Jou - Daily Calendar
Haitian History & Culture
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Jou is our history, one day at a time.
Every morning it opens on today. You get the entries that belong to this date, drawn from thousands of them, reaching from the Taíno settlements before the ships to the present. Each one is written to be read in ten seconds or in two minutes, whichever you have: a headline, why it matters today, then the detail if you want it.
We wrote it the way we would tell it to each other. Our ancestors are the ones acting. The people who claimed to own them are named for what they were. When a law was passed to stop something, we say what our people were already doing that made the law necessary.
THE NOTICES
Alongside the day's history sits something else. When someone escaped, the enslavers of Saint-Domingue paid the newspapers to hunt them. There are 10,412 of those notices, advertising 13,711 of our ancestors.
A notice is what an enslaver pays for after the searching has already failed. So every one of them marks somebody who had got out. Where a notice recorded a name, Jou gives it back: Polidor, Marianne, l'Espérance, Sans-Quartier. Where it recorded only a brand and no name, Jou counts that person too, and says so.
WHAT IS INSIDE
- Thousands of entries, every day of the year covered
- A brief on each one: the headline, why it matters today, what happened, and the thread
- Sources cited on every entry, one tap down
- A glossary that explains the colony's vocabulary and who it served
- Browse by century, by year, by month, or search the whole archive
- Subscribe the calendar to your phone
- A daily notification at a time you choose
- Works completely offline after the first download
NOTHING COLLECTED
No account. No tracking. No analytics. The archive lives on your phone and stays there.
Jou is drawn from Istwanou and from the marronnage.info archive of notices, and is part of Rasanblaj Media Group.
Jou Yearly is an auto-renewable subscription: free for the first week, then $9.99 per year. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Past buyers of Jou keep full access without a subscription.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://jou.rasanblaj.ht/privacy
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Jou is now free to download. Try everything free for one week, then keep reading with Jou Yearly for $9.99 a year.
If you bought Jou when it was a paid app, nothing changes for you: you keep full access for good, with no subscription.
Also new: a Podcast tab with every episode of the Deep Dive and the Nèg Mawon Podcast, a share button on every episode, Konesans with a Haitian proverb each day, and Code Henry articles inside the app.
The developer, Jerma Consulting, LLC, 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.
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Information
- Seller
- Jerma Consulting, LLC
- Size
- 26.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Guns or Other Weapons
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Jou Yearly $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Rasanblaj Media Group, LLC