Documentation
What Snipbook is
A local-first digital diary and scrapbook for photos, stickers, text and drawings, with no account and no upload
Snipbook is a digital diary that works like a scrapbook. You make pages, then fill them the way you'd fill a physical page: drop in a photo, stick on a sticker, scrawl a note, draw a line connecting two things. Nothing snaps to a grid unless you want it to — a page is an open surface, not a form.
Why a scrapbook, not a journal app
Most journaling and note apps are built around text — a title, a body, maybe a tag. Snipbook starts from the opposite end: the page is a canvas, and text is just one of the things you can put on it, alongside photos, stickers, and freehand drawing. If you've ever kept a paper diary with ticket stubs taped in and doodles in the margins, that's the shape this is meant to have.
Private by default
There's no sign-up, no login, and no account of any kind. Everything you make — every diary, every page, every photo you place — stays stored on your own device, in your browser. Your page content is never uploaded anywhere unless you export or share a page yourself. The only parts of Snipbook that use the network are the Store and some anonymous usage analytics; Privacy spells out exactly what each of them sees.
Works without a connection
Snipbook can be installed like a regular app, from your browser, on a phone, tablet, or computer. Once installed, it opens and works without an internet connection — your diaries live on your device, so there's nothing to wait on and nothing that can go down. The only feature that needs a connection is the Store, where you can browse and pick up new photos and stickers to use later, offline, in your pages.
Unhurried, on purpose
There are no streaks, no reminders nagging you to write, no algorithm deciding what you see. Snipbook doesn't track a habit or score a routine — it's just there when you want to sit down and make a page, and it waits patiently otherwise. The goal isn't to optimize your journaling; it's to make it a little more fun to keep one.
What you can do after installing it
Open Snipbook, and you have a blank page and a small set of simple tools: place a photo, drop a sticker from your pocket or the Store, write some text, draw with a pen. Make a page today, come back next week, add another. Nothing to configure, nothing to connect, nothing that expires.
Where to go next
- Privacy — exactly what stays on your device and what, if anything, ever leaves it.
- Offline use — how installing Snipbook works and what still needs a connection.
- Editor features — a fuller tour of the tools available on a page.