A Memory Keeping App for iPhone
the words for your pocket pages, kept as you go
If you keep memories, you know the shape of the week. The photos get taken. The pocket pages are waiting. And the journaling cards sit there blank, because by the time the layout gets made, the Tuesday in question is three weeks gone and all that’s left of it is a picture of a sandwich.
The words are the hard part. Not because they’re hard to write, but because they have to be written on the day, and the day is when there’s no time for the album.
Little Memory is a little diary for your iPhone that fits inside that gap. A reminder arrives in the evening, you write one line about today, about fifteen seconds, and the day is kept. When the pages get made, the words are already there, dated, in your own voice.
exactly one week ago
Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026
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Your memories come back
Write one line tonight and that’s your journaling for the day. Seven days on it turns up again, and after that it keeps turning up.
- a week later
- a month
- three months
- six months
- a year
- every year after
little memory
now
Exactly 1 year ago
Power out all evening. We ate cold noodles by candlelight.
Have it come to you at an hour you pick, or leave notifications off and find them waiting the next time you open the app.
Photos remember the event, words remember the day
Your camera roll is a good record of where you went. What it can’t hold is what the day was like: who you were annoyed with, what you were putting off, the thing someone said at dinner. Sam started walking. Forgot the passwords again. Good soup. That’s a journaling card. It took fifteen seconds, and it says more than the sandwich.
You can add a photo to any entry too, so the picture and the line sit together, and the album gets both.
Memory keeping that reads itself back
The trouble with most keeping is that it’s all storage and no return. The albums get made and shelved. The photos get backed up and never opened. The memories are safe, which isn’t quite the same as being part of your life.
Little Memory brings them back without being asked. Each time you open it, you get what you wrote a week ago, a month ago, and on this date in every year you’ve kept. Ten years in, an ordinary Tuesday hands you five other Tuesdays. The happy coincidences start early, and the further you get, the further back it reaches.
I’ve been using it for five years from my move from the UK to Australia. The memories it holds are so special to me, and have seen me through the highs and lows of relocating, getting married, buying a house and having a baby!
S.B., reader letter
It goes with the album, not instead of it
Nothing here replaces the pages. The app holds the day until you’re ready to make something of it, and if you never get to the layout for March, March is still kept. For a December Daily or a Week in the Life, it’s the running list of what happened, night by night, so the words don’t have to be reconstructed in January.
Everything is private by default, your entries are backed up to your own iCloud, you can search every year in seconds, and you can export the whole thing whenever you like.
If the project stalled
Most people have a half-finished memory project somewhere. Usually the project was just bigger than a normal week. This one is sized for a normal evening. Miss a few days and nothing breaks; the gaps are part of the record too, and the album never needed every day anyway.
What you get
- The reminder comes to you. A gentle nudge each evening, at an hour you pick.
- A photo counts as an entry. Some days the memory is a picture.
- Your old days, returning. A week, a month, and a year ago, every time you visit.
- Everything findable. Search all your years at once.
- Nothing lost. Automated nightly backups, and export any time.
Take the little tour, or read more about keeping a memory journal and remembering every day.
