November 1, 2025
Patrika
SwiftUI life workspace for rich journaling, habits, health tracking, and on-device intelligence.
- SwiftUI
- SwiftData
- Core ML
- Screen Time
- Lottie
Patrika is a SwiftUI, SwiftData-based life workspace, not just a journal, but a calm daily operating system for reflection, habits, health, and focus.
Journal
- Rich content entries with inline text, photos, GIFs, Lottie animations, and stickers
- Text styling: bold, italic, headings, quotes, bullet and numbered lists
- Voice journaling with multilingual speech transcription and on-device recognition where available
- Sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and semantic search over entries
- A Lottie-based companion that reflects your emotional state
Day workspace
Beyond journaling, Patrika bundles adjacent tools into a single day view:
- Habits: daily tracking with heat maps and pattern insights
- Todos: lightweight task management tied to the calendar
- Expenses: budget tracking with monthly rollups
- Focus: timer sessions for deep work
- Health: medication logs, diet entries, water tracking, exercise plans
- Reset zone: meditation, walks, reflection, and talk-it-out interventions
- Trips: itinerary planning with AI-assisted suggestions
- Brain rot: Screen Time integration showing app usage breakdowns
On-device intelligence
Most analysis runs locally: emotion detection, semantic search, weekly insights, habit patterns, expense insights, handwriting recognition from canvas drawings, and foundation-model reflection.
Why I built it
I wanted one app that holds the messy parts of a day (what I wrote, what I ate, whether I moved, how much time I spent on my phone) without sending all of it to a cloud service.