Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
I searched for a simple, self-hosted journal app for my girlfriend and everything I found was either too complex, too feature-heavy, too feature-less for what I needed or required trusting a cloud service. So I built Piruetas (it means pirouettes in Spanish - she chose the name btw). It's a day-per-page diary with rich text editing, drag-and-drop image uploads, auto-save, public share links, and a clean mobile UI. It can be set up for Personal or Multi-user usage via docker compose deployment. She seems to like it so I decided to give back to the community and make it available for everyone…
Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend launched on May 2, 2026 with 71 votes, #567 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Piruetas is a self-hosted diary application featuring a one-entry-per-day format with rich text editing, image uploads via drag-and-drop, automatic saving, and shareable public links. The app includes a mobile-friendly interface and supports both personal single-user and multi-user setups through Docker Compose deployment. It is designed for users seeking a simple journaling tool that keeps data private and self-hosted rather than relying on cloud services.
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From the sources
Piruetas — a private self-hosted journal.
Piruetas is free and open source. If it's useful to you, a small donation keeps itfrom piruet.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
I searched for a simple, self-hosted journal app for my girlfriend and everything I found was either too complex, too feature-heavy, too feature-less for what I needed or required trusting a cloud service. So I built Piruetas (it means pirouettes in Spanish - she chose the name btw). It's a day-per-page diary with…
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