Simple on the outside, complete on the inside: just what you need to write every day, understand how you feel and come back to what matters. And it all stays on your iPhone.
Open, write, close. Everything else is optional.
Tap the pencil and a new entry opens with the keyboard ready. It saves as you type, so there is no save button. When you don’t know what to say, start from a template, like Gratitude or Before bed, or from one of 60 prompts: questions that give you the first nudge.
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Add up to 20 photos at once from your library, or take one on the spot. They are stored inside the app and open full screen. The gallery view lays out your entries in a grid with their photos and a snippet of text.
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So any day is easy to find.
Split your writing into journals: one for every day, one for travel, one for work. Create, rename and reorder them, and move an entry to another journal right from the editor.
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Add up to five tags to each entry, like #travel or #family; Tilde suggests the ones you already use. Then filter your journal by one or several. From the Library you can rename, merge or delete them.
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Star the entries you want to keep close and filter your journal to see only those. Swipe an entry right to star it or left to delete it. To tidy up in one go, select several and star them, move them to another journal or delete them.
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Search for a word across all your entries and see it highlighted in every result. Narrow it down by journal or by mood; for example, to reread only the good days.
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Your mood and your habit, at a glance.
Each entry can record how you felt, on five faces from “Very low” to “Very good”. And even when you don’t write, “How are you today?” logs it in a single tap. If you like, Tilde asks you at the time you choose, only on days you haven’t answered yet.
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Tilde counts the days in a row you write. When you save your first entry of the day, a screen shows your streak and your week, with a special message at 7, 30, 100 and 365 days. If you’d rather not see it, turn it off in Settings.
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Your current and longest streak, how many entries and words you’ve written, and how your mood went in monthly and yearly charts, with its trend. The mood calendar shows each day’s face; tap one to reread what you wrote.
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What you wrote comes back when it matters.
If you wrote on this date in past years, your journal shows it at the top and, if you like, a morning reminder brings it back without showing the text on the Lock Screen. And for a surprise, “Reread a random entry” in Insights takes you to any day.
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At the start of the week, your journal offers a summary of the last one: the days you wrote, your average mood, the tags that came up most and an entry worth rereading. From there you can write about your week with a question ready to go.
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One reminder a day to write, at the time you choose and with a different line each day; if you’ve already written, it stays quiet. Every reminder starts off, and Tilde only asks for permission when you turn one on.
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Your journal is yours, and it stays that way.
No accounts, no ads, no analytics and no servers. Tilde never connects to the internet: everything you write lives only on your iPhone, and no one else can read it, including us.
If you like, Tilde asks for Face ID, or your iPhone passcode, when you open it and when you come back: right away or after 1 or 5 minutes. In the app switcher, your entries stay hidden.
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Export your whole journal, photos included, to a .zip file and keep it wherever you like: in Files, in iCloud Drive or over AirDrop. To move to another iPhone, import it and choose to merge or replace. You can also export it as Markdown to read anywhere, and if it’s been a while since your last backup, Tilde reminds you.
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Tilde, one tap away from anywhere on your iPhone.
Five Home Screen widgets: write in one tap, your streak, your week streak, today’s mood and a prompt to write about. On the Lock Screen, your streak in three shapes. Each one opens Tilde right where you need it.
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Save to Tilde what you find in other apps: text from Safari or Notes, as an entry or as a prompt; up to 10 photos with a few lines; or a web page with its title and link. You’ll find it in Tilde the next time you open it.
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Touch and hold the Tilde icon to start a new entry, say how you are, write with your template or open a random memory. With Siri and the Shortcuts app you get “Write in Tilde” and “Log my mood”, which you can also put on the Action button.
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It adapts to you, not the other way round.
Choose light mode, dark mode or the system setting. Tilde speaks Spanish, English and French, and you can pick one even if your iPhone uses another. You also decide which day your week starts on, for Insights, “Your week” and the widgets.
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Text grows with the size you choose on your iPhone, everything works with VoiceOver, and colors keep good contrast in light and dark. Animations are short and explain what happens; with Reduce Motion, they become simple fades.
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Tilde is free: no accounts, no ads and no subscriptions.
Coming soon to the App Store