Portre: People Memory Journal

Your archive stays on your phone — and now quietly backs itself up to your own iCloud, so a new phone never means starting over.

You keep ten thousand photos. But the people who passed through your life — the friend from high school, the one that got away, the teacher who changed everything — have no record at all. They live only in your memory, and memory fades.

Portre is that record: a memory journal about people, kept private.

KEEP PEOPLE, NOT JUST CONTACTS Your contacts app is for people you call. Portre is for people who mattered — past and present. How you met, when they entered your life, when they left. Their traits, in your words.

WRITE MEMORIES BEFORE THEY FADE Attach dated memories to each person: what happened, a photo, a video, or a voice note. Photos are framed around faces automatically, so nobody ends up cut off. Each person becomes a timeline of what you actually lived together.

YOUR ARCHIVE BACKS ITSELF UP After every change, your whole archive is quietly saved to your own iCloud Drive. Delete the app, switch phones, start over — Portre offers to bring everything back in one tap. You can also export the archive as a single file and import it again whenever you like.

THE SMALL THINGS THAT MAKE A PERSON Add a birthday and their zodiac sign appears automatically. Turn on quiet reminders: birthdays, and a nudge when it has been too long since you talked to someone. Keep "their song" — find it in Apple's public music catalog and play the 30-second preview right here.

SHARE A MEMORY, KEEP THE REST Turn any memory into a beautiful card — light, dark or warm, with their portrait — for the people you message. Or send it as a .portre file, so a friend who uses Portre can add it to their own archive. You choose what leaves your phone, memory by memory.

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE No account, no sign-up, no analytics, no tracking, and no servers of ours. Your archive lives on your phone and is backed up only to your own iCloud, where nobody else can read it. The only thing Portre ever sends anywhere is the words you type into song search — and only while you are searching.

One day you'll forget these people. Here, you won't.