No cloud. No accounts. No tracking. Just a beautiful, calm space to write — stored entirely on your Mac.
macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · ~3MB
Not another productivity tool. A quiet space designed to disappear so you can focus on what matters.
Open the app and write. Today's entry is always ready. Rich text formatting appears only when you need it.
No folders, no organization overhead. One day, one entry. Add to it throughout the day — it auto-saves as you type.
Browse your history at a glance. Dots show which days you wrote. Click any date to jump back in time.
Build a writing habit. See your current streak and a month grid showing your consistency at a glance.
No internet required. Ever. Your journal works on airplanes, in cabins, and anywhere else you think.
Built with Tauri. ~3MB download, instant startup, uses your system's native webview. No Electron bloat.
bare has no backend, no analytics, no telemetry. We can't read your journal — even if we wanted to. No breach scenario. No subpoena risk. No policy change that could ever expose your entries.
Everything lives in a single file on your disk. You own it completely.
No sign-up, no login, no email. Download and start writing immediately.
The app makes zero HTTP requests. Check your firewall — it's silent.
No analytics, no crash reports, no usage tracking. We don't know you exist.
Most journaling and mental health apps fail basic privacy standards. Your innermost thoughts deserve better than a terms-of-service update.
Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included research found mental health apps are the worst category they have ever reviewed. The majority share data with third parties, track users across apps, and lack basic security measures.
Source: Mozilla Foundation, *Privacy Not Included (2023)BetterHelp was fined for sharing user data — including information about depression, suicidal thoughts, and medications — with Facebook, Snapchat, and Pinterest for targeted advertising.
Source: Federal Trade Commission, enforcement action (2023)Even when "local storage" is enabled, the majority of popular journaling apps still send your entries to external servers for processing, analytics, or AI features.
Source: Security audit of popular journaling applications (2024)Nearly a third of people who would benefit from digital mental health tools choose not to use them because they don't trust how their data will be handled.
Source: Straits Research; JMIR Mental Health studiesbare is different by design. There is no server. There is no API. There is no data pipeline. We can't read your journal — even if we wanted to. This isn't a privacy policy. It's a privacy architecture.
Free. Private. No strings attached.
Coming soon for macOS