iPhone app
Ten Frames
What do I want to remember about today? Choose a few photos, say a sentence, answer a question or not, and keep the story of your days. Ten is an invitation.
- Choose up to ten photos for the day from the picker; the app never sees your whole library
- A sentence, a voice note turned to text on the phone, or an answer to one or two rotating questions
- Weekly, monthly and yearly recaps built only from what you saved, quoting your exact words
- Keepers: star a moment or a photo to find it again
- Hide a person, a tag or a date range, and it stays out of recaps, sharing and browsing
- Looking back is off until you turn it on, and never shows anything you hid
- Photos shared from the app have every bit of metadata removed
A day disappears into a camera roll. Ten Frames is the evening question what do I want to remember?, answered in a minute: choose a few photos, say a sentence, answer a question if you feel like it, and save.
Ten is an invitation
An entry can be one photo or ten, a sentence, a voice note turned into text on the phone, or an answer to one of a few rotating questions: what is one thing you want to remember, what was difficult today, who or what mattered. Skip any of them. You can leave a day without a summary.
Recaps from your own words
Recaps are built only from what you saved. A week is every photo and every bit of your words, by day. A month is your keepers, then one photo and one quote per day. A year is keepers by month. Quotes are exact, and a recap never says how your week went. Delete or edit something a recap quoted and that line is removed.
Memory safety
Hide a person, a tag or a date range and it stays out of recaps, sharing and browsing. Looking back is off until you turn it on, shows only this week in earlier years, and never shows anything you hid. Nothing old resurfaces uninvited.
Yours, on your iPhone
No account, no analytics, no photo-library permission. Photos are copied in with GPS removed, and anything you share from the app has every bit of metadata stripped. Backups are encrypted files you keep where you like. Ten Frames ships in English, Spanish, French, German and Brazilian Portuguese.
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Accessibility and standards
What Ten Frames is built and checked against, in plain words. These are our own checks, not third-party certifications. About these standards.
- Dynamic Type and large text
- Text follows the size you set in iOS Settings, up to the largest accessibility sizes, and screens rearrange themselves instead of cutting words off.
- VoiceOver
- Apple’s screen reader can use the whole app: every control has a spoken name, screens read in a sensible order, and nothing is image-only.
- Reduce Motion
- When you turn on Reduce Motion in iOS, animation is toned down or removed. Nothing in the app depends on seeing something move.
- WCAG AA color contrast
- Text is at least 4.5 times brighter or darker than what is behind it, so it stays readable in sunlight, on a dim screen, or with low vision.
- Works offline
- Every main task works in airplane mode after the first install. Nothing waits on a server to let you do your work.
- No data collection
- The app gathers nothing about you: no analytics, no advertising identifiers, no tracking, and no server of ours. Its App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected.
- Apple privacy manifest
- A file Apple requires inside every app that states what data it collects and why it uses certain system features. Ours declare no tracking and no collection.
- Encrypted backups
- Backup files are encrypted on your device with a passphrase only you know, using the same family of encryption that banks use. We cannot open them, and cannot recover a lost passphrase.
- Multiple languages
- The interface is translated, and dates, plurals and layouts adapt to the language. Each product page lists its languages.
- Photo metadata removed
- Photos you share or store lose the hidden details a camera embeds, such as GPS location, date and camera model, so a picture never gives away where you were.
- Your data in open formats
- Exports come out as CSV, JSON, Markdown, PDF or RSS: files any spreadsheet, text editor or reader can open, with no need for our software.
Questions about Ten Frames
Do I have to add ten photos?
No. Ten is the most you can add to one entry, not a target. One photo, one sentence, one answer or one voice note is a whole entry, and a difficult day can stay a difficult day.
Does the app look through my camera roll?
No. It uses the system photo picker, which hands over only the photos you choose, so it never asks for photo-library permission. Each photo is copied in with its GPS location removed.
What are recaps?
A week's recap is every photo and every bit of your words, by day. A month shows your keepers and one photo and one quote per day; a year shows keepers by month. Quotes are your exact words. If you delete or edit something a recap quoted, that line goes with it.
Will old entries pop up unexpectedly?
No. Looking back is off when you install the app. If you turn it on, it shows this week in earlier years, never anything you hid, and Don't show this again blocks an item for good.