Five-Year Diary: Daily Journal

One line a day. The same date, every year, on one page. Five-Year Diary is the paper five-year journal, made for Android. Open today and write one line. Next year, when you open the same date, last year's line is waiting underneath the new one - then two lines, then three. That is the whole idea, and it is why the second year is the best one. Call it a five-year diary, a 5 year journal or a memory book - it is the format, and it has a home on your phone. THREE SECONDS, WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Once a day, at the time you choose, a notification shows what you wrote on this date in earlier years - and takes today's line right there in the shade. Type, send, done. The home-screen widget shows the same stack of years - tap it and the app opens on today. THE YEAR AT A GLANCE Twelve months as a grid, every day filled or empty, so you can see the record growing. Tap any day to read it across all its years. No streak counter, no score, no badges - the record is the reward. YOUR WORDS ARE A FILE YOU CAN TAKE Everything in a diary exports as plain text or Markdown - free, with no purchase and no passphrase - to any folder or cloud drive you choose. Nothing you write is ever trapped in the app. A sealed export (your whole diary, photographs included, locked with a passphrase) is part of the unlock, and the file format is published together with a short reference reader, so a sealed file can be opened on any computer without this app. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER, NO SYNC There is no sign-in, no server of ours, no analytics of ours and no advertising. Your diary lives on your phone and in the files you export. There is no sync between devices. On a new phone, Android's own backup to your Google Account brings back your lines and settings, and Android's phone-to-phone transfer moves the photographs too when the old phone runs Android 12 or later. A sealed export carries a whole diary, photographs included, wherever you choose. The app says which is which plainly, rather than leaving you to find out. ONE PURCHASE, ONCE Writing, reading your past years, the year view, the widget, the reminder, dark mode, the bin and plain export are free, permanently. One purchase - never a subscription - adds: • A question for every day of the year, the same question each year, so the answers line up • Sealed export, with a generated passphrase • A photograph per entry • Further named diaries - one for a child, a garden, a project • Typography - three faces and three sizes Every diary a sealed file brings back stays readable and writable, bought or not. THE FIRST YEAR Until there is a last year to read, the page shows nearby days instead - a month ago, a hundred days ago, four weeks ago - so the first year is not an empty wait. Already keeping a paper diary? A simple date-and-line file fills in the past. ONE HONEST NOTE A sealed export opens only with its passphrase. There is no recovery, by design, and the app tells you so once, before your first sealed file - not in a help page afterwards. Dark mode, TalkBack and large text are free, always.

Five-Year Diary 1.0.2. One line a day, with the same date from earlier years beneath it. A daily reminder you can answer from the notification, a home-screen widget, and the whole year at a glance. Your diary stays on your phone, and exports as text or Markdown at any time. One purchase adds a question for every day, photographs, more diaries, sealed copies and your choice of type. No ads, no account.