DayJar Help

A calm answer when you need one.

Short, reviewed guides for entries, photos, memories, places, and your privacy.

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Getting started

Create your first entryStart with text, a photo, or a short voice memo.

Entries and Day Recap

Use Day RecapChoose photos from a day and turn them into a journal entry.Search and find entriesSearch text, tags, and people in your local journal.

Photos, places, and maps

Keep or remove a photo locationDecide for each memory whether a place belongs with it.View places on the mapSee memories with a retained photo location on a map.

Memories and reflections

How Memories workFind entries from past years when their date returns.

Privacy and local data

Where your journal data is storedDayJar stores journal content locally and does not require an account.

Troubleshooting

Change photo accessChoose in iOS which photos DayJar is allowed to see.