Penzu

Penzu

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About this app

Penzu

* Used by over 1 million people around the world
* Best free journal in any app store
* Syncs to the web and other mobile platforms for free

Penzu is the most popular free diary, journal and notepad. It’s the best place to keep your most private thoughts safe and secure. Sync your journals to Penzu where your notes are accessible from almost any device in the world. So simple and fun that you’ll leave your paper diary behind!

FEATURES

* Unlimited journaling
* Sync journals with Penzu cloud for free
* Customize your journal covers
* Receive reminders to write
* Lock journals with a password
* Encrypt your journals
* Add photos
* Lock app with a PIN
* Search journals
* Add tags
* Write offline
and more...

WHY PENZU?

Penzu is a diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. With a unique and compelling user experience, it makes writing online as easy and intuitive as writing on a pad of paper.


PRIVACY

Your journal and your thoughts aren’t always meant to be shared — some things are supposed to be private! Use Penzu to jot down whatever you want. Then lock your journal with a password (or even encryption) so no one can read it but you! Furthermore, you can lock the entire app with a PIN in the event that someone gets access to your mobile device.


PENZU

Unlike other journal apps, Penzu has a web-based counterpart. So you can access your journals and diary from any web browser and other devices. Penzu is constantly being updated and improved so that the writing experience is effortless and reliable.


SUBSCRIPTION INFO

This app is free to download but requires a free Penzu account in order to start writing.

Upgrading to Penzu Pro costs $4.99 per month or $19.99 per year. Your subscription will auto-renew unless you cancel manually.

Ratings and reviews

My favorite journaling app I purchased the Pro+! I use it mainly on my mobile for convenience, the desktop version runs perfectly. Now on the mobile (android) version there seems to be a bug. As I'm typing it will shift the cursor to the beginning of the page and delete the last paragraph I was typing. It happened 3 times within 6 minutes of journaling. I just stopped because I'm annoyed with retyping the same paragraph & the more I type the more is lost. Please fix this.

I'm a long time Pro paid subscriber. The glitches of this app are becoming absurd and infuriating. I'll write an entry and trust that it's being saved automatically (since on the app there's no separate "save" button) only to back to come back to an empty screen where only the first line was saved. This has happened dozens of times and I no longer trust the app. Which is too bad because a simple journaling app that syncs between devices is all I need and it should not be this difficult to make.

I've been using Penzu for so long, it's been almost a decade since I started. But the mobile app is seriously making me worry about my entries. I paid for the lifetime subscription in hopes that I'd always have a place to look back at my journal entries, but with constant crashes, bringing me back to the homepage, not saving my entries even WITH the new manual save button...I can't in good faith recommend this app.

What’s new

A fresh new look for Penzu. This release modernizes the app’s design and improves key journaling flows like locking, sharing, reminders, and onboarding for a smoother, more polished experience.