dearly

Capture the small moments. Seal letters to their future.

A parent journal & time capsule letter delivery app for iOS.

A journal that feels like writing a letter

Dearly gives you three simple prompts each day — observations about your child that you'll forget by next week. What they said. What made them laugh. What they couldn't put down. It takes two minutes.

Months from now, you'll scroll back and find a world you would have lost.

Letters sealed until they're ready

Write a letter to your child. Choose when it arrives — their 16th birthday, graduation day, their wedding. Seal it. After 24 hours, it locks forever and enters our delivery pipeline.

When the date comes, we send it. Your words, arriving exactly when they're meant to.

Daily prompts

Observation-based questions that rotate daily. Swap any prompt you don't connect with.

Photo & video

Attach a photo or 60-second video to any journal entry or sealed letter.

Book of Firsts

Mark milestones — first word, first steps, first belly laugh — and find them all in one place.

Look Back

See what happened on this day last week, last month, last year. Share memory cards.

Multiple children

Journal for each child separately. Tap their face to switch. Each gets their own story.

Vault Backup

Download everything as a ZIP — journal entries, letters, photos, videos. Your data, always yours.

Simple pricing

Free forever: unlimited journal entries, 1 child, 1 sealed letter.

$3.99
per month
Download on the App Store

Your journal lives on your device and syncs through iCloud. Sealed letters are the only data that touches our servers — and only so we can deliver them. If you ever cancel, we deliver all your pending letters immediately. We will never hold your words hostage.