Blur!
Lifestyle
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your museum fills the moment you open it. Bring in photos you already have, then write, speak, or doodle your days. No streaks, no accounts, nothing leaves your phone.
Blur is a journal where your life is the exhibition.
Most days blur together. Blur helps you keep the ones worth remembering, then lets you walk back through them like a visitor in your own museum.
YOUR MUSEUM OPENS FULL
You already have years of photographs on your phone. Blur catalogues them for you when you first open it, reads the date each one was taken, and hangs them in wings by year. Your museum has a history before you write a single word.
THREE WAYS TO KEEP A DAY
Write a line. Say it out loud and let Blur transcribe your words, then tidy the rambling into something clean. Or draw a small doodle with your finger, which hangs itself in your Doodles wing. It all happens on your device.
BUILD YOUR MUSEUM
Every memory becomes an exhibit. Place them into rooms like Best Meals, People You Love, or Summer 2026. Watch each room warm up as it fills, and see little visitors wander in to look around.
WALK BACK THROUGH YOUR LIFE
Browse a wing as a gallery wall, a shelf, a set of pedestals, or a scrapbook page, with the whole room on one screen and the animals wandering below. Each exhibit opens like an artifact, with a wall label giving the day, the hour, and the place.
A WING FOR EVERYONE WHO MATTERS
Give the people in your life a face and a name. Every entry that mentions someone hangs in their own wing, so you can walk through years of one person. Their names are taught to the microphone too, so even the tricky ones come out spelled right.
COLLECT YOUR VISITORS
Cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, snails, birds and butterflies wander your halls, and 21 different breeds arrive as your museum grows. The Guest Book shows who has visited and what will bring the rest.
FIND ANYTHING
The Archive searches every word, person and place you have ever kept. Filter by favorites, food, trips and more. Open the calendar to write for any day in the past, so nothing is lost just because you were busy.
BRING YOUR OLD JOURNAL
Already keep a journal somewhere else? Import your exported file and the entries arrive dated, tagged, and placed in your museum. You can also paste in older entries one at a time.
GENTLE, NEVER PUSHY
Soft daily prompts ask for one small thing, never your whole day. Stamps and quiet milestones mark how far you have come. There are no streaks, no guilt, and no pressure. Blur is warm and a little playful, and never another thing to keep up with.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Nothing is ever sent away to be read. Your journal lives on your iPhone. Lock it with Face ID, back it up to your own iCloud, and export everything whenever you want. Your memories are yours alone.
Start with one small thing you noticed today. Before it blurs, keep it here.
Ratings & Reviews
Your museum now opens full. Blur can catalogue photos you already have, read the date each one was taken, and hang them in wings by year, so there is something to walk through from the very first minute.
Also new:
New UI design to look more like your favorite video game.
Doodle. Draw the day with your finger and it hangs itself in your Doodles wing.
A wing for every person. Anyone you name in an entry gets their own gallery.
A Guest Book. 21 animal breeds visit as your museum grows, and you can see who is still to come.
Import from another journal, so years of entries can move in with you.
A calendar, for writing about any day in the past.
Redesigned galleries. A whole wing fits on one screen, and you swipe sideways for more.
Light and dark now follow your phone.
Anything in Look back can be dismissed for good, and it will not come back.
A brighter look throughout, with sound you can turn off.
The developer, Austin Shin, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Austin Shin
- Size
- 2.8 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- 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
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Austin Shin