Private journal

A private journal app nobody else can read

Write about your sex life without worrying who else might read your journal. Afterglow encrypts everything you write on your phone, and there’s no account to make.

See what you get

Coming to iPhone and Android

Setting up Afterglow: End-to-end encrypted. Everything you write is encrypted on this phone before it goes anywhere. No account to make, and your journal only goes where you send it.

An encrypted journal with nothing to hand over

No account

Open Afterglow and start writing, with no email address or password to give.

Kept on your phone

Your journal lives on your phone, and no server of Afterglow’s ever holds a copy.

Works without internet

Write, read and look back with no signal at all, so nothing has to leave your phone.

No tracking

Analytics stay off until you switch them on, and even then they never include what you write.

Encryption

Who can read your journal?

Only you. Your journal is end-to-end encrypted, which means everything is encrypted on your phone before anything leaves. Your journal opens only on your unlocked phone or with your 24 words.

Those words are your recovery phrase. Neither Afterglow nor the cloud you back up to ever gets a readable copy of your journal, and a partner sees only what you choose to send.

Your recovery phrase in Afterglow: the 24 words your journal is encrypted with, which only you hold.

The lock

Leave your phone on the table

Like a diary with a lock, Afterglow opens only for you, with your face, your fingerprint or a code. Leave the app, and the lock is back 30 seconds later.

The app switcher shows a moon instead of your journal, and screenshots are blocked. After 5 wrong codes, Afterglow makes you wait before each try, and never deletes anything.

Afterglow’s lock asking for a 6 digit code after a wrong one, with everything still there.

Backup

Lose your phone, not your journal

Back up to iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox, encrypted on your phone first. Your cloud stores the backup without being able to open a single file.

On a new phone, type your 24 words, and your journal comes back from your last backup. Nobody else has a copy of those words, not even Afterglow, so keep them on paper or in a password manager.

Choosing a backup in Afterglow: iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox, each one encrypted.
Afterglow

Coming to iPhone and Android

Keep your moments to yourself

Free from your first moment, with no account to make. The App Store and Google Play buttons appear here the day Afterglow launches.

How will you use Afterglow?