Year in Review Video
Every December, platforms hand you a year in review built from whatever they happened to be measuring. It is a summary of your account, not your year. The version worth keeping is the one you choose the moments for.
Your footage, your edit
Auto-generated recaps optimise for what an algorithm can detect: faces, engagement, saved posts. They reliably miss the quiet days that turn out to have mattered, because nothing about those days registered as a signal.
Dayjavu inverts that. It shows you every day of the year that has video and lets you decide what represents it. The days nobody liked are available on exactly the same terms as the ones everybody did.
Built to be watched together
A year in review is usually watched with other people, which argues for keeping it short. At one second per day a well-documented year runs about six minutes. Long enough to feel like a year, short enough to hold a room after dinner.
On-screen dates help when you are watching with people who were only present for some of it.
Make it before the year ends
There is no reason to wait for 31 December. Build a version in November, then rebuild it with the last few weeks added. The source clips are untouched, so re-exporting costs nothing.
Why make your own
- You choose the moments, not an algorithm.
- Includes the days that never got posted anywhere.
- About six minutes at one second per day.
- Rebuild and re-export as often as you like.
FAQ
- How is this different from an automatic recap?
- Nothing is chosen for you. Dayjavu surfaces every day that has footage and you decide what the year looked like.
- Can I make one for a past year?
- Yes. Any year still in your photo library can be built today.
- What if I barely filmed some months?
- Those months move quickly. The film reflects the year you actually recorded.