LayerYear - Photo Journal
A diary of every year you keep
Free · In‑App Purchases
Keep today's notes and photos, then look back at the same date across every year, with no limit on years. Check off daily routines like a workout right from Today.
What was this day like a year ago?
LayerYear is a journal that lines up the same date across every year you keep, with no limit on how many — and your photos, places and weather are already filled in.
Keep today
Write a short note, add a mood, and tag it. Photos from your library appear on the day they were taken.
See your years side by side
Scroll a timeline where each year sits on its own row. Open any day to read what you wrote and look through its photos.
Retrace where you went
Days with location show a map of your route and the countries and cities you passed through, worked out on your device from boundary data built into the app.
Make a timeline video
Turn a stretch of your journal into a short video of your photos and the places they came from, then save it to your library.
Keep up small routines
Check off daily habits like taking medicine or learning a few words, right from Today.
Yours alone
There is no LayerYear account and no LayerYear server. Your records stay on your device and sync through your own iCloud. Photo and location access are optional — you can write notes without granting either.
Available in 11 languages, in light and dark.
Subscription
LayerYear Subscription is an optional monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. It unlocks subscriber-only screen themes and record colors, and supports the developer. Writing and revisiting your journal stays free without it. The same subscription also works in the Mac app with your Apple Account.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://layeryear.com/en/privacy
• Search: find any note you've written, all in one place.
• LayerYear Moments widget: rotates through On This Day, Today and your Routines, and lets you check off routines right on the widget.
• On This Day now appears below your records on Today, so entries from the same date in past years are always close at hand.
• Today's mood: pick a mood for the day.
• Keep writing right after adding an entry, and bring a deleted entry back with Undo.
• Go to Date in Timeline takes you straight to any day, and photos appear faster.
• Photo dates and times now follow the time zone where each photo was taken.
• Add notes with Siri and Shortcuts.
• Plus many usability improvements and bug fixes.
The developer, BAMSEM, 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
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- BAMSEM
- Size
- 30.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- LayerYear Monthly $1.00
- LayerYear Yearly $10.00
- Copyright
- © 2026 BAMSEM