Day One Journal: Private Diary

Automattic, Inc

In-app purchases

About this app

Day One is the journal app that reinvented journaling. Completely private, cross-platform, and designed to never fill up, Day One is designed to let you capture your life as you live it. Use Day One as a daily journal, personal diary, note taking app, travel log, or gratitude journal.

“Day One creates something so rare it feels almost sacred: A completely private digital space.” – New York Times

“Day One makes keeping a journal delightfully easy.” – Wired

“It’s perfect! Does what it says on the box. I was able to import my stuff from another (pricey) journal so that I didn’t lose those entries. It’s easy to add multiple entries to a day and to keep pictures. And it’s lockable, keeping private thoughts protected. I will happily use Day One for years.” – Day One user

PRESERVE EVERY MEMORY

- Unlimited text entries
- Unlimited photos*
- Different journals for every aspect of your life*
- IFTTT shortcuts allow importing data from Spotify, YouTube, Strava, Fitbit, Facebook, Twitter, and more

PRIVATE AND SECURE
- Automatic backups keep your journal entries safe
- End-to-end encryption, which is a fancy way of saying your entries are 100% private
- Journal entries stay secure with passcode or Fingerprint lock
- Export options (PDF, JSON) ensure your entries always stay yours
- Seamless sync across multiple devices

FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
- Programmable journaling reminders
- Unique, daily journal prompts help eliminate writer’s cramp

- SIMPLE TO USE, EASY TO LOVE
- Beautiful, award-winning design
- Powerful rich text formatting
- Ability to star favorite entries to revisit quickly

DELIGHT IN THE DETAILS
- Time, date, and weather are automatically added to every entry
- On This Day feature allows you to revisit past memories
- Tags, favorites, and search filters make it easy to find what you’re looking for
- Map view quickly shows all the places you’ve journaled from

* Day One is FREE to use forever with unlimited entries. To get more out of Day One, try Premium free for 1 month.

Privacy Policy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/
For technical assistance or other inquiries: https://dayoneapp.com/contact/

Ratings and reviews

Excellent with one exception: you cannot search inside a particular note. Here's how Day One search works - it returns a list of notes that contain your search term. You cannot search INSIDE a note using the Day One app. This is a huge deficiency. To get around this, use your PC to open Day One on the web. However, this does not work from your mobile device. If you try to use a web browser to access the Day One website you are redirected to the app. Bummer.

I've been using this for journaling as recommended by a therapist. It works well, I appreciate being able to have multiple journals. However, I keep sync off intentionally, but after a while of it being off, it randomly turned itself back on. I don't appreciate being forced to sync, especially without notice that it was turned back on. I don't wish to backup my entries.

This is a decent, reasonably simple, although somewhat minimalistic diary. Has "daily prompts" you can answer, and a significant amount of templates to cover all of your basic Journaling needs. I just wish the app was not so bare minimal, but offered more tools and unique features that allowed one to toon into their creativity more. The customization features are lackluster and the interface could use a decent upgrade, but aside of then that this is a decent app with plenty to offer still.

What’s new

Improvements:
- New Prompts for the Gratitude Prompt Pack
- Added support for Entry Highlights / Summaries labeling.
- Enhanced visibility of text selection in the editor.

Fixes:
- Corrected RTJ->HTML conversion of nested lists in varying styles.
- Filtered out encrypted journal placeholders from lists.
- Resolved crash due to negative padding when commenting.
- Bypassed automatic Google sign-in for certain devices.
- Fixed indentation issue by updating Aztec dependency.