Daylight - Agenda & Journal

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Daylight puts some daylight into your day: the calendar events and reminders you already have, how much daylight is left, and a place to write about the day. For iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. No account needed.

TODAY Events and reminders on a timeline with a now line. Tick a reminder off, or hold it to move it to tomorrow; missed ones are carried forward. The background is the sky at your location. The Day Circle sits where the sky meets the page: a 24-hour dial with the sun by day and the moon, at its real phase, by night.

THE DAY DETAIL Tap the Day Circle for the full dial; drag the sun to any hour. Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, the day's length against yesterday, the golden hours, the moon's phase, rise and set, and the next full and new moon. Explore winds the dial through the year: a ribbon of daylight shows the days lengthening and shortening, the solstices and the clock changes. With Pro, the dial also shows the tides for the nearest station, with the day's curve, and the weather: the forecast on the sun marker, wet hours on the ring, the temperature in the centre.

WRITING Rich text, stored as meaning rather than as a font, so a new typeface or text size restyles every entry. Focus hides everything but the words. Photos, and a mood in one tap; with Pro, your energy, up to five feelings from a list of 24, and a line about why. Seven templates: Daily Log, Five-Minute Journal, Morning Pages, GTD Daily Plan, Ivy Lee Six, Weekly Review and Evening Reflection. Twenty-four prompts, each opening today's page with the prompt as its first line. Search by word, mood, feeling or tag; On this day; version history; export as PDF, Markdown or plain text.

INSPIRATION A tab for the question "what do I write today?". It suggests one thing for the day from the hour, the weekday, today's mood, the calendar and the sunset, never from what you have written. Under it, the library: a page for each practice and template, five pieces on the research, the prompts and the books.

GUIDED PRACTICES (PRO) Six practices from the research, each on the schedule its study used and labelled with its source: Three Good Things, Writing It Out, Best Possible Self, A Kind Word, What Matters and Tomorrow's List.

INSIGHTS (PRO) Your mood record as patterns: this month against last, the shape of your week, and which days went with which mood, by tag, feeling, time of writing, daylight and how busy the day was. Each card says how many days it rests on and what went together, not what caused what. Worked out on the device.

WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS Widgets in three sizes, plus Lock Screen and StandBy; a Sky widget; Control Centre controls; Live Activities; App Shortcuts.

IPHONE, IPAD AND IPHONE DUO The layout follows the window. On an iPhone, one column; sideways, Today becomes a bedside clock. On an iPad in portrait, or an iPhone Duo opened like a book, sky and page sit on facing pages with the spine on the fold. In landscape, the dial and the sun and moon facts sit above the timeline and the page. The Duo's cover screen has its own layout. Also on Apple silicon Macs as an iPad app. Syncs through your own iCloud.

PRIVATE Your journal stays on your devices and in your iCloud. No account, analytics or tracking: Data Not Collected. Tides and weather send a location rounded to about a kilometre to Daylight's own server, and nothing else.

FREE AND PRO Free, for good: the day page, calendar and reminders, the editor, the Day Circle with sun, moon and Explore, mood, search, one photo per entry, two templates, small widgets, plain-text export and the Inspiration library. Pro adds every template, practices, Insights, tags, six photos, mood detail, On this day, restoring versions, PDF and Markdown export, tides and weather, larger widgets, more typefaces, the sunset prompt and Journaling Suggestions. Buy Pro once, or subscribe yearly or monthly.

Requires iOS 26 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/