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Tap an activity to start recording.
DailyTrace
Daily life, clearly seen.
Record activities in a tap, notice how each activity fits into your day, and review timelines, heatmaps, comparisons, and shareable summaries when you look back.
EFFORTLESS RECORDING
One-tap recording
Record as the day happens. Start, switch, stop, and edit without setting goals or building tasks.
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Switch activities
Tap another activity when your day changes. DailyTrace closes the previous record for you.
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Edit later
Add past records, adjust times, change activities, or add notes.
TIMELINE & SUMMARIES
Review your day
A 24-hour timeline shows when records happened.
Review durations, activity summaries, and individual records without extra judgment.
Today from Home
Open today's timeline and summary directly from Today’s Time on Home.
Activity summaries
See how completed records add up for the day.
Record editing
Fix a time, change an activity, or add a note when needed.
ACTIVITY DETAILS
Understand each activity
Go beyond a total. DailyTrace 1.8 shows how long an activity tends to last, when it happens, and what usually surrounds it.
Session lengths
See whether an activity usually happens in short, medium, or long sessions.
Common times
See the times of day when an activity most often appears in your records.
Before and after
See which activities most often happen immediately before or after it.
ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS
See longer patterns
Review recorded time by week, month, and past 365 days with charts that stay focused on what you chose to record.
Week
Month
Year
Weekly rhythm
Compare recent days and see recorded time by hour across the week.
Monthly timing
Review the monthly heatmap and see when activities usually happen during the day.
Yearly rhythm
Use the past-365-day year map to see how recorded time changes over a longer range.
Focus Flow
See how the center of your recorded activities shifts across days, weeks, or months.
Activity Mix
Review the full activity structure with a treemap that keeps smaller activities inspectable.
SURFACES & WATCH
Record from more places
Use DailyTrace from the surfaces you already check during the day.
Home Screen widgets
Start, switch, or stop a record without opening DailyTrace.
Lock Screen widgets
Check the current activity and return to DailyTrace Home quickly.
Live Activities
Keep the current activity visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, then return to Home with a tap.
Apple Watch
Start, stop, and switch activities from the Watch app while your iPhone remains the source of truth.
SHAREABLE POSTERS
Save and share statistics
Move between day, week, month, past-365-day, and full-summary posters in one preview.
DailyTrace builds the image on your device. You preview it first, then save it or open the iOS share sheet.
WHAT'S NEW
Recent updates
Clearer activity details, shareable analysis, and more coherent live recording.
- Activity Details now bases summaries on completed records, uses compact duration labels, presents empty states clearly, and lets you expand recent records.
- Activity Details can now create a shareable analysis poster with totals, session lengths, daily trends, and Before & After relationships.
- Before & After analysis now follows continuous activity runs and excludes ambiguous connections for clearer relationships.
- Active records now appear in daily statistics while time is still accumulating.
- Home, record editing, temporary prompts, undo actions, and statistics use clearer in-progress states, coordinated transitions, and settings-aware feedback.
- Current dates and periods are outlined clearly, future dates stay neutral, and heatmap cells render consistently.
- Activity colors follow a continuous hue order, while key edit, share, and Add Past Record actions are easier to reach.
- Activity share posters, large titles, and the Legal & Privacy screen have clearer layouts.
More activity insights, clearer stats, and improved accessibility across DailyTrace.
- Fixed an incorrect unsaved warning after changing a record's date.
- Fixed share posters changing to an earlier period when Stats was showing an earlier week or month.
- Activity Details now groups recording lengths as short, medium, or long.
- Activity Details now shows common recording times.
- Activity Details now shows activities typically recorded immediately before or after the selected activity.
- Added a setting for the note reminder shown after stopping a timer.
- When Differentiate Without Color is enabled, month and year calendars also use block size to show recording levels.
- VoiceOver can read summaries and individual items in stats charts.
- VoiceOver can read the main content of share previews.
- Added Preparing and Saved status messages when sharing or saving images.
- When Photos access is off, the save alert can open Settings.
- Past Year now shows activity changes day by day.
- Week and month comparisons now show both date ranges.
- Improved layouts for larger text and reduced clipped text.
- Improved the Home layout and display of long activity names.
- Widgets, Apple Watch, and Smart Stack show idle, recording, and unavailable states more clearly.
- Improved share poster text, long activity names, and date ranges that cross years.
Ready to see the shape of your days?
Download DailyTrace today on iOS and watchOS. Start recording in seconds.