Daymark - Draw Your Day
One drawing a day, for a year
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
One drawing. Once a day. For a year.
Daymark is a tiny daily ritual. Draw how the day felt, what happened, or what you want to remember. Thirty seconds or thirty minutes, stick figures welcome. Your drawing becomes a little polaroid, kept on the table of your year.
And here's the magic: Daymark remembers every stroke. Watch any drawing draw itself again, your own hand, replayed, or turn it into a little film and share it.
There are no streaks to break and no guilt when you miss a day. Missed days stay quietly missed, and that's okay.
DRAW YOUR DAY
One prompt for everyone, everywhere, every day: see the whole world answer it in Explore
Some days arrive with a twist: "draw today using only three colors," and the canvas holds you to it
Real brushes: pen, pencil, marker, crayon, and watercolor
Inks that know the hour: draw at midnight and your page carries midnight in it
Add a few words and a mood; at midnight, your page seals itself and is kept
WATCH IT DRAW ITSELF
Every drawing replays stroke by stroke, in the order your hand made it
Play your whole year back: each day redraws itself onto its polaroid
Export any replay as a short film to share or save
SEE YOUR YEAR
Every drawing becomes a card on the table: watch your year fill in
Weekly recaps find the shape of your week
Share any day as a postcard, or save it to Photos
A KIND LITTLE COMMUNITY
Post a drawing to Explore and swipe through everyone else's day
Reactions are positive-only, hearts, stars, "same feeling," no comments, no followers, no rankings
Share under a name you choose. No account, no sign-up, ever.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your journal lives on your device: nothing is uploaded unless you choose to post it
No ads, no tracking, no analytics
Delete everything anytime
Your year is already happening. Start marking it!
more Daymark makes drawing every day actually stick with no pressure, just one quick doodle and you’re done. Watching my little card collection grow has been such a fun way to look back on the year. Cute, simple, and calming. Highly recommend!
Daymark makes drawing every day actually stick with no pressure, just one quick doodle and you’re done. Watching my little card collection grow has been such a fun way to look back on the year. Cute, simple, and calming. Highly recommend!
This app is very relaxing and fun. It is nice to see at the end of the week how were my days in little drawings ✨💡
This app is very relaxing and fun. It is nice to see at the end of the week how were my days in little drawings ✨💡
Actually fixed: Your drawing now looks the same everywhere, no more white border creeping in around it after you post!
3.4 19h ago
Your drawing now looks the same everywhere. No more white border creeping in around it after you post!
3.3 1d ago
Your drawing now looks the same everywhere, no more white border creeping in around it after you post!
3.2 1d ago
Fixed the big one: each day's drawings now land on the right day, with the right question: including when you draw near midnight, and wherever in the world you are.
3.1 Aug 8
Each day's drawings now land on the right day and show the right question, anywhere in the world!
3.0 Aug 5
Drawings replay the moment you tap them, colors show correctly, and each day's drawings land on the right day with the right question!
2.9 Aug 3
Drawings posted from other time zones now land on the right day!
2.8 Aug 1
A few updates to mention:
• Tap a drawing on the wall and it starts replaying right away, no more blank card while it thinks
• Fixed a few drawings showing the wrong colors after reopening the app
• Daymark can now let you know when there's a new version waiting
2.7 Jul 31
Drawing should feel quicker, and stay quicker the longer you use the app, and the more drawings people share. Moving between tabs is smoother too!
2.6 Jul 30
Small stitches, tight and true.
Re-sharing an older drawing now files it under its own day, every time, no more time-traveling posts landing on today's wall. And when you're editing a past page, the canvas says so, right up top, so today's letterhead never ends up on yesterday's paper.
Drawings made across an iPad rotation now show every stroke, the page grows, it never crops.
Switching tabs is smooth as glass again, and while Explore opens the world's sketchbook, you'll see it warming up, softly glowing walls instead of a quiet blank.
See you tomorrow!
2.5 Jul 29
Little mendings, freshly pressed.
Fixed a sneaky crop: naming your drawing right as you saved could squish its polaroid into a sliver. Whole drawings now, every time, no matter how fast you type.
The wall got a refresh button, right beside today's date, for checking on the world without knowing any secret gestures. New drawings still arrive on their own; now there's a doorbell too.
And drawings draw themselves again. If one of your recent posts is missing its little play button, just share it again, it comes back to life, strokes and all.
See you tomorrow!
2.4 Jul 28
A big one, in the best way.
Explore is a wall now. Every day is one wall of everyone's answers, and today's sits right on top - still filling as the world draws. No more card stack: you open Explore and just see today, then scroll back through the days. Your drawings wear a little ember ring; anything with a play button will draw itself when you ask.
Underneath, we rebuilt how days work. Every drawing now knows exactly which day, which question, it belongs to, wherever on Earth it was drawn. Rome's Saturday and Vegas's Saturday hang side by side, always.
And the whole app got faster, properly. We moved your drawings into faster storage (everything migrates itself - nothing to do), taught the heavy work to stay off the drawing hand, and fixed the crops for good: whole drawings, every polaroid, portrait or landscape, iPhone or iPad.
See you on the wall!
2.3 Jul 28
Explore is a wall now!
Every day is one wall of everyone's answers, and today's sits right on top, still filling as the world draws. No more card stack to swipe through: you open Explore and just see today, then scroll back through the days. Your drawings wear a little ember ring; anything with a play button will draw itself when you ask.
Underneath, we rebuilt how days work. Every drawing now knows exactly which day, which question, it belongs to, no matter where on Earth it was drawn or when it finally reached the wall. Rome's Saturday and Vegas's Saturday hang side by side, always, under the same prompt.
Small and steady besides: a tidier palette on iPad, and the app stays quick everywhere.
See you on the wall.
2.2 Jul 27
Small, important mendings, with a little extra love for iPad.
• Undo is gentle again: one tap, one stroke, always. It can never run away with your drawing.
• Your polaroids show the whole drawing everywhere, no more odd crops on the Today page or in your shelf.
• Each morning brings its own fresh prompt, right on time, no more yesterday's question sneaking into today.
• On iPad, the palette got tidied: every tool, stamp, and button visible at every size, nothing tucked away, nothing to hunt for.
This one gives the app its quiet back.
• The canvas is a canvas again: just you, the paper, and the pen. Everything that could slow a stroke got out of the way. Drawing, colors, undo: instant.
• Explore settled down too. Drawings hold still until you ask: tap the little play button on any of them to watch it draw itself, whenever you like. Nothing loads or plays on its own anymore, so the whole app stays light.
• And your polaroids stay true: every drawing shows its whole page, exactly as you made it, everywhere it appears.
And Daymark now notices new versions a little sooner, so updates like this one find you faster.
Thanks for drawing through the bumps. See you tomorrow!
2.1 Jul 26
Small, important mendings:
• Undo is gentle again: one tap, one stroke, always. It can never run away with your drawing.
• Your polaroids show the whole drawing everywhere: no more odd crops on the Today page or in your shelf.
• And each morning brings its own fresh prompt, right on time: no more yesterday's question sneaking into today.
Thanks for drawing through the bumps. See you tomorrow!
2.0 Jul 25
This one's all about keeping the tabletop sturdy and fast:
• The canvas got its speed back. Drawing, undoing, switching colors, instant again. And your work saves itself moments after your pen settles, quietly, out of the pen's way.
• One prompt, one world, one day, now truly. A drawing belongs to the day whose prompt it answers, wherever on Earth it was drawn. Rome's evening and Vegas's afternoon land side by side under the same question, and a drawing that posts late still files under its right day.
• Sharing tells you the truth: if a drawing can't reach the community right away, spotty hotel Wi-Fi, a flight, the app says so, then keeps trying on its own until it lands.
• Explore stays fresh on its own, little play buttons mark every drawing that can draw itself, and finished replays settle into clean, true pages. "Replay today's deck" works every time; "check for new drawings" actually answers you.
• Plus crisp wash edges everywhere and a dozen small mendings across the tabletop.
See you tomorrow!
1.9 Jul 24
Quick and important ones, this time:
• The canvas is fast again. Drawing, undoing, picking colors, everything's back to instant. Your work still saves itself moments after your pen settles; it just does it politely, out of the pen's way.
• Sharing is more honest. If a drawing can't reach the community right away, the app says so, and keeps trying on its own, every time you open it, until it lands. No more posts quietly stuck in limbo.
• Little play buttons now mark every drawing in Explore that can draw itself: tap through and watch it, as many times as you like. And "check for new drawings" actually talks back now: it tells you when something new arrived, or that the world's still quiet.
• Washed pages got crisp edges everywhere, replays and films crop clean to the page. And a stray stroke can't stretch anyone's card out of shape anymore.
See you tomorrow!
1.8 Jul 24
This one's all about keeping the tabletop sturdy.
• Every drawing in Explore can now draw itself: look for the little play button on drawings in earlier days, and tap any card to watch it come to life, as many times as you like.
• Explore stays fresh on its own: new drawings from around the world arrive while you're looking, no restart required. And when you've seen today's deck, you can always replay it or check for new ones.
• Week films got story controls: tap or swipe to move between days instead of waiting for each to finish drawing.
• Autosave got serious. Your work is saved moments after your pen settles, and the instant the app goes to the background. Drawings don't disappear, full stop.
• Also: smoother scrolling in your year, every tool visible on every size of phone, posts always landing on the right day, and Daymark will now quietly let you know when a new version is waiting.
See you tomorrow!
1.7 Jul 23
What's new:
• Drawings now draw themselves - in Explore (tap any card) and in your own year (press and hold one).
• The canvas learned some things: a wash tool that floods the page with color, an eyedropper (hold your finger on paint you've laid down to pick it up), and a little shelf of your recent colors at the end of the palette. It also remembers your brush, size, and ink - tomorrow's desk is set up how you left it. And if you hold undo, the drawing rewinds, stroke by stroke.
• Weeks got little films: tap a weekly recap and watch the whole week unfold, one day at a time. Save the film if it's a good one.
• Pinch your year, and it becomes a field of dots - one for every day, each in that drawing's color. The shape of your whole practice, in one screen.
• Left-handed on iPad? There's a toggle for you now.
• Keep 30 days, and something's waiting in your year ring.
See you tomorrow!
1.6 Jul 22
This update is about the little things feeling right.
• Washes are soft and even now - tap the wash button to tint your whole page in your current ink. Changed your mind? Pick a new color and tap again; the page simply becomes the new tint. The button itself shows you the exact shade you'll get.
• Browsing your year is smoother: swipe between days and everything stays fully on screen, with the date following along up top.
• The little "today" button in your year now appears only when you've wandered far enough back to need it.
• Share cards got a touch sharper, with your day number sitting right where it belongs.
• Daymark feels at home on iPad - a proper drafting-table layout in portrait, and a full side rail in landscape.
• Apple Pencil users: double-tap to flip to the eraser, and two-finger tap to undo.
• A gentle "while you were away" note when your posts picked up reactions overnight.
• Plus small fixes and polish throughout.
One drawing, once a day. See you tomorrow!
1.5 Jul 21
The world's sketchbook, opened.
• Explore now has "earlier days" - every past day becomes a wall: one prompt, everyone's answers, kept forever
• Your daily reminder now brings the prompt itself - tomorrow's question knocks right on your lock screen
• Stamps! Hearts, stars, moons, smileys and friends - placed in your ink, so they replay in your films and stamp along on three-color days
• Two new brushes: Fineliner for crisp lines, Fountain for ink that responds to your hand
• Daymark grew into the iPad - a big drafting-table canvas, a full paintbox in landscape, and Apple Pencil double-tap for the eraser
• Your older drawings quietly repaired themselves - full pages, no more rough edges
• Explore opens on what's new, not what you've already swiped
Same little ritual. One drawing, once a day. See you tonight!
1.4 Jul 19
Reactions, actually delivered:
• When someone reacts to your drawing, you'll truly see it now - tap any of your shared drawings to see who felt what ("2 love · 1 me too")
• Daymark is now beautiful on iPad - a big drafting-table canvas, a full paintbox in landscape, and Apple Pencil double-tap to switch to the eraser
• Tap any card in Explore to see it up close
• Tap your day counter for your streak - just for fun, missed days are still safe here
• Drawings now look exactly like they did when you drew them - no more odd cropping
• Tell us your name during setup, and your mornings greet you properly
• Softer shadows, smoother replays, lots of little love
1.3 Jul 18
Little fixes, kinder details:
• Reactions now say what they mean — "love," "wow," "me too," "inspired"
• Your kind-reaction count actually counts now (sorry...they were always there, we just weren't showing you)
• Swiping through everyone's drawings is smoother and follows your finger
• Posting to Explore got a nicer, calmer confirmation
Thanks for drawing your days with us. See you tomorrow!
1.2 Jul 17
Clearer reactions, live reaction counts, and small polish :)
1.1 Jul 16
Actually fixed: Your drawing now looks the same everywhere, no more white border creeping in around it after you post!
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