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About Sprout Diary

Sprout Diary is a shared family diary for iPhone that keeps the story beside every photo. Everyone in a family writes into one diary. Photos print as polaroids with captions, in 13 styles, and a diary exports as a photobook or a PDF. The diary lives in the family's own iCloud, and Sprout Diary never runs a server that stores it. There are no accounts, no ads and no feed. Sprout Diary is made by CORDOC LLC in Raleigh, North Carolina, and is translated into 29 languages.

Also available as plain text.

Fact sheet

Tagline

Some days are worth living again and again and again.

What it is

A shared family diary for iPhone that keeps the story beside every photo.

Platform

iPhone, iOS 26 or later. Android is in development.

Maker

CORDOC LLC, Raleigh, North Carolina

Founders

Kaustubh Dabhadkar and Vaama, parents of two

Price

Free to start. Sprout Diary Pro is monthly, yearly or a one-time lifetime purchase, and one plan covers the whole family.

Languages

29

Privacy

No account. The diary lives in the owner's iCloud, and Sprout Diary never runs a server that stores it. No ads, no feed, no selling data.

• Write a post in about ten seconds: one line, one photo or both.
• 13 photo styles, including polaroid, film, postcard, stamp and sticker, with captions and longer stories.
• One diary for the whole family, with five roles and one-time invite links.
• 7 themes, with a color and a theme for each person.
• Tags on every post, and more than 140 built-in prompts.
• A monthly recap, milestones and "on this day".
• Export an 8 × 8 inch photobook, a journal PDF in Letter or A4, and a full zip backup.

Also available as plain text.

The founders

Kaustubh Dabhadkar is a cardiologist. He and his wife Vaama, parents of two, built Sprout Diary after a photo of their daughter laughing showed them they had thousands of pictures and almost none of the stories inside them. Read the full story.

“We could see what happened. Neither of us could remember why she was laughing.”

Screenshots

iPhone, 1290 × 2796 pixels. Click to download.

• The diary timeline
• A post with its story
• Every print in one place
• The monthly recap
• A printed photobook

Logo, icon and colors

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