Meditations, Affirmations, Upcoming Full Moons, Write with Pen and Paper, and so much more!
Your thoughts deserve a quiet place to land.
Opal is a private journaling app built around one idea: the more you write, the more you understand. With thoughtful prompts, ambient soundscapes, and AI reflections, it turns a blank page into a mirror.
Write your way: Start from a prompt or a blank page. Type, speak, or add photos. Opal supports voice journaling and image entries so you can capture a thought, a moment, or a feeling however it comes to you. Organize entries across multiple journals to keep different threads of your life separate.
Go deeper with guided journeys: Follow multi-day programs that build one prompt at a time around themes that matter to you. Explore manifesting and intention-setting, shadow work and unconscious patterns, dream journaling and interpretation, creativity and self-expression, and relationship dynamics. Each day's prompt builds on the last, creating a practice that compounds over weeks.
See what you can't see alone: AI tools surface patterns across your entries. Recurring emotions, cognitive distortions, relationship dynamics, and dream themes. Murmur highlights what your conscious mind might miss, then gets out of the way.
Built around privacy: Your entries live on your device. No account required, no cloud sync by default, no data sold. When you use AI features, names, locations, and identifying details are masked before anything leaves your phone. Your data is never used for training. Export or delete entries at any time.
Start writing. Start noticing.
I definitely would recommend this app to anyone looking to write all their thoughts down. I personally find the functions in the app to not only be helpful but also motivating. To be able to have an app that’s easy to navigate and to also push you to share your inner thoughts with yourself is hard to find. I find that if you download this app it will literally make your life better instantly because you are no longer just having a journal you are having a personalized Biopic for yourself. Highly recommend to anyone. One of the best apps on the iOS Store.
Developer Response
Gosh, thank you so much for being part of this. Your support means everything!!Warmly, Darby
Amazing App for Therapy
bt2002
I have been using this for awhile now. Over time if you choose to use the AI part of the app it makes therapeutic suggestions that are simply amazing and for me life changing. I got life changing useful suggestions and insights from an app! All while having 100% privacy, important to me. Once I set up my journal and got in the habit of entering, my journal started to life coach me. I highly recommend this app. Murmur is amazing!
Developer Response
Hello there, Thank you so much for taking the time to write a review for Opal! As an indie developer, it sincerely means the world. Your words validate why we set out upon this quest! Much more to come, and thank you for your ongoing support!Warmly, Darby
Murmur is a beautiful and well designed app!
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Murmur has such a unique set style, it is an app like no other. Murmur is all about helping you examine your life and grow. It’s also completely free! I would highly recommend if you are interested in going on a journey of self growth.
Developer Response
Hello there, Thank you so much for your thoughtful review and kind words.It means the world!! Happy journaling!Warmly, Darby
I finally found the one!
Ferfaksake
I’ve tried so many journal apps and Murmur is amazing. The prompts are inspiring and keep me engaged with writing. The guides are thorough and help me dive deeper. The insights are great and I love the visualization tool and the burn it page. I look forward to working through more of the guides.
Developer Response
Aw thank you so much for taking the time to review us! It means the world. Your feedback makes this all so worthwhile, and we have so much more to come! Including more in-depth guides, better memory, and affirmations. Thank you for being on this journey with us. Warmly, Darby
Hello Journalers,
TOO MANY exciting updates for you in this one!! (I really should get more of a life...but alas)
(1) Affirmations on your home screen (you can toggle these off in settings). You can also customize your own by long-pressing on the open affirmation card.
(2) Moons: Now you can see upcoming big moons in your moon calendar! Date and time based on your geography for new, full, and quarter moons.
(3) Meditations: Go deeper with your journaling with a pre-journaling meditation. (You can toggle this off and on in settings).
(4) Scan your writing: Love the feel of pen and paper? Me too. Now you can get all of the prompts, guides, and analysis of Opal but still without losing the act of writing.
(5) There's a new journaling paradigm I think you may love...especially if you enjoy voice journaling or prefer the feel of pen and paper. I'm calling it 'writing modes'. Basically when you open an entry you can either have a focused typing mode, voice, or writing flow (where you scan all your writing at the end to digitize and get an analysis). You should see it anywhere you write in Opal -- save & some tools have shifted around a little, but I'm hoping it's all more intuitive!
Would love your feedback! Do you like it, do you hate it? Any feedback is super welcome.
Send an email or join our Discord. I love to hear from you.
As always, enormously grateful you're on this journey with me.
Many, many more things to come.
Warmly,
Darby
Version 1.77
The developer, Darby Tarlow, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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