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Speak your mind. Slate notices what you didn't. Nothing leaves the phone. Slate is a private voice journal with on-device reflection. Press record and say what's on your mind. The transcript is made on your phone. So is the reflection: what it was about, how it sat, and one observation worth keeping. Never advice, never a chat. On Sunday the week comes back to you. What repeated, what shifted, in your own words. All on device. It never leaves the phone. There is no server, no account, no analytics, no network calls. The privacy label reads "Data Not Collected" because there is nothing to collect. Turn on airplane mode; everything still works. It always will. If you want a backup, optional encrypted iCloud backup is there in Settings. Off until you say so, private to your own account either way. No streaks. No scores. No chatbot. A private place to think. Slate is a subscription: …
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What you can learn from Slate - Private Journal
Every shipping app on the App Store has gone through the same decisions you're working through right now: which screenshot goes first, what caption sits over it, which device frame to show, what color the background should be. The 4 screenshots above are Slate - Private Journal's answers to those questions — they're public, they're real, and they made it through Apple's review.
Notice the first screenshot in particular. It's the one users see in search results and on the product page, and it's where most apps spend their best caption and tightest design. Look at the proportion of background to phone, where the text sits, what one thing the image is trying to communicate.
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