Press Kit
About Inlet
Inlet is an iPhone app for people who carry some anxiety and want one quiet place to put it down. Each day you write a single line — a word, a sentence, whatever fits — and an AI that runs entirely on your iPhone reflects it back with a short, warm acknowledgment. Nothing you write is ever uploaded: there's no account, no ads, and no analytics SDK, so the app has no server for your words to leak from in the first place. Inlet doesn't count streaks and never says anything about a day you skipped — the aim is one honest line, not a perfect record.
The story
Inlet is built by a solo indie developer. Most journaling apps ask for more than an anxious mind can reliably give on a bad night: long entries, guided multi-question prompts, a streak counter that turns a missed day into a small failure. Quite a few also ask for an account, which means some of the most private words a person might ever write end up sitting on someone else's server. Inlet is a small, deliberate attempt to remove all three of those frictions rather than to build a general wellness app with a journaling feature bolted on.
A few design principles guided every decision:
- Zero pressure. Inlet never counts or displays a streak. A day with nothing written is never called out, and reminders are off by default.
- One line is enough. A single input field with a soft, non-blocking length guide — the smallest possible barrier to writing something down.
- Never a diagnosis. The AI's reflection is empathy and mirroring only. It never suggests a diagnosis, gives advice, or tells you what you should do — that boundary is enforced directly in how the AI is instructed.
- Privacy first, not as a feature — as the foundation. Every entry, mood value, and AI reflection is generated and stored entirely on-device. There is no account, and the app uses no server of ours to collect, sell, or leak that data, which matters more here than in almost any other app category.
Inlet is not a medical device and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It's built for anxious minds, not as a substitute for professional care.
Fact sheet
- Developer
- Independent / solo-developed
- Price
- Free to start (daily entry, mood tracking, AI reflection, 7 days of history, Face ID lock, and the widget). Inlet Pro: $3.99/month, $24.99/year (7-day free trial), or $39.99 one-time lifetime purchase.
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 26.0 or later
- Category
- Lifestyle, Productivity
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Release date
- TBD — pending App Store review (placeholder; will be updated at launch)
- Website
- inlet-legal.vercel.app
- Press & media contact
- support@zone-web.jp
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Screenshots
Five English-language iPhone screenshots (onboarding, today, history, insights, paywall), full resolution. A Japanese-language set exists as well — email us if you need it.
Contact
For interviews, review copies, or anything else — reach out any time.