Gary Labs

Backstory

The days that mattered, remembered every year.

Save the day something happened — the trip, the diagnosis, the first Father’s Day. Every year on that date, Backstory taps you on the shoulder and shows you the whole memory again: the photo, the story you wrote, and how long it has been.

In TestFlight

The Backstory Today screen, listing upcoming memories with how soon each one falls.
The Today screen shows what is coming up, and how soon.
A memory open in Backstory: a full-width photo above the written story and the years since.
Open a memory and get the photo, the story and the years back.
Backstory’s timeline as a list, memories grouped under 2026, 2025 and 1993 with category chips.
Everything you have saved, grouped by year and filtered by category.
Backstory’s month calendar for June 2026, with a dot under each day that holds a memory.
A calendar view — every dot is a day that holds something.

You never have to remember the date again

Save it once. Backstory schedules the reminder for every year that follows, and the Today screen shows you what is coming up — tomorrow, in two days, in three months.

The whole memory, not a calendar entry

Photos, a voice memo in your own voice, and as much of the story as you want to write. Open it a year later and you get the moment back, not a one-line note.

It stays yours

Everything lives on your phone. Lock the app behind Face ID, and make an encrypted backup with a passphrase only you know.

In your language

Fully translated into English, Spanish, Hindi and Chinese — every screen, not just the menus.

Everything it does

Your memories — dates, titles, stories, photos and voice memos — are stored in a database on your device. Full privacy policy.