The Keeping
What it meant to you.
A private, offline journal for the books, films, shows, and podcasts you’ve finished — where your own words are the artwork.
Coming soon to iPhone.
One archive
Everything you finish, in one place.
Books, films, shows, and podcasts — kept together as a single, searchable archive of your own writing. Podcasts get the same care as everything else, which is something no other journal does well.
- Books
- Films
- TV
- Podcasts
What The Keeping is
Private & offline
Everything stays on your device.
No account, no feed, no cloud. The Keeping makes no network calls and collects no data — your thoughts are yours alone. It works the same with the plane in airplane mode.
Your words
Your writing is the artwork.
There are no posters here, and that’s the point. What you thought — set in a quiet editorial serif — is what you see. A rating, a tag, a sentence about what it meant. As much or as little as you like.
Look back
A year ago, you kept this.
The Keeping quietly brings back what you wrote a while ago — a thought on a book from last spring, a film that stayed with you. No streaks, no nudges to perform. Just the pleasure of meeting your own past opinions again.
What an entry feels like
An example entry
Book · 2024
The Remains of the Day
“I kept waiting for the regret to arrive. It came in the last ten pages and I had to put the book down.”
On your iPhone
The Keeping on iPhone
Not a tracker. Not a feed. A place to remember what your media meant to you — and find it again years later.