# Photo Journals: On This Day — Your camera roll, by date > Your camera roll, by date (iPhone/iPad app by Indy.inc.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-journals-on-this-day/id553499216 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Indy.inc](https://appshunter.io/developer/455576741) - Category: Photo & Video, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2012-09-18 - Data updated: 2026-09-20 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-journals-on-this-day/id553499216/reviews.md ## What is Photo Journals? Photo Journals is a calendar for the photos already on your phone. Most photo apps want to be a social network. This one doesn't. It pulls together photos from your albums and lays them out by date, so you can scroll a month at a time and see what you've actually been doing with your life. ON THIS DAY See what you took on this date in past years — the holiday you'd half forgotten, the Tuesday afternoon that turned out to matter. Browse by year, jump to a season, or scroll a month at a glance. MADE OF MEMORIES Turn a person, a month, or a whole year into a photomosaic: one hero image rebuilt out of hundreds of your own photos of that same subject. Choose which photo it becomes, exclude the ones you don't want, and switch between whole photos and faces-only for a portrait made of faces. Then turn the finished mosaic into a reveal video — a slow pull-back that opens inside a single tile and zooms out until the whole picture resolves. Save it to Photos or share it. All of it renders on your device. Nothing is uploaded, at any point. FIND THE PHOTO YOU'RE THINKING OF Search by place, using on-device reverse geocoding you opt into. Or search the words inside your photos — a receipt, a street sign, a note in your own handwriting — indexed on device. WHAT'S FREE, AND WHAT'S PRO The calendar, browsing by year, On This Day, and sharing are free, and stay free. Photo Journals Pro is a one-time purchase — not a subscription — and unlocks Made of Memories mosaics at full resolution without a watermark, reveal videos, search by place, and Live Text search. Free users can preview a mosaic at low resolution before deciding. PRIVACY Photos stay where they are. Photo Journals never copies, uploads, or modifies your library. No accounts. No tracking. No advertising. The privacy nutrition label is "Data Not Collected" — Photo Journals does not see, store, or transmit your photos. Made by Indy.inc in the United Kingdom. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Photo Journals Pro | $2.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 27.1.1 — 2026-09-11 Made of Memories. Turn a person, a month, or a whole year into a photomosaic — one hero image rebuilt out of hundreds of your own photos of that same subject. Choose which photo it becomes, drop the ones you don't want, and switch between whole photos and faces-only for a portrait made of faces. Then turn it into a reveal video: a slow pull-back that opens inside one tile and zooms out until the whole picture resolves. Save it, or share it. Also new: • Search by place — find photos by where you took them, with on-device geocoding you opt into. • Live Text search — find a photo by a word inside it. Receipts, street signs, your own handwriting. • Richer day captions on iOS 27. On Apple Intelligence devices the summary now looks at the photos themselves rather than reading scene labels, so it describes the day you actually had. • Better day-representative and gallery picks, for the same reason. Every bit of it runs on your device. Mosaics, videos, search, captions — nothing is uploaded, at any point. Made of Memories, reveal videos, place search and Live Text search are part of Photo Journals Pro, a one-time purchase. The calendar, On This Day and browsing stay free. If Photo Journals has turned up a photo you'd forgotten, a rating helps more than you'd think — it's how other people find a small app with no advertising behind it. Thank you. ### 26.7.0 — 2026-05-19 Photo Journals 26.7.0 — a deeper way to browse your photos. Smart Analysis picks the best photo for each day, with three modes (Smart Filters, Balanced, Gallery) so libraries that need a little help, get it. Filter chips find people, food, nature, animals, vehicles, text, and more — classified on your device by Apple's Vision framework. Nothing leaves your phone. Custom tags and labels for the things that matter to you. A scrubbable Timeline that spans your whole library. A Share Flow that turns any month into a beautifully styled collage — four layouts, portrait or landscape. The On This Day widget now rotates through different past years during the day. Fixes: PDF exports are crisp and complete, widget thumbnails are back, and colours are true to your originals. ### 26.5.3 — 2026-05-11 ** Added Widgets for iPhone and iPad. *** ### 26.5.2 — 2026-05-09 Bug fix ### 26.5.1 — 2026-05-09 26.5.1 adds a quiet daily notification suggesting a moment to revisit. ## Apps similar to Photo Journals | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Rando - Random Photo Slideshow](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rando-random-photo-slideshow/id6748366091) | — | Free | Photo & Video | | [MOPIC - 3D Video Player](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mopic-3d-video-player/id6751873913) | — | Free | Photo & Video | | [Rewind: Memories on This Day](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rewind-memories-on-this-day/id1137168287) | 4.8 (22) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Trueli: Bring memories to life](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trueli-bring-memories-to-life/id1579509617) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Photo & Video | | [Spatial Video Studio](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spatial-video-studio/id6523429904) | — | Free | Photo & Video | | [Profilia: AI Portrait Headshot](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/profilia-ai-portrait-headshot/id6472153573) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Photo & Video | ## More apps by Indy.inc - [Insultation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/insultation/id455576738) - [Beauty Box](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beauty-box/id456746503) - [Its a Fact](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/its-a-fact/id457257982) - [Just to Say](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/just-to-say/id457398572) - [Photo Geographic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/photo-geographic/id463203423) All apps by Indy.inc: https://appshunter.io/developer/455576741 ## Related topics [photo journals](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/photo-journals) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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