Save the moments you'll want to hand back to them, someday.
Lifelong memory journal · iOS & Android
A private, shared journal for our baby: not every photo, just the moments we'll want to remember, the date, and what we were thinking when it happened. A camera roll can hold the photo. It can't hold the memory. Built for our own family first, and private by default: only the people you invite can ever see it.
Why not just keep the photos on your phone?
Ten years of that and you'll have tens of thousands of photos, most of them near duplicates, with no way to find the one that mattered or remember what you were thinking when you took it. Roun only holds the moments you chose to keep: dated, with your own words attached and searchable by keyword, so it becomes one story you can hand back someday, not a camera roll you'd never finish scrolling. And when you're ready to hold it, Roun turns those entries into an actual photo album.
Before Roun
The app
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Every kid and pet gets their own calendar. Tap any day to see what happened, or start writing a new entry right below it.
What it does
Photos & videos
Capture more than words. Attach a photo or a short video to any entry.
Milestones
Track firsts, big and small, and revisit them on "On this day."
Automatic photo albums
Every photo entry, already laid out as a real photobook for each kid and pet, with page turns, milestone title pages, and one tap to download as a PDF.
Private by default
Only the family members you invite can ever see your journal.
5 languages
English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. Switch anytime from Settings.
Pricing
Billed once per family. Invite everyone else in with a family code, free.
Free
$0
- Storage1GB
- Kids & petsUp to 1
- AdsInterstitial
- Monthly albumExport anytime
Pro
$3.99/month
- Storage5GB (+5GB add-on available on either plan)
- Kids & petsUnlimited
- AdsNone
- Monthly albumEmailed automatically
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The name
Roun
The name Roun has its roots in Old Norse, where it means mysterious wisdom, or a secret, the same origin as the English word rune. It's also a word in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, meaning garden.
So when we built this app, that's what we wanted it to become: a beautifully tended garden, a precious family secret-book recording our kids and pets as they grow.
Our story
I always end up back in my camera roll, but a photo by itself doesn't always capture the moment the way I actually remember it. Scrolling through thousands of them, what I really wanted wasn't the picture, it was the story behind it.
It wouldn't be easy to pick the right photos out of thousands to make an album, the kind you'd keep as a hardcover book on a shelf somewhere in your room. I wanted that album to come together on its own, curated well enough that it still felt like someone had actually sat down and made it.
I tried many apps looking for exactly this, and never found it anywhere. So I built it myself, for my baby and for a dog who went to heaven, one I still think about all the time. Now I want to share it with you too, so the people and pets you love stay just as vivid.
If you have any questions, or just want to tell me something, email me at support@sl-studio.dev.