Waylet: Museum & Art Journal

Nikhil Raktale

About this app

Waylet is a personal art journal for museum and gallery visits. Photograph a work, scan the exhibit label to fill in the title and artist, tag what you felt, write a note if you want to. Over time it becomes a private diary of the art you spent time with.

It started from something I kept doing in museums. I would stand with a work for a while, take a photo, maybe photograph the label, and then move on.

Taking the photo made sense. But looking back, what I cared about wasn't in it. The photo kept the object, not what caught my attention, what I felt, or why I wanted to remember it at all. And buried in my camera roll, even that partial record became hard to return to.

I noticed the same impulse all around me: people moved by something, trying to hold on to it somehow, but left with the same ritual. Artwork, label, next room.

Waylet is built around that impulse. The simplicity is intentional: it gives your attention somewhere to go without taking over the encounter, whether that's a museum, a gallery opening, or an art fair.

WHAT WAYLET DOES

- Scan exhibit labels: title, artist, and year fill in on their own
- Tag how a piece made you feel, in your words or the presets
- Browse your art journal later by feeling, artist, or date
- Free, no accounts, everything stays on your phone

What’s new

Bug Fixes:
* Fixed a bug where the keyboard could cover the Journal entry field.
* Fixed a bug causing the Journal screen filters to reset every time the user left an entry.
* Fixed a telemetry issue