Thirty seconds every evening
A journal fails when it asks for an evening. Almanac asks for thirty seconds: one frame, two lines, one emoji. The days stack up into a mosaic of your year, and at the end of it you have a book you could actually put on a shelf.
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Daily Diary, Mood & Memories
Almanac is an offline photo journal that takes thirty seconds a day: one frame, two lines, a mood and a score. Your days become a colour mosaic, a yearly recap and a printable book — all stored on your device.
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How it works
Almanac is built around one small evening ritual. Four steps take you from an empty app to a year you can hold.
Most journals open on a blank page and stay there. Almanac offers to scan your photo library on the device, pick the best frame from each recent day, and let you keep or drop each one — so your first evening already has something in it.
Pick a frame, write two lines, tap a mood and score the day out of ten. Anything else — weather, place, the people you were with, tags — is folded away under "add details" and is entirely optional. There is a prompt for the evenings when nothing comes to mind.
The mosaic shows every day as its own photo; the mood view recolours the same grid by score, so a rough month is visible without reading a word. Search finds a day by note, place, person, tag or date, and "a year ago today" brings the old ones back on its own.
Statistics count your happiest days, the places you go, the people you see and which tags actually lift your score. The yearly recap plays it back as a story you can share, and the printable almanac lays out one page per day as a PDF you can save or print.
What it helps with
Almanac is an offline photo journal that takes thirty seconds a day: one frame, two lines, a mood and a score. Your days become a colour mosaic, a yearly recap and a printable book — all stored on your device.
A photo, a two-line note, a mood and a score out of ten. Weather, place, people and tags are folded away under "add details" — optional, every one of them. There is a prompt for the evenings when nothing comes to mind.
Almanac can scan your photo library on the device and suggest the best frame from each recent day, so your first evening already has something in it instead of a blank page you are supposed to fill.
Every day is its own photo in a grid of the year. Switch to the mood view and the same grid recolours by score, so a rough month is visible without reading a single word.
Search runs on the device across notes, places, people, tags and dates. "A year ago today" brings old entries back on its own, and the map shows the days you attached a place to.
Statistics compare days with each tag against all your other days, so you can see what actually raises your score — counted from your own year, not from anyone else's.
The recap plays your year back as a story you can share, and the printable almanac lays out one page per day as an A5 PDF you can save, share or print.
Why it matters
Only days recorded on the day itself extend a streak. Days filled in from your library, or completed later, are marked as backfilled and deliberately excluded. A streak that could be purchased would not tell you anything about the habit you were trying to build.
Everything runs on the device: the library scan, the search, the statistics, the recap and the PDF. There is no account, no cloud sync and no ads inside the app, and Settings has a one-tap JSON export so your years are never held hostage.
What Almanac is
Almanac is a photo journal for iOS and Android built around one entry a day: a frame, a short note, a mood and a score out of ten. It keeps everything on the device, shows the year as a mosaic you can read at a glance, counts statistics from your own entries, and ends the year with a shareable recap and a print-ready almanac.
One small ritual, repeated. The editor opens on the four things that matter and hides everything else, so an entry finishes before you can talk yourself out of it.
A journal is only worth keeping if it gives something back. Almanac reads your own year to you rather than asking you to reread it.
Photographs of your days, notes about how they went, and the people in them do not belong on someone else's server. Almanac is offline-first and specific about the little that leaves the phone.
FAQ
About thirty seconds. The editor opens on the four things that matter — a photo, a short note, a mood emoji and a score out of ten — and everything else is hidden behind "add details". You can skip any of it; a single frame is a valid day.
On your device, in a local database, and the photos and videos you pick are copied into the app's own folder so a memory survives your phone clearing its cache or you deleting the original from the gallery. Almanac works fully offline and there is no account to create.
Yes. The backfill wizard scans your photo library on the device and suggests one frame per past day. Your first week includes the last seven days for free; completing older pages is a Premium feature. Backfilled days are marked as such and do not count toward your streak — a streak you could buy would not mean anything.
Completing older pages through backfill, and keeping more than one frame a day: up to three photos, collages, and short video. Premium also removes the watermark from the printable PDF and exports it at full quality. Everything else is free — writing a day, your streak, search, the mosaic and mood views, the statistics, badges, sharing and the JSON export.
Not yet. Almanac generates a print-ready A5 PDF on your device — one page per day, full-bleed image with your note below — which you can save, share or send to a printer yourself. A print-on-demand partner that would ship a hardcover to you is planned but not set up, so nothing in the app orders a physical book today.
No. The yearly recap is composed from your own numbers — days painted, average score, best month, most frequent tag, place and person — using fixed sentence patterns. Nothing you write is sent anywhere to be summarised.
Your entries, photos and videos stay on the device. Almanac does send anonymous usage and attribution analytics, and asks for tracking permission on iOS, so we can tell which adverts are worth paying for — your entries are never part of that, and there are no ads inside the app. Purchases are handled by the store.
Both. The app lock uses Face ID, Touch ID or your device's fingerprint and passcode, and Settings has a one-tap JSON export of every entry so your data is never held hostage by the app.
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Almanac is an offline photo journal that takes thirty seconds a day: one frame, two lines, a mood and a score. Your days become a colour mosaic, a yearly recap and a printable book — all stored on your device.
