A quieter placefor gratitude.

Tackbok is a free, open-source gratitude journal for words, photos, and voice memories. No account. No ads. Your journal stays on your device.

100% Free & Open SourceExplore source on GitHub

Tackbok timeline with a gratitude entry, voice recording, and photos

A journal memory with a mood, voice recording, and a framed photo

Free & open source

Works offline

No account required

No ads

More ways to remember what mattered.

Keep the ritual simple when you want it, and add more detail when a memory deserves it.

A little help getting started

Find your first words.

A thoughtful worksheet gives you somewhere to begin. Make the template your own, then take it one small moment at a time.

Journaling worksheet with gratitude, affirmation, and small moments prompts, plus an option to edit the template

Good moments, rediscovered

Look back. Feel it again.

Revisit a memory from this day in years past, and see the little moments you’ve collected along the way.

Insights showing an On this day memory from four years ago and an overview of journaling activity

Capture the whole memory

Write freely, then add photos, voice memos, moods, and tags when words are not enough.

Build your own rhythm

Set an optional daily reminder at the time that works for you. Tap it to start with a relevant prompt.

Bring your history along

Back up and restore your journal, or import entries from Tackbok, Gratitude App, and Presently.

Write in your language

Tackbok currently supports 5+ languages with full RTL support. More languages are coming soon.

Make it yours.
Change anything later.

Tackbok’s guided setup helps you pick a theme, font, and focus areas that feel right for you. Every step is quick, skippable, and always available to tweak in settings.

1
Choose what feels comfortable
See language, font size, and theme changes as you make them.
2
Pick what you want to notice
Focus areas shape the prompts and reminders you receive.
3
Start with a little context
Optional example entries gently show how the journal works.

Tackbok’s theme picker with Light, Dark, Shiro, Shadow, Helena, and Poonam previews — Made to match your mood
Quiet colours. Illustrated worlds. Light & dark.

A message from the developer

“I built Tackbok because journaling shouldn’t be paywalled or ad-driven. This is my free, open-source gift back to society.”

Read the privacy policy

Your thoughts stay close to you.

Tackbok is local-first by default, no Tackbok account or central servers required. Protect your journal with Face ID, Touch ID, or biometrics, with optional backups to your personal cloud.

Local-first storage: your entries stay on-device, not on central servers.
Analytics is off until you explicitly opt in.
No journal content is collected for analytics.
App lock hides access and the task-switcher preview.

App lock is a local access gate that uses your device security; it does not encrypt Tackbok’s SQLite database.

Open by nature

Built in public. Free to inspect.

Tackbok is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and developed in the open. You can read the code, follow improvements, report an issue, or build your own version.

Visit Tackbok on GitHub

A small practice, made personal

Make a little room for gratitude.

Get Tackbok for iOS and Android.