Munin: Gratitude Journal
Five lines a day. No account. No cloud. Your gratitude stays on your phone.
Tuesday 12 Sept
Five for five — what a lovely day.
A calm, focused space — write five things you are grateful for. No feeds, no clutter, no endless scrolling. Just today.
Come back each evening and watch your streak grow, one day at a time. An optional reminder gives you a quiet nudge — never a nag.
Every day is saved to your calendar. Scroll back through months and years and see how much there was to be grateful for.
No account, no cloud, no tracking. Your notes live on your phone and nowhere else — that is the whole idea.
Munin started with a small frustration: most gratitude apps ask you to create an account, hand over your data, and pay a monthly fee — for something that should be a quiet, personal habit.
So Munin was built the other way around. No account. No cloud. No tracking, no ads, nothing to subscribe to. Just five lines a day, kept private on your phone.
It is deliberately small and calm — no feeds, no badges to chase, no pressure. The goal is not to capture your attention, but to give you a minute with your own thoughts, and let you keep them.
In Norse mythology, Odin kept two ravens. One was Huginn — “thought”. The other was Muninn — “memory”. Every evening Muninn returned from flying over the world and told Odin what it had seen that day.
That is the quiet ritual this app is built around: at the end of each day you look back and keep what was worth remembering — five small things you are grateful for. It is named after the raven of memory because that is exactly what it helps you hold on to.
The idea is old. Norse wisdom poetry like the Hávamál celebrates the simple things — warmth, health, a day lived well — the very things gratitude asks us to notice. Munin brings that thousand-year-old habit to your phone, and keeps it entirely private.
Munin has returned — what did you see today?
Yes. Munin is free to download and use — no subscription and no ads.
No. There is no sign-up and no email required. You open the app and start writing.
Only on your iPhone. Munin has no server and never receives what you write — nothing is uploaded to a cloud and nothing is tracked.
Completely. Munin needs no internet connection — everything happens on your device.
Your notes are included in your normal iPhone backup (iCloud or a computer), so they come with you when you switch — but even then they never pass through us.
Five short lines about things you are grateful for. Gentle prompts help you start, and everything saves automatically as you type.