Dreamjar
A journal & dream log

Your thoughts belong in a jar. Only you hold the key.

Dreamjar is a quiet, private place to write — no ads, no accounts, no cloud. Everything you write stays on your phone, sealed with a 256-bit key.

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No ads No popups No accounts Data never leaves your phone
Home — streak, mood check-in and recent entries Calendar — month view with entry dots Insights — mood trends and streak statistics Settings — security, themes, data and sharing

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Available for iOS & Android

How it started

It started with a dream. Literally.

Hi, I’m Andrei — a solo developer from the UK, and the person behind Dreamjar. This is the moment that made me build it.

3:04 am Dream · unsaved

I woke up with one of those vivid dreams you know will vanish by morning, so I grabbed my phone to write it down. Before I could type a single word…

That moment stuck with me. The more I thought about it, the more everything about modern journaling apps bothered me.

Free apps bombard you with popups and ads — right at the moment you’re trying to be alone with your thoughts.
Paid apps are mostly subscriptions. Stop paying, and your access — sometimes even years of your own entries — gets cut off.
Your data can be sold to advertisers, used to build a psychological profile, or fed into AI training. A journal is the most private thing you own.

So I built the app I wanted to exist.

— Andrei

The mission

What I promise. In writing.

Not marketing promises — rules the app is built around. Every one of them is verifiable in Settings.

No ads. No popups. Ever.

Not even in the free version. Nothing will ever interrupt you at 3am again.

No accounts.

Download it and start writing straight away. No sign-up, no email, no password to forget.

Your data never leaves your phone.

Everything is stored locally on your device. No cloud, no servers, nothing to breach.

Your entries are encrypted.

Sealed with a 256-bit key right on your phone — and you can lock Dreamjar itself with biometrics or a passphrase.

No secret data collection.

Nothing except optional, anonymous telemetry — which you can switch off in Settings in two taps. I genuinely don’t want your data.

You buy it, you own it.

The full version is a one-time purchase. It’s yours forever. No subscription, no locked-out years of entries.

You’re supporting a real human.

Every purchase goes directly to an independent developer making ad-free, popup-free software for everyone.

Privacy

Private. Actually private.

“Private” gets used loosely in this industry. Here is exactly what Dreamjar does — in plain terms, with nothing hidden.

Storage

Local only. Every entry lives in a database on your device. There is no cloud copy, no sync server, and therefore nothing that can be breached, subpoenaed, or “accidentally” exposed.

Encryption

AES-256, sealed on-device. Your journal is encrypted with a 256-bit key that is created and kept on your phone. Your words are unreadable without it.

App lock

Biometrics or passphrase. Lock Dreamjar itself with your fingerprint or face — or a passphrase if you prefer. Someone picks up your phone, they see a locked jar.

Collected

Nothing — by default, and by design. The only optional thing is anonymous telemetry to see which features get used. It collects no entry content and can be switched off in Settings in two taps.

Sold or shared

Never. There is no advertiser, no data broker, and no AI training pipeline anywhere in Dreamjar’s picture. There is nobody to sell your data to.

“I don’t want to write about my bad sleep and then get served mattress ads for a week.”
— Andrei
Anonymous telemetry
Settings → Privacy → Telemetry  ·  two taps, off
Make it yours

Seven themes. Try them on this page.

This is the app’s real theme catalog — the same switcher, right here on the website. White comes free; the rest unlock with the full version.

Night Sky — the original brand palette: indigo, amber and teal on midnight.

One-time purchase · no subscription

Buy it once.
Own it forever.

Stop paying and nothing gets taken away — because there’s nothing recurring to stop. Your entries stay yours, always accessible, always encrypted.

The full version unlocks
  • Logging dreams — a sealed jar for every dream, not just your journal
  • Journal & dream insights — mood trends, streaks and patterns over time
  • Voice dictation — capture a 3am dream hands-free, before it fades
  • Instant sharing — end-to-end encrypted, one-tap share links
  • 6 additional themes — Night Sky, Sunset, Forest, Lavender, Ocean and Sky

The free app keeps your journal and calendar — with no ads, no popups, ever.

$19.99
once. That’s the whole story.
Get Dreamjar
No account. No trial that expires. No “pro” upsell waiting inside.
Who’s behind it

One person. Actually.

Dreamjar isn’t a startup, a fundraise, or a growth team. It’s one independent developer in the UK who wanted the app he couldn’t find — and decided you should have it too. When you write in with a bug or an idea, a human reads it.

My mission is simple: software you actually own, built by someone who respects you.

Andrei
Solo developer · United Kingdom
Questions

The honest answers.

Really. Dreamjar has no cloud and no servers. Your entries are stored in an encrypted database on your device, and nothing is transmitted anywhere. If you uninstall the app, your data goes with the phone — there was never a copy anywhere else.

Nothing by default. The only collection in the entire app is an optional, anonymous telemetry setting that reports feature usage — never entry content, never anything identifiable. Switch it off in Settings → Privacy in two taps, and the app sends nothing at all.

No. Download it, open it, start writing. There is no sign-up, no email address, no password — and nothing to log into, because there is nothing on the other end.

Nothing — because there’s no subscription to stop. The full version is a one-time purchase that stays yours forever, including all your entries and updates. The free version keeps working too, with no ads and no popups, ever.

Dreamjar is available for both iOS and Android. Because your data lives on your device — not in an account — there’s nothing to “sync” between platforms; each device holds its own sealed jar.

It’s your app. You decide what happens in it — and what happens with it.

Download Dreamjar and start writing straight away. No ads. No accounts. No cloud.

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Your thoughts belong in a jar — and only you should hold the key.