For Latter-day Saints

If not now,when?

UNA is a private iPhone app for the things you’d never post: what’s on your heart tonight, and the moments too sacred to send anywhere. It begins with you — and it’s built to someday hold the voices you love.

On the App Store · Free to begin · iPhone

A hand reaching into a keepsake box of old family photographs

UNA is named after my grandmother. She carried a world inside her voice — and I never pressed record. I built UNA so you won’t have to say that.

First I wrote her a hundred songs. Then I built the place they were asking for.

Read my story →

Before the silence

Nobody wrote the names down.

Almost every family has the box — faces everyone loved, and no one left who can name them. It never happens on purpose; it happens through tomorrow. And you’ve had moments you wanted to keep — a quiet prompting, your grandmother mid-story, an ordinary evening that turned out to matter. Where do you put something that personal? Not a feed. Not a document someone else owns.

Regret sounds like silence
From a song I wrote — Before You Go ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

Today and what’s ahead

Five rooms. Two are open.

Today and the Sacred Vault form UNA’s first release; Together, Tomorrow, and Mission stay visible as honest previews of where UNA is growing. I could have opened every room half-finished. The vault had to be perfect first.

01 Today — Available now · Daily reflections

Write the small things down.

Capture what’s on your heart each day — in words, or in your own voice. UNA keeps it safely, and over time your entries become gentle reflections: look back, and notice what’s been carrying you.

“Have I seen the hand of God reaching out to touch us or our children or our family today?”

President Henry B. Eyring · General Conference, October 2007
  • A quiet page or a voice note — whatever feels natural
  • Gentle prompts when you want them, silence when you don’t
  • Look back a year from now and find a life you didn’t know you made

Read: the whole practice is one true line →

Writing in Today — a real screen from UNAWriting in Today — a real screen from UNA
So now I write the small things down
From a song I wrote — “Ordinary Holy” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

02 Together — What’s Ahead · Family stories

A future home for the voices you love.

Together is where UNA is growing: guided family interviews, stories kept in the voice that told them, photos with the stories that make them matter. It appears in the app as a preview — family spaces and shared records aren’t open yet. The recording, though, can’t wait for the room.

  • Planned: guided interviews with questions worth asking
  • Planned: stories kept in the voice that told them
  • Planned: photos with the stories that make them matter
  • Not available in the first App Store release

Read: the ten questions worth asking — this Sunday →

A grandmother telling a story at the kitchen table while her granddaughter listens
Every story she tells is a gift she won’t know she gave
From a song I wrote — “Record It Now” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

03 Tomorrow — What’s Ahead · Messages for someday

Some words are meant to be opened later.

Tomorrow is being built for the letters that wait: a wedding day, a first morning far from home, a hard night years from now. Heartfelt messages appear in the app as a preview — they cannot yet be created or delivered.

“That which I do not in some way record will be lost at my death, and that which I do not pass on to my posterity, they will never have.”

Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander · General Conference, April 1999
  • Planned: letters that arrive on a day you choose
  • Planned: private delivery designed around the recipient
  • Not available in the first App Store release
A handwritten envelope reading “For your wedding day” resting in an open drawer among keepsakes
When you open this I’ll be with you
From a song I wrote — “When You Open This” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

04 Sacred — Available now · Kept set apart

Set apart, even from me.

Temple mornings, blessings, the moments too tender to send anywhere. They live behind the Sacred Vault’s own protection, never sent to UNA’s servers — and if you choose, a sealed recovery backup rests in your own iCloud Drive, opened only by your Recovery Key.

  • Never sent to UNA’s account, reflection, support, or analytics systems
  • Opened only after your iPhone authenticates you
  • Optional own-iCloud backup; UNA cannot recover a lost Recovery Key

Never sent to UNA’s servers. Optional sealed recovery backup stays in your own iCloud Drive.

What was given in the quiet stays between your heart and His
From a song I wrote — “Clothed in Light” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

05 Mission — What’s Ahead · For the whole mission

A future place for the whole mission.

Mission is being built to gather a missionary’s service into one place — the letters, the photos, the waiting turned into something warm. It appears in the app as a preview, not yet an active record, import, or sharing area. And then the mission will keep serving: stories for the family night when the kids ask, for a little sister opening her own call.

  • Planned: letters and reflections around the call and departure
  • Planned: a family-held record while a missionary serves
  • Not available in the first App Store release

Read: where mission photos go when the account closes →

A returning missionary and his mother embracing at the airport as his family arrives with a hand-painted welcome sign
One night at a time, one page, one word
From a song I wrote — “Future Me” ♪

The song couldn’t start here — the album page has it.

Begin with one small thing in Today, or set one sacred experience inside the Vault. The other rooms are promises, kept visible — I’d rather show you where this is going than pretend it’s already there.

How it begins

Simple by design.

  1. Begin where you are

    Write, speak, or record a video in Today — begin with whatever feels natural.

  2. Choose what belongs where

    Use Today for entries and personal reflections. Keep sacred experiences inside the Vault, away from UNA’s servers.

  3. Look back and see

    Search earlier entries and return to reflections that help you notice themes, growth, and quiet mercies — drawn from your own words, never written for you.

A reflection · March — June

You wrote most often on Sunday evenings, usually after the house went quiet. Three entries this spring returned to your grandmother’s kitchen — the bread, the blessing before it, the way she hummed while she worked. In March you worried about the new calling; by June you were writing about it differently. And on the twelfth, one line stood alone: it was enough to be there.

Drawn from your own words — never written for you

Private by design

Private means private — honestly.

Sacred never reaches UNA’s servers

Sacred entries remain outside UNA’s account, reflection, support, and analytics systems.

Your own iCloud, when you choose

An optional sealed Sacred backup can live in your iCloud Drive. Only your Recovery Key can open it, and UNA cannot recreate that key.

Today entries are never sold

Today entries you entrust to UNA are used to back up your account and form your reflections — never for advertising or provider training.

UNA doesn’t replace spiritual work. It preserves it.

The whole promise, plainly →

Where UNA began

You’ve already met the songs.

Every quoted line on this page — “Regret sounds like silence,” “Every story she tells is a gift” — is from them. Before I could build UNA, I had to say the ache out loud: ten albums, 106 songs, all circling the question at the top of this page. If you want to know why UNA exists, don’t read a pitch. Press play.

Her name was Una and she carried a world inside her voice
From a song I wrote — “Her Name Was Una” ♪
Her Voice — album coverBefore You Go — album coverIf Not Now, When? — album cover

Press play · read along

“Her Name Was Una”

from Her Voice — the song UNA is named for

…if not now, when?

The song couldn’t start here — the listening links below have it.

The whole song lives in your music app too:Apple MusicSpotifyYouTube Music

Browse all ten albums →

Questions

Answered plainly

Trust & privacy

Do you read what I write?

Sacred content is never sent to UNA’s servers. Today entries you choose to entrust to UNA can be used for account backup and personal reflections; they are never sold, shared with advertisers, or used to train a provider’s systems.

How does UNA notice patterns in my entries?

Honestly: modern language technology — yes, the kind people call AI — reads only the eligible Today entries you’ve chosen to entrust to UNA, and gathers what’s been on your heart into your reflections. The app explains this consent before any entry is sent. And one room it never enters: the Sacred Vault, which is never sent to UNA’s servers at all. That’s not a limitation. It’s the point. One more line I hold: UNA never writes your record for you — no entries, no talks, no testimonies. It asks; you answer.

Is UNA affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

No. UNA is an independent project, made by one member, for members — not built, reviewed, or endorsed by the Church. Quotes from Church leaders on this site are public teachings, shared with reverence — they are not endorsements.

Who makes UNA?

One member of the community it’s for — independent, self-funded, in Salt Lake City. You won’t find my name on this site; that’s on purpose. This place isn’t about me — it’s about what you keep. But it isn’t a secret: when you write to support, it’s me who answers, and I sign my replies with my real name.

Who sings the songs on this site?

No one — and I’d rather tell you than let you wonder. The words are mine. The voices and the music were generated; I did the writing, the prompting, the producing, and ten albums’ worth of decisions about what each song had to say. I trained in sound engineering and film at BYU and I’ve been making music ever since — what changed is the instrument, not the authorship. The photographs on this site were made the same way. It’s the same merge of art and technology UNA itself is: I know what this community keeps because I’m in it, and I had the means to make the songs carry it. They’re still about my grandmother. The ache in them isn’t generated. And where UNA’s story is told aloud by a narrator on this site, that voice is made the same way — the words are true and mine to stand behind; the voice is generated, and I’d rather tell you than let you wonder.

What is the Sacred Vault?

A place set apart for temple experiences, blessings, and other sacred moments. Sacred content is never sent to UNA’s servers. You can optionally keep a sealed recovery backup in your own iCloud Drive that only your Recovery Key can open.

What it costs

What does it cost?

Plainly: writing in Today on your iPhone and the whole Sacred Vault are free — privacy is not a paid feature. Premium is $7.99 a month or $54.99 a year, and adds account backup, reflections, and more room, with a free trial; Apple’s confirmation is the final word on price and terms in your region. During the founding window you may also see Founding Lifetime Supporter, a one-time purchase that never renews. And when family spaces open, a family plan is planned at $14.99 a month or $99.99 a year. One more thing, because it matters here: UNA’s only prices are published ones, shown in full before you pay — through Apple’s App Store in the first release. UNA never takes investments or donations, and nobody will ever ask you for money in UNA’s name outside the app or this site.

Can I try UNA before paying?

Yes — and most of UNA never asks for payment at all. The app shows the current trial or introductory access, its length, and every billing term before you purchase. The App Store confirmation is the final source of truth for your region.

What happens if I end a subscription?

A renewable subscription remains active through its paid period. Download your Today data before account deletion if you want a portable copy. A Founding Lifetime Supporter purchase does not renew and does not appear as a subscription to cancel.

Keeping a record

Why not just use FamilySearch Memories or Gospel Library?

Keep using them — truly. FamilySearch Memories is the family’s shared tree, a wonderful home for the generations; Gospel Library’s notes are made for study. UNA is for the third thing neither holds: the private record of the living — what happened to you today, and the moments too tender for a shared tree. They sit side by side. UNA’s first release doesn’t connect to FamilySearch at all.

UNA and FamilySearch Memories — which is for what? →
How is UNA different from StoryWorth or Remento?

Those are lovely one-year projects: weekly questions by email, then a printed book — a gift you give a parent. UNA is a daily practice you keep yourself: a quiet page for what’s on your heart tonight, and a Sacred Vault nothing like it offers. Do both, honestly. A book on the shelf, and a record that’s still being written.

What happens if I lose my phone?

Account-backed Today entries can be restored after you sign in again. Sacred recovery is separate: it requires a usable sealed backup in your own iCloud Drive and the Recovery Key. UNA cannot recover a lost key.

What happens to my record if UNA ever disappears — or is ever sold?

Download your Today data while the service is available and keep your own copy. And the Sacred Vault was built to answer to you, not to UNA: keep its sealed backup in your own iCloud Drive and what’s behind the wall stays yours no matter what happens to me — though only your Recovery Key opens it, and I can’t recreate a lost key. As for a sale: Sacred content never reaches UNA’s servers, so it was never mine to hand to anyone.

I’ve never managed to keep a record going. Why would this be different?

Because UNA doesn’t keep score. No streaks, no badges, no reminders that escalate into guilt — the page is exactly as quiet as you left it. Come back when you have something to keep; one true sentence on a Sunday counts. A record isn’t a checklist.

Why UNA has no streaks →
Is UNA only for Latter-day Saints?

UNA is made for people of faith who want a private place for what matters. It speaks most naturally to Latter-day Saints — missions, testimony, temple — but anyone who keeps sacred things will feel at home.

What’s ahead

Do I have to use all of it?

No. The first release is complete around Today and Sacred. Together, Tomorrow, and Mission appear in What’s Ahead as previews, not active areas you need to fill.

Can my family keep a record together?

Not yet — Together is the room being built for exactly that: interviews, photos, and family spaces. Shared family records and family-plan purchases are not available in the first release. But the recording can’t wait for the room: sit down with the people you love and record on whatever you have, this Sunday.

The ten questions worth asking →
Can I use UNA during my mission?

The first release is an iPhone app centered on Today and Sacred, and Mission appears in What’s Ahead as a preview — its records, family collection, and imports are not available yet. One thing that can’t wait, though: a returning missionary’s old account closes on its own schedule. Save what’s in it now, wherever you can.

Where mission photos go when the account closes →
Where can I get UNA?

On the App Store, today — the Get UNA button on any page takes you there. The first release is made for iPhone; iPad, Android, and web experiences are future possibilities without promised dates.

Can I suggest a feature?

Please do. Write to help@una.now or use the contact form, and tell me what you wish UNA did. A person reads every note — it’s me, and I answer. I keep a quiet ledger of what’s asked for, and it genuinely shapes what gets built next. What I won’t do is run a public voting board: your wishes aren’t a scoreboard, and What’s Ahead stays the honest map of what’s actually coming.

I found a problem — where do I report it?

Tell me directly: help@una.now or the contact form, with what happened and what you expected instead. I read every report and answer myself. Fixes arrive as App Store updates, and the Help Center’s troubleshooting pages stay current as real issues and their fixes emerge. If something ever matters to your record, I’ll say so plainly.

Still wondering about something?Ask me directly →

the answer is tonight

If not now,when?

Begin with Today. Keep what’s sacred set apart, never sent to UNA’s servers. The rest is on its way.