Introducing Melior
This is my first iOS app. If I had to describe Melior in one sentence: 30 questions to reflect on your year, compare year over year, and see how you've changed and what stayed the same.
Late last year I quit my job and traveled to Australia alone. I stayed in hostels for a long time, talking to different people every day, listening to their stories. One night I was lying in bed thinking: I've been through so much this year. If I don't write it down, will I just forget all of it in a few years?
I'd actually tried doing a year-end review every year. But every time, it turned into a messy note I'd shove into some corner and never open again.
Then I read that the founder of Obsidian asks himself 40 questions every year. Same questions, every year, and the answers are always different. This is exactly what I need. I want to turn this into an app.
After the trip, I built Melior with AI.
Year reflection deserves a sense of ceremony
Maybe a lot of things do. Just like how many people eat a birthday cake every year. The good and bad stories of your year deserve to be properly written down too.
So I designed a lot of small ceremonial details into Melior.
An immersive home screen:
Flip through the past year like turning the pages of a storybook:
Every year gets its own keywords:
Write your year into a book
This is one of the core features. 30 questions, 6 chapters. When you finish, you'll see a book about your year.
It's not just about the shiny highlights. It captures the challenges and regrets too, so you walk into the next year carrying something real.
I spent a long time picking these questions. They're not the "rate your year out of 10" kind. They're the kind that make you stop and actually think. Some of them, you think you know the answer, then you start writing and realize you don't.
Same question, see how you've changed
This is the other core feature, and my favorite. Same question, your 2023 answer next to your 2025 answer. That feeling of "wow, I really changed" is hard to get any other way.
Like, in 2023 the happiest thing for me was getting promoted and a raise. By 2025 it was walking through parks and chasing sunsets. And these:
Privacy
Reflecting on your life is a conversation with yourself. It's a quiet, private thing.
So Melior has no account, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays in your own iCloud.
One last thing
Honestly, this is my first iOS app. It took about a month from start to launch, but I'd been wanting to make it for a long time. Every time I open Melior I just think it looks so beautiful. It's probably not perfect, but it's exactly what I wanted it to be.
Melior means "better" in Latin. I made this app because I want to be better. Life moves fast, AI is changing everything around us. Looking inward, having a real conversation with yourself, feels like a luxury now. But it's one of the most important ways I've found to feel happy.
2026 is already a third gone. We're all being pushed forward by time. I hope we can all slow down a bit, collect the small moments along the way, and write our lives into a book.
If you are curious about how I made Melior from 0 to 1 by using AI, check it here.