Life Notes: Secure Journal

Bash Software

About this app

Life Notes is a completely free, secure, and easy-to-use journal app.

Key Features:

🆓 Free Forever – No subscriptions, no upgrades, and no ads.

🔒 Complete Privacy – Your data stays on your device, ensuring your journal is for your eyes only. Optional backups to your Google Drive are encrypted, keeping your information secure.

🔑 True Encryption – Unlike other apps that just protect the app interface, Life Notes encrypts your data using your password. This means your entries are fully protected.

⏳ Future-Proof – Don't trust your data to companies that may go out of business, or to apps that may not be available in 10 years. Our encrypted SQLite database format is widely supported in other software, so no matter what happens in the future, your data can still be recovered.

🔍 Month View & Keyword Search – Easily navigate your entries by month, and use keyword search to quickly find specific moments.

📅 Year View & Advanced Search – View an entire year of entries at a glance, and use advanced search tools to dig deeper into your journal.

🗓️ Emoji View – A calendar that displays the emojis for the hashtags used each day.

📊 Charts – View bar charts of your most-used hashtags, and line charts to track metrics over time.

🏷️ Quick Tagging – Effortlessly add tags to your entries for better organization and a snapshot of your day’s activities.

📝 Private Note-Taking – Create notes with the same security as your journal.

🎨 Custom Themes & Dark Mode – Personalize your journaling experience with a variety of theme options, including dark mode for a comfortable writing experience.


Life Notes is the private journal built for you, where your thoughts stay yours.

What’s new

- Added a bar graph for hashtag/word occurrences
- Added a line graph for tracking values (eg your weight) over time.
- Added local file backup and restore
- Improvements to the hashtag menus