Voice Journaling: Speak Your Entry, Keep the WordsComing soon

On the days when typing is the thing in the way, talk. The entry that comes back is ordinary text you can edit, search and ask about.

Coming soon: it is built, and a small group is trying it before it opens to everyone. Start free now and it will turn up in your account.

Record, then read it back

Up to ten minutes a recording. The transcript lands in the entry as text: editable, searchable, read by Explore and your reflections like anything you typed.

Your recording, your call

Drop the audio the moment the words arrive, keep it for a while, or keep it. The transcript never expires; only the audio does.

Nothing read from your voice

The recording becomes text, and from then on only the text is read. Nothing is worked out from how you sound.

Transcribed under zero retention

The audio goes to a transcription service that keeps nothing, through the same zero-retention route as every AI call Pensio makes.

Voice Journaling

Say it instead of typing it. The words are yours to keep; the recording is yours to drop

On the days when writing is the thing standing in the way — walking, driving, too tired to type — speaking is the difference between an entry and no entry. The words are still yours afterwards: they are ordinary text you can edit, search and read back.

An example

Walking back from lunch, you talk instead of typing

“Ben said he saw me go quiet and understood why. Not a question, not a judgment. Just an observation.”

Kept for good the words
Yours to keep or drop the recording

By the time you are back at your desk the words are in your journal as an ordinary entry — searchable, editable, part of your reflections. If you asked for the recording to go once it was written down, the audio is already gone and the words are not.

What you can do

Edit what it heard: The transcript is ordinary entry text. Fix a name it misheard, or cut the part where you lost your thread.
Delete every recording you hold, in one go: In Settings. Every recording goes; every word of every transcript stays.
Take the recordings with you: Your export contains the audio as well as the words.

How It Works

1

Press Record in the composer

Talk for up to ten minutes. The clip is saved to the entry, up to 15 MB.

2

The words arrive

Pensio transcribes it in the background and the text lands in the entry, in the language you spoke.

3

Edit it like any entry

Fix a word, add a line. Search, emotions, reflections and Explore read the text, never the audio.

4

Decide what happens to the recording

In Settings: discard it as soon as it is written down, keep it for twelve months on Free, or keep it on Pro. A change applies to the next recording, not the last one.

Use Cases

Five voice entries a month on Free, unlimited on Pro. The audio counts against the same 250 MB or 5 GB as your photos.

Journaling on the move

Walking, driving, or too tired to type: five minutes of talking is an entry you would not otherwise have written.

Private voice journaling

The recording can be gone the moment the words exist. What stays is text, in your account, in your export.

Voice without the summaries

Pensio does not boil the recording down to bullet points. You get your own words, and everything else works on them.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Five voice entries a month on Free, unlimited on Pro

Up to ten minutes each.

The transcript never expires — only the audio does

Your words are yours on every plan and for as long as the account exists. What a paid plan buys is keeping the voice.

Your recording is sent away to be written down

Recordings are sent to a transcription service to be written down, and are not kept by it. Anyone else you can hear will be on the recording too.

Nothing is read from how you sound

Nothing is ever worked out from the sound of your voice. The recording becomes text first, and from then on only the text is read — the same way an entry you typed is read. Your tone, your pace and how you sounded are not measured, not stored as a signal, and not used to decide anything.

A change applies to the next recording, not the last one

Your choice applies to recordings you make from now on. Recordings you have already made keep the terms they were made under. You can change this, or delete every recording you still hold, in Settings under Data.

It writes down what it hears, and it is not perfect

Names and unusual words are where it slips. The transcript is marked as one, so you can tell later what you spoke and what you typed.