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Private beta · iPhone

The journal that
writes itself.

Photos, places, music, sleep, workouts — woven into a complete, searchable memory of every day, automatically. Stored on your phone. Nowhere else. Built for people Day One and Apple Journal left wanting more.

Private by default. No account. No Retrography cloud. Optional AI only when you ask.

Read: Apple Journal still has no “On This Day.” Retrography does →

A day in Retrography — Thursday April 2, Singapore in golden hour: journal entry, photos on the timeline, places, music, running route
A day in Retrography — Sunday April 5 with photos, journal, weather, mood, mini-map, daily timeline
A day in Retrography rendered as a color-coded vertical timeline: places, sleep, music, and movement hour by hour

One day in the archive

This is what a Thursday looks like.

A full day in Retrography: journal entry, photos placed on the timeline, places visited, music, running route, sleep and movement
  • The entry you wrote, or dictated on a walk
  • Every photo from the day, placed at the hour you took it
  • The places you went, mapped, with arrival and leaving times
  • The music you played, hour by hour
  • Sleep, steps, workouts and the morning's weather
  • The same date in past years, resurfaced every day

You lived it. Retrography wrote it down.

Kept whole, kept yours

Journal entries you wrote. Photos you took. Music you played. Places you walked through. Tasks you finished, and the news from that morning. One page per day, every day, indefinitely.

Everything stays on your phone. No accounts. No cloud but your own iCloud. When AI summarizes your months, your words travel encrypted from your phone straight to the model. They never touch our servers and are never stored.

From the beta inbox

Strangers, on why they signed up.

“Found it on Reddit, the screenshot looks amazing. Would love to give it a shot.”
“I’m on a perpetual hunt every few years for a better journal app. Especially one that doesn’t feel like a toy.”
“I really like Apple Journal, and the only thing I miss is the ‘On This Day’ feature.”
“No subscription. No roach motel. And ‘share’ entries via PDF.”
“I hate that my memory isn’t great. My wife and my friends often have clear, detailed memories.”
“This is a feature I’ve been looking for for a long time.”

from beta signup messages · 100+ testers in the private beta

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