0× faster
People speak about three times faster than they type. Your mouth keeps up with your mind.
Stanford HCI Group · 2016
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 writes it down while you talk 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
Thinking was never the hard part. Writing it down was.
One thought lands and three more pile up — faster than you can type. Some people just think better out loud. But voice memos and notes apps leave you a scattered pile you never read back. Mialo lets you say it the second it lands, then organizes every entry and surfaces the patterns underneath.
0 wpm
The pace of talking. Typing manages about 40, handwriting barely 13.
Nat. Center for Voice & Speech
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Better recall for what you say out loud versus what you read in silence.
MacLeod et al. · 2010
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
You choose when it lands — morning, midday, or evening — and it matches the moment. Morning asks about the day ahead; evening looks back on it. Always exactly one.
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
While you talk, not after. Words appear as you say them; the entry is saved the second you stop. The transcript's yours to edit.
05
Your journal, organised
Every entry saved by date, mood, and theme — and filed into folders, if you want them. 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
Live transcription · New
You talk. It types. In real time.
Your words show up on screen as you say them — no spinner, no waiting after you stop. And if the transcript gets a word wrong, it's yours to edit.
Folders · New
Structure that takes zero discipline.
Every log lands in one journal, like always. Folders are for the threads that keep coming back — the house move, the job thing, the situationship. File it now or never. Both fine.
two taps, that's a folder
Name it, give it a face — an emoji, a colour, or just a letter. Done before the thought leaves.
file it from the save sheet
Finish a log, tap a folder, move on. Or don't — it lives in your journal either way.
record straight into a thread
Open the folder, hit the mic. Twelve entries about the move, all in one place, in order.
delete without fear
Deleting a folder never deletes the logs inside. They just go back to being regular entries.
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
generated by AI
Privacy
Your thoughts, your phone, no one else.
Journal keeps everything on-device. Pro adds AI — but no human at Mialo ever reads your journals.
Journal plan
100% on-device.
Your voice never leaves your phone unless you turn on iCloud backup — and then it goes only to your own iCloud, never to us.
- Audio is transcribed on-device — never sent to our servers
- No Mialo servers ever receive your entries
- No AI, no copy on our servers, no training set
- Encrypted on your device by iOS. iCloud backups are encrypted by Apple in transit and at rest.
Pro plan
AI, done right.
Insights without surveillance. Strict limits, not fine print.
- Read by AI for insights — never by a person
- 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
- Sign in with Apple
- No email or password
- Delete everything in one tap
- PIN lock with 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
- ✓Live transcription — words appear while you talknew
- ✓On-device transcription — audio never sent to our servers
- ✓One question a day — you choose when it lands: morning, midday, or eveningupdated
- ✓Folders — organise logs into threadsnew
- ✓Optional iCloud backup — your journal in your own iCloud, invisible to us. Off by default.new
- ✓Streak tracking, with a nudge before it breaks
- ✓Encrypted on your device by iOS · Sign in with Apple
🔒 100% private — nothing you record ever touches our servers. No AI, no eyes but yours. Optional iCloud backup goes only to your own iCloud.
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 and 6 monthsupdated
- ✓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/monever held hostagenew
If you ever stop subscribing, your journal goes read-only — everything you've said stays safe and readable forever. Your words are yours. We just keep the lights on.
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Questions
The quick rundown.
Do I have to answer the daily prompt?
No. The question is there if you want a head start — one a day, at the time you choose (morning, midday, or evening). Ignore it and just talk about whatever's on your mind. A prompt is one way in, free-form is another. And yes — it remembers your birthday.
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, writes your words on screen while you're still saying them, tags the mood, files it where you want, 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?
On Journal, nothing. Transcription happens on your phone and your entries are never uploaded — there's no AI at all. On Pro, your entries are AI-processed for insights. Never sold, never used to train models, deleted within 30 days — and no human at Mialo ever reads them.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your journal goes read-only. Everything you've recorded stays safe and readable forever — you just can't add new entries until you're back. Your words are never held hostage.
What if I delete the app?
Delete the app and it's gone from your phone — we hold nothing, so there's nothing of yours on any server, ever. If you switched on iCloud backup, your journal waits safely in your own iCloud and comes back the moment you reinstall. Turn backup off or delete the iCloud copy anytime 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.
“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.”
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