# Jiyu: Days into Seasons — A daily ritual of colour

> A daily ritual of colour (iPhone/iPad app by Chung Yun Lee.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jiyu-days-into-seasons/id6789923573 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Chung Yun Lee](https://appshunter.io/developer/1090713328)
- Category: Lifestyle, Photo & Video
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.4 · 47 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-17

## What is Jiyu?

Jiyu is a small daily ritual: feed today with a few photographs of whatever is near you, and Jiyu draws out their colours and lays them down as the day.

Once a day, a few photographs of whatever is near: the tree at the corner, the cup on the desk, the sky on the way home. Jiyu draws two colours out of each one and lays them on today's paper. Four panes, and the day has a mark.

Nothing to frame, nothing to choose between. If the light is right, the photograph is right.

WHAT IT IS
A minute a day, kept by the sun. Not an album, not a journal, not a feed. Nothing is scored, no streak is counted, and it never asks where you have been. It does one thing: it takes the light that was near you today and sets it down as a few colours.

LOOK BACK
Each evening the day plays itself back: every photograph you kept, one at a time, in the colours it gave, and then the day's sheet. Send it as a card, or keep it as a short film.

THE ALMANAC
Enough marks, and the month stops being dates. It starts being weather you lived through, laid out by the twenty-four solar terms.

KEPT BY THE SUN
Jiyu keeps time by the solar terms, and it solves for them rather than looking them up. 白露 is not the seventh of September; it is the moment the sun reaches 165°. Each term has its own page: the length of its days, the light it leaves you, and the classical line that names it.

YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS STAY YOURS
No account, no cloud, nobody looking. Photographs stay on your phone, and Jiyu keeps only the colours it drew from them. Place is never noted more finely than a neighbourhood.

ONE PURCHASE, FOR LIFE
Jiyu is free. Today, and every day within the current solar term and the one before it, is always open. Jiyu Almanac is one optional purchase, bought once and yours for life, with no subscription: it opens the earlier days for viewing in Jiyu. Your days stay saved on your phone whether you buy or not.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jiyu Almanac | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Jiyu safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Jiyu.

## Is Jiyu legit?

Jiyu: Days into Seasons appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Jiyu is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 0.12.3 — 2026-10-13

While the camera is open, the header now shows today's light: a small curve from sunrise to sunset, with the sun where it stands right now, before noon, past it, or already set. It slides in as you pull the camera down, and the season's name returns as you put it away.

### 0.12.2 — 2026-10-12

Removing something from a day is clearer: long-press a photo or poem on its own page to remove it, and the confirmation now says exactly what leaves and what stays.

### 0.12.1 — 2026-10-08

The first welcome has a new sound. A quiet hum, between a singing bowl and the ground beneath it, plays under the opening, and each season you tap leaves its note in it.

You can now open Look Back straight from the desk, with the film button at its top right.

Look Back opens more smoothly.

### 0.12.0 — 2026-10-07

Jiyu has a voice now: quiet sounds of paper, wood and stone that answer your touch, and a Look Back that plays each moment in its own colour's note. Your Look Back video carries them too. The ring switch silences them, or turn them off in Preferences. Also fixed: the camera could sometimes open to a blank square.

### 0.11.0 — 2026-10-05

Light through a real tree. Home's shade is now the light through a tree, a different one each day: maple, ginkgo, willow, camphor, banyan, katsura, bauhinia, oak, horse chestnut, rowan, flame tree, bamboo, or a coconut palm. Each grows its own way, and the sun comes through as it moves.

Every day opens as itself. Look Back and its videos now begin with the day's own colours under that day's tree, so two days side by side never look alike. The opening lingers a moment longer.

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