The journal that fills itself.

Life So Far turns the photos you take, the places you go and the plans you make into a private journal on your iPhone. You add your own words.

Get Life So FarComing soon to the App Store
The Atlas: paths across San Francisco, with photos pinned where they were taken.
A scrapbook page: four photos from a weekend in the Mission District.
Today: the day’s picture, coffee with Sam from the calendar, a note about a walk and two photos.
Look back: shelves of books made from your days.
A walk along the Embarcadero, its route flying in 3D on a scrapbook page.

Your day

It starts with what already happened.

With your permission, the photos you take, your walks and workouts, and the plans in your calendar land on each day’s page on their own. When something is worth a few words, add a note, a voice note or a photo.

  1. Two photos at the lighthouseFrom Photos
  2. Your note about the walkWritten by hand
  3. Coffee with SamFrom Calendar

Your places

Every walk adds to your map.

Your walks clear the fog on a map of the world, and your photos sit where you took them. Bring in older routes from GPX or Fog of World.

The Atlas: paths across San Francisco, with photos pinned where they were taken.

Scrapbooks

Then your days become scrapbooks.

Photo pages, trips, and walks whose route flies across the page. Make your own for a trip, a place or a person.

A scrapbook page: four photos from a weekend in the Mission District.

Looking back

Look back on all of it.

Watch a walk’s route fly across the page in 3D, take a book of your days off the shelf, or read what you wrote on this day a year ago.

A walk along the Embarcadero, its route flying in 3D on a scrapbook page.
Look back: shelves of books made from your days.
On this day: what you wrote a year ago, with a photo from that day.

Private

All of it in one place that only you can open.

Your photos, health, calendar and places live in different apps. Life So Far brings them together on your iPhone, and we never see any of it.

On your iPhone

Everything Life So Far reads and writes happens on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to a server to be understood.

Encrypted

It syncs only through your own iCloud, encrypted with a key your devices hold.

No account

Nothing to sign up for, and no servers of ours for your journal to go to.

Data Not Collected

The App Store’s privacy label says it, because there is nothing we collect.

Read the privacy policy

Your cover

Locked, it shows your journal’s cover.

With App Lock on, Life So Far opens with Face ID or your passcode, and until then it shows your journal’s cover. Choose the book and its color.

Questions

When can I download Life So Far?

Life So Far is coming to the App Store for iPhone and iPad. It is not available to download yet. This page will link straight to the App Store when it launches.

Is there a subscription?

No. Try every feature for 3 days, then unlock them with a one-time purchase. Writing, sync and export stay free after the trial.

Which devices does it work on?

Life So Far needs iOS 26 or later on iPhone, or iPadOS 26 or later on iPad. Writing about your days needs a device that supports Apple Intelligence, with Apple Intelligence on and a supported language. Without it, Life So Far uses simpler local text, and journaling and the map still work.

Do I have to connect my photos or location?

No. Choose the sources you want to gather from, or just write your own entries. Photos, Calendar, Health and location each need your permission.

Can anyone else read my journal?

Your journal is encrypted on your device and syncs as encrypted data through your own iCloud. We run no journal servers, collect no analytics and cannot read your entries. Read the privacy policy for Apple’s services, backups and exports.

Can I take my journal with me?

Yes. Export a readable copy of your saved entries or a restore backup, without buying the unlock. You can also bring GPX routes and Fog of World backups into your Atlas.

Try every feature free for 3 days.

Then buy it once. There is no subscription.

Coming soon to the App Store

For iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or later. Questions before launch? Write to support@meetalcove.com.