Free Private Photo Diary & Journal for iPhone

A Private Diary for Daily Reflections — Photos Optional.

Use Stillkeep as a free private diary for iPhone when the writing matters most. Record a reflection, add a photo when it adds context, and group entries into personal life chapters called Eras instead of keeping one endless stream of notes.

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Free to start · Private iCloud sync · Zero ads in the app · iOS 17.6+

Organize your private diary by personal chapters:

Daily reflections Personal growth Quiet moments Life milestones

Use Stillkeep as a Writing-First Personal Diary

A diary has a different job from a photo archive: it needs to preserve what you thought and felt at the time. Stillkeep lets the written reflection stand on its own, while a photograph can be added when it helps anchor the entry to a place, person or day.

Separate Life Chapters: Keep work changes, relationships, personal growth, travel or everyday reflections in different Eras rather than one giant chronological notebook.
Writing First, Photo When Useful: Capture the reflection you want to remember and use an image as context instead of making every diary entry depend on a photograph.
Revisit Old Entries: Look Back brings previous Moments back by date, making the diary useful for seeing how thoughts, routines and circumstances change over time.
Keep a Portable Chapter: Export an Era as a formatted PDF when you want an offline copy of a period in your diary.
Personal by Design: The Stillkeep app uses no third-party analytics, advertising SDKs or cross-app tracking and uses Apple infrastructure including CloudKit for sync.

A Small Diary with Predictable Starter Limits

If you want to test a private diary habit before committing to a larger archive, the free tier gives you a defined starting space: up to 3 Eras and 20 Moments per Era.

7.9 MB

Featherlight app size that preserves your phone storage for the memories that matter.

Private by design

Local-first architecture protected by secure Apple CloudKit synchronization.

Free Starter Plan

Up to 3 Eras and 20 Moments per Era with crystal-clear free-tier limitations.

Home

Return to the main Stillkeep overview and explore the full application suite.

Free Journal App

See the free-plan limits and the complete set of features included when you start journaling.

Memory Journal Guide

Discover how Stillkeep modernizes traditional scrapbooking and camera roll archiving.

Master Resource Index

Read the product architecture, privacy documentation and developer writing that explain how Stillkeep is built.

Download Stillkeep free on iOS. The free starter version includes up to 3 Eras and 20 Moments per Era. Stillkeep Premium subscription expands capacity for long-term personal diary archiving.

From the Developer Journal

Deep dives into the architecture, design choices, and philosophy behind Stillkeep.

Moving from Folders to Visual Eras

Why Stillkeep organises a diary around meaningful life chapters instead of asking you to maintain a rigid folder tree.

Beyond the Camera Roll

The story behind building a private photo diary for the images and experiences you actually want to remember.

Turn your daily reflections into a secure digital diary.

Download the free private photo diary app for iPhone — privacy-first, zero ads in the app, built in Dublin, Ireland.

Download Stillkeep Free On your computer?Scan with your iPhone