Private beta — May 2026

A diary that becomes a book.

Record your day in voice, text, or video. Alef turns each entry into a written chapter — with a title, a mood, and the recurring people and places in your life. Over time, your entries become a book you can read.

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01 How it works

Record, read, repeat.

01 · Record your day
Open the app and press one button.
Speak, type, or film for two minutes. That's it.
02 · Read it as a chapter
Within a minute, Alef writes your entry as a chapter.
Same content, written clearly, in your voice.
03 · Watch your book grow
Every entry adds a chapter.
After a year, you have a book about your life you can open and read.
02 An example chapter

See what Alef makes from a single entry.

Here is one voice entry and the chapter Alef wrote from it. Your original recording stays saved separately. The chapter is the written version.

Chapter 24 · April 23 · Voice · 4 min 12 sec
The Long Way Home

The bus was late and I didn't mind. I walked the rest of the way, past the bakery already pulling its shutters down, past the dog that always barks at me and tonight didn't.

There's a kind of tired that feels like permission. To not text back. To not make the call. To let the day end without conclusion.

I thought about my father, briefly, the way I do now — without the old weight. Just: he would have liked this street at this hour.

Walking Memory Father

Mood

Tenderness 38
Stillness 31
Wistfulness 19
Relief 12

Palette

Cast

Father
Appears in 14 chapters
The walk home
Appears in 8 chapters
The bakery on Rue Saint-Paul
New
03 Listen

Press play. The day, narrated back.

Every chapter can be read aloud — in your own voice or a narrator's. A year of entries becomes an audiobook you can finish on a long walk.

Now playing Chapter 24 · 4 of 6
Ch 24
The Long Way Home
Read aloud · in your voice
1:27 −2:45
1.5×
The audiobook · 24 chapters
Vol I
A year of entries
1 hr 48 · narrated
Queue
  • Ch 24 · 4:12 The Long Way Home
  • Ch 23 · 3:48 A Letter I Did Not Send
  • Ch 22 · 2:31 Morning Without Coffee
  • Ch 20 · 6:18 Calling My Father
04 What's inside
Record in voice, text, or video
Use whichever you prefer. Alef writes the chapter the same way regardless.
Three images per chapter
Alef generates three illustrations for each chapter based on what you wrote. Upload a few photos of yourself and you can appear in them.
Recurring cast
People, places, and themes that come up often get their own pages, so you can see who and what shows up in your life over time.
Reader mode
Read past chapters like a book. Tap any paragraph to hear it read aloud.
Year in review
See how your themes and moods changed across the months.
A kinder second read
Each chapter includes a short, gentler version of the same day — the way a thoughtful friend might describe it back to you.
05 Privacy
"To be seen by your own life is the oldest kind of company."
— Notes from the founder
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest. Your entries travel over a secure connection and are stored encrypted on our servers.
  • Anonymized for processing. When an entry is turned into a chapter, it's sent to our AI without your name or account attached — and never used to train AI.
  • The raw recording is cleared. Once your chapter is written, the original recording is deleted within a few months. Your library stays until you delete it.
  • Delete everything in one tap. Removes your account, entries, chapters, and images completely.
  • No ads. No tracking. No data sold. No analytics, no third parties watching, no profiles.

Start your book tonight.

Record your first entry in two minutes. In a year, you'll have a book.

Free to start. Premium plans from $9.99/month.