What it does · Privacy
No account. No cloud. No way for us to read it.
Most journalling apps ask you to sign up before you write a word. Nama has nowhere to sign up to, because there is no server holding anything.
There is no account
Nothing to register, nothing to log into, no password to lose and no service to be locked out of. Open the app and start writing.
This is the part most health apps get wrong, and it is not a small thing: an account means a company holding a record of your body and your mood, and a login you can be shut out of. Nama has neither, because there is nowhere for either to live.
What we do not carry
No analytics SDK. No advertising identifier. No third-party trackers of the sort a health app has no business carrying. No crash reporter that ships your words anywhere.
It is worth being specific rather than saying "privacy-first", because anyone who cares about this has been told that before and checks.
The one thing that leaves
If you tag an entry with where you were, a position rounded to about a kilometre — never your exact location — is sent to look up that day's weather. No identifier goes with it. Never tag a place and no request is ever made.
There is no analytics SDK, no advertising identifier and no third-party tracking of any kind.
Take it all with you
Back up the whole journal to a single file — words and photographs — and put it wherever you like, including iCloud Drive. Restore it on a new phone from the same file.
The backup holds a plain JSON file you can open in any text editor and your photographs as ordinary images. Nothing is locked to us, which is the point.
Also in Nama
Journal & notes
Notes at any hour, with photographs and where you were.
Exercise log
Log any activity, named and measured your way.
Track anything
Eight kinds of tracker, all named and shaped by you.