Write one sentence with today's photo. In ten years you won't have a folder of ten thousand files, but a story you can read back together — complete with the date, their age and what your child said at the time.
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Almost everyone starts one. A lovely fill-in book, given to you when the baby was born, with spaces for the first tooth and the first steps. And almost everyone gets to somewhere halfway through the first year.
That's not your fault. It's because writing and taking photos happen in two different places. You take the photo with your phone, in a second. The book is on the shelf, the photos aren't printed, and by the time you sit down you can't remember exactly when it was.
An online diary removes that hurdle: you capture it in the moment, on the same device you took the photo with. One sentence is enough.
And unlike a notes app, it remembers the context: which photo it belonged to, how old your child was then, and what else happened that day.
Not yet another app to keep up with, but one place where your child's story grows by itself.
You write the line next to the photo it's about. Not a loose note here and a photo there, but one complete memory — including the date it happened.
Browse by year, by child or by milestone. You don't have to dig through ten thousand photos in your gallery to find that one first day at school.
Feel free to skip a month. There's no counter that drops to zero and nothing reminding you that you're behind. The diary simply waits for you.
No public profile, no ads, no facial recognition. Everything falls under the GDPR and you decide who gets access.
Your partner or co-parent writes in the same timeline. Grandma and grandpa follow along through a secure link you can revoke whenever you like, and they don't have to install anything.
Videos, voice notes, drawings, school reports and the things your child says. Even a letter your child only receives later, once they're grown up.
All three work. The main difference is what's still left of them in ten years.
| Ouderliefde | Notes app | Paper book | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo and text in one memory | |||
| Find things by date and age | |||
| Videos and voice notes | |||
| Keep it up with your partner or co-parent | |||
| Family follows along securely | |||
| Backup if you lose your phone | |||
| Still readable without power |
All you need is an email address, no payment details. Add your child and enter their date of birth, so the age is right on every memory.
Pick a photo, write a sentence with it and you're done. Old photos are fine too: you choose the date, so you can fill it in retrospectively.
Adding something once a week is enough. If you'd like a little reminder, we'll send you one question about your child each week to answer.
An online diary with photos is a diary you keep on your phone or computer, where every bit of writing is attached to one or more photos. Instead of a photo in your gallery here and a note in an app there, the picture and the story sit together, on the date it happened. At Ouderliefde that diary is about your child: you capture what they did, said and experienced.
No, and that is exactly where most diaries fall apart. There is no streak, no counter that drops to zero when you skip a week. Most parents add something when something happens: a first time, a funny thing they said, an ordinary Wednesday that just happened to be lovely. Once a week is enough to end up with a complete story in ten years' time.
Yes. You choose the date for every memory yourself, so you can fill it in retrospectively. Photos from your gallery usually keep their original date automatically, and you can import a WhatsApp chat in one go: the dates and the messages around the photos become the captions.
Yes. There is no public profile, no feed and no algorithm looking over your shoulder. Everything is stored on European servers under the GDPR, and photos are only shown through secure links. You decide per person who can view and who can contribute; nobody else gets in.
You can't search notes by what's in the photo, and the photos themselves usually aren't in there — just a reference to them. When you switch phones or your storage fills up, that link gets lost. In an online diary the photos, the text and the date are tied together, and later you can look back by child, by year or by milestone.
You can export your data at any time, including all your photos. So you're never locked in: what you put in stays yours and you can take it with you.
Yes. You can invite your partner or co-parent to add to the same timeline, and grandma and grandpa follow along through their own secure link that only your family receives. If you'd like a grandparent to be able to send things in as well, you can switch that on per person.
You start for free and can try everything in Premium for 7 days without payment details. After that you keep a free account with a limited number of memories, or you choose Plus from €3.49 a month or Premium from €5.49 a month. One subscription covers the whole family, including several children.
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