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. Entries you create automatically capture your location so you can later revisit your memories on a map.

“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 visualizes your entries by location, letting you explore everywhere 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.

there's a lot to like about this app, but after the recent update those things are hard to remember. Formatting is now almost unusable. The format bar is hidden and doesnt appear as it should consistently. Headings on one device dont match headings on another. **You can't select more than one paragraph at a time!** There's no way to apply formatting such as bullets unless you want to do it one line at a time. This is ridiculous - the app frustratingly difficult to use in this state.

Average app for journaling entries. The text editor is very basic, limited, and clumsy to use. You can't change the color of individual text. Ridiculous. One of the weakest functions of the app. Adding inline images another frustrating experience. You should be able to customize the toolbar. Nope. Needs better folder structure to organize journals. The pushing of AI functions is becoming INTRUSIVE. The price increase to $75/year for the Gold level is robbery.

What’s new

Improvements:
- Editor settings and heading colors work
- Gold upgrade row in Settings

Fixes:
- Editor: dictation, voice typing, arrow keys around media, media deletion and limits, reaction picker, and right-to-left text
- Shared-journal editing, attribution and recovery
- PDF dates, photo picker crashes, journal/collection sync, login wait times