DAYCATCHER was founded in 2017 and went live in November 2018 with the community platform. A Swiss start-up from seasoned professionals for mature adults.

DAYCATCHER is a digital journal (diary) to record what made every given day unique , shared with others or just for yourself.

DAYCATCHER is for mature adults who want to bring more mindfulness into their everyday life, who want to be grateful for the small and big events every day and want to capture them as memories.

The daily entries (catches) in the personal journal make you more aware of the passing of time, enjoy the little things more consciously every day and keep them as a memory for yourself or your family – openly shared with the DAYCATCHER community or just for you.

Set a goal (e.g. 30 days) to spend a short time each day in the evening, to consider what was special today (good, difficult, grateful for, surprising, memorable, achieved goal, tomorrow’s goal etc.). You will see how it changes your view of the small but valuable things every day and make you more satisfied and perhaps also more curious about breaking habits.

Use the voucher DAYCATCHER2019 for a free full trial membership and decide after the first 3 months whether you want to continue as a paying full member or as a free member.

You can choose between a free “invisible” and a full membership. Full members have all the functionality available, are visible and can interact with others. You can change your membership at any time without losing any content in your personal journal.

Free membership allows you to keep a personal journal, but you cannot make yourself visible or interact with others. A fully paid membership with the entire functionality costs CHF 52 per year.

Try it out for free with the voucher DAYCATCHER2019 and benefit form 3 months full membership for free.

You can select or extend your full membership via the “Membership” menu within the application.

DAYCATCHER is responsive browser-based, works without downloading and installing an app, works well on any device (phone, tablet, computer) and is interactive and easy to use.

Daycatcher can be used on any device with an Internet connection and a browser. Mobile phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers. The design adapts to the screen size of your device.

DAYCATCHER works on Mac, iOS, Windows and Android operating systems.

The supported browsers are Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Edge, but not Internet Explorer.

Your privacy matters!
Our Privacy Policy (“Terms of Service”) describes the personal data processing practices in connection with your access to and use of the web-based platform DAYCATCHER. For data storage DAYCATCHER is using Google Cloud Services in Europe.

Your data will never be used for advertising purposes nor passed on to third parties for this purpose. We use your information to personalize your use of DAYCATCHER, to maintain our relationship with you, to create, maintain and secure your user account, and to comply with the DAYCATCHER Terms of Use and applicable law.

Your profile and journal will not be visible to others if you have a closed profile or if you have a free membership. If your profile is open, the DAYCATCHER community will see your profile and your journal. Your “Personal notes” will only ever be visible to you.

You can delete your DAYCATCHER account and all data stored on DAYCATCHER at any time under your “Account Settings”. The account deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.

DAYCATCHER has its own simple and binding community guidelines. You can find the link on every page at www.daycatcher.com in the footer or in the DAYCATCHER application in the menu “User Guidelines”. Violation of Community Policies may result in account suspension or even deletion.

Your privacy matters! The DAYCATCHER Privacy Policy can be found at www.daycatcher.com in the footer of each page or in the DAYCATCHER application in the DAYCATCHER Terms of Service menu. Violation of the Terms of Services may result in the blocking or even deletion of your account.

You can create an account at any time by visiting app.daycatcher.com. You must provide an email address and password or register using your google or facebook account.

You must provide a user name and journal name for your account during its creation. You may also optionally provide a profile description and picture.

If you forget your password, you can click on the “Forgot Password” link on the application login page on www.daycatcher.com. You will receive a reset password link in the email that you provide associated with your account.

You can permanently delete your account at any time from within your “Account Settings” in the application. This is an irreversible process and you will forfeit any remaining subscription credit in your account.

DAYCATCHER is currently available in German and English

If your profile is closed it will only be visible to you and you will not be able to collaborate within the DAYCATCHER community. You must have a paid membership to open your profile and enable collaboration.
You can still have a closed profile as a paying member.

DAYCATCHER sends you notifications on comments and activities made by other community members that you follow or who have commented on your journal. You can choose whether you want to receive these notifications as an email.

You can set your timezone in your account settings to indicate which timezone you are in.

Your email is used as your account identity and, if you enable email notifications, is also used for notification delivery. We will also use your email for notifications about any changes to our service.

Each user journal is the central area for each DAYCATCHER community member where they store their daily catches.

A catch represents a daily journal entry in DAYCATCHER where you must add an image and title and a description. Using personal notes is an additional option.

You can add a personal note to each of your catches. These notes are only ever visible to you and are intended for memories that you want to keep for yourself.

Any DAYCATCHER public community member can choose to create and participate in quests with other community members. Quest participation entails linking one of your daily catches to the quest within the quest open period which can run from 1 day to 7 days in length.

If you have an open journal, you can give up to 5 nuggets per day to other DAYCATCHER community members to let them know that you like their catches. Nuggets are a DAYCATCHER appreciation currency, thus their use is limited to 5 per day.

There are no Likes or Thumbs-Ups with us.

If you have an open journal, you can share your thoughts with others by commenting and/or replying on their Catches. You can choose to enable commenting on your own catches when creating or editing the catch. Of course you can disable the comment function and by doing so remove all comments on a catch at any time.

DAYCATCHER sends you notifications on comments and activities made by other community members that you follow or who have commented on your journal. You can choose whether you want to receive these notifications as an email.

You can export parts of your journal from DAYCATCHER at any time as a PDF if you want to keep an offline copy of your journal.

Your profile contains your username, journal name, a short description of yourself and your country.

With Browse you can see all the Catches, Quests and profiles of members with an open journal.

Click on the “New Catch” icon on mobile or the “New Catch” button on the desktop to create a new catch. You must upload your picture, select a date, record a title and the text, before you can save the catch to your journal.

You may only use images where you own the rights. Make sure that no persons are recognisable  without prior consent. This also includes children.

Catches and personal notes have no restrictions. For comments and answers you have to limit yourself to 256 characters.

For your catch, you can only upload a “landscape format” image. Before uploading a catch, you might need to select the area and the focus – the section that you want to select to be used for the monthly overview. Very large image files will be compressed after uploading.

No, this is not possible. A picture for each Catch is important and required.

You must first join a quest before you can link your catch to it. When creating your catch, you will see all the active quest that you have joined, and you are now free to choose to link your catch to a specific quest. Or you can look at the quest and connect your catch there.

If you have an open journal, you can give up to 5 nuggets per day to other DAYCATCHER community members to let them know that you like their catches. Nuggets are a DAYCATCHER appreciation currency, thus their use is limited to 5 per day.

There are not Likes or Thumbs-Ups with us.

With Browse you can see all the Catches, Quests and Members with open profiles.

“Other Journals” will show you the catches of the members you follow. This will help you get an overview of your network.

Under “other quests” you find quests people you follow have joined or created.

You can find quests, journals and members that you don’t follow using the Browse feature in the application.

You can find expired quests in which you participated using the My Quests feature in the application.

No, you can not save a draft version. Once you’ve selected a picture and a date, and entered the title and some text, you can save the catch. If your profile is open, this makes it immediately visible to other users. You can continue editing your Catches at any time. This enables you to modify your catches as you see fit.

Click on the notifications icon to open your notification window. You will then see a menu with three vertical dots in the upper right hand corner of the notification window. Clicking on the dots will give you the option to mark all messages as read.

Yes, you can reply directly to a comment. Open the corresponding comment and there you will find the options to respond to comments or to make further comments.

No, DAYCATCHER is ad-free.

Your data will never be used for advertising purposes nor passed on to third parties for this purpose. We use your information to personalise your use of DAYCATCHER, to maintain our relationship with you, to create, maintain and secure your user account, and to comply with the DAYCATCHER Terms of Use and applicable law.

You must not use DAYCATCHER for the purpose of marketing or selling goods or services.

For all catches, comments, replies and quests you’ll find the “Report Abuse” option.

You can find this option in the upper right hand corner of each item via the three vertical dots. Clicking on the dots will give you the option to to reporting misuse by clicking on “Report Abuse”.

The application includes a help function on certain pages by clicking on the information symbol (i). Further help can be find in this FAQ. You can also post your questions directly to us using the “Contact” button in the application.