Whispering Quill Support
Whispering Quill is a guided journal with nineteen illustrated workbooks where you write and draw privately on your device.
Contact us
Email support@marketgence.com. Tell us your iPhone or iPad model, its iOS version and what happened; a screenshot helps. Please don’t send passwords or payment details.
Questions and answers
What can I do with Whispering Quill?
- Nineteen illustrated workbooks with guides. Small Good Things, Daily Check-In and Common Thread's daily page are free.
- 579 guided questions, each with two Go deeper follow-ups, and Draw a card for another question.
- Daily Check-In: mood, physical energy, mental clarity and stress on 1 to 10 sliders with a one-line note, and a 7 or 30 day look-back.
- Life Compass: purpose, core values, principles, a ten-year vision, a weekly values check and a decision toolkit.
- Goals and Habits: three goals a quarter with milestones, a daily habit and streak for each, weekly reviews and a Motivation Vault.
- Write and draw on journal pages, with a save line on every page, tags, and search of your notes.
- Library search that finds any workbook or question and opens its page.
- Pick up where you left off from the Desk, and section dots that show which pages you have written.
- Threads: look back at your words, with an optional on-device Apple Intelligence line to reread.
- Quiet Mode with a timer and soundscapes, prompts read aloud, and text that follows your Larger Text setting.
- Studio: Share Cards, PDF keepsakes and blank printable pages, plus an optional daily reminder, journal lock and widget.
- Whispering Quill Plus (yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly) or Lifetime opens every workbook, including new ones.
How do I lock my journal?
Open Settings (the ⋯ button on the Desk tab) ▸ Privacy ▸ Lock journal. Whispering Quill then asks for Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode when you come back to it. Changing the setting asks you to confirm too.
How do I set a daily reminder?
Settings ▸ Reminders ▸ Daily reminder, then pick a time. It is one local notification a day saying a page is waiting for you; it never shows your writing.
How do I keep a copy of my writing?
From a saved page, tap Share this writing. In the Studio tab you can compose a Share Card, export a PDF keepsake or print a blank page. Nothing leaves the app unless you pick a destination in the share sheet.
What does "Pick a line from my recent writing" do?
In Threads, it picks one line, word for word, from your recent writing. On iOS 26 devices with Apple Intelligence the choice is made by Apple's on-device model; otherwise your most recent line is shown. Nothing is sent anywhere, and you can turn it off in Settings ▸ Reflections.
Which workbooks are free?
Small Good Things, Daily Check-In and Common Thread's daily page are free for good, and every workbook's guide is free to read. Whispering Quill Plus opens the other sixteen workbooks and all of Common Thread, and removes the watermark from PDFs. Library shows Free or Plus on each cover.
How do I start Whispering Quill Plus?
Open any workbook marked Plus in the Library and tap See Plus, or go to Settings (the ⋯ button on the Desk tab) ▸ Whispering Quill Plus ▸ See Plus or restore purchases. Choose Yearly (it starts with a 7-day free trial), Monthly, or Lifetime, a one-time purchase that includes workbooks added later. The terms for each plan are shown under the button before you buy.
How do I cancel Plus?
Settings (the ⋯ button on the Desk tab) ▸ Whispering Quill Plus ▸ Manage subscription, or in the iPhone Settings app ▸ your name ▸ Subscriptions. Cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Your pages stay on your device either way.
I bought a collection before. What happens now?
It keeps everything it unlocked: Inner Compass or Wonder Archive opens the same workbooks as before, plus all of Common Thread, Life Compass and Goals and Habits. Use Restore Purchases on a new device. Workbooks added later come with Plus or Lifetime.
Why did the workbook names change?
They now say what each workbook is for. Margins of Joy is Small Good Things, Wildflower Heart is Inner Child, Break the Chains is Habit Reset, Soft Whisper, Strong Heart is Self-Compassion, Tears & Thunder is Big Feelings, Sacred Lines is Healthy Boundaries, True North is Being Myself, Brave the Unknown is Brave Steps and Goal Mastery is Goals and Habits. Everything you wrote is where it was.
How do I find a question again?
Library ▸ the search field at the top ▸ type a word or two. It finds workbooks and any of their questions, including Go deeper follow-ups. Tap a question to open its page with that question showing.
How do I get back to the page I was writing on?
Desk ▸ Pick up where you left off opens the page you last wrote on. On a page, the dots at the top show every section, filled when you have written there, and tapping one jumps to it. The line under the page title says when your writing was saved.
Where do I choose my core values?
Library ▸ Life Compass ▸ Core Values. Being Myself's Living My Values page shows the values you choose there, and Common Thread's constellation starts from them.
Where do my check-ins and goals go?
They stay on your device with the rest of your journal. Daily Check-In's look-back and the habit streaks in Goals and Habits are worked out on the device from what you entered. Links in the Motivation Vault open in Safari only when you tap them.
Do I need an account?
No. Whispering Quill works without signing in.
Where is my data kept?
On your device. We don’t have a copy, so we can’t recover it if you delete the app; keep your device backed up.
How do I restore my purchases?
Settings (the ⋯ button on the Desk tab) ▸ Whispering Quill Plus ▸ See Plus or restore purchases ▸ Restore Purchases. Use the same Apple Account you bought with. If your purchase still doesn’t appear, email us.
How do I cancel my subscription?
Open Settings ▸ your name ▸ Subscriptions ▸ Whispering Quill, then Cancel Subscription. You keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for.
How do I get a refund?
Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple: request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.
How do I delete my data?
In the app: Settings ▸ Erase everything and start over removes your pages, drawings, cards, portraits, Desk, settings, reminder, widget data and temporary exports, then returns to the welcome tour. Apple purchases stay restorable; copies you exported or backed up are not affected. Deleting Whispering Quill from your device removes what it keeps in its own storage. If you've bought something, a random purchase identifier that the app keeps in the iOS Keychain can stay on the device after the app is deleted, so your purchases can be matched again; it doesn't identify you.
Privacy and terms
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