AyumiJournal
Private Voice Journal & Diary
Free
Talk, and it becomes a journal entry. Transcribed on device and saved as Markdown in your iCloud, ready for Obsidian. New: Time Travel shows the same day across years.
Ayumi is a local-first journaling app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Write quick daily notes and save them as Markdown files you can keep under your control. Entries are organized in a simple date-based structure and are designed to work well with Obsidian-compatible workflows.
Ayumi helps you capture more context around each note:
Add your current location
Attach current weather information
Save photos, audio, PDFs, and other files alongside an entry
Record audio notes and turn them into text with transcription
Your journal stays file-based and easy to move, inspect, and back up.
more - A ringing call or an alert no longer stops a recording on iPhone or Apple Watch.
- When answering a call or using Siri interrupts a recording on Apple Watch, what was recorded so far is saved and sent to iPhone.
- The Shortcuts action "Create Audio Entry" is now called "Transcribe Audio File". Existing shortcuts keep working.
- Settings > About has a new Send Feedback link.
- Fixed saving that could hang while an entry was stored only in iCloud and not yet downloaded.
1.11 16h ago
- Time Travel: see the same days across years side by side, like a five-year diary. Zoom out to weeks or months with the control or a pinch.
- Write About a Recent Moment: start an entry from Journaling Suggestions. Its time, place, photos and feelings come with it, and "Talk About This Moment" records straight into it.
- Import Media: turn several videos, photos and recordings into one entry. With a Gemini profile, the video's picture and sound are read together and key frames are attached.
- A new Library drawer on iPhone picks what to show: all entries, favorites, the map, Time Travel and each tag, with search.
- Add a Start Recording control to Control Center, the Lock Screen or the Action button.
- Transcription profiles can add fixed tags, and prompts can include {{location}} and {{weather}}. Location and weather are now captured when a recording stops.
- The entry map opens near your current location.
- Share now has its own button in the entry toolbar, and edits are kept when the layout changes on rotation.
1.10 3d ago
- The editor now has View, Rich Text, and Markdown modes. Rich Text styles headings, bold, checklists and more as you type, with formatting buttons, list continuation, and indent and outdent.
- Entry details now show the body rendered as Markdown.
- Switch microphones mid-recording from the mic badge.
- The list preview is now a clean two lines, without the repeated title or Markdown markup.
- Fixed frontmatter properties added in Obsidian or other apps being dropped on save, and tags written as "tags: [a, b]" not being read.
- Fixed the app sometimes closing when opening the map with many entries, and Share not working from the menu on iOS 27.
1.9 5d ago
- New Live mode: while you record, up to three personas you set up comment in real time through Gemini Live. Write each persona's instructions in Markdown, hear replies spoken aloud, and get comments on Apple Watch. Requires your own Gemini API key.
- Redesigned the Apple Watch recording screen with a waveform that follows your voice. You can now start and stop recording with Siri on Apple Watch.
- The app icon badge shows how many recordings are waiting for transcription, with a reminder if they wait a while. Apple Watch recordings count as soon as they stop.
- Attach a photo and on-device AI suggests a few sentences to open the entry with (on supported devices).
- Fixed the app sometimes being terminated while saving in the background, and a second edit of an entry always reporting a conflict.
1.8 Oct 10
- Added on-device transcription that needs no API key or account. Audio stays on your iPhone and transcription works offline.
- Choose a transcription engine per recording: on-device, Gemini, Gemini Transcribe, Meta Muse, xAI Grok, or Groq Whisper. Cloud services are used only after you configure your own API key and consent to sending audio.
- Transcribe a saved entry's audio again with a different prompt or engine.
- Added a Today complication for Apple Watch showing today's writing and recordings still waiting to reach your iPhone.
- Fixed offline Shortcut saves, delayed Apple Watch recording transfers, and a Dynamic Island that could remain after recording ended.
1.7 Sep 4
- Transcription now works out of the box: recordings are transcribed on your iPhone, with no API key and no account. Audio never leaves your device, and it works offline.
- Choose an engine per recording — on-device for a verbatim transcript, or your own Gemini API key for summaries and rewrites.
- Transcribe an entry's audio again any time, with a different prompt or engine.
- A new Today complication for your watch face: how much you have written today, how that compares to a usual day, and how many recordings are still waiting to reach your iPhone. Tap it to record.
- Fixed a watch recording that could sit waiting to sync, and a Dynamic Island that outlived a finished recording.
1.6 Sep 1
- Select any part of an entry's text to share or copy it.
- Copy a whole day's entries at once from the date header.
- Preview photos and audio attached to an entry without leaving the app. Pinch to zoom photos.
- Attach photos to an entry straight from your photo library.
- Entries created by sharing from another app now record place and weather too.
- Entries now keep a record of the model and prompt used to transcribe them.
- Fixed attached audio being inaudible on iPhone.
- Localized the Siri phrases into Japanese.
- Refreshed the app icon, with light, dark and tinted variants.
- Various small improvements and bug fixes.
1.5 Aug 6
・Apple Watch アプリを追加しました。手首で録音すると iPhone に自動で送られ、そのまま文字起こしされてジャーナルエントリーになります。録音した時刻と場所もそのまま記録されます。
・文字盤のコンプリケーションから、すぐに録音を開始できるようにしました。
・Apple Watch での録音中に、マイクの入力レベルを表示するようにしました。
・アプリを日本語に対応しました。
・ショートカットから録音を開始したときの画面表示を改善しました。
・細かな改善と不具合の修正を行いました。
1.4 Jul 26
・全体的な安定性向上のため、細かな改善と不具合の修正を行いました。
1.3 Jun 21
・録音の入力デバイスに対応しました。Bluetoothマイクなどの外部マイクが使えるようになり、ライブアクティビティ（Dynamic Island・ロック画面）に「いま録音しているマイク」と録音開始の状態を表示します。
・ショートカットから録音を開始したとき、録音状態と使用中のマイクを画面全体に大きく表示するようにしました。
・文字起こしのプロンプトに変数を挿入できるようになりました。直近のエントリや要約、ジャーナルフォルダ内のファイル、今日の日付などを差し込めます。
・統計画面に、オンデバイスのApple Intelligenceによる前向きな一言フィードバックを追加しました（対応端末のみ）。
・通知をタップすると、該当するエントリを直接開くようにしました。
・細かな改善と不具合の修正を行いました。
1.2 Jun 14
New in 1.1:
- New Statistics view with monthly and daily trends
- Record Audio Quick Action and Dynamic Island Live Activity for background recording
- Faster launch time for large journals
- Streak now counts your full journaling history
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements
1.1 May 8
- A ringing call or an alert no longer stops a recording on iPhone or Apple Watch.
- When answering a call or using Siri interrupts a recording on Apple Watch, what was recorded so far is saved and sent to iPhone.
- The Shortcuts action "Create Audio Entry" is now called "Transcribe Audio File". Existing shortcuts keep working.
- Settings > About has a new Send Feedback link.
- Fixed saving that could hang while an entry was stored only in iCloud and not yet downloaded.
more Version 1.11 16h ago
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