Calendar
A month grid where each day takes the colour of that day's mood. Tap a day to read it.
Write it down, one sentence at a time.
Every entry is a plain Markdown file in your own iCloud Drive. Yours forever, with or without us.
Nothing to sign up for.
No account needed. Open ahval and start journaling.
Nothing is scored.
Three moods — Joyful, Calm, Reflective. Each day takes on its color in the calendar, so you can see how a month went without reading a word of it. No charts, no verdicts.
Nothing locked away.
Markdown files and media, in a folder you can open in the Files app on your device.
Write a real page.
Headings, quotes, lists, bold and italic, and media set wherever it belongs in the text, not stapled to the bottom. Drag and drop any block to reorder in an entry.
- Photos
- Take a new photo or choose one from your library. Each one takes a caption.
- Voice notes
- Say it out loud when writing it down is too much. Record without leaving the page, and play it back right there.
- Place
- Attach where you were standing, so the entry remembers it for you.
- Mood & tags
- Joyful, Calm, Reflective. Three moods, nothing ranked.
A shelf, not a feed.
Journals are separate worlds. A daily page. A trip. A dream log. Morning pages. Each one gets its own cover and its own entries. Long-press a cover to reorder your shelf.
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Today
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Yesterday
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3 days ago
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Last week
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2 weeks ago
The page is never blank.
Blank page syndrome is the reason most journals die in week two. You open the app with something to say, stare at an empty screen, and close it.
Every new entry in ahval opens with a journaling idea already waiting at the top, one quiet question, chosen for the mood you select. Tap Shuffle for a different one, or hide it on the days the words are already lined up.
Joyful
What did you do today that you'd happily do again?
Calm
Where did you feel most at peace today?
Reflective
What advice would you give yourself for tomorrow?
Several idea suggestions for each mood.
Find your way back.
Four ways into everything you've written — because you don't always remember the words you'd need to search for.
Map
Every entry with a place becomes a pin on the map. Tap a pin and see what you once wrote there.
Moments
One full-screen excerpt per swipe, pulled at random from everything you've kept.
Look Back
The full archive, with search and mood or tag filters — for when you know what you're looking for.
Plain files, yours to keep.
Your memories are not locked in a database. ahval writes them to your iCloud Drive as Markdown files, with your photos and audio in the folder beside them.
--- date: 2026-08-24T14:48 mood: calm title: Morning Stroll at Hyde Park location: Hyde Park words: 38 --- # Morning Stroll at Hyde Park Walked along the wet path with my hands in my pockets and stopped near the trees for no reason at all. Just stood. I like myself best *on walks like this*, when I'm not trying to be anything.  <audio src="voice-1448.m4a"></audio>
Hyde Park
Morning Stroll at Hyde Park
Walked along the wet path with my hands in my pockets and stopped near the trees for no reason at all. Just stood. I like myself best on walks like this, when I'm not trying to be anything.
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Go further with Pro.
Pro adds voice and photos to your entries, the full cover and accent palettes, and Moments without a limit.
Photos & voice
Add a photo or record your voice right where it belongs in the page.
Fifteen covers
Give every journal a cover of its own, so you know which is which at a glance.
Seven accents
Choose the color that runs through the whole app, until it feels like yours.
Unlimited Moments
Wander through as many old entries as you like.
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