Your memories, kept for life. Share a photo, a note, a person or a date into your own boxes, tie them together the way you remember them, relive them as a story, and put the ones that matter on your Home Screen, a tap from a call.
iPhone, iPad and Mac · Free to collect and share · One purchase for keeping, no subscription · No cloud of ours, no account
Souvenance sits in the share sheet of Safari, Photos, Contacts, Calendar, Maps and Files. Links, text, photos and videos, contacts, events, places, PDFs and any other file land in the Inbox of your boxes, with their date, source and location already filled in. On the Mac, drop files in the Finder or use Services.
Write a note, build a small table, pick photos from your library, take a photo, record a voice memo, sketch with Apple Pencil, paste a link, add a person from Contacts, add a date, or subscribe to a calendar so its events keep flowing in.
A Memory is a folder for a moment: a trip, a project, a birthday, the people you call. See it as a list, a photo album, a map, a graph, a board you arrange by hand, or a story that reads from the first day to the last. A first Memory, a week by the sea, is in the box when you start, so you can see what the app does before you add a thing.
Tie items together the way you remember them: this photo contains Anna, that note was written at the café, this table is the source for the plan. Add a reaction with an emoji. The Relate tab draws your boxes as a graph you can explore.
Every item can be given an action: call Anna, message Sam, directions to the house, open the appointment in Calendar, open a link, or a custom link of your own. The choice leads the item's card in History, and it travels with the Memory when you send it to someone.
The Chosen items widget puts the items you pick on the Home Screen as tiles, small or large, with large labels if you like. Each tile does what you chose for it. A son can prepare a Memory with photos of the grandchildren, a date and the way home, send it as a package, and his father has it on his Home Screen, one tap from a call. Lock Screen and Control Center buttons add a note, a photo or a voice memo.
A Page is one file with the Memory's photos and notes that opens in any browser, no app needed, with "Made with Souvenance" at the foot. Make a Page for someone by name as a gift, or send the whole Memory as a .mem package to someone with the app; it arrives with its photos, notes, relations and chosen actions.
Describe a Memory with rules instead of moving things by hand: every photo tagged "garden", everything from the last 30 days, every note that mentions a name. Smart Memories update themselves. Part of Memories for Life.
A photo with location data is matched to the places you already have, or Souvenance proposes a new one. Looking up place names is off until you turn it on, so nothing leaves your device by default.
Every item is an ordinary file in a folder, with a small sidecar holding its details. Delete the app and your photos, notes and PDFs are still readable by anything. There is no proprietary library to export from.
On iPad the tabs become a sidebar, with drag and drop between apps, Split View, Stage Manager and Apple Pencil on the board and in sketches. On the Mac the same app opens your boxes as a folder, with Quick Look for shared Memories, Services and a menu bar item. One purchase covers all three.
VoiceOver, Voice Control, Larger Text and Reduce Motion throughout, including the graph and the board. The app is available in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish, and follows the language of your device.
No account, no analytics, no server of ours. Your boxes live on your device, and in your own iCloud Drive only if you turn that on. The only other network use is Apple Maps for the map views and, if you choose to turn it on, looking up place names. See the privacy policy.
Collecting, relating and sharing are free, with up to three Memories. Memories for Life is a single purchase, not a subscription, and Family Sharing covers the whole family. It unlocks Memories without limit, the Board, the Story as a PDF or in print, Smart Memories, and your boxes in your own iCloud Drive on every device. The price is shown in the app and on the App Store. See also three ways to give Souvenance.
The first release, on iPhone, iPad and Mac: share extension, History, Memories with list, gallery, map, graph, board and story views, relations and reactions, actions on items with the Chosen items widget, Pages and .mem packages, Smart Memories, place suggestions, calendar subscriptions, voice memos, tables and sketches, and Memories for Life with Family Sharing. In eleven languages.
Souvenance is made by Bas Meijer, who also makes Read4Me.