AgōnName what you're carrying, privately.
Write it down: the hard day, the answered prayer, the thing you can't say yet. Your journal is encrypted on your device before it syncs, so only you can read it. Not even we can.
What it does
Encrypted end to end
Entries are sealed on your phone or computer with a key only your devices hold. A recovery key gets you back in if you lose them. Lock it with a PIN or Face ID.
Photos and voice notes
Add a photo or record a voice note in an entry. With Premium, add as many as you like, plus video and files.
Prompts and templates
A fresh prompt each day, by pillar ("What is God asking you to let go of?"), and templates for the entries you write often.
Look back
Search on your device, tags, starred entries, a calendar, a map, your writing streak, and On This Day: what you wrote a year ago today.
Dictate, and clean it up
Speak an entry instead of typing it. With Premium, Clean up tidies what you dictated (you see every change), and AI can suggest a title or a question to go deeper.
PremiumYours to take with you
Export to PDF, Markdown, or a full backup any time, never behind a paywall. Import from Day One, Markdown, or a CSV.
How it keeps your 12:30+1
Link a Heart commitment to your journal, and writing an entry keeps it for the day: no checkbox to remember. Only the date you wrote reaches our server, never a word of what you wrote.
- Journal 10 minutes: name what I felt today and why
- Write one line of thanks before bed
- Write a prayer for someone I'm struggling with
A routine step can open a new entry, so writing has a place in your morning or evening. Linking it to your 12:30+1 is free on Standard, like every link that keeps a commitment.
Your 12:30+1 is one small commitment for each of heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30), plus one for your neighbor (Mark 12:31), with a one-minute account each evening. How the 12:30+1 works.
What's free, and what Premium adds
Agōn Standard free
- 1 journal
- A photo or voice note in each entry
- On 1 device
- Prompts, templates, tags, search, calendar, map, and On This Day
- Dictation, sharing an entry, lock, export, and import
- 1 GB of storage
Agōn Premium
- As many journals as you want
- Unlimited photos and voice notes, plus video and files
- Your journal on all your devices: phone, tablet, and computer
- Clean up what you dictated, voice note summaries, suggested titles, and Go deeper questions (AI)
- A Follow Through caught from an entry, and reflections from your routines saved here
- 4 GB of storage
Premium is $4.99/month or $49.99/year with a 7-day free trial, or $99.99 once for Lifetime, and every Agōn cohort membership includes it. If you stop, nothing you made is lost. Compare plans.
Only you can read it
Your journal is end-to-end encrypted: it's locked on your device before it leaves, with a key that never reaches us. We store only sealed data we can't open. That also means we can't reset it for you, so you save a recovery key when you start. Our privacy policy.
Journal and the rest of Agōn
The Examen saves into your journal. A routine can open a new entry, and on Premium its reflections land here. Heart Check can start an entry from the Psalm you prayed.
Start with Journal
Agōn Standard is free, with no ads, on iPhone, Android, and the web. One account everywhere. Start with one tool; every other one waits until you want it.