Goodtime: Energy Journal
Log the good time in your day
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
See what actually energises you, and what quietly drains you. Two ratings per activity, one reflection a week. No account, no subscription, no ads.
Some hours glow. Some drain. Most of us are poor judges of which is which — we remember the day we planned, not the day we had.
Goodtime is a small journal for catching it as it happens. You write down what you did, then rate it on two things: how absorbed you were, and what the hour gave back or took. Energy has a real zero in the middle, so a flat hour reads as flat rather than as mildly good. If something took you somewhere else entirely, mark it as flow.
Log the day
An activity, and a short note if you want one. Typing suggests activities you have logged before, so the same thing keeps one name.
Rate it
Two quick ratings. Engagement runs from one to five. Energy runs from minus to plus around a real zero — green one side, red the other, and a flat hour is allowed to be a zero.
Reflect once a week
Which activities gave you a harvest, and what was it? Pick the moments that stood out, the highs and the lows, then take each one through five prompts: activities, environments, interactions, objects, users. Picking none is a fine answer.
Read the map
Every activity is plotted by engagement against energy on a quadrant map — more of this, engaging but costly, pleasant filler, redesign or reduce. Underneath: your energisers, your drainers, the things that put you in flow, and how the last three weeks have run.
The month calendar grows a small sprout on each logged day, a leaf per entry, a gold blossom when something reached flow. Quick Find opens with a pull down, for when you want to look something up.
What is not in here:
No account, and nothing to sign up for.
No subscription, no ads.
No AI reading your notes.
No streaks, no badges, no reminders. A missed day is just a missed day.
Your journal stays on your device.
The icons are drawn rather than picked off a shelf: nineteen small glyphs in the app's own hand. The rest is near-flat paper and ink, one warm amber accent, green and red kept for energy's sign, gold kept for flow. Light and dark are both first class.
Goodtime follows the good time journal exercise popularised by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. The exercise runs about three weeks, and that is when your weeks start to show their shape. It is not a mood tracker. It is a way of noticing where your good hours actually go.
Ratings & Reviews
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- The first time you add an entry, a short page explains the scales — what engagement and energy mean, with two examples. It returns after a fortnight away, and is always in Settings under "Engagement, energy, and flow"
- Engagement and Energy now stand as large as the flow question when you rate
Also fixed
- On a small phone with large text, the flow row could slip out of sight while rating — the card now grows to fit
- The quadrant map in Insights arrives finished the first time you open it, instead of growing out of a smaller frame
- The first entry card after launch opens quicker
The developer, Zhiqi Pan, 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
- Zhiqi Pan
- Size
- 7.7 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Goodtime Pro $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Zhiqi Pan