The tally board
Every recorded day as a glowing glass mark, five to a tally. Look back by week, month, quarter, year or any custom range, or open the board full window on your Mac.
See your life in color.
Days In Color turns each day into a single colored mark. Over weeks, months, and years those marks build into a vivid, visual history that reveals the real patterns behind your habits, choices, and experiences.
Free on the Mac · Private by design
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Canvases for any part of life
3 sec
Pick a day, pick a color, done
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Days of patterns to explore
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Yours and private
What is Days In Color
A new way to ask: what kind of day was today?
Most trackers obsess over tasks, streaks, and checkmarks. Days In Color is different. Instead of asking whether you completed something, it asks you to capture the nature of the day with a color that you define.
Organize your life into canvases, one for each part of life you want to understand. Each canvas has its own colors, and each color carries your own meaning, description, and points. The same shade can mean something completely different from one canvas to the next, so the system bends to fit whatever you want to see more clearly.
- Color as language. Green for a calm night in, blue for friends, black for a hard day. You decide.
- Notes that remember. Add the story behind each mark and your tracker quietly becomes a visual journal.
- Progress over perfection. Cumulative scores and momentum mean one bad day never erases months of growth.
Showcase
One simple mark a day, a lifetime of patterns
As your canvases fill up, your marks gather into tallies that reveal your history at a glance. Roomy and calm on your Mac.
A year in color
Switch to the year view and take in twelve months of marks at once, with your most used colors and the shape of your seasons made visible.
Your whole life, together
The Life Mosaic lines up every canvas day by day, and the Color blend mixes them into one flowing ribbon, so you can see how the parts of your life move together.
On your Mac
Room to see the whole picture
Your canvases, your journal and your statistics, side by side in one calm window.
Features
Everything you need to track what matters
Powerful enough to capture any part of life, simple enough to use in seconds a day.
Unlimited canvases
Track fitness, sleep, social life, dating, reading, drinking, or anything else. Each canvas is its own world with its own colors, meaning and cover image.
Colors, points and bonus days
Define each color with a name, description, and points, positive or negative. Went the extra mile? Mark a bonus day for extra points and a mark that glows.
Three second entry
Pick the day, choose a color, save. That fast flow is the heart of the app, so recording your life never feels like a chore.
Notes and reflection
Add a note to any day to capture the story behind it. Look back later and revisit not just what happened, but why.
Stats, streaks and sharing
Color distribution, score momentum, and streaks for your best color and every other color. Share a beautiful one page PDF of your statistics with anyone.
Private by design
Everything you record stays on your device, with no account to create. Lock individual canvases or the whole app with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and keep backups of your own.
Built for the long run
Momentum, not fragile streaks
Streaks are motivating until the day you miss one. Days In Color is built on a healthier idea: progress should be measured by long term patterns, not perfect runs.
Much like a credit score, your positive and negative days accumulate into an overall standing that grows with consistency and recovers gracefully from setbacks. A single rough day will never wipe out months of effort.
- Cumulative scores reward sustained effort over time.
- Trends and momentum show which direction your life is heading.
- Resilience by design encourages self awareness instead of guilt.
Why people love it
Understand yourself, one color at a time
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See patterns you would otherwise miss
Trends, routines, and turning points become obvious when months of life are laid out in color. Insight you cannot get from a list.
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Stay motivated without the pressure
Because momentum matters more than perfection, you keep going through imperfect weeks instead of giving up after one slip.
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Keep a journal you will actually revisit
Marks plus notes create a visual diary that is genuinely enjoyable to browse, months or even years later.
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Track anything, your way
From sobriety to social life to creative work, the flexible color system adapts to whatever you want to understand.
How it works
Start in under a minute
No complicated setup, no learning curve. Just pick what to track and start coloring your days.
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Create a canvas
Name an area of life you want to observe and give it a cover. A canvas runs on for as long as you want to keep watching.
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Define your colors
Give each color a meaning and points, building a palette that fits your canvas perfectly.
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Color your days
When a day is over, record the kind of day it was, then watch your visual history grow.
Begin your first year in color
Download Days In Color free for your Mac, pick a color for yesterday, and start building a picture of your life that only gets richer with time.
- Free to useNo subscriptions and no ads.
- Private by designEverything you record stays on your device.
- Progress, not perfectionOne off day never erases months of growth.