Mera – Journal
Journal, no subscription
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Your journal, your photos and your memories: on your own iPhone and in your own iCloud. Bring your whole archive from Day One along and simply keep writing.
A journal that stays yours. Mera keeps your entries, photos and memories on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. No account, no ads, no tracking. And no subscription.
SWITCH FROM DAY ONE
• Import your Day One export (zip) in one go: entries, photos, videos, tags, location and weather
• Your photos stay the originals, bit for bit
• Thousands of entries and many gigabytes? Pause the import and pick up where you left off
WRITE TOGETHER
• Share your journal with one other person, like your partner
• You both read, write and edit, with equal rights
• Working on the same entry at the same time? No text gets lost
LOOK BACK
• On This Day: what you wrote on this date in earlier years, also as a widget on your Home Screen and Lock Screen
• Search your whole journal in an instant, with filters for tags, photos, favorites and years
• Tags, favorites, location and weather with every entry
WRITE
• Photos sit right in your text, where they belong
• Headings, bold, italics, lists and checklists
• Writing suggestions based on the photos, places and workouts of your day (where available)
• Nothing gets lost: your text is saved as you type
• Start a new entry from the Lock Screen, Control Center or with Siri
PRIVATE AND YOURS
• Lock your journal with Face ID
• No account needed: your devices sync through your own iCloud
• We collect nothing: no ads, no tracking, no analytics
• Export your entire journal with all original photos and videos, whenever you like
Mera is free, with no subscription.
Write down today what you want to remember tomorrow.
Day One is a trademark of Automattic. Mera is not affiliated with it.
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• Hemera is now called Mera. Your journal, your settings and your iCloud stay just as they were.
• Settings has been reorganized: what belongs together is together, with less text and the same words as on the rest of your iPhone.
• You can now turn off On This Day in Settings.
• Trash is now called Recently Deleted.
• Import now sits in Settings, next to Export. That's also where you bring in your archive from Day One in one go.
The developer, Gijsbert Oord, 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
- Gijsbert Oord
- Size
- 11.5 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 17 more
- English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Strumara
