Rooty Stay

A private journal for iPhone

Keep hold of what shaped you.

Rooty Stay keeps the places, people, tastes, sounds, words and moments that ground you. Each memory is a root, and together they grow into a chart of what holds you up.

Coming soon to the App Store

The Rooty Stay chart: a small tree on the horizon with coloured roots running down through Recent, Adult years, Teens and Childhood, each ending in a memory.

How your chart reads

  1. Depth is when

    Childhood sits at the bottom, recent memories near the surface. Your story reads from the ground down.

  2. Size is how often

    Open a root again and it grows. The three you return to most wear a gold ring.

  3. Colour is what kind

    Places, people, tastes, sounds, words and moments, each with its own colour. Rename them or add your own.

A root in ten seconds

Pick a kind, give it a title. Add a story, a photo or a voice note whenever you like.

A gentle daily question

One prompt a day to bring something back. Skip it any time; there are no streaks.

Your timeline

Every root in order, from childhood to now, with the year beside it.

Private by design

Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, nothing uploaded. Lock it with Face ID if you like.