ThisDay - Photo Memories
On this day, from your photos
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Relive your memories, one day at a time.
ThisDay brings your photo library to life by showing you the moments captured on this exact day in years past. Open the app and instantly see what you were doing one, five, or ten years ago today.
Built with privacy as the foundation. ThisDay reads your photos directly from your device - nothing is uploaded, nothing is tracked, nothing leaves your phone. No accounts to create. No cloud sync. No analytics.
Features
• Daily photo memories grouped by year
• The Days tab - browse your memories on a calendar and jump to any date
• Then & Now - retake any memory today, with the old photo ghosted over your camera to line up the same shot
• Live Photos come alive - heroes breathe when you arrive, press and hold to replay with sound
• Mark anniversaries and favorite days, each with its own emoji
• Interactive widgets - favorite or hide a day right from your home screen
• Light and dark themes, with a calm cream-paper light mode
• Beautiful home screen widgets in three sizes, theme-aware
• Surprise me - jump to a random past day in one tap
• Favorite, share, and delete photos right from the viewer
• Share a memory as a printable Memory Card with date and location
• Customizable memory window (exact day, ±1 day, ±3 days, ±7 days)
• Optional daily reminder notification
• Full support for iOS tinted and clear home screen styles
• Works seamlessly with iCloud Photos (including Optimize Storage)
• Reduce Motion fully respected
• 100% on-device - no internet required
Privacy First
ThisDay never sends your photos or data anywhere. Photo access stays on your device. There are no servers, no accounts, and no third-party SDKs. Your memories belong to you.
Open ThisDay each morning and let your photo library remind you of the moments that matter.
more • Widgets now keep faces and subjects in frame
• Hearts, stars and counters animate smoothly
• Refreshed colors and app icon, in light and dark mode
• Easier-to-read text that scales with your text size
Still 100% private and on-device.
3.8 4d ago
NEW: COLLAGE WIDGET
A new small widget with four photos from this day in a tight grid, in the same style as the Large and Extra Large widgets. Add it from the widget gallery next to the single-photo one.
YOUR OWN WORDS, ON YOUR MEMORIES (iOS 27)
ThisDay now shows what you wrote on a photo in the Photos app. Your caption, star rating and keywords appear in the photo details, under each photo in Story, and on Rediscover cards.
STAR RATINGS SHAPE YOUR MEMORIES (iOS 27)
A photo you've rated is one you remember, so Rediscover no longer resurfaces it as "forgotten", and your 4 and 5 star photos get a better chance of making your Year Capsule.
MOMENT LABELS, ON YOUR iPHONE (iOS 27, Apple Intelligence)
Optional and off by default. Turn on Settings → Label moments and ThisDay adds a short label like "Birthday cake" or "Beach at sunset" when your iPhone recognises the occasion, and says nothing when it doesn't. It never describes people. The photo never leaves your device.
BETTER WITH VOICEOVER
Photos now have proper VoiceOver labels, and on iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence they can be described aloud, using your iPhone's own model.
PRIVACY
Your anniversaries and favourite days are now stored in a more protected Spotlight index, so they can't be read while your iPhone is locked.
Everything still happens on your device. No account, no uploads, nothing leaves your phone.
3.7 Oct 5
NEW: FULL-SCREEN WIDGET (iOS 27)
- If you're on iOS 27, add ThisDay's new full-screen widget - one photo memory filling your whole Home Screen page.
- Also includes minor under-the-hood improvements.
3.6 Sep 14
Three new ways to see your day — and a new way to just watch it.
REDISCOVER
Photos you've never looked back at. ThisDay finds the ones buried in a busy day - never favourited, never filed, never edited and brings them back one at a time.
ROWS, GRID OR TIMELINE
Switch how your feed looks from the top of the Today screen. Grid shows a whole year at once. Timeline gives every photo the full width of your screen. Rows is still there, exactly as it was.
PLAY AS STORY
Sit back and let the day play itself, oldest year first, full screen.Tap to skip, hold to pause.
SHARE YOUR YEAR AS A VIDEO
Your Year Capsule can now be shared as a video, with gentle motion and cross-fades . Put together entirely on your iPhone.
A LITTLE CONTEXT WITH EVERY MEMORY
Photos now carry a line about what was happening around them: "Sunday evening in Bangkok · 47 photos that day."
HIDE A PERIOD
Some stretches of time are better left alone. Hide any range of dates and it stays out of your memories, the Year Capsule, Rediscover, widgets and notifications. Your photos are never changed or deleted.
SHARPER WIDGETS ON ICLOUD
If your photos live in iCloud, ThisDay now prepares tomorrow's widget photos ahead of time. So your widget stays sharp even on days you never open the app.
ALSO IN THIS RELEASE
• The Year Capsule now balances your favourites with photos you'd forgotten about
• Fixed the widget showing "No memories" if you had Include Screenshots turned off
• Hidden periods now apply to the widget too
• Moving to a new iPhone no longer loses your favourite days and hidden photos
• Smoother, more reliable Story playback - including Live Photos
Everything still happens on your device. No account, no uploads, nothing leaves your phone.
3.5 Aug 25
Fixes for iCloud photo libraries. Photos that first appeared soft now sharpen properly - in the app, in the photo viewer, and in widgets - instead of staying low-resolution. Widgets also recover on their own if the app was first opened without a connection.
Version 3.1
Know the story behind every photo. Tap the new info button in the photo viewer to see what you were shooting with - the camera, lens, and settings - along with little details like whether a shot was taken at golden hour, high in the mountains, or from a plane window.
Your year in numbers. Every Year Capsule now opens with the highlights of that year: your busiest day, your longest photo streak, your highest photo, and the cameras you used. Tap any of them to jump straight to the moment.
Your cameras through the years. See your photography life as a timeline of the phones you carried.
See a day on the map. Every photo from a date, across all the years, pinned where it happened.
Plus: months you travelled are marked automatically, Then & Now can now tell you which way the original was facing, and Year Capsules pick the sharpest frame from a burst. New extra-large widget for iPad, sharper widget photos, and fixes for widgets getting stuck.
3.1.1 Aug 4
Know the story behind every photo. Tap the new info button in the photo viewer to see what you were shooting with - the camera, lens, and settings - along with little details like whether a shot was taken at golden hour, high in the mountains, or from a plane window.
Your year in numbers. Every Year Capsule now opens with the highlights of that year: your busiest day, your longest photo streak, your highest photo, and the cameras you used. Tap any of them to jump straight to the moment.
Your cameras through the years. See your photography life as a timeline of the phones you carried.
See a day on the map. Every photo from a date, across all the years, pinned where it happened.
Plus: months you travelled are marked automatically, Then & Now can now tell you which way the original was facing, and Year Capsules pick the sharpest frame from a burst. New extra-large widget for iPad, sharper widget photos, and fixes for widgets getting stuck.
3.1 Jul 29
- The Year Capsule. Your whole year, gathered into one story - the strongest photo from each month, chosen entirely on your device. Scroll it, then share the whole year as a single poster.
- Sharper, steadier widgets. Widget photos now look crisp even when your library lives in iCloud - and they no longer say "No memories" when you have them.
- Plus a fix for a crash while browsing photos, and better handling of iCloud-optimised libraries throughout.
3.0 Jul 21
The Days tab. Browse your memories on a calendar - jump to any date, see which days hold photos, and mark the ones that matter. Anniversaries and favorite days now live together, each with its own emoji.
Then & Now. Reopen any memory and retake it today. The old photo ghosts over your camera so you can line up the exact same shot, saved as a side-by-side.
Interactive widgets. Favorite or hide a day right from your home screen - no need to open the app.
Plus a new Privacy section, Live Photos that play on press-and-hold, light & dark themes, and much faster photo loading throughout
2.5 Jul 8
Light mode polish, sharper Live Photo badge, friendlier VoiceOver, and one tidy toggle for all the motion.
2.4.1 Jun 20
- Your memories now come alive. Hero photos captured as Live Photos breathe once when you open the app - and press-and-hold any Live Photo in the viewer to replay it with sound.
- A new cream light mode joins the original dark — pick what fits your day in Settings. Widgets follow along.
- The feed feels more like an album now: a larger leading card, a soft shimmer while loading, and a pull-to-refresh that reveals the date in serif.
- Photos sit on a gentle paper-mat vignette in the viewer. Reduce Motion is fully respected.
2.4 Jun 12
2.3.3
• Delete a photo from Photos directly from ThisDay - tap the trash icon (or Share → Delete from Photos). iOS shows its own confirmation.
2.3.3 Jun 6
What's New - 2.3.2
A small polish release.
- Smoother Memory Collage with HDR color preserved on supporting displays
- Spinner shows while Surprise Me picks a date
- Hide a video right from the full-screen viewer
- Widget refreshes immediately when you change the memory window
- Quieter cleanup of temporary collage files
No new features — just things working a little better
2.3.2 May 22
Memory Collage - the headline addition
Compose a Live Photo or video from your memories on this day, across every year you've had a camera. Pick a format (Phone / Stories, Square, Portrait, Landscape), grid layout (2×2, 3×3, 2×3, 3×2, 4×2), and ThisDay stitches a real shareable artifact together - animated, with each tile playing its source motion.
Save to Photos as a Live Photo, or share straight to Instagram / TikTok / Twitter / Messages as a clean MP4. Editorial-style date stamp and app mark for context.
Easier to find what matters
- Memory Collage button in the toolbar — one tap, pre-loaded with the date you're viewing
- Per-date actions below your memories: favourite this day, make it an anniversary, create a collage
- Settings reorganized — features first (Collage, Anniversaries, Tip Jar), then filters, then config
Maps your way
- Tap a photo location and choose your map app (Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze)
- Toggle "Remember this choice" once and ThisDay won't ask again
Polish
- "Today" button to jump back after exploring a different date
- Anniversary sheet pre-fills with the date you tapped from
Honesty about Apple's rules
iOS gates Motion wallpapers to photos taken directly with the Camera app, so composed Live Photos play in Photos and share as Live Photos but won't set as wallpaper. We don't pretend otherwise. The collage is still a unique sharable artifact nobody else generates.
2.3 May 1
Curate your past. A batch of small things that make ThisDay feel more like yours.
New
• Surprise Me - shuffle to a random day from your past (top-left dice)
• "Today" button to jump back after exploring
• Hide any date, photo, or entire album from memories
• Favorites-only mode - only show photos you've starred
• Hide screenshots toggle
• Streak badge - when you have 3+ years in a row
• Gap years shown quietly instead of skipped
• Anniversary labels (up to 5) - name your day ("Wedding Day")
Polish
• "X years ago today" prepended when you share
• Big faded year behind each memory card - editorial feel
• "All processing on device" - your photos never leave your phone
• Notifications skip days with nothing to show (or dates you hid)
Fixed
• Black video thumbnails for iCloud-stored videos
• Widget now respects every filter (videos, screenshots, hidden items, favorites)
• Notifications update live when you change filters
2.2 Apr 22
What's New
Videos are here. Memories from this day now include your videos alongside photos - tap to play in full screen, share straight from the viewer.
Not a fan? Turn it off in Settings → Media → Include Videos. Toggle applies instantly.
Fixed
• Stale thumbnails after changing settings - the feed now updates live without needing to relaunch the app.
2.1 Apr 19
- See where you were. Photos now show the location where they were taken — tap to open in your favourite maps app.
- Compare years side by side. Tap the compare button to see the same day across different years, right next to each other.
- Share as Memory Card. Create a styled memory card with your photo, date, location, and how long ago it was — perfect for sharing.
- This Week mode. New ± 3 days option in Memory Window lets you see an entire week of memories.
- Infinite scroll. Browse all your photos for each year — no more "+N" cutoff.
iPad improvements. Thumbnails and privacy badge now scale properly on larger screens.
2.0 Apr 13
• Save your favourite days and jump back to them with one tap
• Quick Favourites shortcuts in "Explore a Date"
• Fixes for the photo favourite button and clearer iCloud privacy details
1.2 Apr 10
• Widgets now keep faces and subjects in frame
• Hearts, stars and counters animate smoothly
• Refreshed colors and app icon, in light and dark mode
• Easier-to-read text that scales with your text size
Still 100% private and on-device.
more Version 3.8 4d ago
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.