2min
a day
Lower friction than a group chat — shorter than brushing your teeth.
Private · Ambient · Passive
A quiet journal for the people you love.
You write for yourself — a few sentences a day. AI quietly senses the group's mood and turns it into an ambient signal. No feed, no likes, no streaks. Just a warm feeling that the people close to you are still close.
Entries never shared verbatimNo feed. No likes. No streaks.3–8 people per circle
Small by design
Small by design
1
AI nudge a day
Max one AI-triggered notification per user, per day. Silence beats noise.
5
close circles
Eight people per circle, five circles max. Because closeness doesn't scale.
What Ambient is not
Not a chat. Not a feed. Not productivity.
Close friendship doesn't need another notification pile. Ambient sits between solo journaling and group chat — passive, honest, built to disappear into the background.
No threads, no reactions, no reply anxiety.
Nothing to scroll. Nothing ranked. Nothing performed.
Miss a day and the garden leaves a gentle gap. No red numbers.
Garden — 365 days
Two honest states.
Lifted directly from the shipped mobile screen — twelve months of illustrated days. Each day you write, the garden gains a small drawing. Miss a day and it stays a gap. The visual never punishes you.
2026
67 / 365 days · scroll to see the whole year
Empty
Today
Written
January
19 / 31 days · Slow start, still finding your voice
February
17 / 28 days · Cold, short, many quiet sittings
March
20 / 31 days · Warming up, starting to leave home
April
11 days in · scroll to other months
May
31 days · Ahead
June
30 days · Ahead
July
31 days · Ahead
August
31 days · Ahead
September
30 days · Ahead
October
31 days · Ahead
November
30 days · Ahead
December
31 days · Ahead
2026
0 / 365 days · scroll to see the whole year
Empty
Today
Written
January
0 / 31 days
February
0 / 28 days
March
0 / 31 days
April
0 days in · scroll to other months
May
31 days · Ahead
June
30 days · Ahead
July
31 days · Ahead
August
31 days · Ahead
September
30 days · Ahead
October
31 days · Ahead
November
30 days · Ahead
December
31 days · Ahead
GardenCell · 44px · 12 states
A live port of the shipped GardenScreen and 12 garden illustrations — same pixels on web.
How Ambient works
Three quiet layers, stacked carefully.
Solo journaling is lonely. Group chat is loud. Ambient sits between — your words stay yours, and the emotional tone of the room becomes something the group can quietly feel.
Personal journal
A soft daily prompt and a blank page. Mood is optional. Your words are stored for you, not for any feed — and never shown to anyone else in their original form.
Group pulse
After each entry, AI writes a two-sentence, anonymized emotional summary — no names, no places. Only those summaries feed the group pulse the others see.
Smart coordination
When several people have breathing room the same weekend — or when someone's been heavy for days — Ambient may suggest a meetup, a call, or a gentle check-in. Rare by design.
Privacy by construction
Your raw journal is never shared.
AI reads your entry once to distill its emotional tone into two sentences, stripped of names, places, and specifics. Only that short summary touches the group. The original text is never shown to anyone else — not the group, not advertisers, not training data.
If you ever want the group to read a specific entry in its own words, you share it manually. That is the only path from private to shared.
You write
A private entry. Only you can read the original.
AI distils tone
Two anonymized sentences. No names, no places, no specifics.
Group feels the mood
A warm ambient signal, built from summaries only — never raw words.
Pricing
Free for what matters. Pro only if you truly have more circles.
Hard caps, not upsell gates. Past eight people per circle, ambient awareness breaks down — so we don't sell you that. Past five circles, closeness becomes a to-do list — so we don't sell you that either.
Solo & one circle
Freeforever
- Unlimited personal entries
- 365-day garden grid
- One circle, up to 8 members
- Daily AI prompt
- Basic group pulse
Most honest plan · Pro
$4.99per month, or $39.99 / year
- Everything in Free
- Up to 5 circles · 8 members each
- Full group insights & meetup nudges
- Weekly digest on Sundays
- Export journal as PDF
- Custom notification schedules
Honest answers
What we actually get asked.
Does the AI read my actual journal entry?
Once, to produce the two-sentence emotional summary. That summary is the only thing stored on any group object, and it's stripped of names, places, and specifics. Your original text is never shown to other members and never used for training.
Why cap a circle at 8 people?
Ambient awareness is a feeling, not a feed. Past roughly eight people, the signal becomes noise, meetup suggestions become useless, and someone quietly gets crowded out. The cap is the product.
Is there a free plan forever?
Yes. Solo journaling plus one circle up to 8 members is free and is intended to stay free. Pro only exists for the rare person who truly needs multiple circles.
What happens if I miss a day — or a week?
Nothing punitive. The garden leaves a soft gap where the square would be. We deliberately do not use streaks with punishment: that's a dark pattern and it pushes people toward performance. Gaps stay gaps.
How often does Ambient notify me?
At most one AI-triggered notification per day, and only when there's something meaningful to surface. Silence is a valid answer — we would rather stay quiet than waste your attention.
Who is Ambient for?
Close friend groups of three to eight people, couples, and small families. If you care about specific people but keep losing the thread of their lives, Ambient is for you. If you want an audience, it isn't.
Stay close to the people you love.
Ambient asks for two minutes a day and nothing of your friends. Download it, invite the three people who matter, and let the signal carry.