as you like on any entry
• More colors, fonts, and themes (17 in all), and new app icons
• Keepsake PDFs, and encrypted backups by hand or weekly to your folder
• Concept Search: find past entries by meaning, even when you forget the exact words
• Version history, so you can go back to an earlier draft of an entry
• Writing insights: a mood calendar, your year in writing, consistency, and patterns
• Weekly and monthly recaps, Deeper Reflection questions, and photo descriptions*
• Change the tone of a passage: friendlier, shorter, or more formal, as a suggestion you choose*
• Unlimited sealed letters (Free keeps one at a time) and every Echoes deck
Payments are handled by Google Play; Sanctuary never sees your payment details.
*On supported phones, Gemini Nano adds a short written summary to recaps, ties reflection questions to what you wrote, describes your photos, and changes the tone. On other phones, recaps still show your numbers, reflections still offer a thoughtful question, and the rest of Pro works the same.

Sanctuary is for anyone who wants to write honestly, without wondering who else is reading.