Cozy
Cozy is a local-first journal and diary app, your entries live on your computer as plain text, never on a server or fed into someone
Cozy launched on June 25, 2026 with 16 votes, #956 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Cozy is a journaling app where your entries live on your computer, the same way your thoughts live in your mind. They stay yours to keep and yours to share with whoever you want, never trapped in a server or fed into someone's AI.
Cozy keeps your journal on your own device, as plain files you can open with anything. Nothing is synced to a server, nothing is fed to AI. Set an alarm for 4:20 and almost talked myself out of it. So glad I didn't. The lake was perfectly still. Fuji doubled in the water like the mountain couldn't quite believe itself either. A few other people stood along the shore, all of us quiet, all of us holding our breath a little. I've seen this view on a hundred postcards. None of them tell you how cold the air is, or how the pink creeps down the snow so slowly you don't notice until it's gone. Best morning of the trip, easily. Rented a bike and got pleasantly lost in the back lanes below the…from cozyjournal.app
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