For iPhone · Journaling
You photograph everything and write down almost none of it. Memoires reads your camera roll on your iPhone and asks about the weekend you spent away, while you still remember what happened.
Free to start · Your entries stay on your device
Cadaqués · 6 photos
You took them and wrote nothing.
Why journals fail
Most journalling apps hand you an empty box and hope you feel inspired. You don’t, so you stop, and the year vanishes anyway. Memoires starts at the other end. Your camera roll already holds a better record of last February than your memory does.
How it works
In the background, on your iPhone, it groups recent photos by time and place: a weekend away, or a Saturday that clearly wasn’t ordinary. None of it leaves the phone.
A quiet notification: you haven’t written about Cadaqués yet. There’s a daily reminder too, if you want one. Both are scheduled by the phone itself, not sent from a server.
You open it and the photos, the date and the place are already there. Type, or dictate it out loud while you’re walking home. Two minutes later you have the entry.
Features
Most journals wait for you to open them. Memoires notices when you have taken a lot of photos in one place over a day or two, and offers you that as an entry to write. It works this out on your iPhone, in the background, and never uploads a photo to do it.
Pull in shots straight from your camera roll, or take one in the app. A photo and two lines is a finished entry.
Talk instead of typing. For most languages the transcription runs on your iPhone, so the recording never reaches a server.
Tidy up a rambling entry into something readable. It’s a paid extra, and it only ever touches the single entry you tap it on.
Scroll it as one long stream, or step back to a month at a time.
Tag how the day felt and where it happened. The location sits inside the entry on your phone and never reaches a server.
Search everything you’ve written for a name or a city, and open the day it happened.
Face ID on the app if you want it, and optional iCloud sync across your own devices.
Screenshots
A day it found in your photos
The timeline, newest first
An entry, with the photos that started it
Mood, photos and location in one place
Filter by how the day felt
A month at a time
Privacy
Reading someone’s photo library is a lot to ask. So the scanning happens on your iPhone and the results stay there. Memoires makes its money from subscriptions.
Read the full privacy policyIn development
We’re working on connecting Memoires to photo album printers, so a year of entries can come back as something you can put on a shelf. Once a year, or after a trip worth printing.
Not available yet. It’s on the roadmap, and the app you can download today doesn’t include it.
The road east
Pulled over three times in an hour because the light kept changing on us. The falls are loud enough that you stop trying to talk…
The habit is the hard part. Memoires starts the entry for you, so all that’s left is a few lines. Free to start, on iPhone.