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A journal that notices.
Tap a mood. Write a line if you feel like it, or don’t. Once a week, Dayglean reads what you gave it and hands back one specific observation about your own life. Not a chart. Not an affirmation. Something you can check against your own entries.
The journal is free for good. Writing, voice, search, the calendar and PDF export cost nothing. Dayglean+ adds the weekly read, video moments and making books.
Thirty seconds a day
Write almost nothing.
A day’s record is a moment: one mood, and whatever else you want to keep with it. Text, a photo, your voice. Prompts are optional, the day has no limit, and you can close the app the second you have tapped.
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Tap a mood
Five faces. That alone is a complete moment, and the streak counts it.
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Add a line, or don’t
A sentence, a photo, or your voice. Come back later and add more to the same day.
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Read it back on Sunday
One observation, drawn from the week you actually recorded.
The Pattern Drop
Once a week, one thing you did not know.
Every Drop names what it found and lists the moments it was written from. Open the list and each one is there with its date and its first words, and tapping it takes you to the moment itself, so you can judge the Drop against your own writing instead of taking its word for it. It reports what is in the record and stops. Weekly on Dayglean+, once a month on the free plan.
You felt heavy mid-week on very little sleep, then bounced back once you moved your body.
Drawn from 6 moments, 12 to 18 Oct.
The days you scored highest this month were mostly days with something on the calendar before noon.
Three of the last four dips landed on a Sunday.
The last four times a day was scored this low, it lifted inside three days.
The word “behind” appeared in six entries this month, always in the same context.
Example wording throughout. Not anyone's real entries.
What is in it
Cheap to write in. Worth reading back.
Pattern Drops
One named, specific observation from your own entries, with its sources cited, and never a read you already marked as missed. One a month on the free plan; Dayglean+ makes it weekly, with follow-up chat.
Hear back
Write eight words or more and a reply comes back in the Drop’s voice, two to four sentences, naming the earlier moments it drew on. Three a week free, no cap on Dayglean+.
Video moments
Record up to twenty seconds of your day and it stays on that day in your Timeline. Pick the frame, give it a look, and in English turn what you said into words, all on your phone. Share video sends a copy wherever you choose. Recording comes with the free trial and Dayglean+; the videos you keep stay yours to watch and share.
Keeps coming up
The people, places and things you name in your own writing, with the mood that sits beside each one. Worked out on your phone, never on ours.
Books
Bind a season of moments into a book you can read straight through, photos included, with its own cover. Making one comes with the free trial and Dayglean+; the books you make stay yours to read and share.
Try it for two weeks
Name one thing to try, mark each day, and after fourteen days your own moods give the verdict. A Drop can suggest the test from what it noticed, and the result comes back in a later Drop.
Speak it instead
Tap the mic and talk. The page follows your voice line by line, so you can watch your words land while you think out loud.
A year on one screen
The calendar turns your months into a mood heatmap, and the timeline folds into months and weeks, so last March is three taps away.
Search and look back
Full search across everything you have written, plus a recap of a stretch of days, built entirely on your device.
Yours on paper
Export the whole journal, photos included, as a PDF. Accents, paper grounds, patterns and alternate app icons make it your own notebook.
In your language
Every screen in English, German, French, Italian and Turkish. Pick one in Settings without changing your phone, and what Dayglean writes back to you comes in that language too.
Streaks without guilt
Freeze days are built in and refill on their own. Eight milestones from three days to a full year. Nothing wilts, nothing shames you back.
One app, every screen
It sits where the day already is.
Log it from the widget on your home screen, or from your wrist, in about a second. Read the month back on the iPad. Turn on iCloud and it is the same journal everywhere, still yours alone.
- iPhone the whole app, and where the writing usually happens
- Home screen widget the week at a glance, a tap logs today
- Apple Watch five faces, one tap, no keyboard
- iPad a month of colour, laid out for the bigger screen
Where your entries go
Nowhere but your own iCloud.
They stay on your phone, protected by Face ID if you want it, and backed up to your own iCloud, which you can switch off in Settings. The Pattern Drop, Hear back and the yearly letter are the only parts that can send anything out. Each is off until you turn it on, on a plain-language consent screen that lists every field it sends. Photos and videos are never sent anywhere by Dayglean.
- Entries stay on your device and your iCloud
- Never used to train an AI model
- No account, no sign up, no third party libraries
- No ads, and your words are never sold
Pricing
One price, nothing hidden behind it.
The journal and nearly everything in it is free for good. Dayglean+ is the Pattern Drop side of the app, plus recording video moments and making books.
Free
Forever
- Unlimited moments: mood, text, photos, voice
- Every video you recorded, to watch and share
- Timeline, calendar, search and recap
- Every book you made, to read and share
- PDF export of everything
- Accents, papers, patterns and app icons
- Face ID app lock
- One Pattern Drop a month, three Hear backs a week
Dayglean+
$4.99 a month, or $29.99 a year
- A Pattern Drop every week
- Ask about any Drop, and a different read when one misses
- Hear back with no weekly cap
- Standing signal cards on Patterns
- Try it: name one thing, mark fourteen days, read the verdict
- A letter about your year, on the anniversary of your first moment
- Video moments: record up to twenty seconds of your day
- Books: bind a season of moments into a book
Your free run of Dayglean+ starts when you save your first moment and lasts until your second Pattern Drop lands or 21 days pass, whichever comes first. Both plans then open with a week free. One paid tier, no second paywall inside it, and the price never changes without Apple telling you first. Cancel in Settings any time.
The measure is not the download count.
It is whether somebody learned one true thing about themselves and changed something because of it.
Download on the App Store