Doodle DaysDraw one good thing a day.
Thirty seconds with a pencil and a small square of paper. No streaks, no feed, nobody else’s drawings. A year later you have 365 drawings of your own life.
Free, with no account and nothing of yours locked away
A drawing journal that takes thirty seconds
Most journals fail because they ask for a paragraph. Doodle Days asks for a drawing, and a bad one is fine. Each day it puts one small square of paper in front of you and asks what has been good about today. You draw the answer - a cup of tea, a dog you met, the shape of a hill - and that is the whole ritual.
What makes it stick is that it never nags. There are no streaks to protect, no badges, no notification designed to make you feel something. Miss a week and the app is exactly as pleased to see you as it was before. The only thing that accumulates is the year itself, filling in behind you.
There is no window to miss either. Draw at seven in the morning or eleven at night, and the day rolls over at four in the morning rather than midnight, because that is when a day actually ends for most people.
What is in it
One drawing a day
A single square of paper and about thirty seconds. Small enough that you actually do it, which is the only feature that matters.
A year that fills in
The calendar builds month by month. Scroll back through it and a year of ordinary days is suddenly a thing you can hold.
No streaks, no guilt
Miss a day and nothing breaks. No chains to keep, no badges to lose, no notification telling you off for having a life.
Nobody else, ever
No accounts, no backend, no social feed. Your drawings live on your phone and go nowhere - not to us, not to anyone.
A pen that feels right
Pressure-tapered strokes stored as real vectors, not flattened pictures, so every drawing stays sharp and re-inks itself in dark mode.
A line worth a second
A quiet feed of borrowed quotes for the days you have nothing to draw. Public domain, properly attributed, no famous-name nonsense.
Your drawings never leave your phone
There is no account to make and no server to send anything to. Every drawing is stored on the device, as vectors rather than pictures, and that is the end of it. Nobody else can see them - not other users, because there are no other users, and not us, because we never receive them.
That is also why there is no feed. The day screen and the quotes screen scroll, but neither of them will ever contain somebody else’s work. A journal with an audience is not a journal.
Questions
What is Doodle Days?+
A drawing journal for iPhone and Android. Each day it asks what has been good about today and gives you one small square of paper to draw the answer on. It takes about thirty seconds. After a year you have 365 drawings that add up to a record of your own life, in your own hand.
Do I need to be good at drawing?+
No, and that is rather the point. The drawings are for you and nobody else - there is no feed, no followers, no likes and no comments. A wobbly cup of tea is a perfectly good entry for a Tuesday.
Does it work on Android?+
Yes. Doodle Days is coming to the App Store and Google Play, and it is the same app on each - the same paper, the same pen, the same year filling in behind you.
What happens if I miss a day?+
Nothing. There are no streaks, no chains, no badges and no guilt notifications. Missing a day is not a failure and the app never treats it like one. You can go back and fill in a day you missed, or leave it blank as an honest record of a day you did not draw.
Are my drawings private?+
Completely. There are no accounts and no backend - your drawings are stored on your phone and never uploaded anywhere. Nobody else can see them, including us.
Is Doodle Days free?+
Yes. Every drawing, every day, forever, with no ads and nothing of yours locked away. Pro is an optional one-off upgrade that adds home screen widgets, alternate papers, alternate app icons and unlimited saved quotes - it only ever adds things, and it never takes your own work hostage.
Coming to the App Store and Google Play
Doodle Days is finished and on its way to both stores. It will be free, private, and about thirty seconds a day.
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