Each day a patch. Each year a hoop.
Write one line or add a photo, and your day becomes an embroidered patch. Patches gather in their month, and twelve months later you have a hoop that’s all yours.
My 2026, through November 15Embroidery on linen · 118 patches
Write one line about your day
A patch that fits what you wrote is stitched into this month.
Examples
My 2026Embroidery on linen · 134 patches
Watch a year fill in
January starts as bare linen
Write what you did or pick a photo, and the first patch goes in.
The more you do it, the bigger the patch
Went to cafés twenty times this month? That café patch becomes the biggest one in it.
Big days are stitched in words
Passing a test, moving, a first paycheck — days like these go straight onto the linen as words.
Fill in the past all at once
Bring in a whole year from Photos, Calendar and Instagram. After that, it fills in on its own every day.
When the year ends, it’s a finished piece
Finished hoops hang in My gallery, one for every year. Turn one into a story card to show your friends.
What a subscription gets you
Fill your whole year at once
Finds your days in Photos, Calendar, Instagram and workouts
Stitched every day on its own
New photos and events become patches the next day
Add entries without ads
Past days anytime, and no ads when you share
Your photos are never uploaded
Photos are looked at only on your phone. To pick a patch, viva uses only short text, like names of things in a photo (“cafe”, “cup”), event titles, Instagram captions or the line you write.
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What is viva?
A photo journal and a one-line-a-day diary in one app. Write a line or add a photo, and the day becomes an embroidered patch. When all twelve months fill in, your year is a finished piece of embroidery.
Is viva free?
Entries for today are free, and there are ads until you subscribe. Filling your whole year at once, daily automatic stitching and entries without ads come with a subscription, which renews every year or every 3 months. A one-time pass for a single year also lets you add past days of that year without ads.
Which phones does it work on?
iPhone, from the App Store, and Android phones, from Google Play. The app comes in 12 languages.
Are my photos uploaded?
No. Photos are looked at only on your phone. If you agree to picking patches with AI, viva sends only short text: names of things in your photos, event titles with recognizable names removed, Instagram captions and what you write. If you don’t, patches are picked on your phone.
Can I fill in past days?
With a subscription, viva finds your days in Photos, Calendar, Instagram and workouts and fills the year at once. Without one, watching an ad to the end lets you add more past days from this year.
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Stitch your days
viva subscriptions renew automatically every year or every 3 months. Cancel in your store’s subscription settings.