Candela
A quiet place for your days.
Candela is a diary. You write a line, a page, a photo, a sketch or a voice note — and it stays yours. No feed, no likes, no one reading over your shoulder.
What it does
- Write the way you think. Build a page out of blocks: headings, quotes, bullets, numbered lists, checkboxes, dividers. Every page keeps itself as you type — there is no Save button to forget.
- More than text. Snap a photo straight into the page or pick one from your library, handwrite with a finger or a stylus (Apple Pencil on iPad), attach a file, record a voice note, or speak and watch it become text.
- Your days on a page. A calendar of everything you wrote and every plan you set. Turn a plan into a journal entry when it turns out to be worth writing about.
- Locked, your way. A six-digit PIN, opened by Face ID or your fingerprint if you like — and it locks the moment you leave the app. Discreet mode keeps the app's name off your notifications.
- Yours to take. Export the whole journal as a plain, readable file any time. Delete everything, for good, in a few taps.
No account, and no server of ours
There is nothing to sign up for. Your journal is written to your phone, and — on iPhone, only if you switch it on — to your own iCloud, so it follows you to a new one. Either way it never reaches us: we run no database for it and have no way to read it.
On Android there is no cloud copy at all. The journal lives on that one phone, and the way to carry it anywhere is an encrypted file you export yourself. Export it now and then — losing the phone loses the journal.
What it costs
Free for 14 days. After that, one payment of US$3.99 — or the equivalent in your country — and Candela is yours for good. No subscription, no renewal, no monthly reminder that your own diary costs money.
If you decide not to buy, everything you have already written stays yours. You can keep reading it, editing it, exporting the whole journal or deleting it — all without paying. Only writing new pages stops.
Where your journal lives
On your phone. On iPhone you can switch on iCloud and a copy goes into your own iCloud storage, under your Apple Account — Apple keeps it, we cannot read it, and it counts against your iCloud space rather than ours. On Android there is no cloud storage of any kind: the journal stays on the phone until you export a file yourself.
Candela has no AI feature and no analytics: nothing you write is sent anywhere to be analysed. The iOS app contains no third-party SDK at all; the Android app contains exactly one, Google Play Billing, which handles the purchase and never sees a word you wrote.
Not a medical app
Candela is a journal. It does not provide therapy, diagnosis or treatment, and it is not a medical device. If you are struggling, please talk to someone who can help.