What is One Year?
One Year is a daily journal app for people who want to remember the year without writing long diary entries. Each day, the user can write a short memory, add an image, and track a mood, and the app turns that day into a hand drawn plant. The garden has 365 plants, works with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, and keeps entries on the device or in personal iCloud.
Why One Year works
Blank journal apps make consistency feel like another chore, and streak counters turn a missed day into guilt. One Year makes the daily input small and gives each entry a visible place in the year, so a memory becomes part of a growing garden instead of another note buried in a list.
One Year features
- Memory planting. A short entry, image, or mood check-in can plant the day, giving users a quick way to save what happened without filling a full diary page.
- 365 hand drawn plants. Each day of the year maps to a plant, so the journal slowly becomes a full memory garden rather than a plain calendar.
- Mood tracking. Daily mood tracking lets users attach how they feel to a memory, with plant colors changing based on mood.
- Home and Lock Screen widgets. Widgets can show the full garden, simple progress dots, or a daily plant, so the year stays visible outside the app.
- Private by default. Journal entries stay on the device or in personal iCloud, with no account, no feed, and no ads around the writing space.
Who One Year is for
- People who want to journal daily but stop when every entry feels like an essay.
- iPhone users who like visual progress and want their year visible on the Home Screen or Lock Screen.
- Private journalers who avoid accounts and social feeds and want entries stored on device or in iCloud.
- Mood trackers who want a lightweight daily check-in tied to a real memory, not a separate wellness dashboard.
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