About DayBloq

DayBloq is an indie journal for people who like the look of a dot-grid journal and the phone they already carry. The core is a Year in Pixels grid: color a day, optionally write a note, decorate with stickers and templates. Journal entries live on the device.

Who makes it

DayBloq is made by Lenny Taylor, a freelance artist, and it began as her own notebook.

She found the format the way most people do — the hand-drawn spreads that circulate on Instagram, where the whole practice looks possible instead of precious. She copied it and kept it for years: a skincare page, a health page, a mood page. One small mark a day, and at the end of a month a shape you could actually look at.

The trouble was never the notebook. It was that the notebook was in the other room, and the pen was wherever the notebook wasn’t. Miss a day, then a week, and the record you were keeping in order to see a pattern has a hole in exactly the stretch you wanted to read.

So the grid moved to the phone. DayBloq started on 29 August 2025 as that notebook with the walk to the other room taken out of it — the same five colors, the same one mark a day, on the device already in your hand. A late millennial’s paper habit, ported to the thing that keeps interrupting it.

Lenny still keeps the paper ones. This is not an argument against paper.

What we are not

• Not a social network.
• Not a medical or therapy product.
• Not a streak app that punishes a skipped day.

How it makes money

Plainly, because nobody should have to dig for this.

Keeping a Year in Pixels is free and stays free. Tracking, journaling and the grid itself cost nothing, don’t expire, and don’t need an account. There are no ads and no in-app currency to farm.

The paid tier is a subscription, monthly or yearly through Google Play, and it starts with a 7-day free trial that begins when you subscribe rather than when you install. What it buys today is VIP templates and VIP sticker packs; more advanced tools will arrive there as they are built. It does not unlock your own journal — that was never locked.

That is the whole model. The mood tracker stays on your device either way, and the FAQ has the detail.

This website

daybloq.com is the product site and a public notebook of how we learn search. The lab is a dated log of that work — useful if you care how the sausage is made, skippable if you only want the app.

Android is on Google Play. For iPhone, there is a page explaining where that stands.

Press, support, or partnership: the contact form.