# lightbugs: Journal & Diary — Photos, voice notes & songs

> Photos, voice notes & songs (iPhone/iPad app by Jhon Kenrick Villaces.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lightbugs-journal-and-diary/id6816707971 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jhon Kenrick Villaces](https://appshunter.io/developer/6781606888)
- Category: Lifestyle, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 102 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-31
- Data updated: 2026-11-03

## What is lightbugs?

lightbugs is a private journal and diary for the small moments of a day: a laugh in the kitchen, the smell of rain, the way someone said your name. Keep them on a page, in a notebook on your own shelf. No account, no feed, no streaks.

Keep a moment
• Write a note, take a photo or a short video, or record a voice note
• Add a song from Apple Music, stickers, checklists, and bold or marked words
• Stuck for words? A question on the page gives you somewhere to start
• Pick the paper, font and colours you write on

Your notebooks
• A style for each notebook: old book, typewriter, letter, studio, mono, autumn, a book full of cats and more
• Turn pages with a real page curl, or fan out a whole day
• Find any day on the calendar and look back at past days
• Search every notebook for a word, a photo or a song

Every day
• Widgets for your home screen, and for the lock screen on iPhone
• An evening reminder, only if you want one
• Share a page as an image, or save it to Photos

Private by design
Your notes, photos, videos and voice recordings are stored on your device — and in your phone’s own backups, if you use them. We do not run accounts, we do not have servers that receive your content, and we do not sell or share your data with anyone. lightbugs goes online for two things: asking the app store whether a newer version is out, and finding and playing songs from Apple Music when you add one to a note. Apple sees the words you search, and the covers and clips of the songs in your notes load from Apple when a page shows or plays them. Nothing else about you or your notes is sent, and without a connection everything else works the same.

Why lightbugs
The light from a firefly takes a billionth of a second to reach your eye. The light from the stars above it has been travelling for thousands of years. Both are real, and only one of them will be gone by morning. Most of a life is made of that smaller kind of light: moments that happen once, in one place, to one person. lightbugs is a place to keep them.

Made by one person. Questions or ideas: jhonkenrick28@gmail.com

## Is lightbugs safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess lightbugs.

## Is lightbugs legit?

lightbugs: Journal & Diary has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for lightbugs is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-11-02

what’s new
• the sticker sheet opens smoothly
• contents: rounded square photos in studio and studio dark
• writing paper and the date sheet dim the whole screen

### 1.2 — 2026-11-01

what’s new
• search every notebook — words, photos, pages and songs
• widgets: today so far, on this day, your shelf and a quick capture, on the home and lock screen
• page style: choose a layout and a font for each notebook
• write on the paper, colours and fonts you choose
• arrange the books on your desk
• reorder a note’s words, photos and song, and give each group of photos its own layout
• oldest day first, like a paper diary (settings › preferences)
• slide books open: a simple slide instead of the cover (settings › preferences)
• 200 more questions to start a note
• the cat book’s cats have more to do
• dark and tinted app icons
• shared pages show the book’s name and the dates
• smoother page turns and book opening

### 1.0 — 2026-11-01

No release notes.

## More apps by Jhon Kenrick Villaces

- [Zapurr: Pet Care & Strays](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/zapurr-pet-care-and-strays/id6781606886)

All apps by Jhon Kenrick Villaces: https://appshunter.io/developer/6781606888

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