Paid plans from 15 November • From 15 November, new daily reflections, Ask, new weekly digests and monthly reports, the mood timeline and widgets need Core or Deep. Writing, reading, search and iCloud backup stay free, forever. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial. • Everything already made for you stays readable on every plan: past reflections, digests and reports, in the app and in widgets. Also in this update • A much smaller download: under 30 MB again, down from over 300 MB. • Writing late at night counts as that evening's. Entries written before 4 AM are reflected with the day before, and what you write later in the day gets its own daily reflection.

Paid plans from 15 November • From 15 November, new daily reflections, Ask, new weekly digests and monthly reports, the mood timeline and widgets need Core or Deep. Writing, reading, search and iCloud backup stay free, forever. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial. • Everything already made for you stays readable on every plan: past reflections, digests and reports, in the app and in widgets. Also in this update • In English, Ask on iPhones without Apple Intelligence now answers faster, with the sentence from your journal that best fits your question. • Text follows your chosen text size throughout the app, and the mood timeline and Brain View work with VoiceOver. • New Entry and Log Mood controls for Control Center, the Lock Screen and the Action button. • Opening an entry zooms in from the list. Mood colours are calmer, and Brain View opens flat with a mood legend. • Fixed a crash when you left the app while an insight was being written, and made a rare crash during iCloud sync less likely.

Clearer iCloud status, and a keyboard fix • When iCloud can't take your latest changes, the notice now says why: it tells you when iCloud storage is full, and when waiting won't fix it, with a code to send us. • Fixed: the keyboard could open on top of What's New or another sheet right after launch. • Paid plans start on 15 November. From then, the daily reflection, Ask Mirror, Weekly Digest, Monthly Report, the mood timeline and widgets need Core or Deep. Writing, reading, search and iCloud backup stay free, forever. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial.

Recently Deleted, Drafts, and paid plans from 15 November • Paid plans start on 15 November. From then, the daily reflection, Ask Mirror, Weekly Digest, Monthly Report, the mood timeline and widgets need Core or Deep. Writing, reading, search and iCloud backup stay free, forever. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial. • Recently Deleted: deleted entries wait 30 days on all your devices, and Undo brings one back straight away. Choose 7, 30 or 90 days in Settings. • Drafts: put an entry aside and start another, then pick it up later from Write. • Choose a collection while you write, or make a new one there. • Select several entries to move them to a collection or delete them. • Duplicates finds entries saved twice and merges them. Saving the same text again now asks first. • Fixed: leaving Write right after typing could lose the last few words.

Made for iPhone Duo, and a new Write screen • iPhone Duo: open it flat and the list sits beside the entry you're reading, while Insights spreads into two columns. Half-folded, lists and writing stay off the crease. Folding or unfolding keeps your writing and undo history. • Write has a new keyboard bar and Aa panel. Checklists are easier too: tap a circle to tick it, swipe to indent, drag to reorder, and done items can move to the bottom. • Small animations show what just happened: something to save, a draft kept, your daily word goal reached. • With Apple Intelligence, Weekly Digest, Monthly Report and Ask Mirror now quote your own sentences. • Insights has dated headers and cleaner cards. On iOS 18 and later, press and hold a day in a mood chart to see what you wrote. • Brain View groups your words into topics. • The Mood Map widget can show 7 or 14 days. • On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, Settings opens from the person button in Insights.

More reliable digests, widgets and translations • Weekly Digest and Monthly Report now arrive more reliably, and a failed retry never replaces one you already have. • Widgets no longer show a lock and a price. The streak and map widgets update as soon as you save, and the digest and monthly widgets show last week's and last month's until the new one arrives. • Delete Everything now also clears your text from widgets and reminders. • Editing an entry that has only a voice note no longer risks damaging it. • Reflections and entries follow your text size, and VoiceOver reads calendar days and buttons clearly. • Mood Timeline draws one point per day, so busy days no longer leave stray shapes in the chart. • More of the app is translated, including widgets, Siri phrases and notifications.

Fixes for smarter search, writing and check-ins • Smarter search in Ask: the search model no longer downloads again after you reopen the app. It now downloads in the background over Wi-Fi or mobile data, and you can pause and resume it. • Model downloads show a clearer progress bar with one Pause/Resume button, and a clearer Download button. • Writing: choosing Title, Heading or Subheading in an empty entry now applies to what you type. • Mood check-in: every mood name fits its button, and each mood keeps its colour. • What's New shows only the latest changes, not every past release. • The rating and mood check-in sheets now fit their content.

Smarter search in Ask, reflection styles and a steadier editor • Smarter search in Ask (optional): find entries by meaning, not only matching words. It's a one-time 334 MB download on Wi-Fi that runs on your device, and your journal never leaves it. Turn it on in Ask or in Settings. • Ask finds better matches even without it: whole words count, and rare words count for more than common ones. • Reflection styles (Core): choose how today's reflection reads. Gentle as before, Quiet with only your own words, or Curious with a question about what you wrote. Choose it in Settings. • Writing: the keyboard opens straight away, the cursor starts at the end of your draft, and a draft keeps its date, font, tags and formatting. • Formatting: the Aa panel is redesigned so every control fits on screen, including with large text, and checklist actions are in one menu. • Lists and checklists: Backspace at a marker leaves the list, Return on an empty item ends it, bold and italic stay where you put them, and undo works across formatting. • A clearer Format panel (Aa): every style, list and colour is on screen at once, each colour shows what it does before you tap it, and checklist actions sit in one Checklist menu. • Typing in Japanese, Chinese and Korean is handled better in the editor. • Long entries and entries with photos are quicker to edit. • Tags: typing #work, or several tags separated by commas, now does what you'd expect. • Export and import now include your saved views. • Search words are highlighted inside voice-note transcripts too.

Lock your journal, find anything, keep it organised • App Lock: protect MirrorNotes with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. It locks when the app opens and after 5 minutes away, and hides your journal in the app switcher. Turn it on in Settings. • Better search: put words in "quotes" for an exact phrase, type tag:work to search a tag, or -word to leave a word out. Matching words are highlighted, and results can be sorted by best match. • Filters: combine several moods, any or all of your tags, date ranges (including This week and This month), photos, voice notes and pinned entries. • Collections: group entries into collections and switch between them in Entries. Each entry can be in one collection. • Saved views: save a search with its filters and sort, and open it again with one tap. • Safer drafts: your unsaved draft is fully encrypted on your iPhone, the editor shows whether it's been kept, and unsaved changes to an entry can be restored next time you open it. • Export your whole journal as a ZIP of Markdown files with your photos and voice recordings. You can import an unzipped archive back; existing entries are never overwritten.

Safer journals, and a fuller daily reflection • If you turn off iCloud for MirrorNotes or sign out of iCloud, your iPhone now keeps a private copy of your journal and offers to restore any entries that disappear. • A notice tells you when your latest changes haven't reached iCloud yet, so you know not to turn iCloud off before they're backed up. • If some entries can't be read on a new device, MirrorNotes now tells you why and how to fix it (turn on iCloud Keychain). • Delete Everything now also removes mood check-ins, and your other devices won't offer the deleted entries back. • Your daily reflection now also shows a second sentence from your entry, in your own words (English). • On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, days spent at a hospital, clinic or similar now get a reflection instead of none. • A new Format panel, laid out like Notes: styles, bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, lists, indents and colours in one place.

Clearer reflections, and a fix for Japanese and Chinese • On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, your daily reflection now quotes your own words, then adds one short line. In English that line is checked against what you wrote, so details you never wrote no longer appear. Other languages show your quote with a fixed line chosen by your mood. • Reflection openings now alternate between "You wrote," and "Earlier you wrote," so they don't all start the same way. • The first entry in onboarding now counts Japanese and Chinese words correctly. • On a new device, the Japanese and Chinese word-count update now waits until your entries have finished syncing from iCloud. • The Low, Mid and High labels on the mood charts are now translated.

Reflections after you write, and what they read • Write in the evening and you now get a reflection that day. If today's reflection was about earlier days and you then write today, a second one about today can appear. A reflection about an earlier day says which day it's from. • Reflections now wait for the exact minute you set, not just the hour. • On iPhones without Apple Intelligence, the reflection is a quote from your entry plus one plain sentence about how you seem. Only on harder days does it add one short, fixed suggestion. The generic "take a few deep breaths" is gone. • On those iPhones, the follow-up question that appears while you write now quotes your own words, so it can't bring in things you didn't write. • On any reflection, you can see exactly what was read to write it. • On iPhones without Apple Intelligence, if your latest weekly digest or monthly report was written by an earlier version, it may be rewritten once. Older ones aren't changed. • Questions in Ask can be up to 500 characters. • If mirror can't open your journal, it now says so, with a Try Again button, instead of crashing. Nothing is deleted. • Japanese and Chinese entries now have proper word counts, so totals, daily goals and XP make sense. If a reflection gets something wrong, please tell me: Settings → About → Send feedback.

What went wrong with reflections, and what's different now Several earlier updates said reflections were fixed. They weren't, and I'm sorry. This time I found the cause. On iPhones without Apple Intelligence, mirror's built-in AI wrote like a storyteller and made up details: rain that wasn't there, people swapped around. On those iPhones, starting now: • Reflections, weekly digests, monthly reports and Ask quote your own sentences word for word. Anything in quotation marks is exactly what you wrote, so you can check it against your entry. • Apart from the quote, there's one short line about how it sounds. That line can still misread your mood or get a small detail wrong. • If Ask can't find your topic, it shows the closest things you wrote instead of guessing. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model still writes in its own words. Also in this update: • Weekly digests now arrive on Sundays in regions where the week starts on Sunday. • The home screen widget and notifications show only the short line, never your own sentence. • Try Again now waits for a reflection that's still being written, instead of doing nothing. • Fixed characters sometimes going missing in Japanese, Korean and Chinese AI text. • Reflections created before this update aren't changed. If a reflection ever gets something wrong, please tell me: Settings → About → Send feedback.

A grounding fix for reflections, digests, and monthly reports. • Fixed a rare case where a reflection, weekly digest, or monthly report could be generated without any of your own writing to actually draw from, and read as generic instead. • Small fixes and polish.

More reliable Past Reflections, and fewer repeated openings. • Fixed duplicate cards appearing in Past Reflections after a reflection needed more than one attempt. • Days where no reflection could be found no longer clutter your history. • Reduced cases where a reflection repeated the same opening as a recent one. • Fixed Monthly Report occasionally showing the wrong report for a past month. • Small fixes and polish.

More reliable reflections, and a smoother editor. • Fixed a case where a daily reflection could still include a detail that wasn't actually grounded in what you wrote. • Fixed the entry editor occasionally jumping to the top of the page while typing quickly. • Added acknowledgments for the on-device AI models we use, under Settings > About. • Small fixes and polish.

More dependable daily reflections. • Daily reflections now generate right after you write, even past your usual time — no need to leave and reopen the app. • Fixed an issue where a reflection could occasionally show content that wasn't grounded in what you actually wrote. • Try Again now reliably works — tap it and get a fresh, real reflection instead of nothing happening. • Fixed the home screen widget sometimes showing a "couldn't confirm" message instead of your real reflection. • Small fixes and polish.

A new way in, and reflections you can trust. • Talk it out: a short guided conversation (up to 3 questions) that turns into a fresh journal entry — fully on-device, nothing saved until you write. • Scan handwritten or printed text straight into an entry with your camera. • New one-tap entry starters — Gratitude, 3 Wins, Mood Log — alongside the daily prompt. • Daily reflections, weekly digests, and monthly reports are now far more reliably grounded in what you actually wrote — fixed the issue causing many to fall back to "couldn't confirm" instead of a real reflection. • When a reflection can't be confirmed, tap Try Again for a fresh one instead of waiting. • Quick capture via Siri is now easier to find, with setup instructions in Settings. • Added Reduce Motion support and improved contrast on the mood picker. • Fixes and polish.

Richer notifications, bigger widgets. • Daily Nudge notifications now expand right on the lock screen — see your mood and a preview of today's reflection, with a Write now button to jump straight in. • Weekly Digest and Monthly Deep Report widgets are now available in a larger size. • Fixed the blank "Clear formatting" button in the writing toolbar. • Fixes and polish.

Daily mood check-in, home screen widgets, and a sharper editor. • Daily mood check-in — log how you're feeling in one tap, no writing needed. If you miss your reminder, MirrorNotes asks next time you open the app, and a Log mood button on Insights lets you update anytime. Every check-in feeds your Mood Timeline and the Mood Map widget. • Weekly & Monthly widgets — your latest Weekly Digest and Monthly Deep Report right on the home screen. • Last week's digest stays visible until this week's is ready, and past digests now have their own archive — just like reflections. • Sharper reflections — Daily Nudges and Ask answers get straight to the point, no filler openers. • Editor: type "1. " to start a numbered list the way Notes does it, with cleaner spacing. Return continues the list, and continues out of it cleanly. • Fixes and polish.

A daily check-in for how you feel. • New — Daily Mood Check-In: one tap from a reminder to note how you're doing. No writing needed, free for everyone, and it now syncs across your devices via iCloud. • Your Mood Timeline, Mood Map widget, and mood alerts now factor in these check-ins (Deep). • Daily reflections feel less repetitive from one day to the next. • Fixed a display glitch in Ask when switching themes. Everything still runs entirely on your device — nothing you write ever leaves your phone.

Smarter on-device reflections. • On supported devices, MirrorNotes now taps into Apple's on-device Intelligence for sharper, more natural Daily Nudges, Weekly Digests, and Ask answers. • Everything still runs entirely on your device — nothing you write ever leaves your phone. • Older or unsupported devices are unaffected and keep working exactly as before.

Introducing Sentinel mode — a whole new way to see MirrorNotes. • A HUD-styled alternate view: mono readouts, ember accents, and a different personality on every screen — Settings, mood picker, calendar, tags, and more. • Switch anytime under Settings → Appearance. Classic is still there when you want the calm version back. • Redesigned first-run experience. • Full translations across all 10 supported languages.

A small but important fix. • Fixed: Brain View could show "No recurring themes yet" even with plenty of entries, if some couldn't be decrypted right when you opened it. It now shows your real themes correctly. • Performance and stability improvements.

Add an entry without even opening the app. • New: Quick-add via Siri — say "Add a journal entry in mirror" to save straight to your journal, no app required. Works from Shortcuts too. • Fixed: Brain View could get stuck loading forever if your entries didn't have enough repeating people or themes yet. • Fixed: the Subscription screen showed a fake "Deep" purchase badge — now shows an honest "Early Access" status instead. • Performance and stability improvements.