Pensate – AI Journal & Diary
COREY SC0TT PASKEWITZ Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Pensate – AI Journal & Diary is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by COREY SC0TT PASKEWITZ. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated April 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Apr 1
- 2026 · v1.01
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About Pensate – AI Journal & Diary
Pensate is a micro-journaling app designed to slow you down, not speed you up. Answer one thoughtful prompt a day. Read what your own words reveal. Let on-device AI offer a quiet reflection — not advice, not therapy, just a margin note from a thoughtful reader. JOURNALING THAT FEELS LIKE A RITUAL Every day, Pensate surfaces a single prompt crafted to open something real. Choose from six categories — daily life, relationships, creativity, growth, gratitude, and big-picture reflection — or switch to Free Write and let your thoughts move without direction. When you're done, on-device AI reads what you wrote and offers a short reflection: a poetic observation and one evocative question that might spark your next entry. Everything happens on your device. Your words never leave. UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE Track your mood with five expressive states and 25 sub-emotions. Watch patterns emerge in beautifully minimal charts across 7, 30, 90 days, or a full year. Weekly AI insights surface the themes running through your entries. Monthly recaps offer a deeper look at how your inner world shifts over time. BUILT WITH RESTRAINT No streaks. No badges. No notifications pestering you to write. No gamification of any kind. Just a quiet, beautiful place to think. Your journal grows into a searchable, filterable archive. Bookmark entries that matter. Continue a thought as a threaded conversation. Attach photos. Export as PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN All AI features run entirely on your device using Apple's Foundation Models framework. No data is sent to external servers. No accounts required. No cloud without your permission. Lock your journal with Face ID, Touch ID, or a PIN. THOUGHTFUL FREEMIUM Start free with 3 entries per week and full AI reflections. When you reach your limit, watch a short video to unlock an extra hour of writing — no pressure, no hard paywall on the writing screen. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited entries, weekly and monthly AI insights, personalized prompts that learn from your writing, 90-day and yearly mood trends, iCloud sync, and an ad-free experience. Available monthly ($1.99), yearly ($14.99), or as a one-time lifetime purchase ($29.99). Pensate. The journal that thinks with you. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.corvianlabs.com/pensate/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.01 · Updated April 1, 2026
• Contact support directly from Settings • Rate Pensate from Settings • Bug fixes and improvements
App privacy
The developer, COREY SC0TT PASKEWITZ, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- User Content: Other User Content
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
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