Features

Everything in a small journal

One Meow is built around one line a day, up to 200 characters. Everything else helps you look back, keep going and keep your lines safe.

Today

Write one line, up to 200 characters.

Open the app, write a line about your day and you're done. Edit it later if you like. A missed day is fine; tomorrow is a new line.

The Today page with a saved line, a mood row and an On this day card

History

Every line, as a calendar or a list.

Tap any day to read it or edit it. Favourites keep the lines you love close.

The History calendar with the written days marked

On this day

Read what you wrote on this date in earlier years.

Once you've written for more than a year, today's date brings back your earlier lines.

On this day, showing lines from the same date in earlier years

Streaks

Your streak, drawn as tally marks.

See your current and longest streak and how many days you've written. Your streak stays alive until the end of today.

The Streaks page with hand-drawn tally marks

Insights and Year in review

Look back on your moods, your tags and your year.

Insights show how your days felt over time. Year in review gathers your year in one place, with a card you can share.

Year in review with the year's lines, moods and cats

Moods and tags

Tag a line and pick how the day felt.

Five moods, from rough to great, each with its own cat. Add #tags as you write and open a tag to see every line with it.

The mood picker with five cat faces from rough to great

Prompts

A gentle question when you don't know what to write.

Pick a prompt from the list or write your own.

A list of writing prompts

Reminders

A daily nudge at the time you choose.

Also an optional daily prompt, a Sunday look back and a monthly backup reminder. Notifications never show your lines.

Reminder settings with a daily time

Widgets

Your streak and today's line on the Home Screen and Lock Screen.

Small, medium, large and Lock Screen widgets, plus a Write today control. With the lock on, widgets hide your line.

The widgets help page with the four widget sizes

Face ID lock

Keep your lines behind Face ID or your passcode.

With the lock on, the whole app opens only after Face ID or your passcode, and Siri won't read your lines.

Settings with the lock, appearance and backup options

Backup and import

Save every line to one file, and bring it back.

Export your lines as a JSON or text file and keep it in Files or iCloud Drive. Import shows what a backup holds before anything changes, then merges or replaces.

A single day's line, opened from History

Appearance

Light or dark, five colour themes and app icons with the cats.

Choose Inkwell, Leaf, Berry, Tangerine or Mono, and a hand-drawn typeface for your lines.

Appearance settings with the colour themes

A small line, every day.

Coming to the App StoreFor iPhone, iOS 26 and later.