🧵 I built Stillkeep , a calm, private photo journal for iPhone. Photos and writing live together as Moments , grouped into life chapters called Eras . It's built with Native SwiftUI, CloudKit sync, zero tracking and is a sleek ~8 MB. 👉 stillkeep.app

🤔 The problem

I found I had thousands of photos on my phone. If I scrolled back far enough I could tell you what happened in most of them, but not always why it mattered . For example, who was there, what we'd been talking about, how that day actually felt.

I felt that the camera roll was keeping the picture and quietly losing the story. 📉

I tried fixing that with journaling apps, but most are built around text with photos bolted on. I found a similar issue with notes apps: I'd start a neat folder structure 📁, stop maintaining it a few weeks later, and the photos lived somewhere else entirely.

So I built Stillkeep: Journal & Diary , an iPhone app that keeps the photo and the story in the same place.…