One long scroll of
how it actually was
The Timeline is one continuous scrapbook of everything your family has kept — all your children together, newest first, grouped under the day it happened. Photos, videos, voice memories and the funny things they said, in the same warm story. There is one per family, and no switcher: everything you're allowed to see is already in it.
Three whole steps to the sofa, then straight down. 🎉
“The moon is following us again.”
Said on 1 August
However it happened, it fits
One tap on the button floating above the tab bar and you're in the composer. It asks what you want to remember — photos or video, a voice memory, something written down, or their exact words — and then it's all one screen. Add a couple of pictures, record ten seconds of the giggling that came with them, type the line you don't want to forget, and save it as one moment.
The small things are already filled in. The date comes off the earliest photo you picked, so a memory from Sunday lands on Sunday even if you get around to it on Tuesday — and the row at the top already shows who the moment is about and which chapter it goes in, remembered from the last one you saved.
- A tappable row shows which children it's about and which chapter it lands in — never guessed behind your back
- Photos, video, voice and words mix freely on the same moment
- A “Kid quote” pill turns the caption into “Their exact words”
- The date is pre-filled from the photo until you change it
- Add a place and your tags while it’s still fresh
- Choose the audience before you save — “Just us”, or the whole family
A story, not a grid
Moments sit under soft day dividers — Today, Yesterday, then the date — so scrolling feels like turning pages rather than trawling a photo grid. Photos bleed to the edge of a soft-cornered card with the words tucked underneath, and even a very tall or very wide picture is gently reined in so no single shot hijacks the feed.
Not every memory is a photo. A voice memory gets a card with the length of the recording, their exact words get warm italics and a quote mark, and a thought you only had time to type gets a card of its own. Tap any of them to open the moment in full.
- Firsts wear a framed, matted card with their age at the time
- Video shows a still frame and a duration chip — nothing autoplays
- A small counter tells you there are more photos inside
- Whenever the feed mixes siblings, each card carries whose it is
Humming her own song to the cat again.
Ten minutes of the paddling pool, all of it splashing.
Grandma's garden
Fell asleep halfway through dinner, spoon still in hand. No time for a photo — writing it down instead.
Wednesday, 30 July
One sheet, no clutter
Every filter lives in a single slide-up sheet: which chapter, which child, milestones only, favorites only, and any of your tags. The feed updates live behind it as you toggle, and the sheet hides sections that wouldn't help — no chapter chips while there's only one chapter, no child picker with one child, no milestone switch until something is marked a first.
Nothing is sticky. Filters clear themselves when you leave, so the timeline you come back to is always the whole story.
- Chapter chips cover the whole timeline with no remainder, so nothing hides in a gap between them
- Pick several tags at once to see moments carrying any of them
- Only tags actually used here are offered, so a filter never leads nowhere
- Whatever you filtered by sits under the header — tap the ✕ to drop just one
- A small dot on the filter icon whenever you aren’t seeing everything
The feed updates behind the sheet as you toggle.
Shelves that make their own covers
Gather moments that belong together into “Holidays” or “Grandma's”. They sit two across as square tiles, each with a cover and a moment count. You never pick the cover: an album borrows the first photo of the most recently added moment, so it looks like a photo shelf from the day you make it and quietly re-covers itself as it fills.
When you create one you say whose it is — a Family album (“Photos from everyone”) that can gather any child's moments, or one child's alone. So a holiday album holds both kids while “Mia's first year” stays hers. With one child there's no choice to make, so you're never asked.
Give a moment a heart and it's in your favorites for good — one tap in the timeline's filters brings them all back. Albums and favorites belong to the family and span every chapter, so nothing is filed away out of reach; they gather the one feed rather than taking anything out of it.
- One moment can live in as many albums as you like — no copies, no duplicates
- Open a moment, tap “Add to album”, and tick every album it belongs in; untick to take it back out
- Name a brand-new album right there and the moment goes straight into it
- Inside, an album reads like the timeline — newest first, tap through to the full moment
- Deleting one removes the album only: “your moments stay safe in your timeline”
Old memories come back on their own
When something happened on this same date in an earlier year, a warm card appears at the top of your timeline with a thumbnail and how long ago it was. Tap it for the full look-back.
It's a plain calendar match across earlier years — never AI, never guessing what you'd like. It follows the same rules about who can see what, so a “Just us” memory never resurfaces to someone in the wider ring. And on a day with nothing to look back on, the card simply isn't there.
A little look back at today, in years gone by.
A vocabulary the whole family shares
Tags and places belong to the family, not to one child — agreed once, used by everyone, and impossible to accidentally duplicate.
Fourteen, already there
Every family starts with First steps, First words, Bath time, Mealtime, Nap, Playtime, Outdoors, Park, Grandparents, Holiday, Birthday, Funny, Cuddles and Doctor — each already coloured and iconed, and each translated, so a German family reads them in German.
Eight colours, fifty-one icons
Adding one of your own, in Settings, opens a sheet with a name, the eight soft colours and the full icon grid — a footprint, a bath drop, a birthday gift — with a live preview of the finished pill at the top so you see exactly how it will look before you save.
Tap a tag, pull the thread
Tags show as little coloured pills on a moment's detail page. Tap one and you get a screen titled #Park with every moment in the family that carries it, newest first, loading more as you scroll.
Tapping, not typing
While you're saving a moment you pick tags from your family's list rather than typing free text. A filter box narrows it down, the alphabetical order never jumps under your finger, and a moment can carry up to twenty.
A place is a door, not a filter
“Grandma's garden” is named once and reused for good. It isn't one of the filter chips, though: tapping a moment's place chip opens that place's own screen with everything that happened there — the drill-down it always was.
It stays tidy for years
“Park”, “park” and “ Park ” are all the same tag, so the list can't fill with typo'd twins. In Settings every tag shows how many moments use it, and whoever runs the family can rename their own tags, restyle any of them, or merge two together — “Every moment tagged 'Pram' will move to 'Buggy', and 'Pram' will be removed.” Removing a tag only removes the label; the moments stay.
Made for one hand, at the end of a long day
The details you only notice when they're missing — the ones that keep the timeline feeling calm however full it gets.
It saves before it uploads
A moment you just captured appears in the timeline straight away, using the photo off your phone, with a quiet spinner while a background queue finishes the upload. A bad connection never blocks the memory.
One tap deeper
Open a moment to press and hold a photo to make it the cover, heart it as a favorite, save it to your camera roll, add it to an album, or mark it as a first. Photos open full screen, with pinch to zoom.
Scrolls for years
Twenty moments load at a time and keep coming as you scroll, with a small spinner at the foot of the list. Pull down and the feed, the look-back card, your tags and your milestones all refresh at once.
The header is your family
The name at the top of the Timeline is your family's — there is nothing to switch between, because the feed is already everything. The filter button sits beside it, and a bell in the corner shows what everyone else has been adding.
Only what you're meant to see
How far into the family you read is a single setting: the close ring sees everything, the wider ring sees only what was shared with everyone. The rings nest, so nobody in the wider one ever glimpses something the people closer in can't. And if someone was invited to look rather than add, the capture button simply isn't there for them.
Never a blank screen
Softly pulsing placeholder cards stand in while the timeline loads, and before there is anything at all it says “Your story starts here” with a button to add the first one. A quiet tally above the feed grows as you scroll.
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