For iPhone and iPad
A notebook for the people in your life. Write a note the way you would tell a friend. Your device finds the names, dates and promises inside it, and asks you to confirm each one.
We hold no copy of what you write. We cannot read your notes, and we do not.
Not on the App Store yet
When it ships: two weeks free, then $3.99 a month, or $34.99 a year.
Nobody sees it because
nobody can.
Your device does the reading itself, on the note in front of it. An app like this normally sends what you wrote to a company’s computers so the company can read it; nothing here is sent away to be read, so we hold no copy of your note and have no machine that could — nothing for us to leak, nothing for us to sell, nothing of yours to train an AI on. If you switch on iCloud sync a copy goes to your own Apple account, which is yours to switch on and not ours to open. The reading happens on your device too, which means what your device can do decides whether it happens at all. Relational works that out at launch and states it in plain words, in Settings, under Vault and model. Where your device cannot do the reading, you fill the pages in yourself, and nothing else about the app changes.
Today, September 2026: iPhone and iPad, on iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. The app will not install on a device that cannot run those. That is where it is now.
One
You write it, or you say it.
A name and what happened, in your own words. Only the name is needed. Or talk instead of typing, and pour out a whole day at once: the transcribing happens on your device and Relational takes the day apart without losing anything. When two people in your life could be the one you meant, Relational offers both and picks neither: a note filed under the wrong person is one you would never think to go looking for.
Two
You say yes, or fix it.
Everything your device read comes back already filled in, with the words that produced it quoted underneath. Confirming is one tap. Changing it is one tap and then your own words — and nothing reaches anybody’s page until you say so.
Three
A page builds up.
Nineteen years of one friendship: two hundred and eighteen notes, the recent ones in full and the rest folded into one row you can open. Written a sentence at a time, by you.
Relational never imports your address book: everyone on that page is there because you wrote about them, and nobody becomes a person here until you do.
The promise, and the unflattering parts
We do not read your note contents.
What you write stays on your
device and is never sent to us or anyone else.
- Notes stay on the device, in a folder you can open in Files — which means anything you give Files access to can read them too. Your device does the reading; the text is not sent anywhere to be interpreted.
- We do not log the content of your notes. The app measures the app: which of our screens you reached, how long something took, whether it worked, and roughly how big your vault is. Counts, timings and outcomes — never the words. No note text, no name out of one, no file path with a name in it. The two companies that receive any of that — Sentry for crashes, PostHog for how the app is used — are sending today and are hosted in the EU. A third, RevenueCat, starts on every launch and mints one anonymous id on your phone to ask Apple what you have bought; it is told nothing about your notes. In full: what the app sends, and who receives it →
- iCloud sync is off unless you turn it on. If you do, your notes go to your own Apple account rather than to us, and we have no way to open what arrives there. Apple can read what is in iCloud unless you have Advanced Data Protection switched on, and most people do not.
- Your notes are yours in every payment state, including after you stop paying. Readable and exportable as plain text, forever.
You do not have to take our word for it — that is the whole point. A company that holds your notes can promise not to read them, and you would never know either way. We do not hold them, so there is no promise to break. Put your device in Airplane Mode and write a note: on a device that can do the reading, it is still read and still filed. Then put it behind a proxy and watch for a week. A note moves off your device only when you start it moving: iCloud sync, if you switch it on, or an export you make yourself. Neither route passes through us, and we have no way to open what arrives at the other end.
A free trial,
then the whole app.
We do not host your notes, so there is no bill here that grows the more you write. There is no cut-down free version with the good parts removed, and nothing extra to buy inside it.
Yearly
$34.99 a year
In the US, three months cheaper than paying monthly.
Monthly
$3.99 a month
About a dollar a week, if you would rather not commit.
Both prices are in US dollars. Outside the US you pay your own store’s price, which Apple sets from these — it is usually close and it is not a conversion, so the yearly plan saves a different amount in each country.
It is a subscription — Apple takes the payment and Apple is the seller, it renews until you cancel, and you cancel in your device’s own settings rather than by asking us. The trial runs two weeks and asks for a payment method before it starts — on an iPhone that is one Face ID rather than typing a card in — and nothing is charged until the two weeks are up.
Not on the App Store yet
If you stop paying, your notes stay readable and exportable.