You’ve been recording for a week. Every day, ten seconds. The sphere changes color. You listen back, you notice something, you come back the next day.

Then one morning you open the calendar and see something new: a small snowflake icon on the entries from last week. You tap one. Nothing happens.

Your moments have frozen.

This is Inner Dispatch working exactly as designed — and understanding why changes how you think about what you’re building here.

Why Entries Freeze After 7 Days

Most apps give you unlimited access to everything you’ve ever stored. Inner Dispatch doesn’t, and the reason is deliberate.

The free experience is built around the present. Seven days of recordings — a week of your life, in your own voice, available to listen back whenever you want. That window is generous enough to build the habit, to hear yesterday’s entry and the one from five days ago, to notice the small shifts in your own voice from one day to the next.

After seven days, those entries freeze. Not deleted — frozen. The recordings are still there, still yours, still shaped into the sphere that belongs to that specific moment. They’re just no longer accessible in the free tier.

This isn’t an arbitrary restriction. It’s what makes the Memory Plan mean something.

When the ability to revisit the past costs something, the past becomes worth something. A journal you can access forever with no friction is one you rarely return to. An archive you’ve chosen to unlock — a specific week, a particular month, a whole year — is one you actually sit with.

The freeze is the feature.

What You See in the Calendar

Tap the calendar icon at the bottom left of the main screen to open the calendar view.

The calendar shows every day you’ve recorded. Days with entries appear as colored dots — each color reflecting the emotional tone of that day’s recording, determined by what you said. Days from the last seven days are fully accessible. Days older than seven days show a small ❄️ snowflake icon alongside the dot.

Those frozen entries are still visible. You can see the color. You can see that something was recorded. You just can’t hear it yet.

Below the calendar, you’ll notice a section called Your days. In order. — with a lock icon and the note “For Memory Plan members.” This is the queue feature: the ability to play a week, a month, or an entire year as a single continuous experience. More on that shortly.

At the bottom of the calendar, a small note reads: Moments freeze after 7 days. Memory Plan lets you revisit them anytime. Tap About Memory Plan to open the plan selection screen.

How the Memory Plan Works

The Memory Plan isn’t a subscription. It’s a set of one-time purchases — you buy access to a specific period, and that period is yours to revisit whenever you want.

There are three tiers:

Weekly — $1.99 Unlock one week of recordings. All entries from that seven-day period become playable again, individually or as a continuous queue. The price is the same whether you recorded one day or all seven — the card shows you how many entries are inside before you buy. Weeks with no recordings at all aren’t available for purchase.

Monthly — $9.99 Unlock one full month. Every recording from that month becomes accessible. The monthly card shows a preview of the sphere cluster from that period — a visual hint of what that month’s emotional tone looked like before you even press play.

Annual — $49.99 Unlock an entire year. Every recording from January through December, playable in sequence. At ten seconds per entry, a full year of daily recordings becomes approximately sixty minutes of your own voice — a complete audio portrait of who you were across twelve months.

Each tier shows you a preview of the sphere cluster before you purchase — a small, atmospheric glimpse of the period you’re about to unlock, shaped by the emotional texture of everything you recorded during that time.

The Queue: Your Days, In Order

Once you’ve unlocked a period, the queue feature becomes available for that range.

The queue plays your entries as a single continuous experience — each recording flows into the next, in chronological order, with the sphere animating between them. It uses the same playback screen as individual entries, but instead of stopping after one recording, it moves through the entire week, month, or year without interruption.

What this feels like in practice is different from anything a written journal can produce. You’re not reading entries. You’re not skimming. You’re sitting with your own voice, moving through time at the pace it was actually recorded — ten seconds at a time, each moment distinct, each sphere shifting color and movement as your voice changes from one day to the next.

A weekly queue runs for roughly a minute, depending on how many days you recorded. A monthly queue runs five to ten minutes. An annual queue — if you’ve recorded every day — runs about sixty minutes.

Sixty minutes of your own voice, from a year of your life. One unfiltered moment per day, played in order from January to December. The person you were in the first week of the year, speaking into a phone before the year had really started. The version of yourself from the middle of summer. The voice from the last few days of December, when the year was almost over.

That’s what the Annual queue is. There’s nothing else quite like it.

Which Plan Makes Sense for You

The right choice depends on what you want to revisit and why.

Start with Weekly if you’re new to the Memory Plan and want to understand what the queue experience feels like before committing to more. Pick a week that mattered — a trip, a difficult stretch, a week when something shifted — and listen back to it in order. A week is short enough to be a low-stakes experiment and long enough to feel the continuity.

Choose Monthly for a broader retrospective. The monthly queue is long enough to hear real patterns — the way your voice changes across a month, the emotional arc from the beginning to the end of a four-week period. It’s also the most practical tier for regular use: one month unlocked every few months gives you a meaningful way to revisit your recent past without unlocking everything at once.

The Annual plan is for a specific moment: the end of the year. Or the beginning of the next one. Or whenever you want to understand a full twelve months of who you were. It’s the most complete version of what Inner Dispatch is designed to produce, and it’s the experience the whole practice is building toward.

There’s no wrong choice. Each tier unlocks the same quality of experience — the difference is scale.

Common Questions About the Memory Plan

Are frozen entries deleted if I don’t buy a plan?

No. Your recordings are never deleted. Freezing means they’re inaccessible in playback, not gone. If you unlock a period six months after it froze, the recordings will be exactly as you left them.

Can I unlock specific days rather than a full week or month?

Currently the Memory Plan works in weekly, monthly, and annual blocks rather than individual days. This is intentional — the queue experience is designed around continuity, and individual day unlocks would undermine the sequential listening that makes it meaningful.

What if I missed days during a period I’ve unlocked?

You only hear the days you actually recorded. If you recorded four days out of seven in a given week, the queue plays those four entries in order. The number of recordings in each period is shown on the card before you purchase, so you know exactly what’s inside.

Do I need to listen to everything in one sitting?

No. Once you’ve unlocked a period, it stays unlocked. You can start the weekly queue, pause halfway through, and come back to it the next day. The access doesn’t expire.

Is the Memory Plan a subscription?

No. Each purchase is a one-time payment for a specific period. You’re not charged monthly — you buy exactly what you want, when you want it.

Your Next Step

If you’ve been recording for more than a week, you already have frozen entries waiting.

Open the calendar — the icon at the bottom left of the main screen — and take a look at what’s there. The colored dots with snowflake icons are the moments you’ve captured that you can no longer hear. Each one is still yours. Each sphere still holds the shape of what you said and how you said it on that specific day.

When you’re ready to go back, the Memory Plan will be there. Start with a week that mattered, or wait until you have a month worth revisiting. The recordings aren’t going anywhere.

Curious about what the annual replay experience actually feels like? [Your Year in 60 Minutes: The Annual Replay Experience] goes deeper into what it means to listen back to a full year of your own voice.