# MyAudioJournal

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/myaudiojournal/ · added 2026-11-06 · updated 2026-11-06

**In short.** MyAudioJournal (AI voice journal app for personal reflection, Not published): US$10K a month as listed by Arrfounder, August 2025. Evidence grade D: reported, not verified. Team: 2 people named as authors in the site's page data (Samyak and Prashik); the company, Softpaper Labs, is described by Samyak in the first person; headcount not published. Launched July 2024; still running.

AI voice journal app for personal reflection · Not published · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Voice and audio

- Outcome: US$10K a month as listed by Arrfounder, August 2025 (evidence grade of the headline number: D; headline in US dollars: 120000)
- Launch: July 2024; months from launch to the outcome: 13
- Team: 2 people named as authors in the site's page data (Samyak and Prashik); the company, Softpaper Labs, is described by Samyak in the first person; headcount not published
- Outside funding: Not published; no source read mentions outside investors
- Main factor: Speaking instead of writing
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 3, capital needed 1
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Running, B2C, Productivity

Links:

- Visit myaudiojournal.com: https://www.myaudiojournal.com/

**The product.** A web app, with an Android version in beta, in which a user records a spoken journal entry. The app transcribes the recording into text, finds recurring themes across past entries, gives personalised writing prompts, keeps a daily streak, and sends a weekly recap every Sunday with mood trends and key moments. An earlier version also let the user chat with the journal.

**Why it worked.** Many people want to keep a journal but do not write one, because writing takes time and a blank page is hard to start. Talking for a few minutes is easier, and a speech-to-text model plus a language model can turn the talk into text and summaries. The directory Arrfounder listed MyAudioJournal at US$10,000 a month in a record created on 21 August 2025, about 13 months after the first archived page of the product.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

MyAudioJournal is an audio journal: a diary that the user speaks instead of types. The app sends the recording to speech-to-text, software that turns spoken words into written text, and then to unnamed AI service providers (in the words of its privacy policy) that find themes, write a weekly recap and suggest prompts, short questions that start the next entry. The company behind it is Softpaper Labs, a small app studio that its founder Samyak describes in the first person.

The first archived page of the product, from 18 July 2024, shows a private beta with a waitlist, a free plan with one minute of recording a day and a Pro plan at US$6 a month with 15 minutes a day. By April 2025 the page offered free sign-up and quoted two X users who praised the "AI audio journal" by @heysamyak. The directory Arrfounder lists the product at US$10,000 a month and US$120,000 a year, in a record created on 21 August 2025 and linked to the X account @heysamyak.

That revenue figure is grade D: a directory listing that Arrfounder says it collects mainly from founders' posts on X, here with the source marked "ai", no second source and no payment-processor check. This page also shows earlier journaling and private-writing products that did not last.

## Pricing

MyAudioJournal prices read on an Internet Archive copy of the home page of 18 July 2024 (grade C); the home page of 6 November 2026 shows no prices and /pricing returns 404

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 0 | 0 | 1 minute of journal entries a day |
| Pro | not shown | 6 | 15 minutes of journal entries a day, chat with your journal, milestones |

The 2024 page showed monthly prices only. The terms read on 6 November 2026 say there are free and paid plans and a full refund within the first 30 days on request, but give no amounts, so current prices were not verified.

## How much revenue does MyAudioJournal make? The numbers, graded

A spoken AI journal from a small app studio, first archived in July 2024 and listed by a directory at US$10,000 a month in August 2025, not verified

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly revenue, August 2025 | US$10,000 | D | Arrfounder product page, read 6 November 2026. The page data give mrr 10000 and arr 120000, extracted and created on 21 August 2025, with source marked "ai". Arrfounder says its data are "publicly disclosed by founders themselves and collected from various sources, primarily Twitter/X". The linked founder @heysamyak is marked verified: false. Many products on the same Arrfounder list show the same round US$10K figure. | [1] |
| Annual revenue in the same listing | US$120,000 | D | Arrfounder. It equals 12 times the monthly figure. | [1] |
| Time from the first archived product page to the August 2025 listing | 13 months | calc | Calculated: July 2024 to August 2025. | [3, 1] |
| Founder | Samyak (@heysamyak on X) | C | Arrfounder names the founder Samyak, @heysamyak. The home page data list the authors Samyak (linked to x.com/samyakr) and Prashik. The Softpaper Labs page is signed "— Samyak". | [1, 2, 7] |
| Team | 2 people named, headcount not published | C | Two authors in the home page metadata. The Softpaper Labs page says "i'm building an app studio that creates products people want". No source gives a headcount. | [2, 7] |
| Company | Softpaper Labs | C | Footer of the home page, terms and privacy policy: "© 2026 Softpaper Labs". The Softpaper Labs page lists two other products, homebrew and yapyap, and does not list MyAudioJournal. | [2, 6, 7] |
| Private beta | by 18 July 2024 | C | Internet Archive copy of 18 July 2024: "In Private Beta" with a "Join the waitlist" button. Earlier archive entries for the domain (2004 to 2019) belong to an older, unrelated site. | [3] |
| Pro plan price, July 2024 | US$6 a month | C | Internet Archive copy of 18 July 2024. No current price was found. | [3] |
| Platforms, November 2026 | web app, Android beta | C | Home page: "Join the MyAudioJournal Android Beta" through a Tally form; the FAQ refers to transcribing again "on web". A Google Play icon is shown without a store link. | [2] |
| Affiliate program | 20% of each referred signup | C | Home page FAQ: "Join our affiliate program and earn 20% from every signup you refer", run on Lemon Squeezy. | [2] |
| Minimum age | 13 | C | Privacy policy: "MyAudioJournal is designed for users aged 13 and older." | [5] |
| Outside funding | not published | C | No source read names an investor or a round. | [1, 7] |

How to read this table: a grade D value comes from one source that no one has checked, here the Arrfounder directory. A grade C value is the company's or a founder's own statement, here mostly the product's own pages. A "calc" value was computed on this page. No value is grade A or B.

## When did MyAudioJournal launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a private beta with a waitlist to a free web app with an Android beta in about two years. Each entry carries its grade.

- **18 July 2024** (grade C [3]): First archived page of the product: private beta with a waitlist, a free plan and a Pro plan at US$6 a month, "our AI will analyze them for you".
- **24 April 2025** (grade C [4]): The home page offers free sign-up, a chat with the journal entries and weekly summaries, and quotes two X users about the "AI audio journal" by @heysamyak.
- **21 August 2025** (grade D [1]): Arrfounder creates its listing at US$10,000 a month and US$120,000 a year, linked to @heysamyak.
- **6 November 2026** (grade C [2]): Home page offers transcription, themes, personalised prompts, weekly reflections, an affiliate program and an Android beta; no prices are shown.

## Why did MyAudioJournal work?

### Lower the cost of each entry

The product sells one change of habit: speak for a few minutes instead of writing. The home page puts it as "Talking is faster, more natural". Everything else (transcript, themes, recap) is produced after the user stops talking.

### Give something back every week

A weekly recap every Sunday, a daily streak and reminders give the user a reason to come back. A journal that answers is the difference from a plain voice recorder.

### Privacy as the main promise

The home page promises "End-to-end encryption" and "No ads, no tracking", and the privacy policy says entries are "never used for AI training". A diary holds the most private data a person has, so the buyer must trust the app first.

### A free tier with a time limit

In 2024 the free plan allowed 1 minute of recording a day and the paid plan 15 minutes, so the price follows the transcription and model cost per minute.

## How it was built

These details come from the product's own pages and their page code. They are grade C, and the AI providers are not named in any source.

- A Next.js web site; app images are stored on Supabase storage, according to the asset links in the home page code.
- Speech is transcribed to text, and "AI Service Providers" that the privacy policy does not name generate the insights; the policy says "Only necessary, non-identifying text is processed".
- Payments and the affiliate program run on Lemon Squeezy (myaudiojournal.lemonsqueezy.com/affiliates).
- The Android beta is offered through a Tally sign-up form.
- The privacy policy names a cloud storage provider and analytics providers without naming the companies.

Sources: [2, 5]

## Who tried this before MyAudioJournal, and why did they fail?

Three companies in our database of failed startups tried private journaling or simple private writing before. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### OhLife (2008 to 2011; funding US$20K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Email-driven journaling that promised to be as simple as replying to a friend.
- Why it died: Email prompts could not compete with app notifications, and users wanted more than a plain text diary.
- Record: 

### Skiff (2020 to 2024; funding US$14.2M; cause: No Market Need)

- Promise: An end-to-end encrypted productivity suite (email, documents, storage) as a privacy-first alternative to Google Workspace.
- Why it died: Privacy features were not enough to move mainstream users away from free incumbents with large networks.
- Record: 

### Draft (2011 to 2014; funding US$120K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: A minimalist, cloud-based writing and editing tool for writers.
- Why it died: Its narrow focus and freemium model could not compete with Google's general productivity tools.
- Record: 

## What changed

OhLife asked users to write a reply to an email every day, and users stopped. MyAudioJournal removes the writing: the user speaks, and speech-to-text and language models sold by API turn the recording into text and a weekly recap at a small cost per minute.

Skiff showed that privacy alone does not sell a product. Here privacy is a condition, not the product: the product is the summary and the prompts, and the privacy promise is what lets a user put a diary into it.

## Can one person copy MyAudioJournal now?

**Verdict: Yes, one or two people can build it.**

The parts are public: a recording screen, a speech-to-text API, a language model for summaries, a subscription checkout and a weekly email. The hard parts are keeping users coming back after the first week and earning trust with private data, and many apps compete for the same buyers.

1. Limit free use by recorded minutes, so the price follows the per-minute model cost.
2. Send something back on a schedule, such as a weekly recap, so the user has a reason to open the app.
3. Write a privacy policy that says which data the AI providers receive, and make the home page say the same.
4. Add an affiliate program with a stated commission once there is a paid plan.

**What is still open.** Spoken journals for one group with a clear routine, such as daily work logs for tradespeople or field notes for researchers.

## What could go wrong for MyAudioJournal?

- **What is not verified.** The headline of US$10,000 a month (US$120,000 a year) rests on one source: the Arrfounder directory, in a product record created on 21 August 2025 with its source marked "ai", linked to the X account @heysamyak, which Arrfounder marks as not verified. The original post was not found, and the same round US$10K figure appears for many products on that Arrfounder list. No payment-processor profile, filing or interview with a revenue figure was found. A reader could look for a Stripe-verified profile or a dated founder interview.
- **Health wording on the home page.** The product is sold for "personal growth", but a "Backed by Science" section cites studies: "In a JAMA-published trial, asthma and arthritis patients who wrote about a stressful experience saw clinically meaningful improvement", a sleep study ("nine minutes faster") and a gratitude study ("fewer health complaints"). Topic tags include "anxiety" and "work stress", and the weekly recap shows "mood trends". The page does not claim that the app itself treats a condition.
- **Competition.** The same idea is sold by Rosebud, an AI journal on this site, and spoken notes are the product of AudioPen and Audionotes, also on this site.
- **Depends on model providers.** The privacy policy says insights come from "AI Service Providers" without naming them, and no source names the speech-to-text or language model. Price or term changes by those providers pass straight to the cost per recorded minute.
- **Privacy claims on different pages.** The home page promises "End-to-end encryption" and "a strict no-tracking policy". The privacy policy describes "Encryption of data in transit and at rest", lists "Usage analytics (e.g., pages visited, features used)", and sends text to AI providers to generate insights. No source explains how end-to-end encryption works with server-side transcription.
- **Trust signals and audience.** The home page says "Join thousands already using MyAudioJournal"; no source gives a user count. The 2025 page quotes two X users by name and handle, each repeated several times in a scrolling strip. The privacy policy admits users from age 13; no page markets the app to children.

## Sources

1. Arrfounder product page: Myaudiojournal, $10K/mo — https://arrfounder.com/product/myaudiojournal (grade D). Read in full on 6 November 2026, including the page data (mrr, arr, created_at 21 August 2025, source "ai", founder verified false). Directory data collected mainly from founders' X posts; not verified.
2. MyAudioJournal home page — https://www.myaudiojournal.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 6 November 2026, including the FAQ answers and the author metadata in the page data.
3. MyAudioJournal home page, Internet Archive copy of 18 July 2024 — https://web.archive.org/web/20240718143511/https://www.myaudiojournal.com/ (grade C). Read in full. Private beta, plans and prices.
4. MyAudioJournal home page, Internet Archive copy of 24 April 2025 — https://web.archive.org/web/20250424004340/https://www.myaudiojournal.com/ (grade C). Read in full. Features and the two quoted X users.
5. MyAudioJournal privacy policy — https://www.myaudiojournal.com/privacy (grade C). Read in full on 6 November 2026. Third-party services, encryption and the minimum age.
6. MyAudioJournal terms — https://www.myaudiojournal.com/terms (grade C). Read the sections on subscriptions, payments and refunds.
7. Softpaper Labs home page — https://softpaperlabs.com/ (grade C). Read in full on 6 November 2026. The founder's description of the studio and its listed products.
8. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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