Chakam
Chakam has always been about what’s actually in your chats. The new Diary tab is the opposite kind of space on purpose — not analysis, not patterns, just a private place to write down what you’re actually thinking, with nothing scored and nothing measured.
What’s in an Entry
Each entry holds free-form text, a mood tag from a five-point scale (amazing, good, okay, low, rough — plus a sixth, nostalgic, for the bittersweet ones that aren’t cleanly good or bad), and up to six photos. Attaching a photo works the same simple flow as everywhere else in the app: pick from your library, done — no cropping, no filters, nothing that turns writing a diary entry into a production.
The Mood Calendar
Every entry’s mood tints a cell on a month-view calendar, so a glance at any given month shows the overall shape of it — a string of good days, a rough stretch, the whole thing visible at once instead of buried in a list you’d have to scroll through and reconstruct from memory.
Start your own private diary — free, on-device, yours alone.
Why It’s Not Auto-Filled From Your Analyses
After a chat analysis or a quiz result, Chakam offers a prompt inviting you to write about it in the diary — it does not write an entry for you. That was a deliberate call: the diary is the one surface in the app that’s only ever your own words. An app-generated row for every analysis would bury the handful of entries you actually wrote, tint the mood calendar on days you never actually opened the app to reflect, and quietly turn a diary into an activity log. The prompt just hands you useful context — which relationship, what date — so starting is faster, not so the app can write it for you.
The Actual Benefits of Keeping One
A diary that lives next to your chat analysis has a specific advantage over one that doesn’t: the two kinds of record actually complement each other. A chat analysis tells you what happened — response times, tone, patterns across the messages themselves. A diary entry tells you how it felt to you at the time, which is a different kind of truth and one that memory alone tends to smooth over or rewrite after the fact. Months later, reading back an entry from a genuinely hard week is a very different experience than trying to remember how that week felt — the actual words you wrote then are more honest than whatever your memory has since turned it into.
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Where to Start
20 journaling prompts for couples is a good place to begin if a blank entry feels harder to start than it should — every prompt there drops straight into a Chakam diary entry just as easily solo as with a partner. A result from one of Chakam’s attachment and relationship quizzes works the same way: take the quiz, then write down your actual reaction while it’s fresh. There’s no wrong way to use it: a line a day, a long entry after something big happens, or just a mood tag on days that don’t need more than that.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does anything I write in the diary get used by Chakam’s AI features?
No. The diary is never read by any AI feature in the app — not the Ask tool, not chat analysis, not reply suggestions. It’s a separate, isolated space specifically so it can stay unfiltered and completely yours. Locking the app with a PIN or Face ID adds another layer on top, if the diary or your analyses are something you’d rather no one else could open at all.
Is there a limit to how many photos I can add per entry?
Six photos per entry. That cap keeps the entry screen fast and simple rather than turning into a full photo album — if you want to add more context than that, the text field has no real limit.
Can I edit or delete a past entry?
Yes, any entry can be edited or deleted at any time — there’s no locking mechanism or append-only restriction. It’s your diary; you have full control over what stays in it.