Daily Scrapbook

A creative iOS journal app for building beautiful scrapbook pages — one for every day of the year.

Add photos, draw with Apple Pencil, place text and shapes, cut out subjects with AI, and browse your memories in a gorgeous mosaic view. Everything stays on your device.

Features

• Daily canvas — Each day gets its own full-screen scrapbook page
• Photos & cutouts — Add photos from your library or use AI-powered subject extraction to create stickers
• Drawing — Sketch and doodle with Apple Pencil or your finger using PencilKit
• Text & shapes — Add labels, captions, and decorative shapes with customizable colors
• Layers — Arrange elements with drag, resize, rotate, and a layer reorder bar
• Year view — See your entire year as a dense mosaic grid of daily thumbnails
• Month view — Calendar-style overview with day previews
• Stickers & palettes — Save cutouts as reusable stickers, extract color palettes from images
• Themes — Customize your app's colors with three user-configurable theme settings
• Backup & restore — Export all your data as JSON and import it back anytime
• Privacy first — No accounts, no cloud, no tracking. All data stays on your device.

Requirements

• iOS 17.0+
• iPhone or iPad
• Xcode 16+ (for building)

Tech Stack

Built entirely with native Apple frameworks — zero external dependencies:

• SwiftUI — All UI
• SwiftData — Local persistence
• PencilKit — Drawing and handwriting
• Vision — ML-powered foreground segmentation for cutouts
• PhotosUI — Photo library integration

Building

This project uses XcodeGen to generate the Xcode project.

# Generate the Xcode project
xcodegen generate

# Build
xcodebuild -project Scrapbook.xcodeproj -scheme Scrapbook -sdk iphoneos build

# Build and install to a connected device
./flash-to-phone.sh

Support

Found a bug or have a question? Open an issue.

License

All rights reserved.