Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself
Echologue is a private AI voice journaling app that offers a free tier with limited voice notes and AI replies. Users can upgrade to a premium plan for higher limits, custom personas, and more control over AI responses. The service emphasizes local-first storage, exportability, and privacy.
- ▪The free tier provides unlimited typed entries, 20 voice notes, 15 voice minutes, and 10 AI replies per month.
- ▪The premium tier offers unlimited voice notes, 500 voice minutes, and 400 AI replies per month, along with custom personas and remembered chat controls.
- ▪All data is stored locally, exportable, and can be wiped, ensuring privacy.
- ▪The app targets users who already journal, use voice memos, or want a private AI memory layer.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,757 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Echologue |
| Canonical URL | https://echologue.com/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:43:36 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T12:54:33.134Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T12:54:33.134Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | WaWt1Z3-SfJR · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Launch Plans START FREE. UPGRADE WHEN IT BECOMES A HABIT. Echologue is built to be useful from the first few voice notes. Start with the free tier, then upgrade when private recall becomes part of your daily rhythm. Free A real starting point for trying private voice journaling and grounded recall without committing first. Unlimited typed entries. 20 voice notes per month. 15 voice minutes per month. 10 AI replies per month. Local-first journal storage and export. Start Free Privacy Details Premium For people who use Echologue regularly and want more voice capture, more recall, and more control over how the app responds. Unlimited voice-note count. 500 voice minutes per month. 400 AI replies per month. Remembered chat controls. Custom personas for different kinds of reflection.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Echologue.
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