Your day, in the right light.

1. Morning

   See what's ahead

   Today's events on a timeline and the reminders that are due. Anything overdue is carried forward, so nothing slips out of view.

2. Midday

   Know where you are

   A live now-line crosses the timeline, and the sky behind the page moves with the hour, so you can tell the time without looking for a clock.

3. Evening

   Make sense of it

   A mood in one tap, and a guided practice when you want a starting point for your writing.

4. Night

   Put it down

   Focus mode fades everything but the words. Tomorrow's list clears your head for the night.

• Sunrise and sunset

  Worked out on your iPhone for where you are. The ticks drift with the seasons, and you can wind the dial to any day of the year to see the days drawing in or out.

• The moon, correctly phased

  By night, the sun gives way to the moon in its real phase, with moonrise and moonset in the Day Detail.

• Your plans in the light

  Each event sits on the dial as a bead at its hour, so a morning meeting and an evening walk show where they fall in the day's light. Tides come with Pro

Why show daylight at all? Large population studies link time spent in daylight with how people feel. In the UK Biobank, among around 400,000 adults, people who spent more time outdoors in daylight tended to report better mood and sleep (Burns and colleagues, 2021). In a study of nearly 20,000 people in England, spending about two hours a week in nature was associated with better reported health and wellbeing (White and colleagues, 2019). These are associations, not proof of cause, and Daylight doesn't track any of it. It shows you the light, so you can plan with it in mind.

• 7 nights

  Three Good Things

  Three good things from the day, and why each one happened.

  Seligman et al. (2005)
• 4 consecutive days · 15–20 min

  Writing It Out

  One hard experience, from what happened to what you understand now. It comes with a warning and a stop rule.

  Pennebaker & Beall (1986)
• 14 days · 5 min

  Best Possible Self

  A future that went well, one part of it at a time.

  King (2001); Meevissen et al. (2011)
• 7 days

  A Kind Word

  The day's setback, in the words a good friend would use.

  Leary et al. (2007); Shapira & Mongrain (2010)
• Monthly · 10 min

  What Matters

  One value you care about, why it matters, and a time it showed.

  Creswell et al. (2005)
• Nightly · 5 min

  Tomorrow's List

  Tomorrow's tasks, specific and in order, starting from your reminders.

  Scullin et al. (2018)

We're careful about what we claim. Across the research, the effects of journaling are real but modest, and they differ from person to person. Daylight gives you the methods as they were tested and tells you where each one came from. It can't promise what they'll do for you. Read the research behind each practice.

Daylight Pro is a one-time purchase, or a yearly or monthly subscription with a 7-day free trial on yearly. Prices are shown in the app, in your currency, before you buy. Lifetime purchases made during the launch window include all future Daylight Pro features. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage them in your Apple Account settings. If a subscription ends, everything you wrote, including tags, photos and templates, stays yours and stays readable. See the Terms of Use.

• Your journal, photos and mood

  Nothing. They are stored on your iPhone. We have no copy and can't read them.

• Calendar and Reminders

  Nothing. Daylight reads them on the device to draw your day and never copies them anywhere.

• Tides, if you turn them on

  Your location, rounded to about 1 km, goes to Daylight's own tide server so it can find the nearest tide station. The server keeps no record of who asked.

• Place search

  If you search for a place for the Day Circle, the text you type goes to Apple Maps.

• Purchases

  Handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name or your payment details.

The full details are in the Privacy Policy.