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Cozy is a journaling app that lives entirely on your Mac. I never see your entries. Everything you write stays in a folder on your computer, and nowhere else.
Cozy is a journaling app that lives entirely on your Mac. I never see your entries. Everything you write stays in a folder on your computer, and nowhere else.
After seven years of journaling, I still hadn't found the right app. Everything either sent my writing to some company's cloud or made the whole thing feel like filing taxes. So I built the thing I wanted.
Your words belong to you. Apps come and go, and Cozy might too. You shouldn't have to trust me with your life's writing. Your entries live in a regular folder on your Mac. Copy them, back them up, open them with any app. They're yours forever.
Writing should feel good. Most apps make journaling feel like one more task on the list. Cozy clears the screen, plays soft background music, and lets the keys click under your fingers. No toolbar clutter, no sidebar. Just you writing at whatever pace feels right.
It adapts to you. Some people write pages without stopping. Others answer three prompts and close the lid. Some just want to drop a photo and a sentence about what happened. Cozy doesn't decide how you journal. It gives you the blank page, the guided questions, or the mood tracker, and stays quiet.
Most days disappear. Most days blur together. You won't remember last Tuesday. But somewhere in the blur there's the afternoon your kid said something that made you laugh until you cried, or the walk where everything clicked. Cozy lets you mark those moments and scroll back through them when the blur gets thick.
Into a regular folder on your Mac, as simple files you can open with any app. Each entry saves the date, mood, location, and tags alongside your writing. Photos sit right next to your entries in the same folder.
You open your folder and keep going. Your journal is already on your computer. That's the whole point.
Cozy doesn't handle sync, but your journal is just a folder. Sync it with iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or any similar service and you're done.
Not yet. The desktop writing experience is the focus right now. If enough people ask for mobile, it could happen later.
No, and I don't plan to add it. Your entries are regular files on your computer. If you ever want to use an AI tool with them, you can, on your own terms. You don't need my permission.
Obsidian is great for organizing notes and research. Cozy is built for the person who just wants to write about their day. Both keep your files on your computer, but Cozy gives you ambient sound, a life timeline, and mood tracking. It's a journal, not a note-taking system.
Day One keeps your entries on their servers in a format only their app can read, and charges monthly. Cozy keeps files on your Mac in a standard format and charges once. If Day One disappears, you need to export. If Cozy disappears, you open your folder.
Join the waitlist and I'll let you know when it's ready.