Cadence Journal
Time-based mindful Journal
$9.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
See your life's rhythm, not just its hours. Local-first. No accounts. No subscriptions.
Cadence is a personal field notebook for how you spend your time.
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### What Makes Cadence Different
**Untracked Time Is Visible**
Most apps hide the time you forget to log. Cadence treats it as information. Gaps in your day — the 20 minutes between meetings, the hour that disappeared after lunch — appear directly in your timeline as first-class entries. Tap to fill them or leave them as-is. Either way, you see the full picture.
**Remarks Over Numbers**
A time entry without context is just a number. Cadence lets you attach Remarks — short, taggable notes — to any activity block as it's happening. "Finally cracked the auth bug #backend," "Third interruption this hour," "Good conversation with Sara #1on1." Your day becomes a narrative you can search and revisit, not a pie chart.
**Two Ways to Track**
Not everyone tracks the same way. In **Start mode**, tap an activity and a timer runs forward — classic stopwatch tracking. In **Log mode**, tap an activity to label the time since your last entry — no timer needed, just retroactive labeling. Switch between modes freely depending on what suits the moment.
### Core Features
**Activity Sets & Schedules**
Organize activities into named Sets for different contexts — Work, Personal, Study, whatever fits your life. Schedule them to switch automatically by time of day and day of week. Your tracking palette adapts to your rhythm without manual intervention.
**Morning Intentions & Evening Reflections**
Cadence prompts you to write a brief intention each morning and a reflection each evening. These frame your day with purpose on one end and awareness on the other. They're optional, never nagging, and appear alongside your data when you review a day.
**Smart Timeline**
Your day is rendered as a continuous stream: activities, gaps, and remarks woven together. Tap to expand details, double-tap to add a note inline, swipe to edit or delete. Conflicts and overlaps are detected automatically and surfaced for resolution.
**Tag Analytics**
Every #tag you write in a Remark becomes searchable and filterable across your entire history. See which tags appear most often, which activities they cluster around, and how their frequency changes over time.
**Reports**
Daily, weekly, and month-to-date reports with activity breakdowns, comparisons to prior periods, a focus quality score derived from context-switch frequency, and highlighted remarks from the period.
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### Your Data, Your Device
Cadence is built on a strict Local-First architecture. There are no servers, no user accounts, no analytics SDKs, no advertising code, and no subscriptions.
- **Full JSON Archives** — Back up your entire database, including every remark, note, and setting, to a portable JSON file.
- **Granular CSV Export** — Export your timeline with configurable columns for analysis in any spreadsheet or scripting tool.
- **Privacy by Design** — We cannot see your data and we don't want to. Your information lives on your device and in your iCloud backups. That's it.
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**What's New in This Version (1.5)**
**Accurate cross-boundary reporting**
Reports now correctly attribute time for activities that span period boundaries. A block that crosses midnight — like sleep — is proportionally counted on each day rather than being fully counted on both. Daily totals now reflect actual hours within the day, and weekly and monthly breakdowns are similarly precise.
**Two Ways to Track**
Not everyone tracks the same way. In **Start mode**, tap an activity and a timer runs forward — classic stopwatch tracking. In **Log mode**, tap an activity to label the time since your last entry — no timer needed, just retroactive labeling. Switch between modes freely depending on what suits the moment.
**Also in this update:**
- Pause duration is now proportionally allocated when a paused block spans a report boundary
- Fragmentation metrics (switches/hr, average block length) use the same corrected duration logic
- Comparison baselines (7-day average, prior week, prior month) benefit from the same fix
The developer, Zhi Zheng Yeo, 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
- Zhi Zheng Yeo
- Size
- 5.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026, Yeo Zhi Zheng
