Little Memory has been on the App Store since 2012. The original app was Objective-C with a Rails backend. I rewrote the iOS app in SwiftUI and released it as 2.0 on September 21, 2026.

In 2.0, memories are stored on your phone and synced with your own iCloud account instead of my server, so the app works offline. The website still works for people who read their diary there.

Little Memory on an iPhone Duo, a memory from exactly one year ago beside this month's memories

Little Memory on iPhone Duo.

The app picks up the emotions in each memory on the phone, using Apple’s Foundation Models, and charts them over the year.

Since 2.0 I’ve added:

  • iPad and iPhone Duo layouts
  • Adding a memory with Siri
  • Home Screen widgets for this day in past years
  • Spotlight search