A record with room for the truth
A location history you can read.
Coordinates tell you where you were. A useful diary keeps the route, the place and the context together, then leaves the meaning to you.
One email when the app is ready. Nothing else.
The short version
A map is the beginning, not the memory.
A location history diary records the physical part of a day. It can show the route you took, the places where you stayed and the trips that grew out of those days. It cannot know what the day felt like by looking at coordinates.
Journary keeps those two things separate. It records movement on your iPhone, organizes the record into maps and trips, and gives you space to write what the phone could never infer.
What it can record
The facts under the story.
Journary works from location evidence and the context you choose to add. The record can become more useful over time because you can correct a place, remove a day or search the history instead of relying on a half-remembered photo roll.
If you opt in to Apple Health, Journary can add movement measures such as steps and floors climbed. Those reads are handled through HealthKit on the device. They are extra context, not a verdict about how a day went.
- Location points and route legs.
- Places and automatic trip chapters.
- Daily maps and longer date ranges.
- Optional Health movement data.
- Photos and your own written notes.
- Route image and video exports planned for V1.
What it cannot know
Coordinates do not explain a life.
A location history can show that you spent an afternoon near a cafe. It cannot know that you met an old friend there, changed your mind about something or had a terrible day. It cannot reliably infer who was with you or what you meant to remember.
That is why Journary keeps correction and writing in the same place as the route. Let the phone keep the facts. Add the part only you can supply.
- A route cannot explain why you took it.
- A place cannot tell the diary how it felt.
- Movement data is not a medical conclusion.
- Your note is the authority on your memory.
Private by design
Keep the history out of a location profile.
Journary has no location server of its own. Your journal is stored on the iPhone. A normal encrypted device or iCloud backup can include it, but Journary provides no live sync.
Product records describe place correction and deletion controls. Route image and video exports are planned for V1, with release-build confirmation still open.
- No Journary account is needed for the location journal.
- Normal encrypted device or iCloud backup.
- Correction and deletion controls.
- Route image and video exports planned for V1.
Free and Pro
The record does not expire.
Free users can keep recording, writing and storing new days. Their latest 365 days stay open. Older entries, routes, places, search results, summaries, totals and exports stay stored but locked.
Lifetime Pro opens all retained history. The planned US price is $19.99 through October 31, 2026, then $69.99. There is no subscription, trial or renewal. Journary is in development and is not yet in the App Store.
- Keep recording and writing new days.
- Open your latest 365 days.
- Older history stays stored.
- One lifetime Pro purchase opens every retained day.
Good to know
What does a location history diary record?
It can record location points, routes, places and trips, then show them by day or date range. Journary also keeps optional photos, Health movement data and your own writing with the record.
Can a location history diary know how I felt?
No. A route can provide context, but it cannot know what a place meant to you. Journary leaves space for your own note instead of presenting an inference as a memory.
Does Journary keep the location history on a server?
No Journary server receives your location history. The app stores it on your iPhone. A normal encrypted backup can include the journal, but Journary provides no live sync. The full product boundary is described on the privacy page.
Is a location history diary free?
Journary lets free users keep recording and open their latest 365 days. Older history stays stored but locked. Lifetime Pro opens every retained day, including history recorded before purchase.
Coming to iPhone
Keep the places. Add what they meant.
Journary is coming to iPhone. Join the waitlist and start keeping the days that are easy to lose.
One email when the app is ready. Nothing else.