iPhone & iPad · Public beta
Dabble Me is a private timeline of your life. Write a few lines about your day, add some photos, and rewind to any of it later. The app is the quickest way to do all three.
Free to download. Installs through Apple's TestFlight.
Four tabs: Today, Journal, Search and Settings. Here is what you'll find in them.
Write
A plain page with the keyboard up. Lists, bold and links when you want them, up to eight photos from your library or camera, and #hashtags to find things by later. If yesterday is still blank, it offers to write that one too.
Journal
Every entry in order with its photo, grouped by month. Drag the side of the screen to move through years in a second, or jump straight to a day from a calendar that marks the days you wrote.
Read
An entry opens full screen in a reading typeface. Pinch to change the text size, swipe the date to move to the entry before or after, and scroll on to see the same date in other years.
Photos
The Photos view is your journal as pictures. Tap one to open what you wrote that day.
Stats
How many entries, words and photos you have, the days you wrote this year, and the hashtags you use most. In winter, Rewind turns your year into a short story to tap through.
Search
Search for a word, a phrase or a #hashtag and get every entry that mentions it, newest first.
One notification a day, at the time you choose, showing an entry from your past. It stays quiet on days you've already written.
Today's date and a prompt, or a look back at an old entry. One tap opens a new entry.
Pull down on an entry for a short reflection and a question to think about, written on your device by Apple Intelligence. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Turn on Face ID and the app opens only for you.
Give your phone a shake and an entry from somewhere in your journal comes up.
Paste a Spotify link into an entry and it becomes part of the memory. The Playlist view collects them all.
Dabble Me began as a journal you keep by replying to an email, and plenty of people still write that way. Whatever you write in the app shows up on the web, and an email reply shows up in the app. Not sure where to begin? Read how to start journaling, with prompts for your first week.
There are no purchases inside the app. See what PRO includes.
Yes. The app is free to download, with no purchases inside it. On a free account you can read your journal, write and delete entries, set a daily reminder and use the Home Screen widget. Photos, editing, search, Stats and On This Day are part of Dabble Me PRO, which is $4 a month or $40 a year.
Not yet. The app is in public beta through TestFlight, Apple's own app for trying new apps. Install TestFlight from the App Store, open the invitation link, and Dabble Me installs like any other app.
No. Dabble Me started as a journal you keep by replying to an email, and that still works. The app, the email and the website all write to the same journal, so use whichever is closest to hand.
Yes. Your journal is yours alone: there is no feed, no sharing and no followers. You can lock the app with Face ID, and the app's AI features (reflections, writing prompts and hashtag suggestions) run on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence, so your entries are not sent anywhere for them.
Any iPhone or iPad running iOS 18 or later. The Apple Intelligence features need a device and iOS version that support Apple Intelligence; everything else works without it.
Not yet. On Android you can write by replying to the daily email, use the website, or connect your journal to ChatGPT or Claude.
Get the app, write a few lines tonight, and let it bring them back to you next year.