The iPhone build is not here yet
You searched for a Year in Pixels app and landed on an Android one. That is the whole situation, and this page exists so you find it out in six seconds instead of after an install attempt.
Today DayBloq is on Google Play and nowhere else: no App Store listing, no TestFlight beta, no web version. iPhone is coming. It is on the list and it is not on a store, and this is the page where that will change first.
In the meantime you are not stuck. Several apps draw the same grid on an iPhone today, and two of them are iPhone-only — we have listed the eight we know of, with what each is best at and where each loses. Ours is in there third, alphabetically.
Why Android first
Because we are small, and a journal is a thing people keep for a year. Half-shipping it on a second platform means two apps that both feel like a draft, and a year of someone’s days living in the worse one. So Android goes first and gets finished, and iPhone gets the same app rather than a thinner copy of it.
That is an order of work, not a closed door. We are still not putting a date on it — a date we miss is worse than no date. When there is something to install, the badge below this paragraph changes with it.
If you are on an iPhone today
Keep the practice while we build. The grid is older than any of these apps — people drew it in paper notebooks long before there was a store to download it from. A pen and a ruled page still works, and so do several iOS apps built by other people: Moodistory, Moodflow, Pixels. Start the year somewhere. A tracker you open in March beats one you are waiting for.
Two things here work on an iPhone today, because they are only web pages. You can color a grid in a tab to find out whether the practice suits you, and you can download a printable sheet for the wall. Neither is the app, and neither remembers a thing once you leave.
The point was never the app. The point was the square you filled in on a Tuesday.
If you want the argument for the practice itself rather than the software, the Year in Pixels essay and the mood tracker one are both readable on any phone.
How you will hear about it
Write to us and say iPhone. We read the form, and it is how we will tell you when there is a build. There is no automated sequence behind it, which means one message when there is something to install rather than two a week about a product that does not exist yet.
Meanwhile, the lab is where we write down what we are actually doing to this site and this app, including the things we have not done yet.
What people ask about iPhone
Is there a DayBloq app for iPhone?
Not yet. Today DayBloq is on Google Play and nowhere else — no App Store listing, no TestFlight beta, and no web version you can run on an iPhone. An iPhone build is something we intend to make, but it is not something you can install this week. If a page says it already exists, that page is out of date.
Will DayBloq come to iPhone?
That is the plan. We are not putting a date on it, because a date we miss is worse than no date — but the honest word is “not yet”, not “no”. When a build exists, this page changes and the badge for it appears here.
Is there a Year in Pixels app for iOS at all?
Yes, several, from other developers — Moodistory, Moodflow and Pixels among them. Ours is still being built, and we would rather you keep the practice going on something that exists today than leave the squares empty waiting for us.
Can I use DayBloq in a browser on my iPhone?
Not today. DayBloq is an Android app, not a web app, and there is no version of it you sign into. There is a grid on this site you can color in a browser — a try-out that keeps nothing at all, so closing the tab empties it — and a set of printable sheets you can download. Neither is the app, on an iPhone or anywhere else, and if that ever changes it changes on this page first.
On Android already? The digital journal for Android essay is the one you want.