Somnary
Free dream journal
Somnary is a private dream journal you can open in your browser the moment you wake: write the dream, tag it, rate how vivid and how lucid it was, and read what its symbols might reflect. Nothing is uploaded. There is no account and no server that could lose a dream.
Scan to open this page on your phone and get the app.
Why another dream journal
People who keep a dream journal for years tend to lose it the same three ways. Somnary is designed so none of them can happen.
I switched phones and six years of dreams were gone.
Somnary keeps the journal on your device and gives you an encrypted export you can keep anywhere and import on any phone or browser. There is no server to lose it.
The reading was behind a paywall, and it was the same for everyone.
The Decoder reading is free, shown in full on every entry, and comes from your own journal: it tells you how often you have dreamt each symbol, not what a generic AI thinks.
I don't want my dreams on anyone's cloud.
No account, no analytics, no network path for dream data at all. On the web, everything stays in the browser you use.
What the journal keeps
Title, the dream, the night and an optional time, mood on waking, sleep quality, vividness, lucidity from 0 to 4, a nightmare flag, your own tags. A backfilled dream files under its own date.
Search every title, dream and tag; filter by your own tags with a tap. The dreamer's words, not a fixed list.
A curated offline library spots the symbols in what you wrote and shows a short reflection for each, with how often you have dreamt it. Deterministic, on your device, never called an interpretation.
Dream count, night streak, lucid rate, and the symbols that recur across your journal, free. The deeper symbol-by-mood reading is part of Somnary+.
On the phone, reality-check cues spread across your waking hours, repeating every day, so the habit that triggers lucidity is still there in month three.
A passphrase-encrypted .somnary bundle you can store anywhere and import on any phone or browser. Free, always.
Dream symbol dictionary
Thirty of the symbols that turn up most in dream journals, each with what it tends to reflect, the questions worth asking, and how Somnary spots it in your own entries. Reflections, not verdicts.
The whole dictionary · The same library runs the Decoder in the app and the web edition.
In your browser
The free Somnary, in any current browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Everything stays in that browser.
Each browser keeps its own journal. To move dreams between your phone and a browser, point a camera at a moving code on the other screen (Settings, Send to your phone or Receive from your phone): nothing is uploaded. Reality-check reminders and the privacy lock are on the phone.
For your eyes only
Somnary has no account, no analytics inside the app, and no cloud. Dream data never leaves the device it was written on unless you export it yourself, encrypted, with a passphrase you choose, or show it to your other screen's camera as a moving code. Nothing is uploaded either way.
The web edition keeps the journal in your browser's own storage. Clearing the site's data clears the journal, which is why export is one tap away and never paywalled. The one network call the web edition makes for you: if your phone sends Somnary+ across, this browser asks our server whether it is active, sending only the app's anonymous purchase id, never a dream. Privacy policy.
No email, no password, nothing to recover.
Dreams are written and read on your device.
Salted, key-stretched, integrity-checked export.
The Decoder is a curated library, deterministic, on-device.
Keep it on your phone
The moment you wake is on the nightstand, and lucid-dream training lives in the daytime reminders. Both are the phone's job.
Somnary+ adds the deep symbol-by-mood reading, guided MILD, WBTB and WILD programs, Nightmare Rescript and the Moonlit, Ember and Seafoam palettes, as a subscription or a one-time purchase at the store's price.
Guides
Questions
Yes. The web edition is the free Somnary: unlimited dreams, tags, search, mood, vividness and lucidity, the full Decoder reading on every entry, your recurring symbols and core stats, encrypted export and import. There is nothing to buy in the browser.
No. There is no sign-up, email or password. Open the page and write.
In the browser you use, on that device. Nothing you write is sent to us or anyone else; there is no server that could lose a dream or read one. If you clear the browser's site data the journal goes with it, so export a backup now and then.
Yes. Export an encrypted .somnary bundle from the web edition with a passphrase, then import it in the Somnary app on your phone, or the other way round. The same file works in both.
A curated offline library of dream symbols. It finds the symbols in what you wrote, water, teeth, flying, being chased, a house, and shows a short creative reflection for each, with how often you have dreamt it. It is deterministic and runs on your device; it is not an AI and it never claims to know what a dream means.
It reflects, it does not pronounce. Each symbol comes with a few open questions and the pattern in your own journal. Somnary is a journal and a creative mirror, not therapy and not medical advice.
Reality-check reminders that repeat every day for lucid-dream training, a privacy lock on the vault, and draft autosave the moment you wake. Somnary+ on the phone adds the deep symbol-by-mood reading, guided MILD, WBTB and WILD programs, Nightmare Rescript and extra palettes; send your phone's journal to the web and the reading, the programs and the palettes open here too.
Yes, here and on the phone: in Settings, paste a CSV, text or JSON export from another dream journal and Somnary recognises the kind of file and maps the columns it can; unknown columns are kept in the dream's text, never dropped. Nothing is uploaded.
No. Somnary reflects symbols and patterns creatively. It does not diagnose or treat nightmares, insomnia or any sleep condition. If dreams are troubling you, talk to a qualified professional.
Open the journal in your browser now, or put Somnary on the phone that sleeps next to you.