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

No customer service. I had to switch phones. Don't remember having to set up a passphrase so I don't remember what it was I used so long ago. Tried looking for a customer service contact. Or account recovery. Or passphrase recovery. Don't even have a way to save your journals off line. Where in the hell is the drive sync saved to? Too many questions and not enough answers.

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!

it's a great notes app, easy to use and has many functions. most note apps dont have word effects like bold, italics, etc so that's a huge bonus edit: it's not overpriced to receive personal support. there are an impressive amount of feats for a notes app, a good amount of customization and nearly 3 dozen fonts. the option to backup and import is a lifesaver! & the price? youre right i dont have anything to base that one because this app is unique in its features. many thanks to the devs!

What's new

Happy New Year 2025 🎉
- Small improvements
- Revised keyboard / spellchecker warning
- Added links to prompts and feedback in settings screen menu
- Added confirmation step before enabling "keep unlocked" setting