About

Frettle opens directly to a blank page — no prompts, no accounts, no mood wheels. Type your anxiety, tap Save, done.

WHAT MAKES FRETTLE DIFFERENT

When anxious thoughts arrive, you need capture speed, not a feature tour. Frettle is the fastest anxiety journal on iPhone: one tap, full keyboard, automatic timestamp. Every entry stays on your device — fully offline, fully private.

PRICING

Included free: Unlimited entries, local and private. Frettle Pro adds Export (plain text) and full-text Search across all your entries (requires in-app purchase) — power tools for people who journal seriously.

No account required. No network access. No analytics. Just write.

MORE THAN AN ANXIETY DIARY

Frettle is a private diary for your mental health moments: vent a worry the second it appears, name an emotion in the middle of a panic spike, and let writing itself become stress relief. Putting feelings into words is one of the simplest ways to cope.

FEEDBACK

Made by Peter Zhang. Every email to obeliskclubclub@gmail.com is read personally. Learn more: https://obelisk.club/anxietyjournal

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Core Capabilities

Instant capture — keyboard ready the moment you tap

Fully offline — no account, no network, no data collection

Clean timeline of entries with automatic timestamps

Pro (requires in-app purchase): Export full journal as plain text

Pro (requires in-app purchase): Full-text search across all entries

No prompts, no mood wheels — a blank page, instantly

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How Frettle compares

Honest, dimension-by-dimension comparisons — including where the other tool wins.

Journaling / mood tracking app

Frettle vs Daylio Journal - Mood Tracker

Daylio is one of the most popular journaling apps on the App Store, with over 61,000 ratings, built around tap-to-log mood entries without typing. Frettle takes the opposite approach — it's a blank page, for when what you need is to actually write. Here's an honest look at both.

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