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

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.

So far I am really enjoying the app! My only reason for one star short is if I click the wrong place after entering my password I have to enter it again. It is simple enough for what I need and am excited later to try the formatting features. Edit using this a few months. On Desktop it is not very good at keeping the journal locked. You have to actually go back home not just close the tab.

I've been using Penzu since 2017. Never had any issues and really enjoyed it. However, two days ago, one of my journals that I had since 2017 with tons of entries went missing, and I was really nervous it was gone for good. However, after a couple of emails I sent to support, they did get back to me and retrieved all my files. I am truly grateful. However, I can't give it five stars until they have a way to back up the files with like Google Drive or DropBox.

What's new

Fixes crash affecting some users from last release
Performance improvements and security enhancements