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Apple Watch · iPhone · AI-powered

Your journal, captured
in fifteen seconds

Cairn turns fleeting thoughts into lasting clarity — record from your wrist, enriched with your biometrics and calendar, understood by AI.

How it works

From thought to insight
in moments

01

Speak from your wrist

Raise your watch, tap record. Cairn captures your thought in under 15 seconds — no phone needed. Your voice is transcribed on-device instantly.

02

Context is added automatically

Your heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, and calendar load are silently attached to every entry — giving future-you the full picture of how you felt.

03

AI surfaces what matters

On-device AI finds patterns across your entries — the correlation between your meeting load and your best creative work, entirely private, entirely yours.

Features

Built for the way
founders actually think

Apple Watch voice capture

The lowest-friction journal in existence. Raise your wrist, tap once, speak. Audio is transcribed on-device and synced to your iPhone automatically.

Core feature

Biometric context

Every entry is stamped with your real-time HR, HRV, blood oxygen, and wrist temperature — giving your journal a physiological dimension no text alone can capture.

HealthKit

Calendar intelligence

Cairn reads your calendar load — meeting density, back-to-backs, focus blocks — and correlates it with your energy levels and journal sentiment over time.

EventKit

Completely private by design

All AI processing runs on-device using Apple’s Foundation Models. Your journal and health data never leave your iPhone. Not even to us.

On-device AI

Weekly AI summaries

Each week, Cairn synthesises your entries, biometric trends, and calendar patterns into a clear, honest reflection — what you did, how you felt, what to carry forward.

Foundation Models

Handwritten note ingestion

Snap a photo of your notebook page. VisionKit OCR extracts the text and adds it as a journal entry — bridging your analog and digital thinking.

VisionKit · Pro

Your data belongs to you

Cairn's AI runs entirely on-device using Apple's Foundation Models. Your health data, journal entries, and biometrics are never transmitted to our servers, never used for advertising, and never sold. Full stop.

Pricing

Simple, honest
pricing

Start free. Stay free if you want. Upgrade when Cairn becomes part of how you think.

Explorer

$0

Free for 7 days, then limited

  • Apple Watch voice capture
  • On-device AI (Foundation Models)
  • Biometric context per entry
  • Weekly AI summary
  • Calendar intelligence
  • After 7 days: 3 entries/week max
  • No AI insights after trial
Download free

Core

$3.99

per month · or $34.99/year

  • Everything in Explorer, unlimited
  • Full biometric trend analysis
  • Handwritten note scanning
  • Cloud AI via your own API key
  • Calendar correlation reports
  • iCloud sync across devices
Start free trial
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Pro

$7.99

per month · or $69.99/year

  • Everything in Core
  • Managed Mistral AI — no key needed
  • Deep cross-month pattern analysis
  • Mood × biometric correlations
  • JournalingSuggestions integration
  • Early access to new features
Start free trial

All plans include a 7-day free trial. No credit card required. Cancel anytime.

Early users

What founders
are saying

I’ve tried every journaling app. Cairn is the first one that stuck — because I never have to pick up my phone to use it.

TK
Tomáš K.Founder, SaaS · Prague

The biometric correlation is genuinely revealing. I had no idea my creative output was so tightly linked to my HRV.

SM
Sarah M.CEO · Berlin

On-device AI and no account required — finally a productivity app that doesn’t treat my data as the product.

JV
Jan V.CTO · Amsterdam

Begin your first
cairn today

Free for 7 days. No account. No credit card.

Download on the App Store

Requires iPhone with iOS 17+ and Apple Watch Series 4 or later