Simple Journal

Magille Ltd

In-app purchases

About this app

Write when you feel like you need to.

How to

🌼 Edit an entry? Long-tap the entry
🌼 Delete an entry? In the editor, swipe down for menu (delete through menu)
🌼 Change the font? See settings
🌼 Lock the app? See settings and enable 'lock automatically'
🌼 Get to settings? In the main screen, swipe down for the menu bar, tap the three dots, then tap settings.
🌼 Backups? Export through settings for free, or sync to Drive with Pro (encrypted)
🌼 Print notes? With Pro, a printable and searchable html file will be included in all manually exported zips. Open and print it through a browser on a computer.
🌼 Transfer notes to a new device? Either export through settings for free, or use sync to transfer your notes

Free features

✅ Continuous autosave so you don't lose your stuff
✅ Clean UI and a distraction free editor with very few gimmicks
✅ Light and dark color themes (switch easily through the main menu)
✅ Categorize in multiple journals
✅ Add as many images as you like, inline in text
✅ Search through your past notes
✅ Location tags (enable in settings)
✅ Change font family and size in settings
✅ Basic formatting: bold, italic, underline, highlight, strike-through
✅ Auto-indent with spaces
✅ Lock automatically (with configurable timeouts)
✅ Unlock using fingerprint, password, or device credential
✅ Scrambled mode/lock (allows adding entries without unlocking)
✅ Keyboard shortcuts (for bluetooth keyboards and Chromebooks)
✅ Export/import for manual backups (a zip file, which contains both data and image files separately from each other)

Pro features

✅ Encrypted sync to your Google Drive 🔐 Great for backups, but also syncs across your Android and Chromebook devices.
✅ Printable and searchable html file in manual exports 🖨️
✅ Export one journal at a time (in addition to all at once)
✅ Encrypted manual exports (AES-256)
✅ Home screen shortcuts (edit entry / use entry as template)
✅ Pin entries to top of list
✅ Customize color themes
✅ Control font size with volume keys
✅ Remember cursor position in editor
✅ Reverse sort
✅ Sort by modification time
✅ Show character and word counters per entry

Ratings and reviews

Exactly what the name says. Absolutely just the basics, no ads, no hidden fees, just 3 payment options for "pro" but the app is perfectly usable without paying. The reasons I'm docking a star are transferring to another device is really annoying and confusing (could just be a skill issue) and the lack of more customization. It's pretty basic not bad but it gets a little boring after a while. Altogether, it's a near perfect journaling and simple note-taking app that does exactly what it needs to.

I love this app. I needed something which I could personalize to my needs, but be very simple. I just wanted to log certain things each day. There were apps for each of these separately, but they were so complicated. All I wanted was an entry for each one so I could go back and compare later. If I could see all my journals next to each other, by date, and I could add an entry in if I accidentally missed a day, it would definitely be 5*. I don't see these as possible at this time.

I have been using this app for a year as my go-to journal on my Galaxy A25. I do wish the images were integrated better, and I could access them with ease, no big deal, just inconvenient. The app has no ads, it's clean, serparate entries, password/fingerprint lock, free import/export, and heck, the creator was nice enough to offer helpful tips in settings, which is a sweet of them! For to-do lists, ideas, brain dumps, really anything, this journal is great! It's simple 😎 Give it a try!

What’s new

- Small improvements
- Revised keyboard / spellchecker warning
- Added links to prompts and feedback in settings screen menu
- Added confirmation step before enabling "keep unlocked" setting