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A voice journal

Speak your mind. See your mind.

Say it out loud, in any language. HeyOrb keeps every word and turns each thought into a star on a living map of your mind.

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The HeyOrb app while it listens: the Orb, a sphere of golden stars, a timer, and the first words of a thought as it is spoken.

You have about 6,000 thoughts a day. Most of them leave without a trace.

Tseng and Poppenk, Nature Communications, 2020

Some of them mattered.

  • The idea you had in the shower.
  • The thing you promised your dad.
  • The decision you keep coming back to.

A voice memo keeps the sound.

  • New Recording 47Today0:41
  • New Recording 46Yesterday2:07
  • New Recording 45Monday0:18

HeyOrb keeps the thought.

How it works.

  1. The app listening: the Orb, a timer and the words as they are spoken: I keep going back and forth on Lisbon. Maybe I should just go for a week in March, stay with Sofia, and see how an ordinary Tuesday feels there.

    1Speak

    Tap the Orb and talk. Ten seconds or ten minutes, in any language. Every word is kept exactly as you said it.

  2. The map in the app, called Your sky: constellations of stars named Moving to Lisbon?, Quit or stay, The bakery idea, People I love and more, joined by lines.

    2See

    Each thought becomes a star with a name. Thoughts about the same thing find each other, and the map of your mind grows.

  3. Ask in the app. The question: What is really holding me back from Lisbon? The answer: Mostly not money. Your savings stretch to fourteen months, and you said yourself that cheaper is not the reason. What keeps coming back is the fear of choosing wrong in front of everyone. Then: And what did I say would help me decide? Going there first, to the spare room Sofia offered in March. Each answer shows the 3 thoughts it used.

    3Ask

    “What is really holding me back?” The Orb answers from your own words and shows which thoughts it used.

Real screens from the app, with a sample journal.

Try it here.

Pick a thought or type your own, and watch where it lands.

An example sky: two weeks of someone’s thoughts. Drag a star, spin the Orb.

Hey.

I’m Damian, and I’m building HeyOrb.

I wanted a journal I would actually keep. One where talking is enough, where nothing I say gets lost or rewritten, and where I can see what has been on my mind.

HeyOrb is small and independent. No ads, no selling data. Your thoughts are yours.

Join the list and you’ll get one email from me when it’s your turn. Write to hey@heyorb.ai and I’m the one who reads it.

DamianFounder of HeyOrb

Questions.

When can I try it?

The beta opens in small groups, in the order of this list. You’ll get one email when it’s your turn.

What will it cost?

The beta is free. The price of the full app isn’t final yet, and people on this list will hear it first.

Which phones does it work on?

iPhone first, with iOS 26 or later. Android follows soon after.

Which languages can I speak?

Speak the way you speak. HeyOrb writes your words down in the language you said them, even when you mix two. The app’s menus are in English for now.

Is it always listening?

No. HeyOrb listens only after you tap the Orb, and you always see when it does.

Is my journal private?

Yes. Your thoughts are never used to train AI, not by us and not by the AI companies we work with, and only you can open your journal.

What happens to my recordings?

They stay private. Your words are kept exactly as you said them until you delete them, and you choose how long the audio is kept: a week, a month, three months or forever. You can export or delete everything at any time.

Claim your star.

Join the waitlist and your star gets a number. Every friend who joins with your link becomes a star next to yours and moves you up the line.

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