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A dream journal that forgets nothing and tells no one.

Write it, say it, or draw it — before it goes. Everything stays on your iPhone and in your own iCloud.

  • On device
  • 0 trackers
  • 0 ads
  • No AI
The Onar home screen on iPad, showing today's dream, the week, and the Dream World map

The Dream World

The places you keep going back to.

Some places return. A town you have walked through twice. A sea you have crossed before. Mark them, and a map of your own nights begins to take shape.

A hand-drawn dream map with a town, a sea, mountains and a forest
Close-up of the town: roofs, stairs and a long street
Sunset TownRoofs, stairs and a street going down to the water
Close-up of the sea: a ship under sail and gulls
The Great DeepShips, gulls, and something moving under the surface
Close-up of the forest: round crowns and pines
The Green PinesWhere the forest starts and the map goes quiet

This is somebody else's Dream World. Yours starts empty.

Inside Onar you build your own: add the places you saw at night — houses, streets, cities, mountains, rivers, anything at all. Zoom in to draw the small details, and paint whole regions in whatever colours the place had.

A place you keep returning to stays vivid. Leave one alone for three months and it slowly fades — never gone, just quiet, waiting. Tie one more dream to it and the colour comes back.

✦ The Dream World is free — no subscription, no trial, no unlock.

Privacy

We cannot read your dreams.

Not a promise — an architecture. Onar has no server and no account. What you write lives on your device and syncs through your own iCloud, in a private database we have no key to.

There are no analytics. No third-party SDKs. No AI reading anything, anywhere. The App Store privacy label reads: Data Not Collected.

The less we know about you, the better we've done our job.

Before it fades

Ten minutes after waking, most of it is gone.

So there are three ways in, and you take whichever is fastest.

A dream entry with the date already filled in

Write

A blank page with the date already filled in. A title only if you want one.

A voice recording with its transcription below

Speak

Say it out loud while your eyes are still closed. Speech becomes text on the device itself — the audio never leaves it.

A sketch drawn inside the app

Draw

A finger or an Apple Pencil, for the shape you remember but cannot name.

All three live inside one entry. A dream is never split into pieces.

Symbols

Over 300 symbols, written as questions.

Water. The house. The road. The shadow. Classical readings from the Jungian tradition — not verdicts about your life, and not predictions.

Add your own meaning to any of them. Or make symbols that exist only in your dreams, and give them the meaning they have for you.

Symbol chips attached to a dream entry

Dream interpretation has no scientific basis. It is a cultural and psychological tradition, and Onar treats it as one. No diagnoses, no advice.

Also inside

Plans

Free to keep a journal. Paid to go deeper.

Always free

  • Text entries, kept forever
  • The Library and search
  • The Dream World map, in full
  • Themes and Face ID

Onar Premium

  • Voice, transcribed on device
  • Sketching with Apple Pencil
  • The dictionary of over 300 symbols
  • Symbols of your own
Year
$29.99

One month free, then $29.99 a year.

Forever
$59.99

One payment. No subscription, ever.

Month
$4.99

Month to month, cancel anytime.

Prices shown in US dollars; your store converts them for your region and shows the final price before you buy. The free month belongs to the yearly plan and is used by whichever subscription you start first.

Questions

Before you download

Where does my data go?

Nowhere. There is no server and no account. Entries stay on your device and sync only through your own iCloud private database. We have no access to it — which is why we cannot lose it, sell it, or hand it over.

What happens when I get a new iPhone?

Sign in with the same Apple ID and your text, symbols, places, map, moods and dates come back.

Voice recordings do not. The audio file stays on the device it was recorded on — its transcription syncs, so the dream itself is not lost, only the voice. We are working on this.

Do I need an account?

No. There is no sign-up screen in Onar at all.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Write on a plane, in a hotel with no wifi, at four in the morning with the router off. Syncing catches up whenever the device is next online.

Is there an Android or web version?

No, and there is no plan for one. Onar is built on Apple's own frameworks, and its privacy rests on them.

Is my voice sent anywhere for transcription?

No. Speech recognition is forced to run on the device. If your language has no on-device model available, Onar tells you so and keeps the audio as a file — it still does not send it anywhere.

What costs money?

Voice, sketching, the symbol dictionary and your own custom symbols.

Text entries, the library, search, themes, Face ID and the whole Dream World are free.

Why not just use a notebook?

Because paper doesn't search. A notebook holds everything you dreamed and gives back none of it: no way to find every dream with water in it, no way to notice that the same town has appeared four times in a year.

Onar keeps the speed of writing by hand — and adds what comes after.

Do you believe dreams mean something?

We believe they are worth writing down. Interpretation is a tradition, not a science, and the readings in Onar are phrased as questions for that reason. What they mean is your part of the work.

Built by one person, slowly.

One app, nine languages, no investors and no growth team. We ship slowly, on purpose.

Not convenience — the word we reach for too quickly in tech. Comfort is quieter, and harder to earn.

iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · Nine languages