Vapor: One word journal.

Now with Vapor Premium: themes, display typefaces, a monthly recap film, soundscapes, printables, and encrypted backup. Still one word a day, still yours.

Vapor is a one-word-a-day journal.

Every day, write the word that captures how you feel. Add a 280-character note if the day demands one. The whole ritual takes thirty seconds.

Over time, those single words become a portrait of who you are.

The breath before the word. Each day, before you write, Vapor pauses. A breathing horizon. Recent words drifting past. Tap when you're ready, or skip it entirely. The pause is yours.

See yourself across time. The Calendar shows every word you've written, month by month. Older entries fade gently the further back they go. The Words screen builds a slowly-evolving cloud of your most-used words and a top 10 of how you've been feeling. Search across your full history.

Your inner weather. Soul Weather reads your recent words and writes you a forecast: "fog burning off", "the front, sharper", "the wind, ongoing". A glyph, a phrase, a 7-day retrospective. Hand-written, line by line. No AI in the lexicon.

Write to your future self. Seal today's word and a short letter to your future self. Lock the pair for a week, a month, a year. When the date arrives, your past self meets your present self.

You've shown up. When you write multiple days in a row, Vapor counts. But the framing is "you've shown up." Past tense. Kind. No streak panic, no notification nags, no AI coach. Consistency that's celebrated, not weaponised.

Vapor Premium. Optional, never required. The daily ritual stays free. For the days you want a little more:

Themes. Six palettes beyond dark and light. Display typefaces. Choose the hand your word is written in. Weighted glow. Your most-felt words quietly shine. Monthly recap. A short film of your month. Ritual soundscapes. Soft ambient sound for the pause before you write. Custom milestones and custom-date letters. Mark any date that matters to you. High-resolution printables. Frame your words. Encrypted backup. Your journal, locked with a passphrase, kept only by you. No cloud; the file goes only where you put it. Honest about its limits. Vapor is a mirror, not therapy. It ships with crisis resources for 50 countries, always offline, never logged. There's no AI crisis detection. We considered it and decided against it: a model watching for distress would break the local-only privacy stance, and false positives in a journaling context are particularly bad. If you're going through something, please talk to someone real.

Why it stays on your phone. Your interior life belongs to you. Vapor stores everything locally in SQLite and Keychain. No accounts. No cloud. No analytics. No tracking. Your journal never leaves your phone. The only network calls are optional dictionary lookups (English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Chinese), where the typed word goes out and nothing else, plus Apple's standard purchase check if you subscribe.

Inside:

Today. One word, once a day, with an optional note. The Ritual. A pause before you write, each day. Calendar. Every entry across time. Words. A cloud, a top 10, and full-history search. Soul Weather. Your inner forecast, from your own words. Letters. A word and a letter, sealed for a week to a year. Multilingual dictionary in 6 languages. Available in 10 languages. Home Screen widget (iOS). Optional Face ID / fingerprint lock. Hide patterns toggle. Keep writing without seeing the aggregations. Crisis resources for 50 countries, always offline. CSV export. Your data, your phone. Designed in dark mode. Cormorant Garamond italic for the word. Inter for everything else.

Built solo by an Australian developer. Free to use. Vapor Premium is an optional subscription, never required. No ads. No tracking.

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