Conviction: Shadow Work & DBT
Private AI Journal & Diary
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
When thoughts take over the day, hold them here. Encrypted diary on your iPhone — private prompts, mood insight, and backups that move with you.
When feelings flood everything, the rest of the day goes with them. A tightness in the chest becomes the whole room. You already know this cycle. You have language for it. You may already be in therapy, mapping overwhelm back to older material. What you still need is a place that holds what the world around you is not ready to hear.
Conviction is a shadow work journal and encrypted diary for that moment. It does not replace professional care. It sits beside the work you are already doing. It holds the thought you cannot say out loud, then shows the pattern so the feeling is not the whole story. You decide how deep you go.
WHEN FEELINGS TAKE OVER
Talk or type. Voice transcription runs on your iPhone. Name the mood while it is happening, not hours later when the story has already hardened. Sit with the mood instead of getting swept by it. Grief, anger, sadness, the loop you cannot shut off. The journal holds them without asking you to perform okay. Your entries live in an encrypted diary on the device. Private. Yours.
THE OLDER FEELING UNDERNEATH
A blank page is a trap when you are flooded. Guided shadow work prompts give you a place to start. Questions that meet today's trigger on the surface and the older feeling underneath. You open them when you want them. Nobody pushes you further than you chose. This is not a counter you have to protect. This is a room you can enter and leave.
SEE THE CYCLE
Journal mood analytics, word clouds, and charts show emotional patterns over time. Recurring loops stop looking like who you are and start looking like a cycle you can step out of. Magic Mirror can surface patterns you miss when you are inside the wave. Detected shadow patterns can become goals you actually track. Ruminating becomes something you can see, not something that runs the day.
TOOLS FOR THE WAVE
When writing is not enough, self-guided tools are one tap away:
- The Mirror: CBT thought reframe and cognitive defusion
- Safe Harbor: somatic grounding, breathing, body scans
- Pattern Lab: trigger mapping and chain analysis
- The Council: assertiveness and validation practice
These are tools, not treatment. Use them the way you use a notebook between sessions.
Momentum cools when you step away. It never snaps to zero. Miss a week. Come back. Nothing resets.
A PRIVATE SPACE
AES-256 encryption on your iPhone. Unlock with Face ID. On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence can surface patterns from your entries on the device. Optional encrypted iCloud backup is a Pro feature and uses a key only you hold. We cannot read your journal. A private space for what the world will not hold.
WHO THIS IS FOR
People who overthink until living shrinks to rumination. People who need backing when emotion takes over the whole day. People who want a journal that holds space, then helps them sit with what showed up. Not a therapist. Not a crisis line. A private journal with tools, on your iPhone.
Start free. Unlimited entries, voice, check-ins, and the core tools are included. Mood detection, Magic Mirror, and insight cards have free limits. Unlock Conviction Pro once if you want those limits removed, plus Shadow Work analysis, Cosmic Rhythms, Apple Health correlation, and optional encrypted iCloud backup. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
No account required to begin. Export anytime. Delete anytime.
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Backups that move with you. A tidier Settings. Native Sign in with Apple and much quicker mood insights. Still private on your phone.
• Portable backups — new iCloud and local backups can be restored on another install with your app passcode
• Smoother restore — asks for your app passcode when needed, with clear messages if it's wrong or a backup can't be recovered
• Refreshed Settings — separate screens for Look & Feel, Journaling and Features, and a shorter main list
• Sign in with Apple — simple and private; a cleaner account row that shows your email first (Google and email/password sign-in removed)
• Journal home shows all your entries by default on new installs
• A gentle nudge when a new App Store version is ready, plus Rate Conviction in Settings
• Mood detection is much quicker and more reliable — especially the first time after install
• On-device emotion analysis optimized so journaling feels snappier
• Leaner, more private anonymous analytics — fewer usage events, still never any journal content
Your journal, your emotions, your device. Nothing leaves your phone.
The developer, Phillip Paul, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Health & Fitness
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Phillip Paul
- Size
- 346.5 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Conviction Pro $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Phillip Paul