StoryPad: My Diary Journal

Thea Choem

In-app purchases

About this app

StoryPad is an open source, privacy-focused, local-first journal that lets you capture your life: notes, thoughts, emotions, and memories on a single, continuous timeline. No folders. No tabs. Just your life, beautifully organized.

Featured by It’s FOSS and MakeUseOf for our commitment to open-source and user privacy.

== KEY FEATURES ==

📝 Fully Customizable Writing
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough
• Text color, background color, highlights
• Quotes, checklists, ordered/unordered lists
• Text alignment, indentation, links
• Support for multiple fonts, adjustable font sizes & weight

🕓 Throwback Memories
Revisit what you wrote on this exact day - 1, 2, or even 3 years ago.
Reflect on how far you've come and respond to your past self, right from your timeline.

📌 Throwbacks appear only if you've written something on this day in a previous year or a few years ago.

📸 Photo Memories
• Add multiple photos per page
• Align photos left, right, center, or full-width
• Image previews included in export

🗓 Mood & Activity Insights
• Express exactly how you feel using any emoji from your system keyboard
• Track your mental well-being over time with mood history and calendar view

📄 Multi-Page Entries
• Add multiple pages inside 1 entry
• With multiple layouts to fit your writing style
• Great for journaling prompts, novels, long-form writing, and daily notes

🔖 Organization & Search
• Tag, bookmark, or pin important stories to the top.
• Fast search by title, tag, year, or content.

🔐 Privacy First
• Lock with PIN, FaceID, or fingerprint
• Security question recovery
• Everything stays on your device unless you choose to sync

☁️ Backup & Sync
• Direct sync with your private Google Drive folder - only you can see it
• Works offline anytime
• One-tap local export for safe backup

🎨 Make It Yours
• Choose from serene environments, animals, and textures.
• Personalized Fonts: Select and style 1,300+ Google Fonts.
• Custom Themes: 20+ colors with automatic Light & Dark modes.

📤 Export & Portability
• Universal Formats: Export to Text, Markdown, or StoryPad format.
• Obsidian Ready: Fully compatible with Obsidian and other markdown editors.
• Offline Backup: Import or export your entire journal locally at any time.
• Easy Sharing: Share stories directly to X, Facebook, or with friends.

🌍 Accessible for All
• Available in 20+ languages
• Open-source for full transparency

== Make Every Day a Story ==

Website:
https://storypad.me

Open Source:
https://github.com/theachoem/storypad

Ratings and reviews

This app is exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a simple way to journal and do creative writing in one place with better organizational tools than a simple notes app could offer. I also wanted to be able to track moods and symptoms without all the statistics of a mood app, as those can create obsessiveness for me. All basic functionality is available up front. Paid add-ons are very low-cost and feel like a way to thank the devs for their hard work rather than being nickel and dimed.

I've settled for this app after searching through so many diary journal apps. First, because it doesn't contain any ads at all, which I'm so grateful for. Second, I liked the simplicity of the interface. I can add images, emojis, weather, and background wallpaper. It also has a lot of different font styles, which makes the app cooler than any other similar app. Also, I can customize the app's icon! 😍 And the developer gives free stickers online, it's so nice. Thank you for this app! 🥰✨

I love so many things about this app. The interface is intuitive and friendly, and the settings enable me to enlarge the text. I gave feedback about the icon picture and difficulty seeing the Done button, and now we have icon choices and highlighting on the word Done - thankyou 🙂. Can we please also have autosave when I press the back button, as is usual with other note-taking apps. According to the website this is meant to happen, but it doesn't.

What’s new

What’s new ✨
1. Storage Management: A new page to help you see and manage how much space your data uses.

2. New Media Options: Support for importing media archives and optional compression to keep your journal lightweight.

3. The Map Journal now remembers your preferred map style for a more consistent experience.

4. Bug Fixes & Improvements