Capture how you feel with text, photos, music, and haptic feedback that turns every emotion into a physical sensation — guided by a little puppy mascot that mirrors your mood.
- About
- Screenshots
- Meet the Mascot
- Features
- Tech Stack
- Requirements
- Project Structure
- Getting Started
- Team
- License
NotADiary ("not a diary") is a journaling app focused on emotional check-ins. The idea is simple: instead of just writing, you tie each entry to an emotion, a song, and photos — and the device itself responds to that emotion through vibration patterns (haptics) carefully designed for each feeling.
A mascot follows along with every entry, shifting its mood to match the emotion you log — giving your journal real personality.
| Log your feelings | Learn about yourself | Share what you love |
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The puppy reacts to your entry with 12 mood states (six base emotions, each with an ultra variant). Here are the six core moods:
| Happiness | Sadness | Anger |
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| Fear | Surprise | Love |
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- 📝 Journal entries — title, text, date and the emotion of the moment.
- 😊 Emotional mascot — a character that mirrors the entry's mood, with 12 states (happiness, anger, surprise, fear, love, sadness, and their intense variants).
- 📳 Emotional haptics — unique vibration patterns built with Core Haptics for each emotion (e.g. a "heartbeat" for love, a "tremor" for fear, an "explosion" for anger).
- 🎵 Apple Music integration — search and attach a song to each entry via MusicKit, with in-app playback and Music Haptics support.
- 📷 Photos — attach images to your entries in a visual gallery.
- ☁️ iCloud sync — all entries and preferences are stored and synced with CloudKit.
- 🔔 Reminders — schedule notifications to remember to log your day.
- 📤 Shareable cards — export and share entries as a custom
.carddocument type. - 👋 Onboarding — a welcome flow with name setup and notification configuration.
| Area | Technology |
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| UI | SwiftUI |
| Persistence / Sync | CloudKit (iCloud) |
| Music | MusicKit · MediaPlayer · AVFoundation |
| Haptics | Core Haptics · MediaAccessibility (Music Haptics) |
| Notifications | UserNotifications |
| Architecture | MVVM |
There is also exploratory work integrating HealthKit (State of Mind) to log mood in the Health app.
- iOS 26.0 or later
- Xcode 26 or later
- An iCloud account (for sync)
- An Apple Music subscription (for the music features)
NotADiary/
├── NotADiaryApp.swift # Entry point
├── Models/
│ ├── JournalModels/ # JournalEntry, Entry, Mascot, Image
│ ├── ShareModels/ # Card (Transferable / UTType)
│ ├── MusicKitModels/ # Music Haptics
│ ├── HealthKitModels/ # State of Mind (exploratory)
│ ├── EmotionHapticEngine.swift # Per-emotion vibration patterns
│ ├── NotificationsModel.swift
│ └── PreferenceModel.swift
├── ViewModels/
│ ├── CloudKitVM/ # Entry & preference sync
│ ├── MusicKitVM/ # Music player and search
│ ├── JournalVM/ # Mascot logic
│ ├── ShareVM/ # Card generation & conversion
│ └── HealthKitVM/
├── Views/
│ ├── OnboardingViews/ # Name & notification setup flow
│ ├── JournalViews/ # List, create, edit and view entries
│ ├── ShareViews/ # Shareable card
│ └── Components/ # Reusable components (mascot, music, photos…)
├── Extensions/
└── Assets/ # Colors, mascots (SVG) and icons
The architecture follows the MVVM pattern, cleanly separating data models,
presentation logic (ViewModels with @Observable/ObservableObject) and the
SwiftUI views.
Requirements: Xcode 26+, an iCloud account, and an Apple Music subscription for music features.
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/EnzoFerroni/NotADiary.git
cd NotADiary
# Open the project in Xcode
open NotADiary.xcodeprojPick a simulator or device and run with ⌘R. (CloudKit, MusicKit and Haptics work best on a real device.)
Enzo Ferroni |
Francisco Losada |
Gabriel Gonçalves |
Pedro Tessaro |
Vinicius Marques |
Released under the MIT License. © 2026 Enzo Ferroni, Francisco Losada, Gabriel Gonçalves, Pedro Tessaro and Vinicius Marques.
Made with 💜, haptics and a very expressive puppy.