Entries AI Journal: An Honest Review and the Best Alternative (2026)

What Entries Actually Is

If you searched "entries ai", "my entries ai", "entry ai", or "ai entries", you're probably looking for Entries: AI Journal & Diary — the app by Paper Tech LLC that lives at myentries.ai. The name gets written a dozen ways (My Entries AI, MyEntries, EntryAI); they all mean this one app. Fair warning before anything else: we make a competing app. This page tells you what Entries does, what it costs, and where your words go, as factually as we can — including the honest cases where Entries is the better pick.

Entries is an interactive journal. You write or speak an entry, and an AI companion responds — asking follow-up questions, reflecting things back, nudging you to go deeper, in a register users describe as therapy-adjacent. It remembers context from past entries, finds patterns and trends across them, supports photos and voice input, and wraps the habit in a "mind garden" that grows with your streak. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro, and the web, and holds a strong 4.8-star rating on the App Store.

The model will feel familiar if you know Rosebud: the entry is almost a byproduct of a conversation. For a lot of people — especially in a lonely or difficult stretch — that conversation is exactly what they came for.

What It Costs

Entries is free to download; the premium tier is $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year. The AI conversation — the reason the app exists — sits behind that subscription. That's the going rate for chat-style AI journals (Rosebud prices similarly), but it's worth naming: it is a higher price than most of the category, and the free tier is a preview, not a product.

Where Your Words Go

This is the part most reviews skip, and for a journal it's the part that matters most. Entries' own App Store privacy label states that the app collects contact information, user content (photos, videos, audio), and user IDs — linked to your identity — and uses device IDs for third-party advertising.

So is Entries AI safe? In the ordinary sense, yes: none of that is unusual for a cloud app, and there's no suggestion Entries mishandles it. But read that label as a journaler, not as a user: the most sensitive text you produce anywhere is stored on someone else's servers, tied to who you are, inside a product that also talks to advertising infrastructure. A journal only works if you write as though no one is reading. Whether you can do that here is a question only you can answer — we've written about why this architecture question decides journaling quality.

When Entries Is the Right Choice

Pick Entries if the thing you actually want is someone to talk to. The responsive companion, the follow-up questions, the streak garden — Entries commits fully to journaling-as-conversation, and its reviews suggest it delivers real comfort during hard periods. If a blank page has never worked for you and a warm back-and-forth does, Entries (or Rosebud) is a better fit than a classic journal, ours included.

When You Want the Opposite Architecture

AI Journal (ours) starts from the other end of every one of those decisions:

• Your entries live on your device. Local-first storage, AES-256 encrypted even locally. Optional sync goes encrypted into your own Google Drive or iCloud — not our servers. Nothing is linked to an advertising ID, and your writing is never used to train models.
• The AI never writes back mid-entry. You speak or type without an audience — no companion steering the entry while you produce it. The AI works around your words: transcribing voice, tagging moods, and reading across weeks of entries to hand you a monthly recap of patterns you couldn't see up close.
• Voice is the primary input, not a feature. Speaking an entry takes a third of the time typing does and captures a more honest register — the case for that is in voice journaling benefits.
• The journal is free, permanently. Writing, voice capture, moods, calendar, export — none of it is paywalled. The AI layer is a subscription at a fraction of Entries' price, or a one-time unlock where you bring your own API key and pay provider cost. If we disappear tomorrow, your journal keeps working offline.

The trade is real, and it cuts both ways: you give up the conversational companion; you keep ownership of every word.

The Test That Settles It

Don't decide from a comparison page — ours or anyone's. Install one, journal for two weeks with real entries on your worst days, and ask: did I write things I'd never say out loud? If the answer is no, the architecture — the companion reading along, or the server your words sit on — is costing you honesty, and honesty is the entire product.

If you want the wider field before choosing, we compare Day One, Rosebud, Reflectly, and Mindsera in our AI journaling apps comparison, and the general buying framework lives in how to choose an AI journal app.