Press kit

At a glance

Descriptions

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Placemoir is a private field journal for the places you go: rate them, add notes and photos, and keep it all to yourself.

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Placemoir is a private field journal for places. Rate a restaurant, hotel or museum with one tap (“I’ll be back” or “Never again”) or in half stars, then add notes, photos, voice memos and the day’s weather. There’s no account and no ads, and your journal lives in your own iCloud.

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Features

• Rate it your way. Simple rating is one tap: I’ll be back, or Never again. Detailed rating is one to five stars in half steps, plus “Would you go back?”
• Find the place, fast. Search Apple Maps, or let Placemoir suggest where you’re standing.
• The weather that day, from Apple Weather, even if you write the entry up a week later.
• Photos, voice memos and files kept with each visit.
• A map of everywhere: green for places you’d go back to, plum for the ones you wouldn’t, gold for your Want to go list.
• Search that remembers names, neighborhoods and words from your notes.
• Every visit, together, each with its own date, rating and notes, plus On this day.
• Quick capture: long-press + to save a place in seconds and finish it later.
• Bring what you have: free import from Photos, Google Maps and, with an AI assistant’s help, any other app, through an open archive format.
• Yours to take with you: export the whole journal, every photo and file included, at any time.
• Private by design: no account, no ads, no tracking, and a Face ID lock.
• Made for every Apple screen: iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, light and dark, with an alternate app icon.

Pricing

• Free: up to 25 visits, with everything except weather auto-fill and the alternate bookmark icon.
• Placemoir Premium: $9.99 a year or $1.29 a month in the US, with local App Store pricing elsewhere. Unlimited visits, weather auto-fill and the bookmark icon. Works with Family Sharing.
• Always free: reading and editing your journal, every import, export, and Delete all data. If a subscription ends, nothing is locked.

A note on wording: please say Placemoir is “stored in your own iCloud” rather than “end-to-end encrypted”. iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted only for people who turn on Apple’s Advanced Data Protection.

The story

Placemoir started with a podcast. On episode 456 of The Talk Show, John Gruber and Joanna Stern talked about wanting a field journal for the places they go, such as restaurants and hotels (listen at 1:30:43). Nate Bird heard it and built the app: a private notebook for places, with no feed, no followers and nothing to perform for.

The name is “place” plus “memoir”. A memoir is the story of what you remember; Placemoir keeps the places behind those memories.

Placemoir isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by The Talk Show, John Gruber or Joanna Stern.

Quotes

“Review sites are written for strangers. I wanted something written for me: a place to remember the atmosphere and excellent service at a restaurant or the hotel I never want to stay at again.”

“It’s your journal. There’s no account and no server in the middle. Your journal stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, and you can export or delete all of it any time.”

“‘Never again’ turned out to be the most useful thing I write down. It saves me from making the same mistake twice.”

“It is surprisingly fun to reminisce on all the wonderful places I visited with family and friends.”

About Tweeting Birds

Tweeting Birds LLC is an independent software studio in Georgia, USA, founded by Nate Bird. It makes small, careful apps for iPhone and iPad that respect your time and your privacy. Placemoir is its newest app, alongside Quips.

About the maker

Nate Bird is an indie developer in Atlanta, Georgia. He has built software since the mid-2000s, and now uses agentic AI to turn the apps he imagines into real ones faster than ever. Find him on Micro.blog as @nate or at natebird.co.