For everyone who bought a beautiful journal and abandoned it by February
Journals fail because
they ask too much.
Twenty minutes a night. An account. A subscription. Your inner life on someone else’s server. Yearline asks for one line — and gives you back your years.
“On this day” is the whole point.
Every time you open Yearline, it shows you what you wrote on this exact date — one, two, five years ago. The entry costs you ten seconds. The reread is the reward: a conversation with who you used to be.
First day at the new job. Terrified. Wore the blue shirt for luck.
One year in. Promoted last week. The shirt is retired with honors.
Quit. Scared again, but it's the good kind of scared.
The little studio turned one today. We're okay. We're actually okay.
Reading these five lines took a minute. Living them took four years.
No accounts. No sign-ups.
No servers reading your diary.
Yearline is local-first: your words live in a database on your phone, and nowhere else. There is no cloud behind it, no analytics harvesting your moods, no company that could get breached, acquired, or curious.
- Where do my entries live?
- In an SQLite database on your device. Yearline has no backend — we couldn’t read your diary even if we wanted to.
- Can I take my data out?
- Always. Export everything to plain JSON, free, no strings. Your memories are yours in a format any tool can read.
- What if Yearline disappears?
- The app keeps working. It’s 100 % offline — nothing to shut down, no server whose plug can be pulled. And your export always works.
- How does it make money, then?
- Honestly: writing is free forever, with no ads. An optional premium unlocks extras like PDF export, backups and themes. That’s the whole business model.
Small app. Long memory.
One line. No clutter, no blank-page dread.
Your past selves, one date at a time.
A quiet grid, not a guilt trip.
Your diary, one tap from the home screen.
The Yearline widget shows today’s date, your streak and your last five weeks at a glance — and one tap opens the quick composer. Yearline offers to add it right after your first entry; you can also long-press your home screen → Widgets → Yearline, or use Settings → Add widget inside the app.
Start your five-year diary tonight.
Yearline is in closed beta on Google Play, opening to everyone this fall. Want in early? We need a handful of Android testers — and we’ll listen to every word you send us.
Join the beta or write to hello@yearline.app