Pick a day on the calendar and its page opens — write it, or just say how it felt.
Emrooz is a private diary that keeps your memories on your own device. The Persian (Jalali) and Gregorian calendars, mood and weather, photos and voice, heartlines that stay yours alone — and insight where every sentence links back to a real entry. Now in the browser, iPhone included.
No account needed to write. An optional account only holds your encrypted backup.
Each one is a decision made in the code, not a claim made on a landing page.
Entries stay on your device. A backup to your own Drive is encrypted only if you turn on the backup passphrase; the Emrooz cloud backup always is, and the service cannot open it. Sync keeps a readable copy in a folder of your own, unless you turn on encrypted sync. No account is needed to write.
Jalali calendar, Persian numerals, right-to-left that actually holds up, and the Vazirmatn typeface. Not an English app translated — built for Persian from the start.
Every sentence we write about your mood links back to the entry it came from. A sentence with no source never gets shown.
On a busy day a full entry never happens. A quick check-in keeps the day with one mood and a few activities — so next month’s reflection has no holes in it.
Back to the calendar ↑1 — How are you?
2 — What did you do?
3 — Add a line (optional)
Except a handful of things a browser genuinely cannot — and those are marked.
Marked items: Android app only
Browsers on iPhone have real limits. Rather than hide them, here they are.
| Feature | Web | Android | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writing, full editor, media | ✓ | ✓ | Identical document format on both |
| Entries on your own device | ✓ | ✓ | On web: browser storage |
| Encrypted backup & restore | ✓ | ✓ | One shared format — a phone backup opens on the web |
| Daily reminder | ✓ | ✓ | Turn it on inside the app where the browser has push; on iPhone, after adding to the home screen |
| Automatic backup | ≈ | ✓ | On web it runs when the app is open, not in the background; on Android it truly is background |
| Home-screen widgets | — | ✓ | Instead: the Today page as your start screen |
| On-device AI model | ≈ | ✓ | On web: the browser’s own model, for titles and summaries only — desktop only, and no Persian yet |
| AI with your own key | ✓ | ✓ | On both: Groq, OpenRouter or Gemini, with your own key |
| Day context from device calendar | ≈ | ✓ | Instead: hand over your own calendar file |
| Persian speech to text | ≈ | ✓ | On web: Chrome and Edge have an engine; Firefox and Safari do not |
| Cloud backup with an account | ✓ | ✓ | Your own Google Drive on both — readable there unless you turn on the backup passphrase, which the web has; the Emrooz cloud, on the web, is always encrypted |
| Seven languages, three calendars | ✓ | ✓ | both, from one shared table |
| Sync between devices | ✓ | ✓ | Both, on one folder in your own Google Drive. Readable there unless you turn on encrypted sync (web and recent Android versions); an encrypted copy and a readable one do not meet |
| Entries encrypted on the device itself | ✓ | — | On web: a passphrase, a printed recovery key and a passkey (fingerprint or face); not on Android yet — the phone’s database is not encrypted |
These are the actual backup-encryption parameters, as shipped.
A diary is the one file nobody but its owner should be able to read. Every technical decision in this app comes out of that single sentence.
Switch the language — text direction, numerals and dates all move with it.
The web version runs everywhere. The Android app adds three things a browser genuinely cannot — they are listed here.
No install, no wait. The same app on Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone — and it opens offline too.
Open the web appThere is no native iOS app yet. Until there is, install the web app — you get an icon, full screen, and sturdier storage.
Everything the web has, plus the three things a browser really cannot do:
Start with a mood. The rest follows.
Sign in to see your backups and open them right here.
Don’t want an account?