Everyday September 2026

5 apps that remember your day for you

A diary fails because it needs you to write. These five remember the day without a paragraph: a mood tapped in seconds, a photo of what you wore, the route you walked with nothing pressed, the episode you watched, and the book you were in the middle of.

The apps that remember your day for you are Daylio, OOTD Pal, Arc Timeline, trakt and StoryGraph. I built OOTD Pal; the other 4 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published September 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 October 2026

Four stars is my score for how well an app answers this moment. An app I built gets four and a half — that is a rule, not a comparison. The App Store’s own average is on each card beside it.

1. 

   Daylio

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Lifestyle · App Store 4.8 (61,892)

   Pick a mood and a few activities, no typing; a year shows up in pixels.

   Skip it if it will hold years you cannot afford to lose — reviewers report entries and voice recordings disappearing, and purchases that will not restore on a new phone.

   Official site ↗More lists with Daylio

   
2. 

   OOTD Pal Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Photo & Video · App Store 5.0 (6)

   Snap today's look; it's filed by date, mood and where you wore it.

   App Store ↗More lists with OOTD Pal

   
3. 

   Arc Timeline

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.2 (425)

   Records where you went and how you got there, with nothing to press.

   Skip it if you want your full history without paying — anything older than 30 days now sits behind the subscription, and reviewers report gaps in the tracking and frequent crashes.

   Official site ↗More lists with Arc Timeline

   
4. 

   trakt

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Entertainment · App Store 4.1 (1,355)

   Check in to what you're watching; every episode you've seen, kept.

   Skip it if you liked the app as it was — the 2026 redesign is what nearly every recent one-star review is about, with features removed and more of them moved behind VIP.

   Official site ↗More lists with trakt

   
5. 

   StoryGraph

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Book · App Store 4.5 (3,582)

   Logs what you read and charts your reading habits and moods.

   Skip it if you want a quick, polished app — reviewers describe it as the website in a wrapper, with lag, blank screens and back navigation that piles up pages.

   Official site ↗More lists with StoryGraph

   

OOTD Pal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.