Bring your whole story.

See how it’s changed you. Ask it anything. Watch the patterns surface.

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What’s on your heart?
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How it works

Start with all you’ve written.

You don’t begin from a blank page. Bring years of journals — a lifetime of them, if you have them — and MountainRiver reads every word: the themes of your life, the people in it, the patterns across time. You never file, tag, or sort a thing.

Then, day to day, just say it. Write or speak whatever’s there — a moment, a worry, a person, a plan — and it joins the record, read and remembered alongside everything else.

New to this? A single sentence is enough to begin — it grows with you.

01 · Understand

See what's really going on.

Every theme of your life — money, work, a relationship — read across all the years you've written, in your own words. The people, the patterns, what keeps arriving together. You never organize a thing.

And the arc becomes visible: how something has slowly changed you, across time you could never hold in a single view.

MountainRiver reading the theme of money across a decade of a person's own entries
02 · Decide

Make the right call. MountainRiver has read your whole story.

Bring MountainRiver the decision you keep turning over. Because it knows your actual life, it lays out the shape of the choice: what it's really about, the paths in front of you, and what each would give you and cost you — grounded in what you've lived, with dates. Not the internet.

The map is kept, and re-openable — a decision you can return to until it settles.

MountainRiver mapping a freelance-or-stay decision, grounded in the person's own history with dates
03 · Direct

Name the goal. See exactly how to get there.

Set a goal — or a dream — and it charts two or three genuinely different routes toward it, drawn from how you've actually moved before: your own phrases, your own dates, the things you've finished. Not generic advice. Your life, pointed forward.

Choose a way, make its first steps yours, and walk them — waypoint by waypoint, with a climb log that remembers every choice.

MountainRiver charting a route to finish the book, drawn from the person's own entries
Private by design

Your words are yours.

  No human at MountainRiver ever reads your entries — there is no tool that lets us, or anyone, see what you write.

  Your writing is stored in the EU and is never sold, shared, or advertised against.

  When you ask for AI reflection, your writing is sent to Anthropic’s AI for that one analysis — with no name or account attached — and it is never used to train AI models. Neither do we.

  Export or permanently delete everything — your writing and your account — any time. When you delete, it’s gone.

Read the full privacy policy →

No feeds, no followers, no audience — this is a place you write to yourself.

Pricing

Free to keep. €7 to understand.

Capture
Free. Always.

Write and speak, every day. Your themes, people, and patterns, organised for you. Import a lifetime of journals. Your whole record, kept privately — yours to keep, yours to export, forever.

The reading layer
€7 / month

Everything in Capture, plus the part that reads across it all: ask your journal anything and be answered from your own years of writing. Decisions mapped from your history. Themes and relationships surfaced over time — the patterns you couldn’t see from inside any single year.

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Start with everything free. The reading layer is there when you want more than a diary.

Begin

Ready when you are.

Capture is free, always. Bring your whole story and start reading across it — today.

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Tommy

With each passing year, time seems to go faster and faster. How do you notice what’s important? How do you assimilate the lessons that life has taught you? How do you make good decisions that are based on your values — and how do you achieve the goals that matter to you?

These are fascinating questions to me, and part of the reason I’ve been journaling for the last twelve years. MountainRiver is my attempt to use AI to make sense of my human life. I use it every day. It creates value for me — and I hope it will create value for you too.

Welcome to MountainRiver.

— Tommy
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Add it to your home screen

MountainRiver opens like any app once it's on your home screen — no store, no download. Here's how.

iPhone & iPad
  1. Open mountainriver.app in Safari
  2. Tap the Share button (the square with an up-arrow)
  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen
  4. Tap Add — and it's there

On iPhone this works in Safari only, not Chrome.

Android
  1. Open mountainriver.app in Chrome
  2. Tap the menu (top right)
  3. Tap Add to Home screen (or Install app)
  4. Tap Install — and it's there

Chrome may also show an Install banner automatically.