Paper Village العربية
A little cottage in the village, and the resident writing her diary with the cat beside her.
The Paper Village icon: an open diary with a little house popping up from it and a cat on the page.

A pixel diary for iPhone

Paper Village قريتي الصغيرة

Make a resident and a cat, write one page a day, and your room and your little village grow with every level.

Coming soon to iPhone
  • No account
  • No ads
  • Arabic and English

A day in the village

A few lines in the evening are enough. Every page you save gives something small back, and it shows up in your room or your village.

  1. Write

    A few lines, the day’s mood, a stamp, and a photo if you like.

  2. Earn

    Experience and coins, a new stamp for the album, and a cast at the pond.

  3. Grow

    Each level adds a piece to your room and opens a new place in the village.

  4. Keep

    Print your pages as a PDF book, or share one page as a picture.

And no guilt over a missed day: the streak allows one rest day in every seven.

Who lives here?

20 outfits for her and 20 for him, from a cardigan and an embroidered abaya to a thobe and shemagh and a yellow raincoat, and 8 cats.

In Arabic, the choice also sets the grammar: every sentence the app says to you uses the feminine or the masculine form to match.

Resident (her) wearing: Cardigan & skirt Cat: Calico

Cardigan & skirt · Calico

Character
Outfits
Cat

Tap an outfit or a cat to try it.

A room that fills, a village that grows

12 levels. At level 1 the room is nearly empty: a desk, a chair, a window. Every level from 2 to 12 adds one new piece, until the room is a picture of everything you’ve written.

One new piece per level

  1. Pink rugLevel 2Pink rug
  2. Big plantLevel 3Big plant
  3. Pictures on the wallLevel 4Pictures on the wall
  4. BookshelfLevel 5Bookshelf
  5. Hanging lampLevel 6Hanging lamp
  6. Desk lampLevel 7Desk lamp
  7. Books and a mugLevel 8Books and a mug
  8. Flowers and pencilsLevel 9Flowers and pencils
  9. Stamp frameLevel 10Stamp frame
  10. Cat bedLevel 11Cat bed
  11. Lights and a hanging plantLevel 12Lights and a hanging plant

And 5 places wait in the village

The pond opens by itself at level 2. Each of the others opens when you reach its level and pay its coins.

  • Level 2The pondFish with your casts; every fish is a stamp in the album.
  • Level 4The gardenA flower for every day you wrote, and a bouquet to pick each week.
  • Level 6The plazaThree goals every week, each with a prize.
  • Level 8The bakeryBait, a lucky bun and treats for your cat.
  • Level 10The libraryA shelf for every month of your diary, and an “on this day” page.
The focus screen in the app: a 25-minute timer, a rainy window at night, and the cat asleep beside the candle.
The focus room

Fishing by day, focus by night

On the pond’s jetty: a cast, a wait, then a fish. From the minnow to the rare golden koi, each fish becomes a stamp in your album, with its weight and rarity.

  • MinnowMinnowCommon
  • Blue fishBlue fishCommon
  • KoiKoiRare
  • JellyfishJellyfishRare
  • Golden koiGolden koiLegend

At night there’s the focus room: rain on the window, a small lamp, a timer for study or reading, and the cat asleep on the desk. The screen stays on for the whole session.

104 stamps

In 9 groups: flowers, moments, treats, animals, weather and seasons, places and trips, focus, fish and specials. The first page of each day brings a stamp, sometimes a rare one, and any stamp can be stuck on any page.

Legend stamps can’t be bought, and each one carries its own number out of 500.

  • RoseRoseCommon
  • Cherry blossomCherry blossomRare
  • Ramadan lanternRamadan lanternRare
  • Rainy umbrellaRainy umbrellaCommon
  • KunafaKunafaRare
  • Karak teaKarak teaCommon
  • CamelCamelCommon
  • Arabian oryxArabian oryxRare
  • BunnyBunnyCommon
  • SnowmanSnowmanRare
  • WaveWaveCommon
  • Hot air balloonHot air balloonRare
  • Najdi houseNajdi houseCommon
  • Rainy windowRainy windowRare
  • Golden koiGolden koiLegend
  • Village keyVillage keyLegend

 

Today’s page

Walked to the pond after the rain. The cat followed me.

Rainy umbrella

One line is enough

A diary you can print

8 covers that open as you level up, each with a small label for the book’s title.

In the app you choose the pages (this week, this month, all of them, or by hand), A5 or A4, the paper, photos and stamps, and out comes a PDF book to save, print or send. The app draws every page itself, on the phone, so the book looks just like the reader.

Navy cover My diary
Cover

Arabic or English both work.

Everything stays on your phone

No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics. Your pages, photos and stamps are kept inside the app on the phone itself, and the app never talks to a server. The diary is part of your iPhone’s usual backup.

Privacy policy

Paper Village قريتي الصغيرة

Coming soon to iPhone

For iPhone with iOS 15 or later. Arabic first, with full English.