Memoiry - Diary, Mood Tracker

New features:

• Add a location to an entry
• Additional statistics:
  • Mood occurrence during week
  • Mood time occurrence

Improvements:

• Behind the scene improvement related to app performance
• View a full photo from the entry details by tapping on it
• Reorganized the order of the charts & stats
• Small visual improvements
• Add button to hide keyboard

Bugs:

• Remove “to replace” mood from replacement options list

New features:

• Goals: Create & customize long terms goals and challenge yourself everyday to become the better version of yourself
• Goals statistics: View your progress so far and keep your streak going to build a habit

Improvements:

• Remove unnecessary screens and to save a few taps

Improvements:

• Average mood chart is now being split into two distinct charts (Average mood line chart & Stacked bar chart by mood type)

Bug fixes:

• During an entry creation, sometimes a replaced photo is being saved along side with a newly selected one which can cause an app crash if selected from "Photo Gallery" tab
• This type of photos don't belong to any entry and will be automatically removed

After many many hours of testing with my wife, multiple App Store review rejections, the app is finally live on the App Store.

The app is launching with the following features:

• Actions to create, update, delete entry
  • Select mood for an entry
  • Add extra details section with photo
• Action to filter entries by favourites
• Actions to create, update, replace, archive, delete moods
• Enable swipe actions from list
• Actions to enable, disable, set time for reminder
• Actions to view all photos and go to related entry from photos
• Protect app with passcode and biometrics (FaceID)
• Chart & Stats
  • Added total mood count by rating for selected period
  • Added average mood with mood count for selected period

Like I mentioned in a previous post. Making privacy and security as a core pillar of the app without comprise of other features.

Here is the list of the features which will be implemented (without any particular order)

• Create, customise and pick mood
• Create entries with additional details & photos
• Indicate and filter favourite entries
• Statistics
• Photo Gallery
• Set multiple reminder
• Extra app protection with passcode and biometrics (FaceID)
• Themes & App Icons
• Goals
• Customizable entry templates
• Export Data
• Share entry with other users (author decides who can see what)
• Voice memos
• Achievements
• Set a location for an entry
• Widgets
• Watch App
• Sleep data to correlate with moods
• Save interested statistics and achievement to photos

My wife and I have a tradition every night before bed, each of us have to share one favorite/ best moment that happened during the day. The moment doesn't have to be something spectacular or amazing. Even during, what felt like the worst day, can have a small moment. It's a great way to keep you focus on good things instead of bad ones.

However, the most challenging part of this "tradition" was to remember or determine what the best moment is, because sometimes it's really hard to tell what it is when every days feels like the same day.

That's why I wanted to start to journal, keeping track of what happened and my feelings at that moment. Of course, I started looking for an app. And there are a lot of them, and I tried a lot of them. However, there was always I thought in my head.

• I will put all of my thoughts here and all this apps are using third party services, to track, analyze and store data. How really is my data secure? How private is my "private" journal.

That's why I decided, to create my own app, which leveraging the iCloud private database. The use of iCloud private database means only author can access your information (unless shared). No one else can. If access to iCloud account is lost the data cannot be recovered & me, as a developer, can only see my own records, that's it

I made a decision to avoid any third-party analytics or tracking tools. I don't know who uses my app, how often, or for what purposes. I don't collect any data that isn't necessary for the functionality of the app. And what is collected is securely stored in iCloud private database.

And that's how the idea of Memoiry - Diary, Mood tracker was born. Making privacy and security as a core pillar of the app without comprise of other features