Gnothi
Verified Oct 14, 2026 ActiveAI journal that turns daily entries into an ongoing narrative and tracks habit correlations.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $10 once
- Billing
- One-time purchase
No subscription. Journaling, Fields and full-tier sharing are free; Series chapters (about $1.37 each in credits, narration included), the causal analysis and story chat use AI credits, with roughly three chapters' worth on signup. A one-time $10 top-up adds 1M credits (about seven chapters) and permanently unlocks groups, Summary/Sensitive share tiers, voice choice or cloning and the stronger chapter model; credits do not expire.
Use tool ↗About Gnothi
Gnothi is an AI journal whose main feature, Series, turns what you write into narrated chapters: an ongoing fiction story, a nonfiction explainer, or an audio course on a subject you pick, delivered on demand or on a schedule and publishable as a podcast feed. Fields tracks habits and moods over time and runs a causal analysis of how they relate to what you write. Journaling, Fields and sharing at the full privacy tier need no credits; chapters, the causal analysis and story chat draw on AI credits, with enough for about three chapters on signup. A one-time $10 top-up adds about seven more chapters and unlocks groups, restricted share tiers and voice choice or cloning. It is built by OCDevel, LLC.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 14, 2026
Verified sources
- Chapter about $1.37 in credits with narration, starting credits for about three, one-time $10 top-up adds 1M credits (about seven chapters) and unlocks groups, restricted share tiers, voice choice and the stronger model; credits don't expire; pricing section of the home page (15 October 2026)gnothiai.com ↗
- Series as continuing stories or audio courses, Fields with causal analysis, footer copyright OCDevel, LLC, on the Series page (15 October 2026)gnothiai.com ↗
- Terms page carries a credits section for the AI credit system (15 October 2026)gnothiai.com ↗
Is Gnothi legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Aug 16, 2020 (6 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Feb 10, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 14, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 14, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2019The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- OCDevel LLC, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Gnothi
Gnothi's causal-analysis angle (linking tracked habits and moods to what you actually wrote) is unusual for a journaling app, and its Series now double as narrated stories or audio courses built from your entries. Pricing is pay-as-you-go rather than a subscription: about three chapters come free, then a one-time $10 top-up buys roughly seven more and unlocks the paid features for good.
Pros
- No subscription: journaling and Fields are free, and AI use runs on credits that never expire
- Fields feature analyzes causal relationships between tracked habits and journal content
- Series feature turns entries into fiction or nonfiction chapters automatically
- A Series can run as a narrated audio course on a subject you choose, published as a podcast feed
- Codebase has open-source roots under AGPL-3.0
Cons
- No dedicated mobile app mentioned, only a web experience with podcast-feed export
- Community and sharing features are less developed than dedicated social journaling apps
- The public GitHub repository is archived, so current development isn't visible there
Best for
- Journalers who want their entries analyzed for patterns, not just stored
- Writers who want a steerable ongoing narrative built from real journal entries
- Tabletop RPG groups documenting campaigns collaboratively
Not for
- Users wanting a polished mobile-first journaling app
- Anyone who needs enterprise-grade privacy controls for sensitive entries
Watch out: Each Series chapter costs about $1.37 in credits, so a daily cadence burns through a $10 top-up in about a week; check the cadence before a Series runs on its own.