Your camera roll remembers what they looked like. Pocket Chronicle remembers what they were like. One question about your kid every day, free forever, things you'd never think to write down. Answer in fifteen seconds or skip it, nothing keeps score. Membership adds a daily mission: a photo, ten seconds of their voice, an activity together. Everything files itself under the date and prompt that caused it, so years later you can search "what he was afraid of" and find it. No ads, no data sale.
Hey Product Hunt,
I'm Travis, a solo developer building this in evenings for my own kid.
The problem I kept running into: my camera roll has thousands of photos of my son and almost no context. I can't remember what he was scared of a year ago, what he called his blanket, or what made him laugh last spring. The photos are there. The reason is gone.
So I built Pocket Chronicle. One question about your kid every day, free forever. Answer it in fifteen seconds or skip it, nothing keeps score. If you want to do more, membership unlocks daily missions (a photo, ten seconds of their voice, an activity together), and everything gets filed under the date and the question that caused it. Years from now you can search "what he was afraid of" and actually find something.
Some decisions that mattered to me while building this:
- No ads, no data sale, nothing about your kid ever trains a model.
- Cancel membership and you keep every word you've written. It's never held hostage.
- No streaks, no badges, no red dots. An app that punishes a parent for a hard week is a bad parenting app.
It's live on iOS now. I'd especially love to hear from other parents who tried (and dropped) a baby journal app before, what made you stop using the last one?