viva as a photo journal
Updated October 30, 2026
Most photo journals give you a feed. viva gives you one picture of the whole year: every day you add a photo becomes a patch in its month.
You can start today. With a subscription, you can also bring in the months already in your camera roll.
How a photo becomes a patch
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.
Already have a year of photos?
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.
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.
What happens to your photos
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.
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
viva subscriptions renew automatically every year or every 3 months. Cancel in your store’s subscription settings.
What you end up with
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.
