YearDiary Your personal journal, always with you.
Write your thoughts, revisit your past, and keep your story safe, across every device, for a lifetime.
TIME TRAVEL FOR YOUR MEMORIES
What did you do this day last year?
YearDiary shows you your past entries for today, across every year you’ve been writing. One small habit. A lifetime of memories.
Your thoughts, beautifully captured
Look back on 1, 5 or 10 years
iPhone, iPad and Mac in sync
Private and safe, today and always
Not sure what to write in your journal?
Sometimes, all you need is a good question to get started.
This free guide includes 365 prompts to help you reflect, notice the little things and capture moments you might otherwise forget. Start today!
BLOG & ARTICLES
Thoughts on journaling, memory and wellbeing.
Inspiration, guides and much more about living, traveling and writing diary.
Anniversary Journaling Reading the Same Date Every Year
Six to ten, and no more. An anniversary journal falls apart when you try to mark every date that ever mattered, because at that point it's a schedule with obligations attached. Keep the dates...
Time Capsule Journal
Write a Message to Your Future Self
A time capsule journal is a diary you write for the person you'll be later. You date an entry, seal the thought, and read it back on a chosen day in the future...
Keeping a Baby Journal
A Simple Day-by-Day Memory Diary
A baby journal is a short daily record of your child's first years: what they did, said and sounded like. One or two lines a day is enough. The habit matters more than the length.
What to Do When You Miss a Day of Journaling
The gap is not the problem. What people do about the gap is the problem, and it is usually the reason the journal gets abandoned. If you've missed a day of journaling, the fix is to...
How Long Does It Take for Journaling to Become a Habit?
Lally et al. (2010), published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, found that new behaviours took a median of about 66 days to feel automatic, with individual times...
One Line a Day Journal The Alternative to the Classic Book
A one line a day journal is a dated diary where you write a single sentence per day, with several years of that same date stacked on one page, so you can read them together.
A CLOSER LOOK
Every detail,
thoughtfully designed.
From your first entry to your thousandth, YearDiary feels beautiful every time you open it.
WHY YEARDIARY
YearDiary for the long run
A journal is only valuable if it grows with you.
YearDiary is designed to be there every day, and every year after.
Write freely
A calm writing experience designed to help your thoughts flow naturally every day.
Look back in time
See what you wrote 1, 5 or 10 years ago today. Your past self always has something to say.
Every device, in sync
Write on your iPhone, continue on your iPad, reflect on your Mac. Always seamlessly in sync.
Private by design
Your journal stays on your device and iCloud. No servers, no third parties. Only you.
YOUR PRIVACY
Stored only on your iCloud and device.
No account required
Start writing immediately. No signup, no email, no password, unless you want one.
iCloud sync, your data
Everything syncs via your own iCloud. We never see, store or touch your entries.
Password protected
Lock your journal with Face ID, Touch ID or a custom passcode. Your words, your eyes only.
THE STORY BEHIND
Why we built the YearDiary App
Between us we’ve bought at least five regular diaries and two five-year diaries. We’ve started every one of them. And we’ve stopped every one of them too. Lost them, forgotten them, or convinced ourselves that missing a day meant we’d failed somehow.
The problem was never the habit. It was the format.
With a journal that’s always in your pocket, always with you, that barrier disappears. No searching for the book. No guilt about the gap. Just a few lines, today’s weather, a small observation, something you noticed, that over time grows into something you actually want to look back on.
We’ve always loved writing by hand. There’s something about pen on paper that feels different, slower, more honest. So the feature we dreamed of most was the one that lets you photograph a handwritten page and keep it here, alongside everything else.
Jenny and Greger
