Own Your Life · Journal
Quiet life design journal
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Ten years from now, you are the sum of small daily choices. OYL stays quietly beside those choices — ink, paper, considered silence in place of notifications.
To live a day is one thing. To ask, every day, what kind of day you wanted to live — that is rarer.
OYL is a tool for that question. Like ink on paper, it stays quietly beside you, just behind the screen.
— A sentence to begin the morning: "What is the one thing that matters today."
— Seven axes to look back on at the week's close: health, work, relationships, mind, learning, joy, meaning.
— A blank page at the year's end: "Of this year, what remains."
OYL prefers depth over speed. Direction over score. Intention over completion. Considered silence over gamified reward.
■ Seven Core Features
· Daily Log — Today's tasks and events, with quick captures for stray thoughts
· Calendar — A 24-hour timeline, with color-coded event blocks that breathe
· Habits — A 30-day grid for small practices, with quiet markers at 7, 90, and 100 days
· Reviews — Four tiers of reflection (daily / weekly / quarterly / annual), and letters to your future self
· Compass — Seven axes of balance, mapped to OKR-style goals
· Collection — Photos and brief notes archived as inspiration
· Future Log — Monthly notes you'll write to a future you
■ Widgets for Home & Lock Screens
· Today's Focus — The one thing that matters most, and what comes next
· Compass — A diamond chart across the seven axes
· Habits — Today's check-in at a glance
· Streak — Your longest unbroken thread
■ What This Tool Promises — and What It Does Not
· No ads. No tracking. No notification addiction.
· iCloud sync inside your private container only — your data stays on your devices and in your own iCloud.
· One-time purchase. Subscriptions will never come.
· Seven languages: Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese.
■ For Those This Tool Wishes to Keep Beside
· Those who want life's direction beside them, not only a daily checklist.
· Those who handle small daily choices consciously to reduce future regret.
· Those who notice silence, white space, and considered design.
· Those looking for a tool to use for the next ten years.
■ For Those This Tool Cannot Serve
· People needing team or collaboration features (OYL is for one).
· People who enjoy gamified rewards, leaderboards, or enforced streaks.
· People looking for a free app.
OYL does not promise more, or faster.
It stays quietly beside you with the conviction that small daily choices
shape who you become in ten years — and helps you author your own life.
— With the grain of paper and the weight of ink,
not a tool for living through a day,
but a tool for designing the direction of a life.
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v2.1.1 — Promises, kept in code
The Forever Clause's six promises moved from marketing copy to code and policy documents.
· No Tracking is now verified at every commit. 36 known analytics, tracking, and advertising SDKs are blocked from entering the repository.
· An AI policy is now documented in writing. What you write does not get sent to external LLM services. Five rules were set _before_ v3.0's AI feature work begins.
· A Photos access policy is now documented. OYL uses PhotosPicker — only the photos you pick. Full-library scanning is forbidden.
· A security disclosure channel is now public. SECURITY.md.
The app's UI is the same as v2.1.0. This version's change is in how we keep our promises.
Full feature tour at noenemyx.github.io/ownlifelab.github.io.
The developer, Sunghun Ahn, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Sunghun Ahn
- Size
- 10 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ownlifelab