What happens if I miss a day?

Nothing is lost and nothing resets. If you don't open the app, that day's scene stays written and waiting — there's no streak to break and no backlog to catch up on. Open Faye whenever you come back, and the most recent scene sits at the top, the way it always does.

Can I change the hour Faye delivers scenes?

Yes. The ritual time you set during onboarding lives in Settings, not on a fixed schedule, and you can move it — or set both a morning and an evening ritual — at any point. A change takes effect from the next scene onward and doesn't rewrite anything already written.

Does Faye work offline?

Listening does. Scenes download to the phone once they're written, so aeroplane mode doesn't interrupt playback, and audio continues in the background and on the lock screen. Writing a new scene and adding to the board both need a connection at some point — during the night for the scene, at the moment you add it for the board.

What happens to my photos?

Photos you add to the board stay on your iPhone, in the app's private storage, and are never uploaded anywhere. Faye reads them on-device to write a scene; the file itself never leaves the phone. Delete a photo from the board and it stops appearing in future writing.

Can I export what Faye has written?

Yes. Every scene can be exported from Settings, in a readable format, at any time — before an erase or independently of one. There's no limit on how much history you can pull out and no charge for doing it.

What if I want to start over?

Erase the account from Settings, and everything attached to it — onboarding, board, scenes — is deleted from the server first, then wiped from the device. Reopen the app afterward and onboarding starts from nothing, the same as a first install.

Does Faye use what I write to train AI models?

No. Text sent to generate or narrate a scene is processed to return that scene and is not used to train any model, by Faye or by the providers it uses to write and narrate. This is stated in the privacy policy and applies to everything written during onboarding and on the board.

Is Faye a form of therapy?

No, and it doesn't present itself as one. Faye writes and narrates scenes; it makes no diagnosis, gives no treatment, and on a crisis signal it stops generating and shows a support screen rather than continuing. See support for actual crisis resources.

The app

How Faye works

You describe the life you’re moving toward once, in a long quiet onboarding. Each night Faye writes one short scene from that material — present tense, ordinary detail — and narrates it in about four minutes. It’s waiting at the hour you chose, morning or evening, for as long as you keep using it.

Onboarding

The first thing Faye asks for is not a goal. It’s a conversation — an unhurried set of questions about the room you want to wake up in, the street outside it, the work that would feel right, the people you want closer. Ten or fifteen minutes, in your own words. Nothing about it looks like a quiz: no slider, no star rating, no “select all that apply.” You write sentences, the way you’d actually explain your life to someone listening.

That conversation isn’t an intake form you fill in once and forget. It’s the material. Every scene Faye writes afterward is built from what you said here — the specific noun, not the abstract wish. Say “a kitchen with morning light and someone else’s coffee cup in the sink” rather than “a happy home,” and that specificity is what comes back to you. The more concrete the onboarding, the more concrete the scenes.

The board

Alongside onboarding there’s a private board inside the app — photos, short notes, voice memos, the odd manifest you’ve written out in full. You add to it whenever something belongs there: a photo from a place you want to live near, a line you thought of on the walk home, thirty seconds recorded at midnight.

The board isn’t decoration. It’s read. Every scene draws on whatever is on the board at the time it’s written, so the board works as an ongoing script rather than something to glance at. Add an entry and it can show up in tomorrow’s scene; delete one and it leaves the writing too — nothing lingers in a scene once its source is gone. Nobody else sees any of it. There’s no profile page, no share button, nowhere in the app to post it.

How a scene is written, and what one is like

Once a day, overnight, Faye writes one scene from your onboarding and your board. It’s short — present tense, second person, ordinary concrete detail: a kitchen, a key that turns on the first try, a desk by a window. Not a summary of your goals and not a pep talk. A specific moment, written as though you’re already standing in it.

The scene is narrated, not just displayed — roughly four minutes of audio, delivered once, at the hour you chose during onboarding. Set a morning ritual and it’s the first thing waiting when you unlock the phone; set an evening one and it closes the day instead, quieter in tone than the morning version. There’s no feed to scroll and no backlog to catch up on. The day’s scene sits at the top, and yesterday’s doesn’t wait around for you.

Series

Individual scenes can belong to a series — a set of seven, each built around one area of life: A Home of Your Own, The Work That Wants You, Someone Who Stays, The Body You Live In, and Money, Quietly. Start a series and Faye writes toward it across the following nights, still drawing on the same onboarding and board, so scene four knows what scene one already said. Run more than one series at a time, or leave one paused for months and pick it back up later.

Audio

Every scene is narrated, not read aloud by a generic voice bolted on afterward, and mixed at the pace of an actual slow morning rather than a podcast intro. Scenes download for offline playback, so aeroplane mode doesn’t interrupt anything. Audio keeps running in the background and on the lock screen if you switch apps, and there’s a sleep timer for anyone using it to fall back asleep rather than to wake up.

Free to start, no account and no email — the first scenes arrive before you decide anything. Get Faye on iPhone

The filter

Before any generated text reaches a user, it’s checked against a list of banned terms — language that promises an outcome, and language that asserts how the world works: “the universe,” “law of attraction,” “frequency,” “manifests,” “draws in.” A draft that trips the filter doesn’t go out as written.

This exists because the category Faye sits in — manifestation, vision boards — runs on exactly that vocabulary, usually without a second thought. Faye’s position is that a scene can be specific and vivid without asserting anything metaphysical, and the filter is what keeps that position true in practice, not just in the marketing copy. It’s an ordinary piece of engineering, not a disclaimer stapled to the end.

If something more serious comes up

Onboarding and the board sometimes surface something more serious than a wish list. If what you write suggests you may be in crisis, the app stops generating and shows a support screen instead of a scene. That’s the whole mechanism, stated plainly: Faye is not therapy, doesn’t claim to be, and steps aside rather than attempt to write through it. See support for where to go instead.

Privacy and data

What	Where it lives
Board photos and voice memos	On your iPhone only. Never uploaded.
Onboarding text	Encrypted on the server — the source scenes are written from — and cached on the device.
Scenes and affirmations	On the server, cached on the phone for offline listening.
Device identity	A hardware-backed key in the Secure Enclave. Never leaves the phone, never goes to iCloud. No account, no email, no password.
Analytics, ad tracking, ATT	None of it. No analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, no App Tracking Transparency prompt anywhere in the app.
AI model training	Never. Text sent to write or narrate a scene is processed to return that scene, and nothing else.
Export and deletion	Export every scene from Settings. Erase the account and everything attached to it, server and device, in one tap.

Your photos and voice memos never leave your phone. Onboarding text is sent encrypted, because it’s what scenes are written from, and it’s never sent to any analytics service or used to train a model. This table matches the privacy policy exactly — read that page for retention windows, sub-processors and legal detail.

Subscription

Faye is free to start: no account, no email, no card, and your first scene is written the night you install it. Continued daily scenes and the full series library need an auto-renewing subscription. The exact price, and any free trial, is set remotely and shown in the App Store listing and again in the app before you’re asked to pay — nothing on this page states a figure, because a number printed on a web page goes stale the moment the price does.

The subscription renews automatically until cancelled. Cancel in iPhone Settings, not inside the app, because Apple owns the billing — full steps are on the support page.

Requirements

Faye runs on iPhone only, iOS 17 or later, in portrait. There’s no iPad version, no Android version and no web app — the whole thing is built around a phone by the bed. It ships in English and Turkish, following whichever language the phone is set to.

Weighing Faye against a plain vision board, a future-self journal, or a manifestation app generally? See the vision board app comparison, what a future self app actually is, or manifestation apps, compared.

Faye: Manifest Future Self — one scene, written from your own words, narrated every day. iPhone, iOS 17+. Free to start, no account and no email.

Questions people ask

What happens if I miss a day?: Nothing is lost and nothing resets. If you don’t open the app, that day’s scene stays written and waiting — there’s no streak to break and no backlog to catch up on. Open Faye whenever you come back, and the most recent scene sits at the top, the way it always does.
Can I change the hour Faye delivers scenes?: Yes. The ritual time you set during onboarding lives in Settings, not on a fixed schedule, and you can move it — or set both a morning and an evening ritual — at any point. A change takes effect from the next scene onward and doesn’t rewrite anything already written.
Does Faye work offline?: Listening does. Scenes download to the phone once they’re written, so aeroplane mode doesn’t interrupt playback, and audio continues in the background and on the lock screen. Writing a new scene and adding to the board both need a connection at some point — during the night for the scene, at the moment you add it for the board.
What happens to my photos?: Photos you add to the board stay on your iPhone, in the app’s private storage, and are never uploaded anywhere. Faye reads them on-device to write a scene; the file itself never leaves the phone. Delete a photo from the board and it stops appearing in future writing.
Can I export what Faye has written?: Yes. Every scene can be exported from Settings, in a readable format, at any time — before an erase or independently of one. There’s no limit on how much history you can pull out and no charge for doing it.
What if I want to start over?: Erase the account from Settings, and everything attached to it — onboarding, board, scenes — is deleted from the server first, then wiped from the device. Reopen the app afterward and onboarding starts from nothing, the same as a first install.
Does Faye use what I write to train AI models?: No. Text sent to generate or narrate a scene is processed to return that scene and is not used to train any model, by Faye or by the providers it uses to write and narrate. This is stated in the privacy policy and applies to everything written during onboarding and on the board.
Is Faye a form of therapy?: No, and it doesn’t present itself as one. Faye writes and narrates scenes; it makes no diagnosis, gives no treatment, and on a crisis signal it stops generating and shows a support screen rather than continuing. See support for actual crisis resources.

Sources

Every claim on this page names where it comes from. Where there is no evidence for something, the page says so rather than leaving it out.

None used — this page describes Faye’s own mechanics rather than external research; those citations live on the guide pages linked above.