Memoir
Keep each person’s account beside the others. Pass the phone or share a Memory file, compare separate edits, and keep earlier wording when memories differ.
Writing · by Tristin Hassell
Story Circle
Stories, memories and everyday writing
- Private testing is not available yet.
iPhone with iOS 17 or later
Memoir, Diary and Wellness from the 1.1 testing edition, with sample entries. The story-writing pictures show the earlier edition.
Your story library 
Keep a writer’s desk 
Write a scene 
Read a finished story 
Keep each account of a shared memory. 
Find a day again in your diary. 
Make time for a daily check-in.
Keep the stories you invent and the days you want to remember. Write alone or pass the phone, gather different accounts of a shared memory, keep a diary, and make time for a daily check-in. These additions are part of the 1.1 testing edition; the public release date has not been announced.
What you can do
Diary
Write entries, add photographs, places and tags, and find a day again with search or the calendar.
Wellness
Make time for check-ins, short notes, breathing and grounding prompts, and a weekly look back. This is a journal, not medical care.
Protect your journals
Use Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode to open the app. Save a password-protected journal backup; restoring adds missing items and keeps your existing pages.
Write stories
Keep projects, scenes and research together. Speak a draft, record a story memory, or choose writing suggestions; you review every change.
Write and share together
Pass the phone and take turns at the same table. Try a built-in weekly story prompt, then share your story as text, an EPUB or a PDF with everyone’s credit attached.
Information
- Version
- 1.1.0 (build 8)
- Updated
- October 10, 2026
- Requires
- iPhone with iOS 17 or later · iPad with iPadOS 17 or later
- Languages
- English
- Category
- Productivity
- Price
- Price to be announced
- Developer
- Tristin Hassell
- Availability
- Private testing is not available yet. Public release date to be announced.
Data and privacy
- Stays on your device: Your stories, recordings, memoir accounts, diary entries and photographs, wellness pages and keepsakes.
- Leaves your device: Only what you choose to save or share. Journal backups are password-protected; ordinary document exports and Memory files are not encrypted. Online rooms are off.
- Never collected: No account with us, ads, tracking or analytics. We receive neither your journals nor your backup password.
Version history
Version 1.1.0
- Private testing is not available yet. The public release date has not been announced.
- Memoir keeps separate accounts of a memory, shared Memory files and earlier wording.
- Diary adds photographs, places, tags, search and a calendar.
- Wellness offers check-ins, notes, breathing and grounding prompts, and a weekly look back.
- App Lock, password-protected journal backups and optional keepsakes.
Version 1.0.0
- Write alone or pass the phone to write scenes together.
- Record story memories and turn them into text on your device.
- Export stories and drafts as books.
Questions people ask
Do I need an account?
No. Open the app and start writing.
Can I write with someone else?
Yes, by passing the phone. Each person writes a scene in turn. Online shared rooms are off in this version.
What does writing help do?
It points out heavy adverbs and adjectives, offers plainer words and helps keep a character’s voice consistent. You choose what to keep.
Can I make a book from my story?
Yes. Export a finished story or draft as an EPUB or PDF.
Can several people remember the same event differently?
Yes. Memoir keeps each person’s account beside the others and preserves earlier wording. Share a Memory file to exchange accounts and compare separate edits.
Are all journal exports password-protected?
No. Choose a journal backup for a password-protected copy. Ordinary PDF, EPUB and Markdown exports and shared Memory files are not encrypted. App Lock does not protect those exported copies.
What happens when I delete a journal entry?
It leaves the current journal, but recovery copies and files prepared for sharing can remain. Deleting the app removes its local storage; copies saved, shared or included in a device backup remain elsewhere.
Before you share a journal
Journal backups are password-protected. Ordinary PDF, EPUB and Markdown copies and shared Memory files are not encrypted. A Memory file can include names, photographs, different accounts and earlier wording, so agree with contributors before sharing it.
Help
Email hello@gatheredcommonspress.com. I answer within three business days.
Software by Tristin Hassell. Published by Gathered Commons Press LLC.