A Memory Keeping App for iPhone
Memory keeping usually means photos. Albums, scrapbook pages, a project box on a shelf, a folder of exports you meant to sort. It’s a lovely practice and people make beautiful things with it, but it asks for an afternoon, and afternoons are the thing in short supply.
Little Memory is the small version: a line about today, a photo if you have one, and that’s the keeping done. It’s been running since 2011 — over 1,000,000 memories saved by over 30,000 people, featured by Apple three times.
exactly one week ago
Wednesday, Jul 1, 2026
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Photos remember the event, words remember the day
Your camera roll already holds thousands of pictures, and it’s a genuinely good record of where you went. What it can’t hold is what the day was actually like: who you were annoyed with, what you were putting off, the small ordinary business of being you that year.
One sentence covers what a photo can’t. Sam started walking. Forgot the passwords again. Good soup. Fifteen seconds, and the day is kept in a way a picture on its own doesn’t manage. You can add a photo to any entry too, so the two sit together instead of in separate places.
Keeping is only half of it
The trouble with most memory 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 is not 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 a year ago. The happy coincidences start early, and the further you get, the further back it reaches. Ten years in, an ordinary Tuesday hands you five other Tuesdays.
For personal history, kept lightly
People come to this wanting different things — a record for their kids, a personal history they can hand on, notes toward a memoir someday, or just proof that the years happened. A line a day serves all of it, because what makes those things worth having is density rather than polish. Ten years of one-liners is a fuller account of a life than three heartfelt essays and an eight-year gap.
And it stays yours. Your entries are private by default, there’s no social login, you can search every year of them in seconds, and you can export the whole thing whenever you like.
If you’ve tried and stopped
Most people have a half-finished memory project somewhere, and it isn’t a character flaw — the projects are just bigger than a normal week. This one is sized for a normal week. Miss a few days and nothing breaks; the gaps are part of the record too.
What you get
- The reminder comes to you. A nightly email, and replying to it saves the day’s line.
- 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.