Notice one moment
Choose the photo that would lose its meaning without you. Ordinary is welcome.
A softer way to remember
Turn camera roll clutter into a journal that feels like you.
Niello is a private photo journal for iPhone and iPad. Turn everyday photos into personal stickers, shape a page with your own words, and let Mochi help when the blank canvas gets in the way.
✦ Made for iPhone & iPad✦ Free to begin✦ You stay the author
NEW IN 1.7
A strip of tape. A few pen strokes. Your own words.
Draw on the paper, layer washi tape over a photo, and move a line of text into place. On iPad, two portrait pages open together.
The whole workflow
A memory practice small enough for a real day
You do not need to narrate your life or design a masterpiece. Niello helps one moment become a complete page before the details fade.
Make it personal
Add your words, turn a detail into a sticker, or ask Mochi for a layout starting point.
Return to the day
Save a finished page you can recognize later—not another isolated camera-roll tile.
AI with a smaller job
Mochi helps arrange. You decide what the day meant.
Describe the mood, the photos, and how much room you want for writing. Mochi can give you a starting arrangement. Then move it, simplify it, or ignore it. Your words and final choices stay in charge.
Ask in ordinary language—no design jargon required
Keep editing every element after the suggestion
Use AI to reduce blank-page friction, not to manufacture reflection
Choose your way in
Different reasons to keep a page
Start from the workflow that already sounds like you. The same page can be simple today and more expressive tomorrow.
Photo stickers on iPhone
Turn the photos you already love into journal stickers
Use Niello on iPhone to turn everyday photos into personal stickers, then place them on a journal page with words, color, and context.
Explore →AI-assisted journalingA sticker journal with an AI companion—not an AI replacement
Explore an AI sticker journal workflow where Mochi helps with playful layout ideas while your photos, words, and memories stay in charge.
Explore →Digital scrapbookingA digital scrapbook app for small, unfinished, real-life stories
Make a digital scrapbook on iPhone or iPad with photos, personal stickers, writing, and flexible page layouts—without buying supplies or cleaning a desk.
Explore →Photo journalingA photo journal app that helps the ordinary day stay specific
Build a visual journal from everyday photos, short reflections, personal stickers, and page layouts that preserve more than a chronological camera roll.
Explore →Journaling on iPadA spacious iPad journal workflow for Apple Pencil users
Plan and compose visual journal pages on iPad with room for precise photo, sticker, and text placement, plus an Apple Pencil-friendly creative workflow.
Explore →AI page layoutsAI page layout ideas you can still make completely your own
Use Niello's AI layout companion to get past the blank page, then refine the photo, text, sticker, spacing, and hierarchy yourself.
Explore →Made for iPad, too
Two pages. One small afternoon.
A café moment on the left, the walk home on the right. In Niello 1.7, two portrait pages sit side by side on iPad, with room for photos, tape, drawings and the words you want to keep.
Explore the iPad workflow →Niello field notes
Practical guides, not content confetti
NEW IN 1.76 min read
Make a journal page with photos, washi tape and a few pen strokes
Keep a small afternoon: the window seat, one more matcha, and the walk home. Build the page around one photograph, then add only what helps you remember.
Read guide →NEW IN 1.72 min read
See what changed in 1.7
Draw on the paper, layer washi tape over a photo, and move a line of text into place. On iPad, two portrait pages open together.
Read guide →Hands-on guide9 min read
How to turn everyday photos into journal stickers on iPhone
A practical, step-by-step workflow for choosing a photo, making a personal sticker in Niello, placing it on a journal page, and writing the context that makes it meaningful.
Read guide →Idea field guide12 min read
25 photo journal ideas for days that do not feel eventful
Twenty-five specific photo journal prompts for ordinary days, grouped into small details, people, places, rituals, change, and reflection—with practical page advice.
Read guide →Choosing a practice10 min read
Digital scrapbook vs. photo journal: which one fits the way you remember?
Compare digital scrapbooking and photo journaling by purpose, time, layout, writing, review, and creative effort—then use a simple test to choose or combine them.
Read guide →iPad workflow3 min read
Make a two-page photo journal on iPad
Give each page a small job. A café moment on the left, the walk home on the right, and enough paper around both to let the memory breathe.
Read guide →Private enough for real memories
A journal should make room for the unpolished thought, the small worry, and the photo you never intended to publish. Niello is designed as a personal space, not a social performance.
Read the privacy policyBuilt for returning, not scrolling
Entries live as recognizable pages and a visual journal history. The goal is to reopen a season and remember the context—not to keep you refreshing a feed.
See the photo journal approachKeep one thing from today
One photo. One detail only you noticed. One page that future-you can still enter.
Download Niello free