StoryPad: My Diary Journal

Thea Choem

In-app purchases

About this app

StoryPad lets you write and capture everything - notes, thoughts, emotions, workouts, travels, stories, novels, or poems - on a single continuous timeline. No folders. No tabs. Just your life, beautifully organized.

== 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 1300+ Google Fonts, adjustable font size & 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

🗓 Feelings & Moods Tracking
• Select from 45+ emotions to express how you feel
• 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

🔖 Tags, Stars & Search
• Organize entries with custom tags
• Star important stories
• Search by title, tags, year, and more

🔐 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
• 20+ color themes
• Light & dark mode
• Customize fonts and layouts to match your mood and style

📤 Export & Share Anywhere
• Back up or import your stories offline
• Share your words in text or markdown, whether it's on X, Facebook, or just with a friend

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

📱 Extra Add-Ons (optional)
• Relaxing Sounds - Gentle background sounds to create the perfect writing mood.
• Templates - Reusable journaling templates for daily prompts or reflections.
• Period Calendar - Track your cycle directly in your journal, securely and privately.

== Make Every Day a Story ==

Website:
https://storypad.me

Ratings and reviews

Literally one of the best writing apps I've used! It has everything you'd ever want in a writing app and there are barley any ads! This is one of the only apps that actually deserves 5 star! (My 2025 review) I'm pretty happy with the new updates even though I haven't used it in a little while. It still deserves 5 stars, but I wish there was a clear settings button or a little tutorial since when I first opened the app I didn't think there were any settings. Otherwise it's still really good!

please add an option to add the mood emoji to the overall day in the calendar. I usually write in this journal 3 times a day and add an emoji to each block, but only one is displayed in the calendar which is more than often not how feel about the overall day. it's the only thing that's holding me back from using it as my primary journaling and mood tracking app. also, there should be a normal "sad" emoji, for when you're sad but not "crying" or "disappointed*.

I was choosing between this app and Zettle for journaling. In the end, I actually wanted to use this one because the app has better at-a-glance features. After I paid to unlock custom templates the app asked me to log into my Google Drive account to save the purchase. I did that but now it auto-syncs to Google Drive and there is no way to prevent it. I don't want the data stored on Google Drive. I have my own server for this. Is there a way to disable the auto-sync? If not, I can't use the app.