A Private Diary App
the tiny lock, grown up
Childhood diaries came with a tiny lock, and the lock was the whole point. Not because the contents were scandalous — they were mostly grievances about siblings — but because knowing nobody else would read it was what made writing it possible. A diary is the one place you don’t have to phrase things carefully.
Little Memory is built on that instinct. It’s a diary app that’s private by default, all the way down, because the honest sentences only come out with the door closed.
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
Peaches at the stand. Bought far too many.
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.
No audience, by design
There’s no feed, no followers, no comments, and no social login. Nothing you write is shareable by accident, because there’s nowhere for it to go. Your diary has an audience of exactly one: you, later. That changes what gets written — the unflattering days, the worries you’re not ready to say out loud, the things that are only true at 11pm. Those are the entries that turn out to be worth having.
Private but not trapped
Privacy shouldn’t mean your own words are hard to get back. Everything is searchable across every year, backed up nightly, and yours to export in full whenever you like. The app has been quietly running since 2011 — over 1,000,000 private entries from over 30,000 people, featured by Apple three times — with support straight from the developer.
What do you write in a diary this private? One line about today is plenty — about fifteen seconds. There’s a page on writing the day without overthinking it, one on putting feelings into words, and the little tour shows the whole quiet thing.
