pricing — what it costs
Start free. Stay for years.
Write as much as you like, free, forever, with no card and no time limit. If Haumm turns out to be where your life gets written down, one plan covers everything else for $60 a year. You pick it inside the app, whenever you're ready.
★ Free for everyone during early access
And not only the free plan. During early access every journal gets these, free: old journals split into dated pages, photos, videos and voice notes with no daily limit, a full Commonplace, Patterns and the Claude connection, and every look.
Start free
$0
no card · no time limit
- Unlimited entries, for as many years as you write
- Every room: Commonplace (ten kept pieces), Bookmarks, Insights and Quiet
- A photo or video and a voice note a day
- Two voice notes turned into text a week, and dictation that's never counted
- Your year, in your words
- 30 days of Patterns and the Claude connection
- Bring in old journals, one page per file, and a journal app’s export whole
Haumm
$60
per year · about $5 a month
(Made carefully. No ads, no selling your data, no slop.)
- Photos, videos and voice notes, no daily limit
- Your voice notes in words, up to 30 minutes a day
- A full Commonplace: keep everything that matters
- 20 GB for photos, voice notes, and 30-second video clips
- Patterns and the Claude connection, always on
- Bring your old journals in, split into dated entries
- Clean shares, with no haumm.com mark
Write forever on the free plan. If you stop paying, nothing's locked: you drop back to free and keep writing, reading and exporting everything.
the whole list
Free vs. Haumm
Writing is free in both, forever. What you pay for is the heavy media, the AI work, and what comes alive once you have years of it.
| Feature | Start free | Haumm · $60/yr |
|---|---|---|
| 01 / 07The pageOpen it and write. Nothing to set up first. | ||
| EntriesWrite as much as you like, for as many years as you write | both, unlimited | |
| Doc-grade editorHeadings, lists, checklists, find & replace, the shortcuts you already know | both | |
| Voice notesRecorded on the page or from your phone's home | 1 a day | No daily limit |
| TranscriptionVoice notes turned into words for you. On free, a try that fails never counts. Need more? Write to us. | 2 a week | 30 min a day |
| NotesJot one down from the +, or press S at a computer; it lands at the end of today's page with its time | both, unlimited | |
| DictationSpeak, and the words land on the page. Its minutes count toward transcription’s day. | both | |
| Photos and videos on the pageA photo with the date it was taken | 1 a day | No daily limit |
| Video clipsLength per clip | 30 sec | 30 sec |
| BlocksTasks, habits, gratitude, voice, media | both | |
| 02 / 07KeepingSo the good stuff doesn't drift off into the ether. | ||
| Commonplace poster wallKeep a line or a photo; re-roll its look | 10 pieces | Unlimited |
| Bookmarks | both | |
| Media room | both | |
| StoragePhotos, voice notes, video | 1 GB | 20 GB |
| 03 / 07Paying attentionAccountability with yourself. That's the whole system. | ||
| InsightsCounts that describe, never score | both | |
| Quiet | both | |
| HabitsA small weekly tracker on the page | both | |
| 04 / 07Looking backIt reads; you do the thinking. | ||
| PatternsA few questions about your own life each day, ready to ask Claude | First 30 days | Always |
| AI connection (Claude, for now)Reads your entries, dates, Commonplace, and Insights, and photos, videos and voice notes only if you choose. Never edits a word. | First 30 days | Always |
| Your year, in your wordsA few pages made of what you wrote, kept and placed. No AI. | both | |
| 05 / 07Make it yoursBring your inner world out, when you choose. | ||
| ThemesEvery look in light and dark. More looks are a few dollars each, yours to keep, even on the free plan. | White and Night | White and Night, plus three looks you choose when you join |
| Share a posterMade on your device. Shared only where you choose. | With a small haumm.com mark | Clean |
| 06 / 07Getting in & outYour writing life didn't start at signup. | ||
| Import old journalsWord, Google Docs & Drive, text, Markdown | One page per file | Split into dated entries |
| Bring another journaling app’s exportEvery entry, with its photos and voice notes | Whole, photos until your room is full | Whole, videos too |
| Export to Word, PDF, text | both, any time | |
| both | ||
| Keep writing, reading & exporting after a lapse | both, always | |
| 07 / 07Private by designYour journal stays yours. | ||
| Private storage, per-person isolation | both | |
| Two-step sign-inA code from an authenticator app, when you turn it on | both | |
| Never used to train AI | both, ever | |
| Phone layoutAdd to home screen; one + for a page, a voice note, a photo or a note | both | |
why it costs money
AI slop is user slop.
(So we'd rather charge a little and do it right.)
Anyone can build an app now. That doesn't mean everyone should run their own. One modest shared subscription keeps your years of writing, photos, and voice notes stored safely, and keeps the line open between your journal and the AI you use to look back on it.
It also puts the responsibility on us. No ads. No selling your data. No shortcuts.
More questions? The FAQ covers the rest.
small print, in plain words
Is writing really free?
Yes, for as long as you write. The free plan only limits the heavy things: a photo or video and a voice note a day, two transcriptions a week, and ten kept pieces in Commonplace.
What if I stop paying?
Nothing's locked. You drop back to free and keep writing, reading and exporting everything. Pieces you kept past ten stay right where they are.
Cancel or delete?
Cancel and you're back on the free plan, still writing. Delete erases your journal, so download a full backup first: every page, photo and voice note comes with you.
ready when you are
Come write something true
Free for everyone during early access, old journals split into dated pages and every look included. After that, writing stays free forever, and Haumm is $60 a year for everything else.
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