keepsake: memory journal

Our memories make us human — don't let them fade away.

A quiet place to write, that brings back what you wrote on this same date in months and years gone by. Everything stays on your computer.

Download for Mac macOS · Apple Silicon & Intel · 11 MB Download for Windows Windows 10 & 11 · 3.7 MB

Free and open source. Version 2.0.0.

keepsake's home screen: today's entry above past entries written on the same date in 2025, 2024 and 2023, one with a voice note.
See what you wrote on this date in years past — with words, photos, and voice notes.
keepsake's calendar: a month grid with small marks on days that have entries, and the selected day's memory shown below.
Or open the calendar and revisit any day you've written.

a journal that remembers with you

download & install

keepsake was previously called Memory Journal. If you already use it, your entries, photos and voice notes carry over automatically — there's nothing to export or import.

On a Mac

  1. Open the downloaded .dmg and drag keepsake into your Applications folder.

On Windows

  1. Run the downloaded .exe installer (it installs just for you — no admin needed).
  2. If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC," click "More info" then "Run anyway."

Want to see exactly what the app does? The full source code is on GitHub.

private by design

keepsake keeps everything — your words, photos, and voice notes — on your own device. It makes no network connections and contains no analytics or tracking of any kind. Read the full privacy policy.