Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about offloading mental clutter, privacy guarantees, and capturing ideas without friction.
Ruminate is accessible via our native iOS app, a web dashboard for viewing and managing your vault, and directly over standard SMS/MMS text messaging.
Account creation is handled exclusively through our native iOS app. Simply download Ruminate on the App Store to register and link your phone number. Once set up, your cognitive vault is fully accessible across iOS, web, and SMS.
Traditional note apps force you to navigate menus, pick folders, and format text before you can save a thought. For neurodivergent minds, that extra friction causes cognitive fatigue and lost ideas.
Ruminate eliminates the "where do I put this?" anxiety. You simply send a text, voice memo, or picture the second a thought hits. Ruminate holds the details, organizes the memory ambiently, and lets your working memory rest.
Most productivity tools act as filing cabinets that demand ongoing maintenance, manual tagging, and organization.
Ruminate acts as an external mind. There are no nested folders to curate or maintain. Ingestion happens instantly over SMS or voice notes, and retrieval happens naturally whenever you ask a question in plain English.
Ruminate is crafted for anyone seeking mental clarity and cognitive relief:
Dump chaotic thoughts without unlocking apps or managing folders. Just text your brain dumps and let our background engine handle taxonomy.
Dictate voice notes during commutes, snap whiteboard photos post-brainstorm, forward vendor receipts with #receipt, and dispatch emails via #email without opening a laptop.
Keep scattered research links, vendor specs, meeting notes, and inspiration indexed in one instantly searchable vault.
Save book recommendations with #book, snap lecture slides with #capture, and queue event reminders with #remind.
Switches give you simple, explicit control over background actions without breaking your train of thought:
- #remind: Schedules an automated SMS task reminder for any future date or time.
- #receipt: Scans invoices or receipts to archive structured financial totals and merchant details.
- #capture: Triggers verbatim document OCR with rotation immunity and automatic naming.
- #email: Formats and dispatches any note directly to a designated email address.
- #book: Groups literary notes, quotes, or reading suggestions into a dedicated list.
Yes! Ruminate offers seamless multi-modal ingestion over standard text messages:
- Voice Memos: Record a voice message over MMS. Ruminate decodes the audio instantly and produces a clean, searchable transcript in your vault.
- Photos & Whiteboards: Snap photos of whiteboards, book pages, or contracts. Standard image uploads are categorized safely under #image or converted to verbatim text with #capture.
Query your entire cognitive vault anytime over SMS using normal questions. For example, text: "What was that leadership book Sarah recommended last month?"
Ruminate searches your private vault using semantic matching and replies directly over SMS in seconds with the exact answer and date recorded.
Your cognitive vault belongs strictly to you. We protect your data with hardware-backed encryption (AES-256) at rest and in transit.
- Zero Public Model Training: Your private notes, receipts, and voice memos are NEVER used to train public AI models.
- Isolated Vault Storage: Your data sits in encrypted, dedicated cloud instances rather than shared global pools.
- 1-Click Account Purge: Export your data or permanently wipe your account at any time with a single click.
You can start offloading mental clutter for free! Our simple commercial tiers include:
- Free ($0/mo): 25 SMS messages/mo & 30-day data retention.
- Plus ($4.99/mo): 250 SMS messages/mo, 90-day retention, & Daily Digest delivery.
- Pro ($7.99/mo): 250 SMS messages/mo, 90-day retention, custom AI Daily Digest synthesis, explicit Intent Switches (#remind, #receipt, #email), and instant SMS natural language recall.
- Prime ($14.99/mo): Unlimited SMS messages, Forever data retention, full explicit Switches, and priority processing.
We love hearing from our community! Reach out anytime to share feedback, ask questions, or report issues directly at support@getruminate.com.
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