# Trace: Photo Diary & Scrapbook — A journal you can flip through

> A journal you can flip through (iPhone/iPad app by 玉浩 李.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/trace-photo-diary-and-scrapbook/id6771310169 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [玉浩 李](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895790505)
- Category: Lifestyle, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 1 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.2 · 238 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-05-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Trace?

Not every day is a big day. Some are just worth keeping.
A good dinner. A photo from your walk. Something you finally got done. Keep it in Trace, alongside tomorrow's plans and the people you care about. No sign-up needed.

MAKE ROOM FOR YOUR DAY
Write, then add photos, videos, Live Photos, voice notes or sketches; photos sit in a neat grid and can be cropped. Add a mood, place or weather, backfill a missed day, highlight words and pin entries.

DRAW A FULL STOP ON TODAY
On Today, tap Draw a full stop and what you wrote flies into an envelope. Circle the flap, and a little friend stamps it and carries it to your Mailbox.
Or tap Write to the future: name your future self, pick a date and seal it. It won't open until then.

A NOTEBOOK YOU CAN HOLD
Give a trip, a child or a stretch of life its own notebook, and entries lay themselves out by date. Short notes go on the paper, and each notebook has its own date stamp and stationery. It opens full screen; pages turn under your finger and you can pinch to look closer.
Decorate any page with stickers, tape, stamps, words and pens. Crop or rotate photos, or tap or trace around something to cut it out. Tap Auto-flip and it turns its own pages.
Add a photo cover, a song, and a birthday to show their age on each entry. Make a Book turns your journal into a PDF book from twelve templates.

REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID
Organize tasks into lists with subtasks, photos and reminders. What I did keeps finished tasks by day, plus anything you did without planning it. Track goals by count or quantity, with start and end dates, tags, milestones and days off, and check in from a widget. Sync with Calendar and Reminders.

PERIOD TRACKING WITH APPLE HEALTH
Turn on Period Tracking from Today, then tap Started and Ended. Add missed days, flow and symptoms, see roughly when the next period is due, and get an optional reminder. Period data is read from and saved to Apple Health, outside your journal database, iCloud journal sync and ZIP backups.

SAVE UP FOR A LITTLE TREAT
Make a wish and it becomes a lantern that brightens as you earn stars from entries, tasks and goals. Stars are an in-app record, with no cash value or goods supplied by Trace.

LOOK BACK
Your places gather on a small, turning globe. There's also a mood calendar, On This Day, a photo wall, monthly and yearly reviews, and share cards.

KEEP PEOPLE CLOSE
Link entries to a person to see your history together, and note their preferences, gifts and conversations.

MAKE IT FEEL LIKE YOURS
Fifteen 3D little friends live on the pages and play with what's there; swap in any of them. Choose from 24 themes, built-in fonts, photo backgrounds, text sizes, app icons, eight widgets and Simple mode. On iPad, notebooks open into two-page spreads.

YOUR RECORDS STAY YOURS
Entries are stored on your device and work offline. No ads or third-party tracking. Optional private iCloud sync, ZIP backups and an app lock that can accept only your own PIN.

FREE AND PRO
Entries, tasks, goals and people are unlimited for free, with five notebooks, five important dates and three media attachments per entry. Themes, fonts, backgrounds, icons, widgets, iCloud sync, ZIP backups and the cat are free too.
Pro adds Draw a full stop, Write to the future, Wishes, Make a Book, notebook videos, journal comments, Live Activities, font import and the other little friends, plus 30 media attachments per entry and unlimited notebooks and important dates.
New users can claim three days of full Pro during setup, and Draw a full stop and Wishes each have a seven-day trial. Trials need no payment and never renew. Sealed letters, wishes and stars stay readable afterwards; letters to the future still open on their day. Pro is a subscription or a one-time purchase, priced in the app.

For iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. Requires iOS or iPadOS 17.2 or later.
Privacy Policy: https://bittolab.com/en/privacy.html
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Trace Pro Monthly | $0.99 | per month |
| Trace Pro Half-Year | $3.99 | per 6 months |
| Trace Pro Yearly | $6.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Trace Pro Lifetime | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Trace safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Trace.

## Is Trace legit?

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


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.9 — 2026-10-23

• On Today's letter board, tap Draw a full stop: what you wrote today flies into an envelope, you circle the flap, and a little friend stamps it and takes it to the Mailbox.
• Write to the future: write a letter to your future self, pick a date and seal it. It opens on that day.
• Fifteen 3D little friends now live on every page and play with what's there. Pick a different one for any spot.
• Notebooks were rewritten: short notes go right on the paper, and each notebook has one date stamp and one set of stationery. They open full screen, and you can double-tap or pinch to look closer.
• Export PDF is now Make a Book, with twelve templates to choose from.
• Crop and rotate photos in notebooks, or tap or trace around something to cut it out. Photos in entries can be cropped too.
• The app lock can be set to accept only your own PIN.

Also fixed: blurry photos in notebooks, and a crash when making a book from a title with emoji.

### 1.4.8 — 2026-10-20

• Notebooks are now books you can hold and flip. Decorate any page with stickers, tape, words and pens, or tap Auto-flip and watch it turn on its own.
• Track your period right on Today: tap Started, then Ended.
• Photos in an entry line up in a neat grid, so you see every one.
• Journal PDFs are redone as The Daily Trace: every day you wrote becomes an issue, with your first line as the headline.
• Tap a widget to check in on the spot.
• Goals can have a start and an end date.

Also fixed: tapping the date at the top while writing closed the whole page, and the Journal calendar flashed last month's photos when you changed months.

### 1.4.7 — 2026-10-11

• With Pro, each entry can hold up to 30 photos, videos, recordings and drawings, up from 9. Today and Journal show the first 9. Open the entry to see them all.
• Choose how big each photo is in a notebook. Turn to the page, tap Layout and pick Large, Medium or Small for each photo. If a paragraph and its photo end up on different pages, make the photo one size smaller and they'll stay together.
• Notebooks can keep a birthday or a start day. Each entry then shows how old they were that day or which day it was, and marks 1 month, 100 days and birthdays.
• Each notebook can have its own layout: page breaks, text size and line spacing.
• To-dos can have photos. Open a to-do and tap Add photos.
• In People, anyone with a birthday saved shows how many days are left until it.
• Tap a tag like #travel to see every entry with that tag.
• When you sort the Inbox, tap Done on anything you've already finished.

We also fixed long screenshots in notebooks showing only the middle, and the page jumping after adding photos. On entry, to-do, goal and person pages, less-used buttons are now in the ··· menu at the top right.

### 1.4.6 — 2026-10-06

• Notebooks can have a song. On a notebook's page, tap Music and import a song from Files. It plays when you open the notebook, and flip-through videos use it too. You can also share audio files to Trace from AirDrop, Messages or a cloud drive.
• Journal now shows how many characters you wrote each day, and each notebook shows its total.
• Hide what you don't need on Today. At the bottom of Today, open Arrange the Today page and tap the eye next to a section. Tap it again to bring the section back.
• Dictation no longer writes the same sentence down two or three times, and names from People come out right more often.
• Find and replace: while writing, tap Replace under More, or select some text and tap Find and Replace. When you edit an entry, Mark is now in the top bar too.
• If you swipe away while editing an entry, your changes are kept. Open it again and tap Continue Editing. Closing a new entry with × now asks if you want to keep it as a draft.
• App Lock can have a 6-digit backup PIN for times when Face ID doesn't show up. Trace also opens right away once Face ID succeeds.

We also fixed photos added on another device taking a long time to appear after syncing, widgets showing a goal like “6 glasses of water” as done too early, Mark selecting the whole entry right after writing, going back from an entry in a notebook not returning to the same page, and the app icon sometimes not changing automatically on iOS 18. Widgets now show goals like this as “3/6”, and each tap on the Home Screen adds one glass. You can also swipe to delete entries in a person's contact log.

### 1.4.5 — 2026-09-30

• Mark the words that matter. Select a few words, choose Mark from the menu, then underline, circle or highlight them, with separate colors for the line and the text. Your marks stay put in notebooks, letters, share cards and PDFs.
• Pick the last line of your daily letter from 19 closings, or write your own and keep it in My words for next time. Paragraphs in the letter now start with an indent.
• Every icon in the app has been redrawn with the same pen. Switches are now a groove pressed into the paper, and they fill with ink when you turn them on.
• In the photo picker, tap All at the top to show only videos, selfies, screenshots or Live Photos. Big libraries load as you scroll instead of making you wait.
• When a goal day can't be checked in, Trace tells you why and what you can do.
• At the evening wrap-up, unfinished to-dos can go to No date, or stay where they are with Leave as is. Moving things to tomorrow no longer drags in to-dos you'd planned for later.

We also fixed a crash when switching To-dos to the month calendar, and one when typing a time before a date in a new to-do.

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