Practices
A prayer journal with no third party.
Some conversations have exactly two participants.
Written prayer is an old practice — petitions, gratitude, laments, the slow record of what was asked and how it was answered. It is also, almost by definition, the most private writing a person does. A prayer is addressed to God. It was never addressed to a server in Virginia.
Most journaling apps can't help their architecture: your spiritual life, uploaded, becomes rows in a database — governed by a privacy policy, readable in a breach, feedable to whatever the company builds next. Nothing needs to go wrong for that to feel wrong. Some conversations simply have exactly two participants.
The Sealed Journal restores that. Your prayers are encrypted on your own device with a passphrase only you know, and they go nowhere. No account, no cloud, no analytics — a quiet page that opens when you sit down and seals when you rise. Over years it becomes what prayer journals have always been: a record of faithfulness you can read back, kept in confidence.
The Typewriter Experience
The cursor stays. The text moves.
In Write mode, your cursor remains exactly at the centre of the screen. The page rises up to meet it. Past words fade into soft shadow at the edges, leaving the present sentence in clear focus. Switch to Read mode and the entry flattens into an evenly lit document — the fade is for writing; the flat light is for returning.
Radical Privacy & Encryption
AES-256-GCM, in your browser, with a key only you derive.
- ·PBKDF2 key derivation at 600,000 iterations — the OWASP 2024 recommendation. Existing journals upgrade transparently on first unlock.
- ·No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no cookies, no third-party scripts.
- ·IndexedDB storage with a localStorage fallback. Encrypted before it touches the disk.
- ·The file is not minified. You can read the source. We'd rather you trust it than us.
What It Does Not Do
- ✕No word counts chasing you across the screen.
- ✕No formatting toolbar wrestling your thoughts into neatness.
- ✕No cloud sync. No distant servers. Your words stay yours.
- ✕No social sharing. Your vulnerability is not content.
- ✕No AI assistant finishing your sentences.
- ✕No streak counters. No guilt. No gamification.
- ✕No subscriptions. No mood trackers. No noise.
Licensing & Gift Copy
One purchase covers up to three of your personal devices. It also includes a second untouched copy of the file — meant to be given to one person you trust. Lifetime updates. 30-day, no-questions refund. If you run a clinic, school, or workplace and want a copy for everyone, ask us about a site licence.
One Purchase. Yours Forever.
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Get The Sealed JournalQuestions
Is this app tied to a particular faith or tradition?
No. It's a sealed page. Whatever your tradition's practice of written prayer looks like, the journal holds it without comment.
Can I read back through old prayers?
Yes — entries are dated and stay in order, so you can revisit what you asked for a year ago. Many people find that reading-back is half the practice.
Why does a prayer journal need this much privacy?
Because prayer is where people are most honest — about fear, guilt, hope, and the people they love. That candor is the practice, and it deserves real walls.
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A private, offline journal that asks nothing of you.
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