enGender

enGender

v. /ɪnˈdʒɛndə/

to cause or give rise to a feeling, situation or condition.

A transition journal that stays on your device.

Write down how a day went, and track how your gender felt that day. No account, nothing to sync.

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What enGender is

enGender is a journal for tracking gender transition. An entry holds a mood, a note, your scales, tags, photos, a voice recording and how your body felt, and it only needs one of those to count. Write several in one day if one does not cover it. Backdate one to a day you missed.

Mood trackers are the right shape for a daily habit, and they have nowhere to put gender. enGender keeps the shape and adds scales you name yourself. It records what you tell it and does not try to interpret any of it.

One trans person wrote this for other trans people. It is free software, there is no price, no plan and nothing to upsell, and it stays that way.

What it does

The screens

Every screenshot here was made with invented data. Nobody's journal appears on this site.

Writing it down

  1. Home

    The greeting, what is coming up, and the last seven days in whatever colour you picked. The mood row logs an entry for right now in one action, so on a day when you cannot face writing, you can still log something. Invented entries.

  2. An entry

    Mood, your scales, tags, a note, photos. An entry needs only one of them, so a day where all you managed was a mood is still a day you logged. Invented entry.

  3. One day, twice

    Gender can shift through a day, so a day holds as many entries as it needs and stamps each one with its time. The day's own colour is their average. Invented entries.

Entries. A mood on five levels, a note, tags, photos, a voice recording, and your scales. Several a day, or backdated to a day you missed.

Scales. Five come built in, among them Gender feeling, which runs from dysphoria at one end to euphoria at the other. Make your own, with whatever two end labels and range you want, and group the ones you use into a preset so the entry screen only asks about what you actually track.

How your body felt. Dysphoria and euphoria, marked on the body regions they belong to. Tracked separately, because they are not opposites and one day can hold both.

Tags. Grouped and editable. Turn a whole group off when it stops being relevant. Hiding a built-in tag takes it out of every picker and leaves every entry that already carries it alone.

Photos. Kept in the app's own storage. They never go into your phone's gallery, so they do not turn up in a camera roll someone else is scrolling.

Reading it back

  1. The month

    Coloured by mood, or by any scale you choose. Days you did not log stay neutral, because a gap is not a bad day and the colour never says it was.

  2. Search

    Searches your notes and your tags as you type. Diacritics do not matter in either direction: type lozko and it finds łóżko. Invented entries.

  3. Six months of one scale

    Every scale gets its own chart and its own average over however many days you pick. Days with more than one entry are averaged, and the list behind the chart says which days those were.

  4. Milestones

    Dated days that matter, in order. The ones ahead count down. The ones behind come back each year.

The month. A heat map in one colour, driven by mood or by a scale you pick.

Search. Your notes and tag labels, matched as you type, ignoring diacritics. Star what matters, and every starred entry and photo waits in one place.

Charts. One per scale, over 7 to 365 days, with your streak. Open one for the dated list of values behind it, so you can check the line instead of taking it on trust.

Tag insights. For a given scale, how days with a tag compare to days without it. An observation, not a verdict. Tags with fewer than three entries in that stretch are left out, because at that size the difference is noise.

Wrapped. A week, a month or a year, looked back on: entries, streaks, how a scale moved, top tags, milestones, photos. Or any stretch you pick yourself.

On this day. What you logged a month, six months and a year ago. Only days that were good come back.

Then and now. Two stretches of time, side by side.

The tally. One tap when you were misgendered, one when you were gendered right, and a chart of how the counts move.

Milestones and the timeline. Countdowns ahead, anniversaries behind.

Around the journal

The journal is the spine, and the rest of transition life has a place around it. None of it interprets, and none of it grades.

Body. Progress photos, then versus now. Measurements over time. What you bought, the size, and how it fit. Hair progress staged against a published scale, and electrolysis or laser sessions, logged plainly.

Health. Lab results with no reference ranges. What you are taking and since when, every dose against its schedule, and a modelled hormone curve. Cycle events, side effects and surgery recovery, logged plainly. Questions to bring to your next appointment, and a printable summary of doses, labs and side effects for a range you choose, made only when you decide a clinician should see it.

Transition. A step-by-step roadmap. Letters you write now and read once their date arrives. Tryouts, for tracking how something you are trying feels over time.

Practice. For the days doubt is loud: the entries you starred and the ones you tagged euphoria, read back as counterevidence. Two voice recordings, side by side. Binder and tucking wear time. When you first noticed each change. Trans organisations and helplines, kept in the app.

Keeping it

  1. Export

    Export packs everything into one Archive, encrypted with a password you choose, before it goes anywhere. Invented journal.

Archives. Export packs your journal into one file, encrypted with a password you choose, before it leaves the app. Import puts it back, either merged into what is here or replacing it.

Scheduled backup. An encrypted Archive written to a folder you pick, weekly or monthly, without you remembering to.

Coming from Daylio. Import a Daylio CSV. It shows you the counts and how the moods will map before it writes anything, and it only ever merges.

Plain export. CSV or JSON, for a spreadsheet or for keeping your own copy. It is not encrypted, and the app says so and makes you confirm before it writes the file.

When it has been a while. If your last Archive is more than 30 days old, the home screen says so once. You can dismiss it.

On your phone

On Android. The same journal, the same data, as an app.

Reminders. Medication, injections, appointments. One-off or repeating, as notifications on your phone.

The daily check-in. One prompt a day, at a time you choose, skipped on days you have already written something.

Install it. Add it to your home screen and open it without a browser in the way.

Works offline. Once it is installed it does not need the network to open.

What it protects, and what it doesn't

Your journal is stored on your device, encrypted where it sits. There is no enGender account, and your entries are not sent to an enGender server, because none exists.

What that protects, and what it does not, is on its own page.

What enGender protects, and what it does not

If you need to be careful

Everything in this section is off until you turn it on. Keeping a journal about your own life is not something to be ashamed of, and the app does not behave as though it is. These exist because some people's circumstances are genuinely unsafe, and only you know whether that is yours.

App lock. A PIN in front of the app. It stops someone picking up your unlocked phone and reading it. It is not encryption of what is stored.

Disguise. The browser tab says Notes instead of enGender. On Android, the app's name and icon on your phone go plain too.

Lock on leave. Switch away from the app and it locks itself behind you.

Quick exit. A two-finger swipe down blanks the tab, and locks it if you have app lock switched on.

How it looks

Eight palettes, including trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, bisexual, lesbian, pansexual, agender and rainbow. Each one recolours the whole app, charts and calendar included, and each one works in light and dark.

Colour never judges. No red for a bad day and no green for a good one. The heat map is one colour at different strengths, and an empty day stays empty.

Two languages. English and Polish, switchable in settings, with dates following whichever you pick.

How to get it

enGender runs in a browser. It opens straight away, with nothing to install and no account to make.

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The Android app is the same journal as an app. These are the four places to get it, and each becomes a link as it goes live. Google Play is last for a reason.

  • Aurora Not available yet.

    The same build as Google Play, without your Google account attached to the download.

  • F-Droid Not available yet.

    Builds the app from source itself, so you are not trusting a file that came from me.

  • Obtainium Not available yet.

    Follows this project's releases on GitHub and keeps itself up to date.

  • Google Play Not available yet.

    Works, and tells Google you have a trans app on your phone. Nothing in enGender changes that.

Support

You can read it. enGender is free software under the GPLv3. Do not take my word for anything on this page: the source is public. Go and look, or get someone you trust to look.

The licence also means you can run it, change it and pass it on. This is one person's project, so it might stop. If it does, someone else is free to pick the code up, and your Archives are a documented format rather than something only this app can open.

If something is broken, tell me what happened and what you expected instead. That is usually enough to find it.

Do not send me your journal. Not an Archive, not a screenshot with your entries in it, not a log from a session where you were writing. I will never ask for any of it. If something asks, it is not me.