This update is about trust and control: an AI that handles the hard moments with more care, and gives you more say in what it remembers. Tell it when it's wrong If CortexOS ever reads you wrong, say so during a reflection and it lets that read go for good, everywhere in the app. You can see and clear everything you've corrected in Settings. Set topics off-limits Not ready to dig into something? Tell the AI to leave a topic alone and it won't raise it again, in reflections, analysis, or anywhere else. It's listed in Settings whenever you want to change your mind. Reflections that stay with the moment Deep Analysis and reflections now focus on what you actually wrote, instead of pulling your whole history into every entry. When a past entry genuinely connects to today, it still surfaces as a throwback. The big-picture view of your patterns stays on your Self-Awareness card. Gentler on the hard days On a heavy day, CortexOS holds back the streaks, milestones, and upbeat nudges that don't fit the moment. And if you're going through something dark, it steps back from analysis and quietly points you toward real support. As always, everything stays on your device, encrypted. Your words never leave your phone.

This one is about staying out of your way. • Vent & Burn now saves instantly when you choose to keep what you wrote. No pause, no waiting on the AI to finish. • Coming back into the app after Face ID or your passphrase is smooth again, with no hang on unlock. • Voice journaling now always transcribes right on your device, on every path. Your voice never leaves your phone. As always, everything you write stays encrypted on your device. We can't read it, and we never will.

Faster cold launch, quieter download banner, and small info buttons on every main feature. • Cold launch reserves the first few seconds for you. The on-device AI warms quietly in the background about ten seconds later, ready by the time you need it instead of competing with the moment you wanted to write. • The phantom download banner is gone. If you've ever wondered why CortexOS seemed to be downloading the AI model every time you opened the app, it wasn't, it was just warming from your phone's storage. The banner now only shows the one time the model actually downloads, on first install. • A small info button now appears next to your Self-Awareness card, Pulse, Vent & Burn, Chapters, Deep Analysis, and several other features. Tap it for a short plain-language read on how each one actually works. Each links to a deeper article on cortexos.app if you want the longer version.

1. Silky Save, Silky Scroll (IMPROVED): Instant save, background AI 2. Reflection Summaries Speak to You (IMPROVED: Second-person voice 3. Quieter Self-Awareness Updates (IMPROVED): Silent foreground/background polish 4. Bug fixes, and other improvements

Version 1.5.0 - Two new ways to capture your day, plus the AI just got sharper. • Pulse: a 10-second mood check-in for the days you don't have time for a full entry • Mind Wrapped: a shareable card deck that pops up at entry milestones and at year-end • Patterns You Show, Still on Your Mind, and Growth Moments are now written entirely by the on-device AI • Screen recording, AirPlay, and mirroring are now blocked at the system level • Vent & Burn refined: bigger mic, on-device voice transcription, flickering flames while you record • Mood Trend shows every entry kind, stale chapters auto-close, fewer notifications during quiet weeks

You asked for quiet, you got it. Two new toggles in Settings let you mute in-app sounds and haptics independently. Splash sound stays as a brief launch moment. Everything else goes silent when you want. Your AI model now stays exactly where you left it. No surprise downloads at launch or in the background. Pick Standard or Enhanced once, and that's what runs. Notifications now stop at the lock screen. Tapping one requires Face ID, Touch ID, or your PIN, even if you just had the app open. Notifications are a separate door into your journal, and we don't assume a tap is you.

• New pricing across every plan. • 7-day free trial of every Premium feature when you sign up. No card required. • Every Premium feature is visible inside the app from day one. Blurred until you upgrade, so you always see what's possible. • When your trial ends, the app shows you the features you used and quietly fades them. A moment to choose, not a wall. • Free plan: 10 entries a month, with every Premium surface still visible.

• AI badge on every AI-generated reflection, insight, and chapter name. You always know what came from you and what came from the AI. • New "About AI in CortexOS" section in Settings → Support & Privacy. • Onboarding now opens with a clear AI disclosure before any model spins up. • Fixed: model download progress and reflection saving overlay are now readable in light mode. • EU AI Act compliant, 88 days before the August 2 deadline. Receipts at https://cortexos.app/trust.

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Choose Your AI Model You can now pick between Standard and Enhanced AI in Settings. Standard is fast and light. Enhanced runs a larger on-device model for deeper reflections and sharper pattern detection. One-time download, stays on your device. Available for Premium and Lifetime users. Smarter Device Detection CortexOS now checks your device's capabilities before loading the AI. If your phone can't run the on-device model, you'll know upfront instead of hitting a wall. Everything else still works. Cleaner Insights The Self-Awareness card no longer carries leftover framing text from the AI. Just the actual findings, clean and to the point.

1. Light Mode, Fixed (FIX) "The splash screen, unlock screen, AI Analysis, Deep Analysis, insights, and reframing text were invisible in light mode. White text on a white background. Now every screen adapts properly whether you're in light or dark mode." 2. Reflection Chat Input (FIX) "Your message no longer hangs in the text field while the AI is thinking. It clears immediately after you send, so the conversation feels natural."

1. Behavioral Patterns, Live - NEW Your Self-Awareness card now shows the cognitive patterns and behavioral rhythms CortexOS notices in your writing over time. Things like rumination, self-compassion, growth moments, or stress responses, tracked quietly across 365 days. You see how you've been trending, not just how you feel today. Patterns only appear after enough entries are gathered, and they're never labeled or diagnosed. Just named, so you can notice them yourself. 2. See How Patterns Move - NEW Every pattern on your Self-Awareness card now carries a trend chip so you can tell at a glance what's new, what's stable, what's fading, and what's getting more intense. Fading and resolved patterns lean green, emerging leans red, volatile leans purple, new ones blue, stable ones stay neutral. Your attention goes to what's actually changing. 3. Your Patterns Travel With You - IMPROVED Until now, switching devices meant losing your pattern history. That's fixed. Pattern data is now part of your encrypted backup, so a new phone restores everything you've built up. Same zero-knowledge promise as your entries. Nobody at Apple, Cloudflare, or CortexOS can read any of it. Only you. 4. Careful, Not Loud - IMPROVED The detection layer got stricter. Patterns only surface after at least seven entries sit in the window, so one journaling day cannot lock in a spurious "stable" pattern. Every detection is double-checked against a fixed registry, so nothing gets invented or labeled that you did not actually write. The AI notices, but your words stay the source of truth. 5. Switch to Lifetime from Settings - NEW If you're on Premium Monthly or Yearly, or still inside your 14-day trial, you can now pick up Lifetime directly inside the app. Settings shows a clear path to it, so you no longer need to cancel and resubscribe. Pay once, own it forever, no more renewals to think about.

Version 1.2.3 • Voice input in Reflections sessions; tap the mic to speak your thoughts, review the transcript, then send when it reads right. • Manage your subscription right from Settings; cancel, switch monthly and yearly, or resubscribe without leaving the app. • Cleaner feedback flow; one tap opens a pre-filled message so reporting a bug or sharing a thought takes seconds. • Under the hood: hardened the AI against occasional first-person drift in Deep Analysis and other reflections, so the insights stay focused on you, not the model.

Smarter AI, Cleaner Communication - AI responses now feel more natural. No more robotic phrasing or awkward formatting showing through. - Refined notification wording across streaks, follow-ups, and nudges - Direct access to Reflections from notifications with a single tap - Performance and stability improvements

v1.2.1 - Adaptive Intelligence, Now Always On Your Self-Awareness card now has a permanent home in the Insights tab. It shows your core themes, emotional patterns, cognitive tendencies, and growth moments - all built from your own words. New users see a progress indicator as CortexOS learns who they are. Adaptive Intelligence no longer waits for the overnight cycle. Every journal entry you write immediately feeds your psychological profile. Your emotions, themes, and patterns update in real time - making Deep Analysis, Reflections, and nudges sharper with every entry. Daily reflection prompts and streak reminders are no longer generic. They now draw from your psyche profile, referencing the topics on your mind and the things you're working through. We also added guardrails across every AI feature. Analysis and reflections only reference what you actually wrote - no invented details, just real connections across your entries.

Adaptive Intelligence CortexOS now remembers who you are. Every entry you write, every reflection you have, every emotion detected; it all feeds into a private psychological profile stored encrypted on your device. The result: your AI stops treating you like a stranger. Deep Analysis now connects today's entry to patterns from weeks ago. Reflections ask sharper questions because they know your tendencies. Nudges land differently because they understand what you're actually going through. This isn't a feature you toggle on. It's a shift in how the entire app works. The more you journal, the more CortexOS understands, and the more useful it becomes. Your profile never leaves your device. It's encrypted with the same AES-256-GCM as your entries. We can't read it. No one can. The journal that learns who you are. That's CortexOS now.

Deep Analysis Every journal entry now receives a thoughtful, in-depth analysis from an AI running entirely on your phone. Not a keyword scan - a real language model that reads what you wrote and helps you understand what you're feeling, why, and what patterns are forming. It runs silently in the background after you save. No waiting, no loading screens, no data leaving your device. Instant Save Saving an entry is now immediate. Tap save and you're back. All AI analysis - sentiment, emotions, patterns, deep analysis - runs in the background without interrupting your flow. Smarter Reflections The AI reflection companion now picks up on natural conversation endings. Say "bye," "talk to you later," "good night," or "take care" and it wraps up warmly - no need to hit end buttons or wait for a forced cutoff. Better Session Summaries Reflection session summaries are now generated by the on-device LLM when available, producing richer and more accurate recaps of your conversations. Bug Fixes - Fixed an issue where reminders were incorrectly triggered from past-tense diary entries - Session feedback prompt now appears reliably after ending a reflection - Entries can now be edited via long-press from anywhere in the app

Entry Echoes - When a new entry echoes something you wrote 30+ days ago, CortexOS surfaces the connection and shows how your perspective has shifted. All on-device. Smarter Blank Page - Contextual prompts adapt to time of day, recent mood, and journaling gaps. They fade as you build the habit.

Bug fixes and improvements.