The Home Screen
The Home screen is your daily starting point. It is personalised to you and updates as you write more entries — here is what every element on it means.
👋 Personalised greeting
At the top of the Home screen you will see a greeting that changes based on the time of day — "Good morning", "Good afternoon", or "Good evening" — along with your display name and today's date. This is a small but intentional detail: the app knows what time it is for you.
🔥 Streak counter and stats
Beneath the greeting sits a stats card showing two numbers:
- Current streak — The number of consecutive calendar days on which you have written at least one entry. A flame icon accompanies this. The streak resets if you miss a full day.
- Total entries — The cumulative count of all entries you have ever written in Inwardly.
💬 Today's prompt
The Prompt Card in the middle of the Home screen shows today's writing prompt. It is designed to help you start — not to dictate what you write.
For free users, prompts are thoughtfully curated and change daily. For Inwardly+ subscribers, the AI generates a personalised prompt based on your recent entries and emotional patterns — it might reference something you wrote last week, or gently revisit a theme that has come up repeatedly. Learn more about how this works in the AI pattern detection guide.
Tap "Write Today's Entry" below the prompt card to open the new entry screen with the prompt already visible.
📅 This Month highlights
The lower portion of the Home screen shows a "This Month" section — a scrollable horizontal row of recent entry cards. Each card shows the date, mood, and a snippet of the entry. Tap any card to read the full entry.
If you have not written this month yet, the section shows an encouraging nudge instead.
🗓️ "On this day" card
Once you have been using Inwardly for more than a year, a special card appears on the Home screen when you have written an entry on this same calendar date in a previous year. It shows a preview of what you were thinking and feeling exactly one year ago (or more).
This is one of the most personally meaningful features of the app — seeing your own growth in your own words.
🔑 "Protect your journal" nudge
After you write your first entry, a card appears on the Home screen encouraging you to set up a recovery passphrase. This ensures that if you ever switch to a new phone or reinstall the app, you can recover access to your encrypted entries. See the encryption & privacy guide for details on how this works.
Tap "Set up" to create your passphrase now. Tap the link below it if you are signing in on a new device and need to restore your key from a previous backup.
This nudge disappears once you have set up a recovery passphrase.
