noor

Most of us carry more than we say out loud.

The journal that
listens back.

Speak or write your day. noor reads it properly — how you're really feeling, the pattern underneath, what's going right, and how today compares with before. Over the weeks, it shows you what you didn't know about yourself.

noor isn't treatment. It's a private place to put it into words, and to be heard when you do.

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Free to use · Works in your browser · Private by design · For adults 18+

How it works

However much you have to say, it's read with care.

Some days it's three lines before bed. Some days it's everything at once. noor makes room for both, fits around the day you already have, and reads every entry properly — never another box to tick.

  1. Check in

    Slide the mood dial to show how you're really arriving today. There's no wrong answer.

  2. Speak or write

    A voice note on the walk home or three typed lines before bed. Both count.

  3. noor reads it

    Feeling, pattern, what's going right, and how today compares with before — in moments, remembered for months.

  4. Talk it through

    When an entry deserves more, one tap carries its question to Sofia. She's an AI companion, not a therapist — warm, brief, and she remembers what mattered last month.

How are you feeling right now?

Slide to set your mood

Who noor is for

For people who want to work on their mental health, but aren't ready for therapy.

noor isn't therapy, and never pretends to be. It's a private place to start: put what you feel into words, and notice what keeps coming back.

Speak freely

Some days you can't face a blank page. Talk instead — noor listens, transcribes, and treats a rambling voice note with the same care as a polished paragraph.

See your patterns

One entry is a mood. Thirty entries are a map. noor connects what you write across weeks and gently names the loops, clashes, and quiet wins you can't see from inside.

Grow gently

No guilt, no streak-shaming, no manufactured urgency. noor celebrates when you show up and says nothing when you don't — growth that's invited, never enforced.

The reflection

This is what listening back looks like

One honest entry, and what noor gives back — feeling, pattern, questions, context. Scroll on, and watch which words each part is answering.

It’s been two months since Dani left, and tonight I caught myself scrolling their photos again. They look happy, and all I could think was that I should be further along by now. The raise came through on Friday and it felt like nothing by Saturday — I was already working out what I still can’t afford. It’s never enough, and somehow neither am I.
A voice entry · 58 seconds Mood at check-in · 3

Noor hears you

You sound worn out from measuring. There’s real grief in this — two months is not long — and underneath it a harsher voice, the one that turns “it’s not enough” into “I’m not enough”. Those are two different sentences. Tonight they got welded together.

A pattern noor noticed

The finish line that keeps moving

This is the fourth entry this month where something good arrives — a quiet weekend, a compliment at work, now the raise — and within a day you’re writing about the next thing that’s missing. You’re doing it with the breakup too: the question isn’t “how am I doing”, it’s “am I ahead”. Wanting more isn’t the trouble. It’s that nothing is allowed to count once you have it.

Then and now · Since Aug 3

Three weeks ago you wrote that the raise would mean you could “finally relax about money”. Tonight, with the raise in hand, you wrote about what you still can’t afford.

Questions to sit with

  1. When you open Dani’s photos, what are you checking for — how they are, or how you compare?
  2. What would “enough” look like this month if you — not the scoreboard — got to define it?

Good to know

Letting the good land

A good thing doesn’t register just by happening: it has to be noticed before the mind moves on to the next gap. Psychologists call that noticing savouring. This is about the raise, not about Dani — a loss isn’t something to find a bright side to, and noor won’t ask you to.

Honesty note Reflections are AI-generated and imperfect by nature. noor frames them as things to sit with — never instructions, never diagnosis.

noor takes you as seriously as you take it.

Three lines or three pages: noor reads every word, remembers what came before, and meets you at the depth you bring.

What noor does

A quiet space with a very good memory

Journal however you like. noor does the part a notebook can't: it listens, analyses, remembers, and notices what's changing.

Sofia, your companion

Someone in your corner at 2 a.m. Sofia checks in, remembers what mattered last month, and answers with warmth and honesty — in a couple of sentences, not a lecture. She's an AI companion, not a therapist, and she never pretends otherwise.

Watch a feeling change shape

A gentle check-in before and after each entry, then charts that show how your mood moves around your entries over weeks and months.

Say it the way you'd say it to a friend

Tap record and talk. noor transcribes your voice note into a journal entry, so the days you can't face a blank page still count.

Every entry, properly read

Save an entry and receive a considered analysis: how you seem to be feeling, the pattern underneath it, what's going right in your own words, how today compares with what you wrote before, and questions worth sitting with.

See the loops you can't see from inside

noor compares today's entry with your history and names the pattern that matters most — a loop you're stuck in, a need going unmet, or the value clashing with the rule you punish yourself with. Kind, but not just nice.

Questions that open doors

Instead of advice, noor asks — pointed, Socratic questions aimed at the exact thing you just wrote about, so the resolution is yours.

Your week, in one honest page

Every week, noor draws your entries together into a single synthesis — themes, shifts, and what quietly improved while you weren't looking.

Choose how noor talks to you

Gentle, Balanced, Direct or Analytical — in anything from plain everyday words to a technical register. Set it in Settings and change it whenever you like; it shapes every reflection, and every reply from Sofia.

It comes back to you

A journal that answers when you ask

A notebook keeps what you wrote. noor keeps it, and uses it: ask your journal a question, let it remember Thursday, read the letter Sofia writes you at the end of the month.

Ask your journal

"When did I last feel this calm?"

Type a question into your journal history and get an answer drawn only from your own entries — with the dates it came from, so you can open the day. On the free plan a question counts as one of the week's reflections; Premium asks without a cap.

Check-backs

noor remembers Thursday

Mention an interview, a decision, or a note to your future self, and noor offers to bring it back on the day. Say yes or not now — one line, never a nag.

Then and now

What changed since you last wrote about this

When a subject comes back months later, your reflection carries one honest sentence on what has changed — or hasn't — since the dated entry you wrote then.

A letter for the month

Written to you, not about you

Once you've written enough of a month, Sofia writes you a letter about it — grounded in your own words, ending on one question to carry forward. One a month.

Photo entries

A picture with your words

Attach a photo from your library or camera. The reflection sees it once; the photo stays on your phone with the entry, never on our servers.

Premium

Walk & talk

Talk to Sofia hands-free

A mic in Sofia's composer for anyone. With Premium, hands-free mode reads each reply aloud and listens again when it's done — a conversation on a walk.

For your counsellor

Your words, none of the AI's

A PDF of your entries and moods, every word in full and nothing Sofia wrote, prepared to hand to a real person — with a preface that says exactly what it is and isn't.

Home-screen widget

Today's card, on your launcher

On Android, noor's today card lives on your home screen — a check-back, a memory from this day, or a line to start with — with one-tap shortcuts to write, your history, and Sofia. Resize it and it changes what it shows.

Bring your journal with you

Import a noor or Day One export

Pick a file, see what it holds, add it on a second tap. A noor export comes back whole; a Day One export becomes plain entries. Nothing is ever imported twice.

Between entries

For the moments between entries

Some moments don't want words. noor keeps three short exercises for when you need to settle — and an SOS screen that is always one tap away.

Breathing

A long exhale to slow things down. Inhale 4 · Hold 7 · Exhale 8 seconds

The app's real timing. Breathe along if you like — nothing here is recorded.

5-4-3-2-1 Senses

Name what is actually in the room

5 things you can see, 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell and 1 thing you can taste. You set the pace: one tap for each thing you name, and nothing counts down at you.

Muscle Relaxation

Squeeze, then let go

8 muscle groups, hands to feet. Tense each for 5 seconds and release for 10 — about 2 minutes end to end, and it can be read aloud so you can close your eyes.

SOS

A journal should know its limits

An always-there SOS screen with local crisis resources, one tap from the top of every screen. noor is not an emergency service and doesn't monitor entries in real time — if you're in crisis, your local emergency number comes first.

Read the crisis protocol
In therapy, or thinking about it?

Walk into every session with a head start.

The self-awareness you build writing in noor comes with you. And when you'd like your therapist or counsellor to see it, share a PDF made for them, straight from the app.

Arrive knowing your patterns

Putting things into words, week after week, tends to make it clearer what keeps coming up — so more of each session can go on what matters.

A copy made for them

A PDF of your entries and moods, every word in full and nothing Sofia wrote, with a preface that says exactly what it is and isn't.

Shared only by you

You choose the week, the month or all of it, and you send it. Nothing reaches anyone unless you share it yourself.

Private by design

Your journal is yours. Full stop.

A journal only works if you can be completely honest in it — so noor treats privacy as a feature you can see and touch, not a paragraph you have to trust.

Yours by default

Guest mode keeps your entire journal on your device. Cloud Sync is optional, and off until you turn it on.

A lock that stays on your phone

In the phone app, a 4–6 digit PIN — or your fingerprint or face — on launch. The PIN is kept only on that phone and never syncs, and emergency help stays reachable without it.

Encrypted in transit

Synced data travels encrypted and is stored on Cloudflare infrastructure with access controls.

Never sold, never ads

Your entries are never sold and never used for advertising. AI providers receive text solely to generate your reflection.

Export any time

Your whole journal as a designed PDF to read and keep, or a complete JSON file you can import again. It's your writing — take it anywhere.

Delete means delete

Permanent deletion is built in: immediate, irreversible, device and cloud together.

The PIN lock is part of the phone app. The browser version doesn't have one, so use it on a device that's yours.

Read the Privacy Policy

Written in plain language, localised for POPIA — the kind you can actually read.

Questions

Asked, answered honestly

The things people want to know before they trust an app with a journal.

What is noor?
noor is a private, AI-assisted journal. You speak or write about your day, and noor reads it properly: how you seem to be feeling, the patterns underneath, what's going right, how today compares with before, and gentle questions worth sitting with. When an entry deserves more, Sofia, your AI companion, is there to talk it through. The name means "light" in Arabic — that's the whole idea: a little light on what's already there.
Is noor therapy?
No — and we're careful about this. noor is a self-reflection and journaling tool. Sofia is an AI companion, not a licensed therapist, and nothing in noor is medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Many people use noor alongside professional support, and if you're struggling, a qualified professional is the right place to start. The app's SOS screen lists crisis resources at all times.
Is my journal private?
Yes. In guest mode your journal lives on your device. If you turn on Cloud Sync, it travels encrypted and is stored on Cloudflare infrastructure so you can recover it across devices. Your entries are never sold, never used for advertising, and you can export everything (as a PDF or a complete JSON file) or permanently delete it at any time. The full details are in our Privacy Policy — written in plain language.
Can I use noor for free?
Yes, genuinely. The free plan includes unlimited journal entries, 3 AI reflections a week, 5 Sofia messages a week, and your full mood history and charts — enough to build a real habit. Premium removes the limits and adds deeper analysis.
How much does Premium cost?
Premium is R129/month, or R699/year (about R58 / month). There's also a Duo plan — R1 049/year for two people — where you and a friend both get full Premium and become each other's accountability partners.
Do I have to journal every day?
No. noor celebrates consistency — streaks glow, milestones feel good — but it will never guilt you, shame a missed day, or manufacture urgency to pull you back. That's a design principle, not an accident. Most people find a rhythm of a few entries a week; the right amount is whatever helps.

Begin tonight.

One honest voice note before bed. That's all a first entry is — and it's further than most people ever get.

Use noor in your browser
Get it on Google Play Coming soon to App Store

The full app, right in your browser — free, no account, no card. Journaling should never feel like a subscription trap.