What Folded does
One job, done properly: take the writing you already do and read it back to you as a story. You journal, but you never re-read — so the year becomes a blur, and “how has it been?” gets a one-sentence answer that feels like a lie. Folded folds a stretch of your own writing into one short, first-person chapter that reads as unmistakably you. Here’s the tour.
Write freely
A plain, warm page. Write a line a day, a paragraph when something happens, or nothing for a week — whatever you already do. There are no prompts to answer and no habit to keep. What you write is the raw material the chapter folds from, so the only rule is to write the way that’s honest for you.
Fold a season into a chapter
When you’re ready, pick a stretch — a month, a season, a whole year — and Folded turns it into one short, first-person chapter of about two hundred words: the two or three threads that actually ran through it, and the moment things shifted. Not a summary of what you did. A page about who you were being.
A voice that reads as you
The chapter is warm, unhurried and lightly literary — a memoir register, not a log and not a performance review. It never scores you, never gives advice, and never invents a feeling you didn’t write. The whole craft is in that voice: it reads back your own life in a way you recognise, instead of a generic “this year you focused on growth.”
Made entirely on your phone
The chapter is generated on your iPhone using Apple’s on-device intelligence. There is no account, no cloud of ours, and no network call — the model reads only what you wrote, and your writing never leaves the device. The App Store privacy label reads “Data Not Collected,” because there is nothing to collect.
Edit and delete, freely
Tap any entry to rewrite it, or remove one you’d rather not keep. Discard a chapter you don’t like and fold a different stretch instead. Your journal is yours to shape — nothing is locked in, and nothing is permanent unless you want it to be.
Delete everything, any time
One tap in Settings wipes every entry and every chapter from your device, behind a clear confirm. No support ticket, no waiting on us — because your writing lives on your phone, erasing it is yours to do, instantly and completely.
No streaks, no scores, no advice
Folded will never count a streak, rank your mood, or tell you how to live. It doesn’t reward you for writing daily or guilt you for a gap. The restraint is the product: a chapter that reads back the life you actually lived, not a dashboard that turns it into numbers.
Bought once, yours forever
Your first chapter is free, so you can feel what it’s like to read a sentence about yourself you couldn’t have written. €8.99, one time, lifts the cap to unlimited chapters and lets you save and keep every one — with Family Sharing. No subscription, ever: Folded reads back whatever you already wrote, so a monthly charge for it would make no sense.
Read your year back
Your first chapter is free and made entirely on your phone. Fold one season and you’ll feel whether it reads as you — that’s the only test that matters.