Chapter 1
A day, kept whole
Photographs are only part of an event. A vault holds the date, the place, the people, the ticket that was in your pocket and the voice you recorded — one object you can open again years later.
Personal archive · for iPhone
A day, kept whole.
Photographs are only part of an event. Event Vault holds the date, the place, the people, the ticket that was in your pocket and the voice you recorded — one object you can open again years later.
How it works
Four chapters, then it's yours.
The same four rooms you walk through the first time you open the app.
Chapter 2
An archive with depth
Your events float in a space you can drag and zoom. The ones you called major sit closer and burn brighter, and a thread appears wherever two memories share a person, a place or a year.
Chapter 3
Walk through a year
Read any year as a timeline, drop into a month, then into a single day, and follow what happened in the order it actually happened.
Chapter 4
Say why it mattered
Every vault ends with one question, because the reason fades long before the picture does. Answer it in a sentence and the archive keeps it for you.
Five ways in
One archive. Five doors.
Every tab is a different way of reading the same set of days.
Vault
The archive itself: memory objects floating in a space you can drag, zoom and turn. Weight comes from how much the day mattered, nearness from how recent it is.
Drag · zoom · turnTimeline
Any year as a ribbon. Step into a month, then a single day. Filter to only what you called important or major.
Year · month · dayMap
Where your life happened. Pins are drawn from the places you typed into your own vaults — the device's location is never read.
Places · nearbyPeople
Everyone you were there with, and every day you shared. Add a name once and it links back to every event they appear in.
Who was thereInsights
What stands out, your years by weight, the feeling of it — and a postcard from elsewhere each day, kept inside the app.
What it holdsOn this day
When a vault's anniversary falls today or within the week, it appears at the top with how many years it has been. Tap it to step back in.
Days that come round again
What a vault holds
Six unhurried questions, not one long form.
Start with the day you would most regret forgetting. Six questions later it is a vault, and it will be here in twenty years.
- 1What happened?Name the day the way you would say it out loud.
- 2When?The day it happened. Times come from the media you add.
- 3Where?Search for it, or type it however you remember it.
- 4Who was there?Anyone here will link this vault to every other event they appear in.
- 5What do you want to remember?Photographs, clips, notes, a voice, and the things you kept.
- 6Why was it important?This is the part that fades first. One sentence is enough.
Where it lives
Yours, on your device.
There is no account to open, no password to choose, and no server of ours holding a copy of anything. Your vaults — the pictures, the recordings, the people, the reasons — are written to your iPhone and stay on it. Read the privacy policy →
Never asked for
No name, email or phone number. Contacts and location are never read. No analytics, no advertising identifier.
Only what you choose
iOS shows its own picker and hands the app only the items you picked. The microphone runs for the length of a recording, nothing more.
One button, one line
The only thing that ever leaves the device is a place name, when you ask what else nearby is worth a detour — and only after you agree.
Contact
A question, a bug, a day you'd like to keep better?
Write to us and a person will answer. Feature ideas are welcome — most of what's in the app came from someone asking.
mail@palaestra.online
Start with the day you'd most regret forgetting.
Free on the App Store. No account, no sign-up — open it and build the first vault.
Download on theApp Store Requires iPhone · iOS