Rated 5.0 by parents on the App Store

One line a day. Before you forget.

Dear You is a one-line-a-day journal app for parents. One photo, one sentence a day, written to each of your kids — start at any age, and end up with the keepsake they'll read someday.

Free — unlimited memories, unlimited kids. No ads.

5.0 on the App Store “The only journaling habit that’s ever stuck.” — App Store review Parent Created

One minute a day. That's the whole ask.

Dear You app screenshot

Open the app once a day.

What do you want to remember about today? Some days you know instantly. Other days, Dear You offers a question — and suddenly you know exactly what you want to say.

Add one photo and one line.

That's the whole entry. Under a minute, even on a hard day.

Dear You calendar view
Dear You photo entry

Watch the years stack up.

Every child gets their own journal. Scroll back through a year of ordinary Tuesdays and see what they really were: the whole story of a childhood, one line at a time.

Why one line?

Parents don’t fail at memory-keeping because they don’t care. They fail because everything demands too much: the baby book wants milestones, the letter-to-your-kid wants to be profound, and the pressure to write something meaningful is exactly what makes you write nothing at all.

Dear You takes the pressure off. Write the little thing — the mispronounced word, the weird question at bedtime — and let it be enough. String enough small things together and the real childhood appears on its own. It was never in the big moments anyway.

Built for real parents, not perfect ones

  • A journal for every kid

    Separate timelines for each child — including the one born after you swore you’d start a baby book "this time." Unlimited kids, unlimited memories, free.

  • The words are the memory

    The mispronounced words, the bedtime questions, the things they say in the car. Those don’t live in your camera roll. They live in sentences.

  • Private by default

    No public feeds, no discoverability, no ads. Your kids’ childhoods are not content.

  • Prompts when you want them

    Stuck? Ask Dear You for a simple question to shake a memory loose. Prompts come when you ask — not four times a day in your notifications.

  • Miss a day? Backfill it.

    One gentle reminder a day, and missed days never sit there as blank-page guilt.

  • From app to keepsake

    Turn a year of lines and photos into a printed book they’ll read someday — 25% off with the annual plan. Prefer files? Export everything as a PDF anytime.

Free to journal. No catch.

Dear You is free — unlimited memories, unlimited kids, no ads. The subscription ($4.99/month or $44.99/year) adds prompts and PDF export, and the annual plan gets you 25% off printed keepsake books.

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Questions parents ask

Quick answers to common questions. Still stuck? Reach out to our support through the app.

Yes. Dear You is a free digital version of the one-line-a-day journal format, built for parents. You save one photo and one sentence per day for each child, and can print your entries into a keepsake book.
The best memory app is the one you'll still be using in a year. Dear You is built around a single low-effort habit — one photo, one line — which is why it holds a 5.0 rating on the App Store. The core app is free with no limits.
Dear You is free, with unlimited memories and unlimited kids. A subscription — $4.99/month or $44.99/year — adds prompts and PDF export, and the annual plan gets you 25% off printed books.
Yes. No public feed, no discoverable profiles, no ads. Entries are visible only to you and the family you choose to share them with.
Yes — free, with no limit. Each child gets their own journal, and you can log a moment for any of them from the same daily screen.
Yes. A printed book doesn't require a daily streak — pull photos straight from your camera roll, whenever you took them, and write the story behind each one as you go. The book reflects whatever memories you've saved, on your timeline, not a perfect habit.
Dear You is currently iOS-only.

Someday you'll want today back. Keep one line of it.