Stillkeep: Journal & Diary
A photo journal, diary and memory-keeping app designed to preserve photographs together with writing and context.
About Stillkeep
Keep the story of your life.
Stillkeep: Journal & Diary is a private photo journal and diary app for iPhone built around a simple idea: photographs matter more when the story around them is preserved too. Stillkeep keeps photos, writing, people and places together, then organises those memories into meaningful life chapters called Eras.
Stillkeep at a glance
A private photo journal for iPhone.
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iPhone · iOS 17.6+
Available on the Apple App Store in the Lifestyle category, with a free tier and optional Stillkeep Premium.
April 2026
Stillkeep launched on the App Store in April 2026 and has continued to expand its photo-journaling and memory-keeping tools.
Six languages
English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Mexican Spanish.
John Henry Roche
Stillkeep is developed for Apple devices with an emphasis on calm, private personal journaling.
Lifestyle · Journaling · Memory keeping
Built for photos, stories, people, places and the personal context that gives memories meaning.
The idea behind Stillkeep
Photos show what happened. Stories preserve why it mattered.
Camera rolls are excellent at storing photographs, but the meaning around those photographs can fade: who was there, what was happening, how it felt, or why a particular image was worth keeping.
Stillkeep was designed as an intentional memory layer above the photo library. A Moment can pair photographs with writing, people, places, tags and a simple vibe, while related Moments can be grouped into an Era representing a chapter of life.
The aim is not to create another social feed. It is to create a calm personal archive that makes meaningful memories easier to preserve, organise and revisit.
How Stillkeep works
Photos, stories and context — kept together.
Stillkeep is organised around a small set of ideas designed to make a personal journal easy to understand and revisit.
Life as chapters
Group related memories into meaningful periods such as a trip, a relationship, university, a project, a baby's first year or simply a season of everyday life.
The individual memories
Capture a Moment with photos, writing or both, then keep its people, places, tags and vibe alongside it.
Write the context
Rich-text stories support bold, italics and lists so a memory can hold anything from a short caption to a fuller written reflection.
Remember who and where
Add the people and places connected to a Moment, then search and filter the journal using that context later.
Return to the story
Look Back gently resurfaces memories, while Reflect on Premium offers a broader way to look across the shape of your story over a chosen time range.
Photocards and photobooks
Export individual Moments as digital Photocards or complete Eras as formatted PDF photobooks for personal archiving and sharing.
Who Stillkeep is for
For people who want their photos to keep their meaning.
Travel and life events
Keep the photographs, places and stories from trips, weddings, concerts, moves, graduations and other important chapters together.
Family and everyday life
Preserve family memories, children's milestones and ordinary days that can become more meaningful with time.
Projects and personal chapters
Document a renovation, creative project, career change, fitness journey or any period you want to remember as a coherent story.
Low-pressure journaling
A Moment can be a detailed story, a short note or simply enough context to explain why a photograph mattered.
Where Stillkeep fits
Part of the modern journaling landscape.
Stillkeep sits in the broader digital-journaling category alongside well-known apps such as Day One, Apple Journal, Journey, Daylio and Diarium.
Those products take different approaches to daily writing, prompts, mood tracking, multimedia entries, cross-platform access and long-term journaling. Stillkeep's distinction is its emphasis on photos plus personal context, organised into Eras and Moments rather than an endless feed alone.
Stillkeep is designed for people who want a private, visual record of life: photographs, stories, people and places kept together and made easy to return to later.
Product history
From launch to Stillkeep v4.
Stillkeep launches
Stillkeep becomes available on the App Store as a private journal and diary app for keeping photos, writing and memories together.
Richer stories and deeper reflection
Version 4 adds rich-text stories, People & Places for every Moment, new journal filtering, Reflect for Premium, eight new Premium Era covers, and broader accessibility, performance and reliability improvements. See what’s new in v4.
Free and Premium
Start small, keep more over time.
Up to 3 Eras
Up to 20 Moments per Era, 180 photos across the journal and up to 3 photos per Moment, with writing, people, places, vibes and tags.
Built for a larger life archive
Up to 500 Eras, 500 Moments per Era and 10 photos per Moment, plus Reflect and Premium Era cover styles.
Also from the developer
Onuri
John Henry Roche also develops Onuri, an iPhone notes and personal-knowledge app built around automatic connections between people, places, dates, times and topics.
Where Stillkeep focuses on preserving and revisiting personal memories, Onuri focuses on connected notes and making written information easier to rediscover.
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Quick answers
About Stillkeep
What is Stillkeep?
Stillkeep is a private photo journal and diary app for iPhone that keeps photographs, writing, people and places together in organised life chapters called Eras.
Who created Stillkeep?
Stillkeep is developed by John Henry Roche.
When did Stillkeep launch?
Stillkeep launched on the Apple App Store in April 2026.
How is Stillkeep organised?
Individual entries are called Moments. Related Moments are grouped into Eras, which represent meaningful chapters of life.
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