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Harvard Gazette · 2023
Voice journal · Built for fast minds
Say it out loud.Say it in private.Say it to yourself.Say it clearly.Say it at your pace.Stop carrying it around.
A voice journal for the person who thinks too fast to type. Open the app, answer the daily question, or just hit record and talk about whatever's on your mind. Mialo transcribes it and keeps a record of who you actually are.
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🔒 stays on your phone
✦ follow-up in 2 days
● 14-day streak
The problem
The blank page beat you.
You open a journal app, stare at a cursor, close it. Most journaling apps want you to pick a category, write a title, set a mood, then write. That friction is the whole reason you quit. Mialo skips every step. The moment you press record, you're already journaling.
0× faster
People speak 3× faster than they type. The mouth was the point.
Stanford HAI · 2022
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Of people think better when they hear themselves out loud.
Psych Today · 2024
How it works
Open. Breathe. Talk. That's it.
A question, a pause, your voice — and a record of who you actually are.
01
A question finds you
The app opens with a question picked for you. Morning ones are different from evening ones.
02
Sit with it
When answering the daily prompt, you get a few seconds to breathe before you speak. No rush — just a moment to collect your thoughts before they come out.
03
Press and talk
Hit the mic and go. Unfiltered. Say the thing you've been carrying around. The app just listens.
04
It writes itself down
Your words get transcribed automatically. Entry saved. You close the app and move on.
05
Your journal, organised
Every entry saved by date, mood, and theme. Browse your history and see how your thinking has shifted over time.
06
It checks back on you
Days later: you mentioned feeling anxious about your surgery — how did that go? Pro reads your past entries and follows up like a friend who actually remembers.
Pro
Built for unique brains
Designed for fast minds. Works for anyone who thinks out loud.
Mialo started as a tool for people whose thoughts move faster than their fingers. Turns out that's most of us, more days than we'd admit.
ADHD brains
Your thoughts move faster than you can type.
Just hit record. No setup, no categories, no blank page. The loop gets out of your head before it loops one more time.
For the ones with fourteen tabs open.
Overthinkers
Hearing it out loud changes everything.
Record, don't ruminate. The thought you've been circling for three days shrinks the second you say it. That's the whole trick.
For the ones who replay conversations.
Verbal processors
You don't know what you think until you say it.
Talking is how you find what you actually think. Mialo gives you somewhere to do it that isn't your group chat.
For the ones who talk to think.
Night owls
3am thoughts deserve a place to land.
Not a notes app, not a voice memo wall. A place where the thoughts that show up at midnight actually get heard — and remembered.
For the ones who think clearest after dark.
Pro · Patterns & Chat
Things you wouldn't notice on your own. Mialo notices them.
AI reads across all your entries, surfaces patterns you'd never catch yourself, and lets you ask it anything — like a friend with perfect recall who only remembers what you said out loud.
Ask the AI what it sees.
what have I been circling lately?
Three things keep coming up. Sleep, the conversation with your dad you haven't had yet, and a project you keep saying you're excited about but also avoiding. Want to start with one?
the project. why am I avoiding it?
Because starting it makes it real — and real things can fail. You've mentioned it in six entries but never once described working on it.
that's kind of terrifying to read back.
That's usually the point where people start.
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What I notice about you
“You keep returning to a worry about your project and whether you're keeping up.”
AI Insights
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Privacy
Your thoughts, your phone, no one else.
Journal keeps everything on-device. Pro adds AI — with strict privacy guarantees.
Journal plan
100% on-device.
Your voice never leaves your phone. Not even to us.
- Audio is transcribed on-device — never uploaded
- No servers ever receive your entries
- No AI, no cloud copy, no training set
- End-to-end encrypted by default
Pro plan
AI, done right.
Insights without surveillance. Strict limits, not fine print.
- AI generates insights — never sells or trains on your data
- All entries permanently deleted within 30 days
- You control what the AI can and can't see
- Revoke AI access anytime in Settings
Both plans
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- No email or password
- Delete everything in one tap
- PIN lock + Face ID
- Cancel anytime
Pricing
Two plans. One for privacy, one for power.
Start with Journal if your words are for your eyes only. Upgrade to Pro when you want the AI to make sense of it all.
Most Private
Journal
$2.99/month
Voice journaling, on your device, nowhere else.
- ✓Press-to-record voice journaling
- ✓On-device transcription — audio never leaves your phone
- ✓Daily reflection prompts (morning & evening)
- ✓Streak tracking
- ✓End-to-end encrypted
- ✓Sign in with Apple
🔒 100% private — your words never leave your device. No AI, no servers, no eyes but yours.
Start journaling · $2.99/moMost Powerful
Pro
$7.99/month
Journal + AI insights & chat.
- ✓Everything in Journal
- ✓AI-generated entry titles
- ✓Mood & pattern analysis — week / month / 3-month charts
- ✓Theme and recurring topic extraction
- ✓AI journal chat — ask what you've been stressed about
- ✓Personalised follow-up check-ins
- ✓Personalised daily prompts based on your patterns
Your entries are processed by AI to generate insights. Your data is never sold or used to train models, and is permanently deleted within 30 days.
Start with Pro · $7.99/mo"
I stopped journaling six years ago because I kept running out of things to say to a blank page. I never run out of things to say when I'm talking.
Early user · three weeks in · logged 47 times
Questions
The quick rundown.
Do I have to answer the daily prompt?
No. The prompt is there if you want a head start, but you can ignore it and just talk about whatever's on your mind. The app is a place to think out loud and have a record of it later. A prompt is one way in, free-form is another.
Is Mialo a therapy replacement?
No. It's a place to get the stuff in your head out of your head. If you need a therapist, see a therapist. Mialo makes those sessions, and the weeks in between, a lot more useful.
How is this different from voice memos?
Voice memos give you a wall of unlabeled clips. Mialo asks you a question, transcribes what you say, tags the mood, and follows up days later. It's the difference between hoarding files and having a record you can actually read.
What does the AI actually see?
Transcription and pattern analysis run on device. Nothing leaves your phone unless you turn on the optional MCP endpoint, and even then you control what it can read. We never see or hear your recordings.
What if I delete the app?
It's gone. No backups, no shadow copies, no "we still have this on a server for debugging." If you want to wipe data without uninstalling, there's a one-tap reset in Settings.
Why voice and not typing?
Typing makes you edit. You stop the thought, fix the spelling, second-guess the tone. By the time you hit send, you've sanded down the thing you actually meant. Speaking skips all of that.
What phones does it work on?
iPhone only. Requires iOS 16 or later.
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