What is Know Your Ethos?
Know Your Ethos is an AI-powered voice journaling app with a personal AI called your daimon. It learns your values, surfaces blind spots, and helps you build a living Ethos: your personal philosophy of life.
What Sets Know Your Ethos Apart
Unlike generic journaling apps, Know Your Ethos pairs voice journaling with a personal AI daimon that learns who you are.
Voice-First Journaling
Tap the mic and talk. AI transcribes your words, detects emotion, and makes every entry searchable.
Your Personal Daimon
An AI that learns your values and reflects back what you need to hear. Not generic advice. Not a chatbot. A mirror.
Insights and Blind Spots
Your daimon connects dots across your entries. It surfaces patterns, contradictions, and growth you can't see yourself.
Living Ethos
A map of your values, virtues, and beliefs built from your own words. Always evolving.
Search by Feeling, Topic, or Value
Every entry is tagged and searchable. Find what you wrote when you felt grateful or explore entries about courage.
Private by Design
End-to-end encryption. No ads. No data selling. Delete anytime.
How Know Your Ethos Works
Speak or type your thoughts
Open the app and talk. Or type. AI transcribes and organizes everything.
Your daimon listens and reflects
AI detects emotion, identifies patterns, and reflects back what you need to hear.
See insights, patterns, and blind spots
Your daimon connects dots across entries and surfaces what you can't see yourself.
Build your Ethos over time
Your Ethos evolves as you do. A living map of your values, virtues, and beliefs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Know Your Ethos?
Know Your Ethos is an AI-powered voice journaling app that helps you build your personal Ethos: a living map of your values, virtues, and beliefs. It uses a personal AI called your daimon to surface patterns, blind spots, and growth from your own words.
What does "Ethos" mean?
Ethos is a Greek word meaning "character" or "spirit." In the context of Know Your Ethos, your Ethos is your personal philosophy: the values you live by, the virtues you practice, and the beliefs that guide you. It evolves as you do.
What is a daimon?
In ancient philosophy, your daimon was your inner guide, the voice that knew who you were meant to become. In Know Your Ethos, it's an AI that learns your values and patterns, then reflects back honest, personalized observations. Think of it as an inner voice that knows you deeply.
How is Know Your Ethos different from other journaling apps?
Voice-first journaling with AI transcription, a personal AI daimon that mirrors your values back to you, insights that surface blind spots and growth patterns, and a living Ethos built from your own words.
How does voice journaling work?
Simply speak your thoughts naturally into the app. Our AI automatically transcribes your voice into text, detects emotion, tags entries by feeling and topic, and makes everything searchable. Many users find voice journaling faster and more natural than typing.
What is Stoic philosophy and how does the app use it?
Stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy focused on virtue, wisdom, and accepting what you cannot control. Know Your Ethos incorporates Stoic principles by helping you define your core virtues (like wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice), reflect on what you can and cannot control, and build resilience through daily practice.
Is my journal data private and secure?
Yes. End-to-end encryption, no ads, no data selling. Your journal entries are stored securely and we never share your personal reflections with anyone. You own your data and can delete it at any time.
What platforms is Know Your Ethos available on?
Know Your Ethos is available on iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android devices. You can download it from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
How much does Know Your Ethos cost?
Know Your Ethos has a generous free tier with unlimited text journaling, 3 voice check-ins per week, and a free AI reflection. Premium is $6.99/month or $49.99/year and unlocks unlimited voice journaling, AI insights after every entry, and unlimited AI reflections.
Who created Know Your Ethos?
Know Your Ethos was created by someone who discovered Stoicism during a difficult time and spent over 20 years building a personal Ethos rooted in love, self-awareness, and authenticity. The app exists to share that practice with others.
Start Building Your Ethos Today
Try Know Your Ethos free for 7 days. No credit card required.