Everblue · a journal that asks you first
About
I'm the founder of Everblue. The other person on this team drew Cloudy. Together we're making a journal that asks you the good questions, and AI that feels small, warm, and on your terms.
The mission
To help people know themselves a little better, one good question at a time, and to use AI as honestly and as carefully as we can while we do it.
What I believe
Nothing in Everblue happens automatically. Cloudy doesn't read your phone in the background, and nothing becomes an entry until you ask. What you write yourself is saved exactly as you wrote it. Cloudy can leave a thought beside it, never over it.
Your journal is stored on your phone. When Cloudy thinks, what you share is sent to AI model providers through OpenRouter, and our servers pass it along without keeping it. I'd rather tell you that plainly than promise something I can't check. You can see, edit, or forget everything Cloudy remembers, or pause memory.
Cloudy asks one question at a time. I wrote his voice rules myself: lowercase, short, no exclamation marks, ever. The coins and the shop are there to make coming back feel good, not to punish you for leaving. Miss a day and nothing breaks.
The team
From the founder
I didn't set out to build a product. I set out to fix my own problem. I'm the kind of person who wants to journal and never keeps it up — every app I tried assumed I'd show up every day, and ADHD brains are exactly the brains that don't. Not because we don't care. Keeping a daily habit is the one thing this kind of brain is built to drop.
What finally worked wasn't a blank page. It was being asked. A good question gets me talking, and once I'm talking the entry comes out of my own words. So that's what Everblue is now: Cloudy asks, I answer, and my answers become my journal. No streak to protect, no catching up after a week away.
Everblue is the thing I reach for every day, made a little more careful so I could hand it to other people. I'm not selling you something I wouldn't use — if it works for my brain, I think it'll work for yours.
From the artist
As the artist, I wanted Cloudy's design to reflect not only the app's user friendly interface, but also his simple, yet appealing, personality. Each model was hand-drawn and made with intent to add a bit of charm to each user's day.
“The smaller the team, the truer the voice.”
How I think about safety
Cloudy is a companion, not a clinician. Everblue is a self-reflection and journaling tool, not therapy or medical care. Cloudy doesn't diagnose, advise, or assume what's best for you. Even your cloud type is a lens, not a diagnosis.
Most of what I write into his system isn't what he should say. It's the careful list of things he stays away from: guesses about your feelings, performance of cheerfulness, making things up about your past, putting words in your mouth. When your journal doesn't have the answer, he says so. The restraint is what makes the warmth possible.
I think the right shape for personal AI right now is small, slow, and quiet. So that's what I'm building.
I read everything. Questions, feedback, hard ones especially — send them my way.