About
Conviction is a private voice journal for people who already have a therapist or coach — or who journal on their own and refuse a blank page, a streak counter, a subscription, or a cloud model reading the diary.
This page exists so you can see who ships the product, what we claim, and what we will not pretend to be.
Who is writing
I am Phillip Paul, independent developer of Conviction (Seller on the App Store). I live in Berlin. Legal form: Einzelunternehmen. Contact: support@tryconviction.com.
I am not a therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, or coach. There is no “Conviction Team of clinicians.” There is no medical reviewer. I build software. The expertise I can stand behind is the architecture you can verify on a phone: on-device processing, no account, airplane mode, a one-time Pro price, iPhone 15 Pro or later.
What Conviction is
- A private on-device iOS journal. Talk or type. Audio is not uploaded for transcription.
- Pattern spotting, CBT/DBT-style structure, and shadow work from your words — on the device.
- Meant to sit between therapy or coaching sessions. Bring notes to a session if you want. Or don’t.
- Free to start. Pro is $3.99 one-time, not a subscription.
- Requires iPhone 15 Pro or later (Apple Intelligence required).
- No account required. Works in airplane mode.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/conviction/id6758258550
What Conviction is not
- Not a replacement for therapy, diagnosis, or crisis care.
- Not a clinic, CEU provider, anger-management class, or relationship-advice magazine.
- Not a cloud AI that reads your diary on our servers.
- Not a streak app. Missing a week does not reset you to zero.
How we write
Blog posts are written from the product we ship and from published sources we can link (Beck Institute, Linehan / Behavioral Tech, APA, Pennebaker). Citing a clinic is not the same as being that clinic. Composite “Jordan’s therapist handed her a worksheet” stories are illustrations when they appear; they are not case studies.
If a URL cannot teach a real journaling job for this audience without impersonating a treatment guide, it should not rank. That is a site-quality choice, not a keyword strategy.