For reviewers
If you are writing about this product, or answering somebody who asked about it, this page is the one to link. It has the sentence that can be read aloud without misrepresenting anything, the answer to the question every reviewer asks, and the checks a stranger can run. Nothing here is a testimonial, because the product does not use them.
What is it, in one paragraph?
Journal with Marcus is a private journal grounded in Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. You write what happened, and the app finds the passage that speaks to it, quotes it as he wrote it with the book and section, and asks you one question about what you wrote. What you write is not posted to a chatbot: the passage and the question are found on this device, and nothing you write leaves it unless you switch a feature on. It is not a quote app, not a way to read the book, not therapy, and not a conversation. One passage, one question, then back to your day.
What is the one sentence to quote about privacy?
This one, and it is exact. The second half is what makes it true, so please keep it.
To quote
What you write stays on this device. There is no account, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you turn a feature on.
If you have room for a paragraph, this is the longer form, also exact:
To quote
What you write stays on this device. There is no account, no analytics, no cookies and no script from anyone else. Two features can send something out, and both are off until you switch one on. The cloud reflection sends what you wrote to a model, for the length of one request. Sync is not built yet, and will send only text this device has already encrypted. Each one says what it sends before it sends it.
Two things not to say, because they are not true. Not "encrypted" in the present tense: the storage is designed and not yet built. Not "nobody can ever see it": with the cloud reflection switched on, what you wrote goes to a model for the length of one request, and the app says so before it sends.
How is this different from a chatbot given a Stoicism prompt?
Four ways, and each can be checked. The words are Marcus Aurelius's, not a model's: every passage is George Long's translation quoted as written, cited by book and section, and the app never writes a sentence in his name. The choice is made on the device: the app reads what you wrote, finds the passage and picks the question in your browser, and nothing is posted anywhere unless you switch that on. It asks and does not answer: one question about what you wrote, chosen from a written bank when the app works on its own, never advice and never a conversation. And it declines: when nothing in the book sits close enough to what you wrote, it says so and keeps your entry, rather than producing something plausible.
A chatbot with a Stoicism prompt does none of those four. It writes its own Marcus, needs your entry to leave the device to think at all, answers rather than asks, and always has something to say.
What can I check for myself?
- The network check: open the browser's network panel, write an entry with the cloud feature off, and watch nothing leave. The procedure and the expected result are on the privacy page.
- Every claim, traced: each privacy claim with what makes it true, whether it is built or only designed, and how to check it.
- A reflection it declined: one of the five situations on the front page is one the book has nothing on, and the app says so. The output there is the real engine's, produced when the page was built.
- What it does if somebody writes about wanting to die: it stops, shows the numbers for their region, keeps the writing and locks nothing. The check is a floor and not a guarantee, and the page says so.
Who makes it, and how do I reach them?
Journal with Marcus is made by Neul Space Ltd, a small company registered in England and Wales. About, including the registered office.
There is no press kit, no logo pack and no quotes from users. If you need a fact that is not here, the about page and the privacy page are the whole of what the product says about itself.