Trace: Journal, Diary & People

Fold today into a letter, press the wax and drop it into this month's mailbox. Notebooks now turn page by page. Your first 30 days of Pro are on us, no payment needed.

When the day ends, a letter is waiting for you.

You wrote it. A line jotted at lunch, a photo from the walk home, the one thing you finally finished. In the evening Trace gathers all of it onto letter paper. You press the wax, and the letter drops into a mailbox only you can open. Years from now, that letter is still there, exactly as it was.

Trace never asks you to "write a journal". One line counts.

A LETTER A DAY What you wrote, what you finished, who was on your mind, folded into an envelope before bed and stamped with today's seal. Sixteen small animals take turns at the stamp, and the same day always gets the same one. Every month has its own mailbox. Miss a day? Open that one letter. A whole letter can be saved as an image, and it syncs through your own iCloud.

NOTEBOOKS Keep one thing in one notebook, and it grows into a book. One page per screen, and the paper curls under your fingertip. Paper scraps, lace, washi tape and stickers are laid out page by page; photos go in as polaroids. Twelve covers, or a cover made from your own photo. Bind a whole notebook into a PDF, or record its real page turns as a video.

CAPTURE Photos, videos, Live Photos, voice notes, sketches, place, mood, weather. One line is enough. Write for a past day and it gets a dated mark. Comments on old entries can carry photos and videos too.

TO-DOS, GOALS, PEOPLE, DATES What happens in a day shouldn't be split across five apps. Today's tasks live on Today. Goals count how much, not just whether. Attach an entry to a person and your story with them builds itself. Birthdays, anniversaries and lunar-calendar dates nudge you a few days ahead.

CYCLE Tap to start or end a period from Today, or backfill a whole span, and the rhythm shows itself. Dates are written only to Apple Health; Trace keeps no copy. Off by default.

LOOK BACK This day in past years, a mood calendar, a photo wall, a map of where you've been, and the notebooks on your shelf. Turn back to any day at all.

MAKE IT YOURS 24 themes, light and dark, or your own photo as the background. Six typefaces. Five Home Screen widgets.

PRIVACY There is no server that can read your journal. Text stays on your iPhone; photos and recordings stay in the app's own sandbox. Everything works offline. Sync, if you turn it on, runs through your own private iCloud database. No account, no ads, no analytics, no third-party tracking. Export a ZIP backup or erase everything, any time.

FREE AND PRO Unlimited journal entries, to-dos, goals and people. 24 themes, six typefaces, custom backgrounds, iCloud sync, ZIP backups and five widgets stay free, with no ads. Trace Pro adds: sealing the day and the mailbox, PDF books, page-turn videos, journal comments, Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activities, imported fonts, nine media per entry, and unlimited notebooks and dates. New users get the complete Pro for 30 days as a welcome gift. No payment, nothing auto-renews, and nothing you wrote is lost when it ends.

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