Give life to your
handwritten notes
Snap a photo to make every handwritten page searchable, answerable, and connected over time.
Private by design · Your notes never train AI · Export anytime
Watch a page come to life
Real handwriting from a real notebook. Every word stays tied to the page it came from.
Grow your digital garden.
Every handwritten page is more than a record of the past. It's a seed for future understanding. Scroll to watch your notes take root, branch into ideas, bloom into answers, and bear fruit over time.
Plant your handwritten notes.
Snap a photo of any handwritten page. SandDune transcribes every word into searchable text, anchoring it to its exact location on the original page.
Find every branch of your handwritten thoughts.
Search across years of handwritten notes to instantly find every mention of a word, idea, person, or place. Trace every branch back to the page where the thought first took root.
Watch your questions bloom into answers.
Ask anything about your notes, from quick facts to deeper questions. Every answer grows from your own writing and always cites the original pages.
Harvest the patterns that shaped who you are.
Uncover the themes, turning points, and recurring questions that only emerge across months and years. The threads you couldn't see day to day become clear once they've had a season to grow.
Tend your digital garden.
A thriving garden doesn't organize itself. Nurture your handwritten collection, watch your writing habit flourish, and share the harvest with the people who matter most.
Organize your harvest.
Gather related pages into notebooks with covers of your own, then flip through them like a real book. Search and ask questions across the pages of a single notebook.
Watch your garden flourish.
Every page you write becomes part of your story. Follow your writing through monthly calendars, activity heatmaps, streaks, and honest statistics as your practice quietly compounds over time.
Share the harvest.
Every month, SandDune creates a beautiful artifact of your writing that's yours to keep or share. Celebrate the habit you've cultivated and the memories you've grown with the people who matter most.
Private by design
Journals are the most private documents you own. We built for that.
Never training data · Private by default · Yours to take · Delete means delete
The fine print says the same thing in plain language — read the Privacy Policy.
Simple, transparent pricing
Start with our free tier and scale as you grow. No hidden fees.
Free
Start your garden
Taste everything SandDune does — plant your first pages and ask your first questions.
Every feature, in a small pot:
Plant up to 3 pages a month — AI-powered transcriptions
3 Asks a month — AI answers with citations to your own pages (Timeline nodes included)
Search, Notebooks, Timelines, and Live Highlights — every feature, unlimited
Activity dashboard with writing streaks, milestones, and shareable monthly artifacts
Limited storage capacity
Smart
The Daily Journaler
A page a day, planted. For the journal that grows as fast as you write it.
All Smart features include:
Plant up to 30 pages a month — a page a day, transcribed
30 Asks a month — AI answers with citations to your own pages (Timeline nodes included)
Search, Notebooks, Timelines, and Live Highlights — every feature, unlimited
Activity dashboard with writing streaks, milestones, and shareable monthly artifacts
Ample storage for all your notes
Standard support
Early access to new features
Pro
The Archivist
Digitize the backlog. Built for the shelf of full notebooks waiting to come alive.
All Pro features include:
Plant up to 100 pages a month — enough to digitize an old notebook every month
100 Asks a month — AI answers with citations to your own pages (Timeline nodes included)
Search, Notebooks, Timelines, and Live Highlights — every feature, unlimited
Activity dashboard with writing streaks, milestones, and shareable monthly artifacts
Extensive storage for all your notes
Priority access during high-traffic periods
Priority support
Earliest access to exclusive new features
Need more than Pro? Write us: hello@sanddune.ai
Frequently asked questions
A letter from the founder
For more than five thousand years, writing by hand has been one of humanity's greatest inventions.
It gave us a way to think outside our minds. To preserve ideas beyond memory. To leave something behind for those who come after us.
I believe writing by hand is here to stay. But the tools around it should evolve with us.
That's why I started SandDune. We're beginning with this garden.
I hope you'll join us in writing what comes next.
Jak
Founder
Your thoughts deserve more than forgotten pages.
Keep writing by hand. Start harvesting what you've written. Plant your first page in under a minute.
