Memoir
Context
More than a caption.
Keep the place, weather, activity, people and words behind a photo—not only the date it was taken.
Photo journal and memory keeper
A photo journal for what the picture cannot say.
A camera roll can show you thousands of pictures and still forget the story. Memoir turns photos into memories you can find by day, person and place—and read again years from now.
Start from the camera roll
Choose a day. The details come with it.
Pick photos from a day and Memoir brings their time and place together. Add the names of the people who were there, write what happened, and keep the original pictures beside the story.
You can begin with one photograph or build a fuller memory with a gallery, video, voice note or scanned keepsake. Nothing forces every day into the same shape, and every entry remains part of your private journal.
Quality
Your originals remain yours.
Keep photos and full-quality video, export them again later, and choose when the app may save space on your device.
Discovery
Find the memory, not the filename.
Search by a person, place, event, tag or anything in your writing. Browse years, months, days and maps.
A visual history
People, places and years become their own books.
Open a person to see the memories you share. Open a place to revisit everything that happened there. Follow a trip stop by stop, or see a year gather into a visual chapter.
Your photo journal stays useful as it grows because each picture remains part of a larger story.
A private home for personal photos
Memories and media are end-to-end encrypted. Photo understanding and face recognition happen on your device, and your journal is never used for advertising.
Does Memoir replace Apple Photos?+
No. Apple Photos remains your photo library. Memoir gives selected photos a story, connecting them with writing, people, places, events and the other details you want to remember.
Can I make a journal from older photos?+
Yes. Choose any earlier day from your library and make a memory from its photos. You can adjust the date, place and people before saving it.
Can I export the original photos?+
Yes. A full export keeps your words as readable pages and places your photos, videos and files in folders.
Give the photograph its story.
A private photo journal for the moments you want to keep.