For children who write by speaking
A book of your own.
Edelmore is a private diary shaped like a book. Voice transcription handles the writing; the diary reads entries back aloud. Pages turn. No cloud. Nobody reads it but the person who wrote it.
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A real diary for hands that don't cooperate.
Speak to write
Press the mic button, talk, press it again. Your words appear at the cursor. No keyboard required.
Read it back
A small bird in the corner reads the entry aloud while each word highlights as it's spoken.
Book-shaped
Real page turns. Warm covers. A table of contents. It looks like a book because that's what it is.
Yours alone
No cloud. No sharing. A 4-digit PIN keeps siblings out. Runs on a home server, travels everywhere via Tailscale.
"Designed to work for every learner — not just the typical one."
Edelmore is built on the principles of Universal Design for Learning. Voice transcription removes the keyboard barrier. Read-aloud with word-by-word highlighting supports processing differences. No prompts, no time pressure, no right way to write. A tool that works for a child with dyslexia, ADHD, or ataxia works better for everyone.
Built for a child who wanted her own Anne Frank.
Existing diary tools fail differently. Day One stores entries on someone else's server. Paper journals are beautiful but ungenerous to anyone whose hands don't cooperate with a pen. Prompted apps impose structure on what should be unstructured.
Edelmore was built for a 13-year-old who wanted to keep a diary on her own terms, in the shape of a thing that already meant something to her.
What it is not
- A journal with prompts or AI interlocution
- A sharing platform — no concept of sharing an entry
- A cloud service — runs on your homelab, full stop
- A subscription — MIT licensed, self-hosted, free
Write the thing that happened today.
Taylor's diary is waiting. It resets nightly so it's always fresh.
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