The lifelong journal
One line a day.
A lifetime
on a page.
Echoes shows you what you wrote on this exact day — a year ago, ten years ago, and every year in between. No accounts. No cloud. No noise. Just your own quiet record of a life, kept on your phone.
Free to try · $2.99 once · no subscriptions
Morning light through the kitchen, and a short list of small things.
Rain all morning. Finished the Calvino book on the train.
Started at the studio. Nervous, then not.
Snow day. Baked bread — too much salt.
Three unbreakable pillars
Not another life-logging app.
Zero friction
Open the app and a text box for today is already waiting. No onboarding sliders, no logins, no mood wheels. Write a line, close it, done.
Privacy, absolute
Your words live entirely on your device. No analytics SDKs, no behavioural tracking, no third-party servers. Nothing leaves your phone.
Focused nostalgia
One purpose: to show you this calendar day across the years. Short, digestible entries — enough to remember by, never enough to tire of.
The daily stack
The same day, every year, in one quiet column.
Today sits at the top in an elevated card. Beneath it, the same date from years past — read-only until you tap to edit. Swipe left or right to turn the page to the next day.
Compared with a five-year diary
| A printed five-year diary | Echoes | |
|---|---|---|
| Years on a page | Five, then the book is full. | Every year you write, from your first entry on. No cap. |
| Where it lives | On a shelf, in one place. | On your phone, fully offline. No account, no cloud. |
| February 29 | Squeezed into a margin, if at all. | Its own page, once every four years. |
| A copy of your words | None, unless you photocopy it. | One tap exports everything as CSV or JSON, and imports it back. |
| Editing a past year | Cross out and squeeze in. | Tap any year and write. |
| A nudge to write | Only your memory. | One local notification at a time you choose, or none. |
| Cost over a lifetime | A new book every five years. | $2.99 once. No subscription. |
Everything it does. Nothing it doesn't.
Works fully offline
A local database on your device. No connection ever required.
Export & import
One tap to export everything as .csv or .json — and import it right back. No vendor lock-in.
A gentle reminder
One local notification at a time you choose. No server, no nagging.
A calendar to wander
Jump to any date. Days with entries carry a small, quiet dot.
A leap-day page
February 29 gets its own rare, special page — once every four years.
Your typeface
Write in an elegant serif, a clean sans, or a typewriter mono. Your choice.
Honest pricing
Pay once. Yours forever.
Write your first fourteen entries free. On the fifteenth day, unlock the app for good — one small payment, and we never ask again.
Download free — the unlock happens inside the app.
Plain answers
Questions people ask.
- Is Echoes free?
- Echoes is free to download, and the first 14 entries are free. After that, a one-time in-app purchase of $2.99 unlocks the app for life. There is no subscription and no second payment.
- Do I need an account or an internet connection?
- No. There is no sign-up, no login and no cloud. Every entry is stored in a local database on your phone, and the app works fully offline.
- Can I get my entries out again?
- Yes. One tap exports the whole journal as a CSV or JSON file through the share sheet, and the same file imports back without loss. Nothing is locked in.
- How is Echoes different from a five-year diary?
- A printed five-year diary is full after five years. Echoes has no cap: every calendar day shows every year you have written, from your first entry onward. February 29 even gets its own page.
- Does the app collect any data?
- No. The app contains no analytics, no crash reporting and no third-party tracking. Nothing you write leaves your phone unless you export it yourself.
- Can I write more than one line?
- Yes. One line a day is the habit, not a limit. The field grows with what you write, but the design favours short entries you will actually reread.
- What does Echoes leave out on purpose?
- Mood sliders, weather and location tags, AI writing prompts, social sharing and accounts. Keeping those out is a feature.
- Which phones does it run on?
- iPhone and Android. Echoes is on the App Store and Google Play, and one purchase unlocks it on the platform you bought it on.
Get in touch
Questions, bugs, or ideas?
Echoes is made by one person. Email me and it comes straight to my inbox — no ticket queue, no bot.
Email ushello@tamsolabs.com
“The faintest pencil is better than the strongest memory.”