Bloom Journal
Write a few lines.
Keep the painting.
“A moment today keeps your garden in bloom.”
Bloom is a journal for iPhone and Android. You write about your day, and a painting is made from your words: one painting per entry, with a whispered line laid across it and a title of its own. The painting is yours to keep.
One email when the apps are out, nothing else. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play, from Holistic Humble Bee.
From your words, for real
Nothing on this page is a mockup. Here is one October evening, exactly as it went into Bloom, and the painting that came back.
The entry, as written
Cold rain on the window all afternoon. I made leek soup with too much pepper and the whole kitchen fogged up. Read two chapters by the lamp and did not check my phone once.
How a day in Bloom goes
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Write
A prompt is waiting if you want one. Or ignore it and just write. Even a few words become a painting.
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Breathe
While the painting is made, Bloom guides one slow breath: in, hold, out, while your own words type themselves back to you. The waiting is part of it, not a spinner.
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Bloom
The painting appears, and a whispered line settles across it, with a title and a mood chosen from what you wrote.
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Keep
The painting lands in a calendar you can walk back through, month by month.
A quiet place to keep a day
Two promises most journals don’t make
A streak that forgives you
Miss a day and a rest day quietly covers it. You get two every month, spent for you, with nothing to tap. Going away? Rest mode pauses your streak so days off don’t count against it, for as long as you need.
Nothing here scolds you. Bloom speaks as the painter, and a painter has nothing to scold you for.
Your words stay yours
Your journal lives on your phone by default, encrypted (AES-256-GCM) before it is written down. Cloud is a choice, never a default. To paint an entry, the text of that entry is sent to our AI providers: that is the trade, and it is written down plainly.
Export everything as one file, free, on any plan. And your first entry can happen before you make an account at all.
What it costs
Free, forever
- Writing is never limited. Write as often and as long as you like, and every word is saved.
- Pick a mood for the day, and see a week of insights.
- Export your whole journal, free, any time.
Bloom Pro
- 90 paintings a month, no daily cap, and 4 living paintings: your painting brought into gentle motion for a few seconds.
- Full insights: 30 days, all time, mood patterns and On This Day.
- Seven days free, then €9 a month or €49 a year, in your store’s local currency.
- The same price in the App Store and on Google Play, always.
- Cancel from your store’s subscriptions page whenever you like. No tricks on the way out.
Writing, saving and exporting are free on every plan. Pro adds the paintings.
Notes on journaling
Honest, research-grounded articles: useful whether or not you ever install the app.
How to choose a journaling app
Six questions that separate the families, and which kind of journaler fits which.
Journals that turn words into art
Why a visual payoff helps the habit, and what to look for in this family.
Two more are waiting: how to keep the habit without the guilt and the ten-minute privacy checks. Or browse all articles.
The short version
Bloom is a journal for iPhone and Android where a few lines about your day become a painting, yours to keep. Your journal lives on your phone by default; to paint an entry, the text of that entry is sent to our AI providers, and the finished painting comes back. Writing, saving and exporting are free forever, in six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Romanian.
The details are written down plainly: what happens to your data, the terms of using the app, and how to leave with everything.
Your first painting is waiting
Bloom is coming to the App Store and Google Play. Leave your address and you will get one email on launch day, written by a person.