The problem
Your AI remembers what you typed. Not who you are.
Your assistant keeps a memory now — synthesized from the things you happened to say to it. But it never saw the 10k you're training for, the friend you keep meaning to call, or the week your mood quietly slipped. It knows the version of you that shows up in a chat window, which is a thin slice of the real thing.
And that memory isn't yours. It lives on someone else's servers, in their format — you may see a list of what it remembers, but never the moments that formed it. It stops at their walls, too: switch assistants, and you start over.
memorist gives that context a home you own. A Memory of You — drawn from your real life, backed by the entries behind every belief, portable to the AI of your choice, and yours to keep. It's the user-owned memory layer that leading researchers say personal AI needs.
Connect your AI
Connect your AI — on your terms.
When you're ready, connect the AI you already use and let it draw on your Memory of You, so it knows you from the first message. It's a permissioned connection, not a data dump — your assistant sees only the slice you allow, and only until you turn it off, built on an open standard so your memory works with the assistant of your choice.
You choose what it reads
Pick which parts of your Memory an app can see — your tastes, goals, the people in your life, your work, your identity. Everything else stays out of reach.
On until you turn it off
Access is off until you switch it on, and stays on only until you turn it off. In Connected Apps, one tap disconnects any app and its access ends immediately — it's a loan, not a giveaway.
Your boundaries travel with it
Anything you've hidden or marked private never leaves your device, and the boundaries you've drawn travel with every connection — so an assistant knows what not to assume.
See every read
Open Access history and see exactly what each app looked at, and when — never the words themselves, and nothing an app can edit or erase. Sharing your life with an AI should leave a trail you can actually check.
To answer your assistant's questions, memorist keeps a readable copy of just the slice you shared — the one place it holds readable memory. It's only what you allowed, never anything hidden or private, and it stops the moment you turn access off.
What is memorist?
memorist is a private pocket journal that quietly becomes a Memory of You — an evidence-backed picture of your preferences, identity, relationships, goals, and patterns, drawn straight from your real entries. It's a portable profile your personal AI can rely on, and it stays yours.
How does it work with my AI assistant?
You connect the assistant you already use — it reads only the topics you allow, and you can turn it off anytime. Your Memory isn't locked into one assistant: point it at the AI of your choice so your assistant starts every conversation already knowing who you are.
What is the Memory of You?
As you journal, memorist builds a curated model of your preferences, identity, relationships, goals, and patterns — drawn from your real entries rather than a quiz or a guess. You can see the moments behind every belief, freeze what's true, edit what's off, or remove it.
How does memorist build my memory?
It reads the entries you keep and turns recurring signals into short, plain-language beliefs, working on your end-to-end-encrypted data. To do that you connect an AI provider — today that's your own Claude or OpenAI key, and your content goes straight from your phone to that provider, never through memorist. With iOS 27, Apple Intelligence can do this on-device. Your Memory builds dynamically as you journal — nothing is hidden, and you can review or remove anything on the Memory screen.
Where does my Memory of You live, and is it private?
Your entries are end-to-end encrypted, and as memorist builds your Memory it never sees your content: the AI that builds it is the provider you connect with your own key. Today that's Claude or OpenAI, with your content going phone → provider directly. With iOS 27, Apple Intelligence can build and read your Memory on-device. The one time memorist holds readable memory is if you choose to connect an outside assistant — then it keeps just the slice you shared (never anything hidden or private), so it can answer that app, and only while access is on.
Do I need my own AI key?
For journaling and Tempo, no — those work the moment you open the app, with no setup. The Memory of You is the part that uses AI: today you connect an AI provider with your own key (Claude or OpenAI), and your entries go straight from your phone to that provider to build your Memory. With iOS 27, Apple Intelligence can build it right on your device — no third-party key needed. Either way, memorist stays out of the middle.
Isn't this a little creepy?
The opposite. You write only what you choose, you see every piece of evidence behind the memory, you own it, and you can delete it. Sensitive parts never have to leave your device — and when you connect it to an AI, you decide exactly which topics it can read, you can see every read it makes in Access history, and one tap cuts it off. It's a memory you build on purpose — not one built about you.
How is my journal protected?
memorist uses end-to-end encryption. Your entries are encrypted on your device before they reach our servers, using a key stored in your iOS Keychain. We can't read them, and neither can anyone else.
Is memorist free?
Yes. memorist is free to download, and you can start journaling right away without an account. An optional membership unlocks the advanced features — including your Memory of You — along with extras like unlimited entries and entry templates.
