Day One Diary: Daily Journal

Automattic, Inc

In-app purchases

About this app

With over 15 million downloads and over 300,000 5-star ratings globally, Day One has reinvented journaling, letting you record your life as you live it. Securely save audio, video, photos, notes, and more wherever you are, whenever you want.

“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

WHY DAY ONE?

Day One is the original digital journal app. A decade of updates and feature additions make it the most private, trusted, and easiest-to-use journaling app in the world.

SIMPLE TO USE, EASY TO LOVE
• Beautiful, award-winning design
• Unlimited text entries
• Powerful rich text formatting
• Different journals for every aspect of your life

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 biometrics
• Export options (PDF, JSON, plain text) ensure your entries always stay yours

FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
• “Daily Chat” helps you talk through your day and turn that conversation into a journal entry in your own voice*
• Streaks and calendar view help keep your momentum going
• Programmable reminders through text message or phone notifications
• Unique, daily journal prompts help eliminate writer’s cramp
• Customizable templates save time and add organization to entries
• “Today” provides a summary of where you’ve been and what you’ve done

MORE THAN WORDS
• Unlimited photos and video*
• Voice recording*

JOURNAL FROM WHEREVER, WHENEVER
• Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, and web
• Text message or email entries straight to your journal

BUILT FOR REMINISCING
• “On This Day” 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

TYPE LESS, PRESERVE MORE
• Time, date, location, weather, moon phase, and more are automatically added to every entry
• Importing data from Strava and other apps with Zapier
• Android app shortcuts make it easy to start a new entry, photo, or video from your home screen
• Share your content from other apps, like Google Photos

CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT FITS YOU

Basic
Free forever with unlimited text entries and journals, 1 photo per entry, end-to-end encryption, templates, prompts, search, On This Day, streaks, and more.

Silver
Everything in Basic, plus unlimited photos and videos, journaling across all your devices, audio recording, PDF embed, custom colors, and Strava and Zapier integrations.

Gold
Everything in Silver, plus Daily Chat, advanced reflection tools, Go Deeper Prompts, Entry Summaries, Title Suggestions, Image Generation, and Day One Labs access.

AI features are optional. When you choose to use them, your content is processed only at that moment and is never used to train AI models.

Day One is free to use forever with unlimited entries. Additional features are available with Silver and Gold memberships. Start your free trial in the app.

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 have always been a handwritten journaler. And I still do that practice as well. But this app has been amazing in allowing me to incorporate so much from my images to links of things that had spurred my reflections. The ability to have multiple journals is great. Mine vary from silly to existential. This helps keeps me organized in my thoughts. I love that I can edit it on my desktop once I've spoken my entry for the day. This is a great tool🙂

$50 a year is absolutely bonkers for a journaling app. Day One is functional as a free app, but they don't offer any customization options (colors, fonts etc.) even with the paid version. If you want a bare bones journal this is a fine app, but if you're used to apps with more aesthetic options, moods, trackers this isn't the one for you. I can't rate it any higher because even if you pay for it, the Windows app doesn't have the ability to lock. Anyone on your computer can open it right up.