Collections October 2026

7 apps to romanticize your everyday life

Ordinary days feel ordinary mostly because nothing about them is kept. These seven each keep one part of them so it adds up to something: the films you watched, the clothes you wore, the places you ate, the books you read, a photo for each month, the friends you see in snapshots, and the mood of each day across a year.

The apps to romanticize your everyday life are Letterboxd, OOTD Pal, Beli, StoryGraph, Photo Calendar, Locket Widget and Daylio. I built OOTD Pal and Photo Calendar; the other 5 are other developers’ apps.

MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published October 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. 

   Letterboxd

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Social Networking · App Store 4.8 (88,351)

   Log every film you watch and rate it; your history becomes a diary.

   Skip it if ads would spoil it: their volume in the free app is what recent reviewers keep writing about, and the crashing arrived alongside them.

   Official site ↗More lists with Letterboxd

   
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. 

   Beli

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.8 (17,290)

   Ranked lists of everywhere you've eaten, plus where your friends ate.

   Skip it if you do not want to invite your contacts; the features people came for are gated behind sending invitations, which is what most of the one-star reviews are about.

   Official site ↗More lists with Beli

   
4. 

   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

   
5. 

   Photo Calendar Editor’s pick

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Photo & Video

   Your camera roll, one photo a month, on your Lock Screen or your wall.

   App Store ↗More lists with Photo Calendar

   
6. 

   Locket Widget

   ★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Social Networking · App Store 4.8 (575,278)

   Your best friends' photos land right on your Home Screen.

   Official site ↗More lists with Locket Widget

   
7. 

   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

   

OOTD Pal and Photo Calendar are mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.