A timeline journal · iPhone · iPad · Mac

A journal for entries, not rituals.

One timeline for everything you'd otherwise lose — a thought on a walk, a quote from a book, a half-idea before it slips. Open, type, done.

$1.99 — one-time payment. No subscription.

Instead of…

Most journals ask you to be a journaler. We built one for you, as you.

Day One asks you to keep a streak. We built a timeline that doesn't care if you skip.

Apple Journal asks you to answer a prompt. We built an empty textbox to fill.

Notes, Bear, and Obsidian ask you to build a system. We built two levels: an entry, an optional topic.

Texting yourself asks you to remember where you put the thought. We built the same speed, plus an archive that finds it for you.

Who this is for

For the people who've been trying to keep a journal and quietly given up. Jourdwee is the one that doesn't ask you to keep up.

The Day One user who broke the streak at day 60 and just stopped.

The Notes-user with a folder full of entries they can't find.

The reader who underlines, then loses the line.

The person whose best idea hit them in the middle of an unrelated meeting.

Features

Four small ideas that add up to a different kind of journal.

A line is enough.

No blank page, no daily prompt, no required mood. Open the app, write a sentence, close it. You catch the thought before it becomes a muddy memory.

No ritual to keep up.

Skip a day. Skip a month. Jourdwee doesn't keep score. One entry and you're back in. We don't count your days and we don't email you when you don't write.

Work and life, side by side.

Reading notes, morning pages, project logs, stray thoughts — one app, separate topics. Each topic gets its own typography so the modes don't blur.

A place for ideas, not just feelings.

Save the line you read on the train. Track a half-formed idea across weeks. Whatever you'd otherwise text yourself and lose — keep it here instead.

Left out. By design.

Nodashboards. Nostreaks. Nocounts. Nonotifications.

Life is not a game of counts, grades, and streaks — it happens as it happens. Jourdwee is there to capture it as it happens.

Inside

A short tour, in eight pictures.

Topic Timeline

You pick a topic and the rest of the noise falls away.

You type one word. October's line surfaces.

Timeline

You scroll, and the past arrives.

Themes

You choose how each topic feels. Reading notes get one identity, work logs another.

Timeframes

You pick last week. You read it like a debrief with yourself.

Topics

You drop the entry in a topic. Or you don't.

You frame the line and post it. No screenshot needed.

New Entry

You write a sentence and close the app. That's a complete entry.

How it works

Three movements. That's the whole app.

Write a line.

Open. Type. Close. The whole loop fits in 30 seconds.

Drop it in a topic.

Optional. Reading, morning pages, project — or just the timeline. Skip if you don't care.

Look back when you want to.

Sunday afternoon, in the elevator, six months from now. Pick a window, read what you were thinking.

Why we built it

An open timeline, not an empty page.

Most journaling apps assume you will carve out a slice of your already busy day to keep up with rigorous rituals at different times of the day. The 7am morning pages, three things to be grateful for, the streak counter that goes off during crunch time. I know what it takes to do that because I have failed many times myself.

I aimed to build something much simpler: a place to save your cool ideas, project logs for work, and what is going on with you. A single place for everything that makes up everyday life.

Jourdwee started as a microblog idea with a timeline, a text box and a send button. Everything else — topics, themes, search, timeframe filters — screamed their way into the app as must-have features.

The one-time payment is a statement about the present, and the future, of the app. No need to add features to stop people from cancelling. No paying extra to unlock the one feature you actually need. There are no metrics to improve because there are no analytics, at all, to begin with.

It's the journal I wanted to keep and I hope it's the one you'll actually keep, too.

— Ricci ,the maker

Privacy

Two things Jourdwee doesn't know.

What you wrote.

Your iCloud carries it from iPhone to iPad to Mac. We never see it move because we're not in the middle. We don't have a database of your words because there isn't one to have.

How you used the app.

No analytics, no telemetry — opens, deletes, time-on-screen, none of it is measured. The app doesn't keep a record of how you think, only what you keep.

From Bitello Studio

Made for life, not streaks.

An open invitation

We don't have customer quotes here yet — we just launched. If you're one of the first 25 downloads and Jourdwee captured something you'd otherwise have lost,

email us at hello@bitello.studio

The best lines land here.

FAQ

Honest questions.

Is my journal private?

Yes. Your entries go from your device to your iCloud and never pass through us. We don't have a database of your words, and we don't run analytics on your behavior. We can't read what you wrote — we never could; there's nothing of yours at Bitello.

Does it cost anything?

Yes — once. $1.99 for the app, including all current features and future updates. No subscription, no annual renewal, no gated tiers. You buy it once and own it — like a notebook.

Why no streaks or stats?

Because we tried apps with streaks ourselves, broke the streak, and quit journaling for six months. We didn't want to do that to you. The moment a journal becomes a game, it stops being a journal.

How is this different from Apple Journal?

Apple Journal is built around prompts and reflection. Jourdwee doesn't ask you anything — it just sits there for the line you didn't know you'd want to keep. Apple Journal also added a word count. We didn't.

Are my entries used to train AI?

No. We don't have your content, so we couldn't train on it even if we wanted to. There's nothing for a model to learn from, by construction.

Can I export everything?

Yes. Every entry exports to plain text or markdown. Your words are yours; we don't hold them hostage.

How do you know what to build if you don't have analytics?

We use the app ourselves. You're not the test case — we are. Every feature you see was added because we needed it, not because a dashboard told us to.

How does it compare to Day One?

Day One is built around streaks, prompts, and mood logging. Great if that motivates you — Jourdwee is for the days it doesn't.

How does it compare to Apple Notes, Bear, or Obsidian?

They hold the line, but they don't structure it as a timeline you can scroll back through, filter by week, or read like a debrief with yourself.

How does it compare to just texting myself?

Same capture speed. But you can't search the thread for the word you half-remember six months later.

Start with one line.

Made for life, not streaks.

iPhone · iPad · Mac · $1.99 one-time