Ripples: Micro Journal & Diary
one line today, reply later
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
2.0 is here: burn what you'd rather not keep, search everything, send letters up to fifty years out, and write from the Action Button without opening the app.
A few words is enough to make a memory. Ripples is built for the small moments you'd never sit down and write a page about.
Then it does the thing no other journal does. It brings them back, and lets you write back. Reply to an entry from last month. Argue with the version of you from three years ago. Add the context you didn't have at the time. Your memories stop being a list and start being a conversation that runs the length of your life.
HOW IT WORKS
Write something small. One line is a complete entry here. No prompts to answer, no friction. Add one from the Action Button, Shortcuts or Siri without even opening the app.
Answer your past self. Once your journal has some age on it, Ripples brings back three old entries a day and invites you to respond. Agree, argue, or just add what you know now.
Watch the thread grow. A note about a job you almost took. A reply six months later. Another one two years after that. The story never ended, so neither does the entry. That's the ripple.
WHY ENTRIES ARE PERMANENT
You can't edit an entry once it's saved. That's deliberate. A journal you can quietly revise is a journal that tells you what you want to hear — and the entries worth hearing again are usually the ones you'd have softened. Replies let you add, correct and disagree without rewriting the past.
LETTERS TO YOUR FUTURE SELF
Seal any entry until a date you choose. It leaves your timeline and stays gone — until a few days before it opens, when it returns with a countdown you can see but can't read yet. Sealed letters are never searchable, so guessing a word can't open one early. A message in a bottle from who you used to be.
WHEN YOU WANT TO LET SOMETHING GO
Write it down, then burn it. The words are removed from your journal and don't come back. Only the date stays, so the shape of your history stays honest. Permanent shouldn't mean trapped.
ALSO INSIDE
Timeline — your story in order, with threads, sealed letters and the ones you marked as mattering
Search — across everything you've written, never inside a sealed letter
Daily reminders — as many as you want, at the times that suit you
Face ID / Touch ID lock
iCloud backup across iPhone and iPad
Export everything to JSON, anytime
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no trackers, no ads. Your entries live on your device and sync only through your own iCloud. We never see them — the App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that's literally true.
FREE, AND RIPPLES+
Writing, sealing letters up to a year out, replying, burning, search, reminders, iCloud backup and export are free for everyone, forever.
Ripples+ is one payment, no subscription, and adds exactly three things:
• Letters that travel further — seal one for any date up to fifty years ahead
• Letters that keep returning — mark one to come back every year, or every six months, for as long as you keep answering it
• Patterns in your writing — the hours and days you actually write, and the words you keep returning to
Start with one line today. See what you have to say about it next year.
2.0 is a rebuild rather than an update.
• Burn an entry. The words go and don't come back; only the date stays.
• Search everything you've written. Sealed letters stay sealed.
• Write from the Action Button, Shortcuts or Siri without opening the app.
• Letters that keep returning — mark one to come back each year, for as long as you keep answering it.
• Reflect rebuilt around what's coming back to you, including every letter still travelling.
• A first-run experience that has you writing in under a minute.
• New timeline, composer, entry view and stats, and a real iPad layout.
• iCloud sync is free for everyone, and always will be.
The developer, John Davenport, 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
- John Davenport
- Size
- 5.7 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 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
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ripples+ $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2025
