The iPhone app
Journal
The Journal holds the readings you chose to keep. Nothing arrives here on its own — a reading is saved only when you tap the bookmark, which is what keeps the Journal a record rather than a log.
It lives entirely on your phone. No reading, question or reflection is uploaded, and there is no cloud copy to lose or leak.
The list
- Entry row
One row per saved reading, grouped by month with the newest first. Opens the full entry.
- Press and hold an entry
Opens a menu with a single destructive Delete. This is the only way to delete an entry — there is deliberately no swipe-to-delete, because a stray swipe should not destroy a reading.
With nothing saved yet, the screen shows a closed book and an invitation to save your first reading.
An entry
- Card scroller
The cards you drew, shown in the deck they were drawn with rather than whichever deck is active now.
- Reflection
Your own notes on the reading. Saved as you type — there is no save button.
LimitsGrows from three to eight lines - Video player
If you generated a video for this reading, it plays here, with a share button beside it.
- Check
Appears while a video is still rendering. Asks the server whether it has finished. The entry also checks by itself whenever you open it.
- Privacy badge
Whether this reading was interpreted on your device or online.
Videos that finish later
A reading video takes a few minutes, and you are not expected to sit and watch it render. If you close the sheet, the entry keeps track of the pending video and reconciles it the next time you open it.
- • Still rendering — a spinner, and a Check button if you are impatient.
- • Finished — the video appears inline with a share button.
- • Failed — the entry says so and confirms you were not charged.
A finished video is copied to your device automatically — there is no save button because there is nothing to press. The copy on our servers is deleted after 30 days; the one in your Journal stays.
Journals and accounts
Entries belong to whichever account was signed in when they were saved, so two people sharing a phone do not see each other's readings. Anything saved while signed out stays visible to everyone on that device — there is no account to attach it to.
The journal is on the phone and nowhere else until you say otherwise. More › Save readings online keeps a copy on your account instead: it then opens on any device you sign in on, and on this site under Journal. It is off until you turn it on, and turning it on uploads the readings you already have.
Deleting your account does not delete your journal. Those entries are released rather than destroyed, and stay on the phone — though any copies you had saved online go with the account.
Common problems
My readings have disappeared
Almost always a different account is signed in. Check More → Account.
The bookmark button is greyed out
That reading is already saved. A reading can only be saved once.
A video has been pending for ages
Press Check. If it has failed the entry tells you and clears itself, and you were not charged.