About Lorbo

Lorbo is an AI journaling app you keep by text. We're a small team in Oregon. No app to install, no streak to break.

What Lorbo is

You SMS Lorbo about your day. In the morning you wake up to a plain journal entry, faithful to what actually happened. If you want, you also get a chapter of an ongoing fantasy novel grown around the same texts. Romantasy is the only subgenre during the alpha. More open up after.

A human author wrote the novel's arc and voice in advance. AI's job is to thread your real life into that narrative. It's not generating fiction from scratch.

What Lorbo isn't

Lorbo isn't therapy. It doesn't diagnose or treat. Journaling has decades of research behind it as a self-reflection practice, but Lorbo isn't a substitute for talking to someone. If you're struggling, talk to a real person.

Lorbo doesn't have streaks. It's built around the days you actually have something to say. When you text, you get a chapter. When you don't, the story waits.

Lorbo doesn't push notifications. A single text arrives once a day at a time you choose. You can reply, or not.

Who makes Lorbo

A small team in Oregon builds Lorbo. The legal entity is DEFRICTION LLC. Right now we're in private alpha. A handful of readers are getting their first chapters, and we're inviting new readers in waves.

How we handle your writing

Your texts are used only to write your own journal entries and chapters. Nothing you send is used to train AI models, ours or anyone else's.

Real people in your life become fictional characters with new names and reshaped details. The book is yours alone. It's the only copy in the world. If you cancel, you can export every entry as Markdown or ePub.

More detail on Security & privacy. The formal versions are in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. SMS-specific disclosures are in the SMS consent documentation.

Contact

Email us at [email protected]. That's the one inbox for everything.