The private diary for busy dads
Write a few lines about what you did together, add a photo, tap how they felt. That’s the minute. Dadaa turns them into keepsake PDFs for you, with a copy your kid can read when they’re grown.
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A diary that’s yours. Write freely, add photos, tap a mood.
3 ideas a day when you’re stuck. Picked for your kid’s age and the skills they’re growing now. Swap one you don’t fancy.
Chronicles. Keepsake PDFs of your weeks, to keep and to email to your kid.
Theo flipped his first pancake. Half of it landed on the floor, the other half he ate standing on the chair, very proud. His sister clapped like he’d won something.
You get home wiped out. You want to play, but your brain’s out of ideas. The small, funny stuff happens anyway, and by Friday the week’s a blur.
How Dadaa works
Write whatever happened, as much or as little as you like. Add photos. Tap how they felt, from awful to amazing.
3 activities a day for your kid’s age, newborn to teen, each built around a skill that matters right now. Most take 1–5 minutes. Doing one counts.
The moment of the week, what you did, your diary with photos and a mood calendar. As a PDF to download, or email to you and your kid.
The diary works on its own, and so do the ideas. Use the parts that fit your week. More than one kid? Each gets their own diary, ideas and Chronicles.
An example month for a made-up family. Real ones run to 8 or 9 pages. Here are four.
14 diary entries, 11 things we did together, and one blanket fort with a very serious guard.
Rode the balance bike all the way to the shop without stopping. Kept looking back to check I’d seen it. I had.
Ordinary things. That’s the point. In ten years, these are the ones you’ll want.
Save an email address for your kid and send any Chronicle there too. It piles up quietly, a time capsule they open when they’re grown. Free on every plan. How to set one up
Want to share a moment? Drop an emoji sticker on their face first, right in the app. Read the privacy policy
Pricing
Everything you need, every day.
Every week and month, turned into a keepsake.
About €4.17 a month
Start free, then upgrade in the app whenever you’re ready.
Coming later: Dadaa Family Partner seat, grandparents who can follow along, Chronicles sent to 5 more people per kid. €79.99 a year
I built Dadaa at night, after my kids were asleep, because I kept coming home too tired to think of anything to do with them. I use it myself with my two, here in Latvia.
It’s just me: no investors, no team, no ads. Questions or ideas? Write to hello@dadaa.app. I read every email.
Kalvis
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Quick activities for dads, sorted by age: no prep, nothing to buy, and each one takes about five minutes. From newborns to teenagers.
Dadaa is a private memory-journal web app for dads. Write a minute a day about time with your kids, get 3 age-based activity ideas when you need them, and Dadaa turns it into weekly and monthly keepsake PDFs called Chronicles.
Yes. The diary, photos, moods, daily ideas, Memories, as many kids as you have, and your first Chronicle all cost nothing, with no card. Keep using it and you get roughly one more weekly Chronicle every 2–4 weeks. Dadaa Keeper (€49.99 a year or €7.99 a month) makes every week and month a Chronicle.
Yes. The diary works on its own, and the ideas are there for evenings you’re stuck. It suits weekend dads too: write on the days you have them. With teens, it works as a line a day about who they’re becoming.
Writing it down takes about a minute. One line or one photo is enough, and on rough days one tap for the mood still counts. The ideas take 1–5 minutes, or longer if you’re both enjoying it. Missed a day? Catch up on yesterday for free, or anything from the last week with Dadaa Keeper.
A keepsake PDF of your kid’s week or month. Each one holds the moment of the week, what you did together, your diary with photos, and a mood calendar.
Yes. Save an email address for your kid and send any Chronicle there. It becomes a time capsule they open when they’re older. That’s free on every plan.
Yes. They sit in access-controlled storage with no public links. No ads, never sold. Delete a child or your account and the photos go too.
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