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Contact SupportYes! MindVault is free to download and use. Core features like journaling, the morning and evening rituals, voice memos, photo/video capture, 3 shelves, 3 to-do lists, core emotion detection, guided prompts, light & dark appearance, and streaks are all free. MindVault Premium unlocks all 23 emotions, weekly AI reflections, calendar view and emotion search, repeating to-dos, unlimited shelves and lists, automatic iCloud backup, export, and more.
Absolutely. All your entries, voice notes, and data are encrypted at rest with AES-256 encryption and stored locally on your device. We don't have access to your journal entries, and nothing is uploaded to our servers — we don't have any. Even the AI features run entirely on your device.
MindVault Premium is available as a monthly subscription ($4.99/month), an annual subscription ($29.99/year) with a 7-day free trial, or a one-time lifetime purchase ($79.99). The lifetime option means you pay once and own Premium forever — no recurring charges.
Subscriptions are managed through your Apple ID. Go to Settings > Your Name > Subscriptions on your iPhone, find MindVault, and tap Cancel Subscription. Your premium access will continue until the end of the current billing period. If you purchased the lifetime option, there's nothing to cancel — it's yours forever.
Your data lives locally on your device, so deleting the app removes it. To protect your journal, turn on encrypted iCloud backup in Settings > Backup & Sync — your backup is locked with a passphrase before it leaves your device — or export a copy (text and JSON are free; PDF and full ZIP backup come with Premium).
MindVault runs on both iPhone and iPad, with a layout designed for each. Data is stored locally per device; you can move your journal to a new device with the encrypted iCloud backup or a ZIP export/restore. Your Premium purchase works on any device signed into the same Apple ID.
Each morning, the Today page invites you to a one-minute Morning Kickoff: pick up to three priorities for the day. They stay on Today with tappable completion circles. In the evening, a quiet Evening Reflection helps you close the day — review your plan, log your mood on a 5-point scale, and write a few lines, which are saved as a journal entry.
Prompts appear right where you write: thoughtful suggestion cards in the editor whenever the page is blank, a "Prompt of the Day" in your Morning Kickoff, and reflection questions in the evening. Journaling templates (4 free, 18 with Premium) give you ready-made structures like gratitude lists and weekly reviews.
Your streak counts the number of consecutive days you've captured at least one thought. Open the app and write something each day to keep your streak alive. You'll earn quiet milestone celebrations at 7, 14, 30, and 100 days.
The Journal resurfaces past thoughts and memories from the same date in previous years. It's a beautiful way to reflect on your growth and remember moments you may have forgotten.
Record voice memos up to 60 seconds free (unlimited with Premium). With Premium, on-device speech recognition converts your spoken words into written text — your voice never leaves your phone; it's processed entirely on-device for complete privacy.
Never. Emotion detection runs on your device as you write, and the weekly AI reflection — a short narrative of your week with gentle observations — is generated entirely on-device (using Apple Intelligence where your hardware supports it). Nothing you write is ever uploaded.
MindVault supports voice recordings, photos from your library or camera, and video attachments. You can add multiple media items to a single journal entry alongside your written text, and share any thought as a beautiful image card.