Day One Journal: Private Diary App Reviews

VERSION
2024.1.1
SCORE
4.8
TOTAL RATINGS
96,359
PRICE
Free

Day One Journal: Private Diary App Description & Overview

What is day one journal: private diary app? Apple’s App of the Year with over 15 million downloads and 200,000 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 with markdown
• 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, TouchID, or FaceID
• Export options (pdf, plain text, etc.) ensure your entries always stay yours

FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
• 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 view provides a summary of where you’ve been and what you’ve done
• Integrates with the Health app to track mindfulness minutes


MORE THAN WORDS
• Unlimited photos and video*
• Auto-importer for your Instagram posts*
• Handwritten entries or drawings*
• Voice recording and transcription*

JOURNAL FROM WHEREVER, WHENEVER
• Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac
• The ability to text or email entries straight to your journal

BUILT FOR REMINISCING
• On This Day feature 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
• Print capabilities turn your digital journal into a premium physical book

TYPE LESS, PRESERVE MORE
• Time, date, weather, moon phase, and more are automatically added to every entry
• IFTTT applets allow importing data from Spotify, YouTube, Strava, Fitbit, Facebook, Twitter, and more
• Siri Shortcuts provides a powerful way to automate more of your journaling
• Share sheet allows you to add content from other apps, like Apple Photos and Safari

*Day One is FREE to use forever with unlimited entries. Additional features, including unlimited photos, videos, and audio recordings are available with a Day One Premium membership.
Start a free trial today.

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Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/

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App Name Day One Journal: Private Diary
Category Health & Fitness
Published
Updated 11 January 2024, Thursday
File Size 115.68 MB

Day One Journal: Private Diary Comments & Reviews 2024

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Top of the line!!! 🤩🤩🤩. I have a brain injury, so I have very very poor penmanship... but I have always love love LOVED the idea of journaling so so much though, so I started to journal first on Microsoft Word on that app on my phone, but the very annoying thing about doing that was that I had to keep scrolling down down down alllllll the way until I found where I left off! 👎🏼 I first got so annoyed that I started to reverse my order of journal entries so that the first thing I could do when I opened Word was write my newest journal entry! It eventually got so messy and long though, so then I thought, “there’s GOT to be something else out there!!! This is the 21st century for Christ’s sake!!!” Then, I opened the App Store and found Day One, and my life was literally changed forever, and I could not be more thankful for this app!!! 🤩🤩🤩 I’m currently using Day One’s free premium trial, and it’s so great that I wish so so badly I could make my own money bc if I did, I would TOTALLY pay for a subscription immediately!!! Too bad I only have so long until my trial ends... 😔

Perfect and getting even better. I own a business and manage another. I keep EVERYTHING in Day One and have almost 53k entries. Work items like PDFs of receipts and contracts, emails, screenshots, audio and dictation notes from meetings, plans for the day, CRM for sales. I also have personal items like daily gratitude, vision board, personal photos, tracking workouts. The amount of things you can do with Day One is endless! Every major update has been excellent. The developers respond to questions within an hour (even on weekends and late at night!) These guys are always grinding to ensure users have a great experience. I’m happy to pay $3 a month for easy access to basically every bit of information that I could need at my fingertips. And that’s only for the premium version. Those of you who are mad that they have a subscription can still do the basic journaling for free. I don’t know how Day One can get any better but I know it will. I’m never leaving this app. Most useful app I’ve ever bought. Thank you!!

Love the app, but your autocorrect is the WORST. Dear DayOne, I love you so much. I’ve been a user for 8 years and I’m not going anywhere because there’s nothing better. But what is up with your completely terrible speech-to-text and autocorrect?? I’ve been wrestling with this since I first started my account, and I kept thinking you would work out the bugs, but honestly it’s like it keeps getting worse. It feels like your AI is getting dumber. It regularly changes correct words to incorrect ones, it misses obvious corrections, it suggests completely random words that have nothing to do with the letters I typed. and it has never learned any of my family’s names - never offers correct spellings as suggestions, never seems to have noticed that those are words I use constantly. I’m a busy mom and business owner, and I’ve just had to live with it because I don’t have time to clean everything up. But either I’ll have to someday spend many many hours correcting all the dumb mistakes, many of them CREATED by your system, or I’ll have to live with my family history being riddled with errors. Please fix this bad feature in your otherwise amazing product! Giving 5 stars in hopes this message gets through to somebody, anybody.

A Gateway to Reality. I have always wanted to journal, but the inconvenience of having the small book, an appropriate pen, and the physical circumstances seemed to prevent me from doing so. As I have an iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook Pro, and have one of those readily available just about all the time, journaling becomes practice. The two missing elements are a busy life and moments I want to capture that are sufficiently stirring that they will make me want to record the event. Day One reminds me each day to journal (Important!) and allows me to take a photo either in Photos or right from the app. The combination inspires me to write about what I have photographed. I have been frustrated with photo apps in that they are not focused on a written description of what was going on a the moment the image was captured. Day One solves that. Perhaps the greatest benefit of Day One is that I can easily see and read (unlike my handwriting in awkward places and in a small journaling book) what I have written in the past. The "me" that is revealed in my writing is a different "me" than the one I perceive in my mind's eye. Writing is, as others have noted, a window into the soul and a reflection of reality. I am benefitting from that window and that reflection thanks to Day One. I am sincerely thankful for the creators of this wonderful app.

Good...most of the time. When it works correctly I like it. When it acts quirky, I can’t stand it. I’ve been using it daily for over a year. My biggest gripe is losing paragraphs of information while I am writing. Poof! Suddenly it’s gone! I save often but it will sometimes drop my text before I save it, which is really frustrating. Or, it will show the text in the side panel yet the display for that day is blank, or vice versa. Quite often, there is a significant delay between when I type the letters and when the app shows the text on screen. I can type a full sentence then sit back and watch it display the letters slowly one by one. It’s nerve wracking! It seems that the apps synch on my devices only when the app is open simultaneously on each device. The support team is great about responding. Usually, they are aware of the problems and are working on them. I’ve been told to reload the app which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn’t. The problems are intermittent. Sometimes it works perfectly but most of the time I have some performance issue with the app.

Writing prompts. I got the app mostly for the daily writing prompts. I already journal and have for years, but my journal entries are often short reports of what happened today. I am retiring soon and hope to do much more writing. I write for a living but again, very specific topics and audience, whereas what I hope to write is more of a memoir. My writer friends tell me they write for 30 minutes a day, but most belong to a group with a leader who supplies a writing prompt daily. I was hoping for that. Some days it is that. But way too many days it’s things like “come up with a crazy business idea” or “What were your 5 favorite movies.” Luckily, I have the free version so I can’t complain too much. But I would love it if the daily prompts could be less specific and more like open ended statements or questions that provoke thought. I also am not a fan of the writing streak function, which only records whether I have written in response to the prompt but not if I have done other journal writing on that day. I think it would be more accurate (and less annoying) if it counted any writing done on a particular day as part of the writing streak.

Best journal EVER. I’ve been using this app since 2013. I’m a premium member. I’m a writer so my preference is the old-fashioned pen to paper. I had a relapse in 2015 that ended up lasting 5 years. The entire thing is documented in my journal. I was also able to have Day One print out books for me for that period of time. It’s just awesome. They have everything. I remember asking if they could get more fonts and finally we got the option for new fonts. I love that it has a location tracker. In the beginning there were a few gaps where I tried out different journals because I’m always looking for the next best thing but this is it. I’m grateful that I have a lot of stuff documented that people wouldn’t normally keep track of. I chose the setting to take photos in the journal and not have them save to my phone. I haven’t looked back at my books yet but you get to choose the time period, the cover, the photos on the back… you can choose to remove certain entries. When I found out my now ten year old had autism, I have that documented in here from 2013. I can’t say enough about this app. I’ve pretty much been with them since DAY ONE too. I’d love to be a spokesperson.

Excellent Journaling App!. I've been using Day One for several years, after trying any number of other apps. While some of the other apps were definitely decent, Day One has my I vote for the best one yet! I love its simplicity despite the many great features it provides. The only difficulty I've had with it is when I bought a MacBook and downloaded the Mac Day One app and then tried to bring over my 2 years worth of entries from my iPad version. They're two different versions, so a simple synch doesn't work. Despite very prompt and thorough tech support from Day One, I still haven't managed to bring over my old entries. But, that's not a problem with the app itself, so I even hesitate to risk dampening the enthusiasm of my recommendation by mentioning it :) Do try it and see if it's not the very app you've been looking for! I should add that now, with the new version, I can journal on my iPhone, iPad or MacBook and they all synch seamlessly. LOVE IT!

My entire entry was deleted. I like Day One and have used it off and in for a few years now. I just redownloaded it a few days ago and wrote my first new entry this morning. It took me about 30 minutes and after I was done I was searching for a way to indent the paragraphs, so I selected the entire entry and was surveying the options when I accidentally pasted a link I had copied. Everything was deleted because I pasted the link when the entire entry was selected. Here is why I’m giving two stars: there is not an undo button or back button. I feel as though it is imperative and, quite frankly, obvious that a journaling app, centered around writing and composition would have a feature that allows you to undo the most recent change to an entry. I haven’t journaled in months and this easily avoidable accident does not make me very optimistic about trying it again any time soon, especially with Day One if there is a chance this could happen again. I would happily continue using the app if an undo feature was added, but for now I am too shaken up from those memories being deleted and having no way of getting them back to use Day One again without doubting that this will happen to any of my future entries.

Wow I’m Surprised. I don’t normally trust apps like these. They normally are too difficult to use right off the bat, they have ugly designs, have too many locked options with a cost, and I tend to forget about them 2 days later. Not this app. It’s sleek, easy, impressive, and has so many options before needing a single payment. I recently went on a social media break and needed something to vent in and express myself the way I wanted to. And I found this app extremely helpful kicking social media while keeping things interesting. It works like Twitter, instagram, and Facebook, AND messages. All in one. Wish it was a bit more customizable, however it’s simple design keeps me entertained enough. I have never left a more positive review on something, and I’m glad I’m leaving this one. Hopefully someone sees this and trust the process. Social media is a toxic addiction and this app has helped so much. Thank you to the creators for making this as useful as possible.

Needs great UX/UI. hi guys, thanks for improving the app.. but i wanna point out some things. Make timeline page have a customizable ‘action’ button, because i wanted to just click once to pull a video and start recording me talking for 30 mins about my life. Currently there are photos, audio and text. Make it customizable. This will be very helpful to truckers, delivery drivers that works alone but don’t want to fiddle a lot of buttons just to record. And second, after recording a video, can you label the ‘input title’ field with ‘write your title’, because right now, there’s only blank which confuses the user to navigate the title field. Also the timeline, it’s way too cramped especially the bottom part where you’ll see the time of the audio, address and weather, can you put a separator between them, cause right now they are just connected in one line, makes the UI jarring to read. also for audio clips, put an icon on the right hand side, and maybe put the length of the audio overlaying the icon. instead of cramping it at the bottom of the journal entry in the timeline view.. make it look beatiful and simple, easy to navigate.. but i really love what youre trying to do, its the best journal app there is… i would love to subscribe if these features are available… theres more that i would love to input but its getting too long. Do you have suggestions email? Thank you, i’ll rate it 5 stars for you guys

I’ve been using this for years!. I would say that I am continually impressed by this app. I have printed out a book every single year. I love putting this together as a way of journaling memories. I love the idea of having pictures along with the stories, so this is right up my alley. journaling has definitely turned into a hobby for me. This app is great for other uses as well, I use this in church, I use this to take notes, I use this as a personal goal, setting journal, and I also use it to keep tabs on certain recipes that I love. I am really excited to print out a recipe book at some point! the only issue I have had is with printing. I accidentally had the wrong color selected for my book. I submitted it for printing. I emailed the company immediately after placing my order and they said that there was nothing they could do. In total I had probably spent a little over $100 to print, so this was disappointing to hear but I’ll admit, it was my fault originally. Overall, I have left using this app. I also don’t applications that have an annual fee, however, in this situation is very practical. I use this app every single day!

Excellent program - a must have. I have avidly used a Day Timer journal for the last 12 years. Until now I had not found anything close to the versatility of using pen and paper. I have used Day One every day for the last 35 or so days and found it amazing. Sometimes I use my iPad and sometimes I use my iPhone but it always works well and syncs up quick. I have even used the Apple Watch to enter a quick entry (great while traveling). I will also Day One’s support is beyond amazing. Three times I have asked for assistance and all 3 times I received it in a matter of minutes (maybe seconds). In my case Adam was the support person and he was prompt and very helpful. Yes, I do miss a few things about using pen and paper, like having a one page monthly summary where I could note highlights or maybe a place to record meetings by the hour, but life is about compromises and Day One’s pluses far out weigh anything I gave up. I highly recommend the App.

Really very good, not perfect though. This app is a very serviceable personable journal. I believe it’s worth the annual cost for the premium features if maintaining a journal is something that you find beneficial to your well-being as I do. I appreciate the synchronization between my devices more than anything, and the security seems adequate for such personal data. I also enjoy the metadata tagged in each entry (location, weather, activity, etc) which I feel will be very interesting in the long run as I review older entries. My biggest ask is that I very much wish the developer would make the journaling canvas more free form by allowing entries to contain mixtures of text, handwriting, photos, and drawings similar to how iPadOS notes works. As it functions at the time of this review the entry is more like an e-mail composer where you enter text, and then can attach photos and drawings in a somewhat rigid manner. Unleash the creative potential of the journaling canvas and I’ll call this the perfect journaling experience worthy of five stars! Unless something else comes along with that capability though, this is likely still your best choice for a journaling app.

I use it every day. I’ve been using the app since mid-2014 (was grandfathered in to Plus and recently paid for Premium). The app has come a long way, and I use it at least once a day now. It’s well-built for a variety of use cases. I have a journal for daily recaps, one each for movie/book/restaurant reviews, a journal for work, and more. It’s intuitive. It’s easy to use, and also as complex as you want to make it (tags, journals, photos, voice recordings, templates...). The location data is key to me because I can get a map view of places I want to visit, or places I have visited. UPDATE: it’s been super buggy and inconsistent the last 2-3months. Streaks are rarely correct (will say 4 days but show a journal with a 21 day streak, or just show no entries at all despite there being some). Sync between devices is slow, used to be near-instant. The daily prompts are all messed up; sometimes showing an extra prompt in the “show all” list, sometimes I’ll click the day’s prompt and it will auto-fill the entry with yesterday’s. Overall, the experience has gotten less good (I won’t say it’s “bad”…yet…) in the last year or so.

Love it and use it far more than just a “Journal”. I’ve been using this app for a year now and love that I can create as many “Journals” as I want with a range of topics from personal to work. I can keep things organized and can easily look anything up by using keywords. I love how you can make lists, bullet points, or even just save something I saw on Pinterest. It’s easier than taking screenshots that I’ll never come across bc I take so many so this way, I can take a screenshot and save it in my Journal under the right category where I’ll be more likely to find certain items. I love that it’s extremely private and you can color coordinate each different Journal. I’d rather call it my sidekick for when I need ideas or use it to keep documents safe, esp with the end-to-end encryption. I had Pocket too, which is also a great app but it wasn’t as easy to navigate than this app. Finally I quit Pocket and stuck to Journal. Guess it depends on the type of person 🤷🏼‍♀️

Very impressive but still has trouble uploading video.. DayOne really has become an impressive journal app, finding all sorts of ways to break down whatever is preventing you from journaling. It can send you prompts by text, have screen prompts that take you immediately to a blank entry, can record where you’ve been during a day to jog your memory in writing about it. The interface has also improved, although the back arrow still takes you to the options screen rather than move the cursor back. After all these advances, it’s a shame that video doesn’t load about half the time. This has been a known problem for DayOne for months and the resolution should have been implemented weeks ago but video still won’t load. I have entries from two months ago that still have blank spaces where videos were supposed to have been uploaded. I no longer recall which videos were supposed to go there since it’s been so long ago. It would be nice if DayOne could make sure some of its core functionality was working properly before expanding its offers.

Must have for those who want a convenient, beautiful journaling experience!!. I never write reviews but I am for this one because I just want to say that I LOVE THIS APP!! Particularly the ability to print the books. Just got my first one in the mail and it is BEAUTIFUL (and it was effortless to make!) I loved all the details like the location and weather. I love the ability to have multiple journals! (Easily worth the $30 subscription I paid back in January) This has made journaling so much easier (a huge New Years resolution for me that has been easy to keep because I always have my phone with me) and then I can easily get a beautiful hard copy to share with friends and family. I used to do a blog to book program, but I would spend hours rearranging everything and not to mention the inconvenience that came with only journaling when logged into the blogging platform. Get the subscription, it is so worth it if you are serious about journaling properly!!

Wonderful Life Logging. I love Day One, I don’t do a whole lot of writing myself, or even audio recording, I have “photojournalistic tendencies”, that is I tend to just take pictures of everything. Or short videos. I used to do short text notes in iOS’ Notes App to complement my pictures, and I’ll admit, I still do on occasion, but I’m doing more and more in Day One, mostly because it’s easier to associate with a picture. I also love the location recording for notes, used to be I’d take pictures of just whatever wall or floor my phone was facing simply to record a location to accompany a text note in Notes, now, don’t have to. I still don’t write a whole lot, but the convenience of logging things, like weather and location has encouraged me to use Day One more. I highly recommend trying it for anyone who’s meticulous like I am about recording all the little details. Only thing I would improve is having the ability to save location data forever, currently location data is only saved for six weeks unless you manually save an entry for a place. I’d love to see that location history saved for forever.

PERFECT, EXCEPT ONE MAJOR ISSUE.... My favorite journaling app. I was never able to commit to journaling— I’ve tried keeping physical journals, I’ve tried other apps, but this app was the only one that was able to keep me committed to writing. It offers so many useful tools and options, like templates, the ability to add photos, etc. (I do have the paid version btw.) There is one problem I have with this app though, and that’s privacy. The app does allow you to have a passcode, but I’ve found that if you go to your device’s home screen and use the spotlight search to search on your device, you can actually use keywords to search for your entries and read them from there (therefore bypassing app’s passcode). For example, if you wrote an entry about apples, you could search “apples” on your device and the entry will show up there, where you can read the title of the entry, as well as a good portion of that entry’s content. This has actually gotten me into a good bit of trouble at home because someone else was able to search for keywords on my device and read my private entries from my device’s home screen. I really, truly hope this is fixed. I love this app and would hate to have to stop using it for this reason.

Very easy to use for basic journaling (can’t vouch for other features ). This makes it easy to just write a little bit about my day. Sometimes I would do the same thing in my Notes app, but somehow this feels much better, since it’s not mixed in with shopping lists, other thoughts, and other random notes that are in there. Somehow just having a separate app for it makes it a little more approachable. I can’t say it suddenly make me a daily journal-keeper, but I’m not sure how many entries, if any, I would have written in the past 3 months if not for this app. I think I have 5-6. So that’s a big win in my eyes. I’ve just used the text, but I really like that I can add a picture if I want to. I don’t know how many other features are available without paying, but I would say if you’re on the fence, you should get the app and put the icon in a place on your phone where it’s not necessarily in the way, but where you will see it. I made sure not to put mine within a folder mixed in with other apps.

Can an App Change Your Life? — Yes!. Most of the apps we use provide information/entertainment, help us do things faster, or allow us to share with others. DayOne is not just a journalling app, not just a way to put thoughts and words on a piece of “digital paper”. No, DayOne provides an simple, clean environment to reflect on our lives, document the happy moments, express the angry frustrating ones, and help organize our life’s activities. The elegant design, clean interface, and robust features enable me to declutter and unstress each and every day. I look forward to opening DayOne and seeing my past entries and a prompt to write more. Clicking the “+” to add a new entry opens my mind and heart to share myself. As I begin to write, the keyboard shortcuts allow me to stay focused on my thoughts instead of searching for menus and commands. I use tags on every entry to help organize and group like writings. Finally, the ability to add media in any area of my journal page creates a wonderful professional looking product. All of these features allow me to focus on the writing and more importantly to put my life’s activities and emotions into perspective. Can your app do that? DayOne does!

Life changing. TL;DR If you were once a person who used to journal, stopped, and now want to again but can’t seem to get into it... GET THIS APP! I see a lot of reviews that often go something to the tune of, “I NEVER write reviews, but this app was so life changing I just HAD to!” I never understood how an app could inspire something like that in someone. I have, literally, never written a review on the App Store. However, after having Day One for a few years, I understand why people write these things. This app has, sincerely, impacted my life in a huge way that I could have never predicted. I originally was looking for some sort of journal app I could use in lieu of a physical journal, since I found that a big part of what held me back from journaling was that I didn’t really have the opportunity or drive to actually write something in a physical notebook as much, and I never seemed to have it on me when I felt like I had something to write. After some research I settled on Day One. After only a few short weeks of using it, I purchased a subscription and haven’t looked back since. Everything about how the app works- how the features function, the ease of use, the level of customization, the fact that you can have separate journals, and add almost any type of media... It keeps me writing. It keeps me thinking. It keeps me journaling. And that is something I had been seeking for years. From the bottom of my heart, thank you Day One.

Awesome app and sure has helped me change my life. Journaling was very new to me about 2 years ago when I started on this version of Day one . I had the previous version that I downloaded from “starbucks app of the day” and then didn’t use it for a while in which time they had changed the entire interface and upgraded it to what it is today. Sadly I forgot my password for the first version and had no way of retrieving the entries. However I started this and glad they have back up options and so on. Anyways it’s been a great tool helping me through bright and dark days . The only thing I would ask of the Dev team is optimize syncing across devices, especially with notifications . I use my Mac to journal most of the time and when I do finish , I still get notification on my watch to “record my day” . Also the pop up mini reminder screen that comes up on the Mac to start an entry is a hit or miss with starting on the mini screen in which case I have to click “open” for the larger interface. Other than that all is good ! Thank you .

The Ease of Personal Growth. I have always been one to keep a journal and fail at maintaining one. Throughout my life, I have kept a written journal where I would process my day, my emotions, and my goals. But, I have always given it up after a couple of weeks or sometimes even days. Why this has happened so consistently throughout my entire life, I do not know. But then Apple recommends Day One, and I said, hey, let's give this a shot, and since then, I have not turned back. Day One makes it easy to journal in a meaningful way that a traditional journal has a problem. I can choose the form of my journal with pictures and videos, sound clips, or writing. Having the ability to create different journals around different ideas is also very helpful. I find it easier for me to track my health, emotions and thoughts, and exciting events that pop up in the day with the different formats. Day Ons gives me the urge to journal, and they make it simple and easy to do it. Let's just say I plan on having a long and fruitful relationship with this app.

Don’t Get This For The Book Printing. I love journaling!! I came to Day One because a friend shared on social media about a book she printed over a year ago. I was so excited to finally move away from handwriting my journals, but still have a physical copy. For a year I’ve recorded about the birth of my second son and all our family’s adventures! I love it! But now that It’s time to print I’ve wasted a whole day (seriously, so many hours carrying my phone around and retrying to upload and enter the payment information) trying to order the book to no avail. I was given a few suggestions by the support team, but none of those worked either and I’m so sad! This was the whole reason I downloaded the app and now I feel like I won’t have a physical copy of all the things I journaled this year. I hope they sort something out ASAP for the book printing so I can come back one day and print all my memories. So for that, I have to take a star away, and let the book printers out there know that it may not be the app for you if a physical copy is your goal. But if you’re happy with the digital copy, then this app would be amazing!

Better than classic. Holds more photos and more data to input. There seems to be a more added options to tailor the data better and this is very good. I highly recommend this app for organization and your life logging. Update. Taken 2 stars off simply because the devs tend not to include information in what they take out so a user will know if to up date or wait for the next version. Disabling things that a user is use to using on a daily basis is no cool, I use templates on a daily basis, they are fast and I don't need to retype things all over again and they also remind me as well at a certain time frame, very inconvenient for them to just turn it off it's not broken so why do that? Also the way to add locations has changed its more difficult to get a good on where you are if it's not saved this use to work flawless in early versions before iOS 12 they never seem to bring it back. Also you really need to pay for one black theme? Really? Hopefully iOS 13 will fix this nonsense.

A request to address certain problems. I’ve been using your app for years, definitely one of the best apps I have ever used. However lately I have been facing problems. I have an iPhone 8. Often times when I copy or past something, the app would lag a lot and then crash and I would need to restart it. Another huge problem I have is that when I want to edit an entry, the app would instantly take me to the bottom of the entry instead of the place I already was. I write long entries so if I’m in the middle of something and notice a typo, I don’t want to fix it because it will take me all the way to the bottom. And if I slide up and tap on the text I want to edit, most of the time the app just keeps taking me back to the bottom. I think I have to double tap it sometimes and make sure I am not sliding to get it to select the text I want. It is so frustrating for me, why can this not work like google docs where it just stays at the same spot I click edit instead of going all the way down. Please, I have been a loyal customer for a very long time and I hope you fix this, or either give me an option to disable this ‘function’. Lastly, I would greatly appreciate if you guys would give us the option to sync with iCloud/Dropbox again, if we’re paying for something we really should get the option of where we want to save our data.

Always looking for better, Day One always wins. I’ve been journaling and digitally archiving for decades now. If I could retire right now I’d do it a lot more but, in the meantime, it’s important to me to take and keep snapshots of my and my family’s life as the years roll by. I stopped using Facebook and Instagram years ago and journaling has been a great replacement. I still have motivation to take pictures of semi-ordinary events, along with a note about what happened. Beyond that, it’s helped me to see a picture of my overall mental health year by year and identify things I struggle with over and over. Day One has been a near-perfect companion for the last several years. The product is both easy and fun to use and it’s rare that I think of something I want but don’t have. The updates are thoughtful and have yet to encounter an issue of any kind. I would love to see more support for the more technical folks, like a first-class command line API, but I know that I’m probably in a tiny minority of folks that care about it. I would also love to see automatic bi-directional linking, like Roam Reaearch. I constantly try new note taking and journaling tools and keep coming back to Day One!

Highly recommend! Very customizable.. I can't update my old review which was 4 stars, so I'll just do a new one. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars at that time was a feature that they fixed (adding voice recordings within a text entry). Thank you! I love Day One and I use Premium which is worth it. I created a template for a daily journal which has become a mixture of habit tracking (using the checklist feature), voice recordings for reflection, pictures to capture memories or lessons, and actual written highlights and reflections of my day. I have found a way to use Day One that creates a powerful tool not just for capturing memories, but creating growth experiences and tracking my personal growth journey. I look back at old posts (On This Day) from 1, 2, or 3 years ago and am amazed with how far I've come, and by keeping track of what I've learned, I can reread it and remember to apply them over and over. Day One is so customizable as a journal, and you can even create multiple journals too with Premium if you want to separate your entries. I've recently started going through and taking notes on some of my audio lessons/recordings since Day One also makes it easy to keyword search what you're looking for, which is way faster than going through hours of audio lessons. The tag feature is also helpful here. Highly recommend!

Great but needs one fix to make it perfect!. I love this app and use it every single day. I’ve tried many different journal apps and this is by far the best one. I love the layout, the features, and the UI. However there’s one thing I wish would be fixed. There is an option to search for keywords in entries and the search returns all the entries in which that keyword appears. However when I click on the entry to find where the word appears and what the context was, the keyword is not highlighted, so I have to read carefully through the whole entry to find where the word occurs. This is tedious and not optimal; the keyword should be highlighted so I can quickly find the context for the word that I searched. This is an important feature because the biggest reason I journal is to remember important details from each day and in order to find such details from past entries I have to use the search function. I hope the developers see this and fix it and it would be a perfect five stars!

PDF format has improved- Thank you!. THANK YOU for continuing to improve the PDF format! Just as I was about to give up and look for a journaling method elsewhere, the PDF format was improved and now there are multiple pictures per page, and the flow and format is a lot nicer. I also like that the text is larger and one page can even fit up to 9 pictures. It still isn’t perfect. If I could give the suggestion to make the date and time font darker and maybe a little bigger, it would be near to perfect. That is hardly visible, especially once printed out. But the picture flow has dramatically improved, and I applaud you! I am fine paying a subscription as long as these updates are being made, because I appreciate the continuous work to improve the customer’s experience. So far, to the best of my knowledge, these improvements haven’t been made to the book printing, but I assume they are working on that as well. Thank you and please, for your subscribers, continue with these improvements! It’s the only thing that keeps me hanging on to this app because a physical, printed copy is so important to me, and though I love everything else about the app digitally, I would be forced to look elsewhere if I wasn’t satisfied with the printing (via book or PDF). I’m sure I’m not the only customer who feels this way. Thank you for hearing me out!

Great Journaling App - lots of great features!. This is a great app! I love that it syncs across my devices so I can journal on my phone, computer or ipad— I am not limited to just one! Being able to add pictures in is a sweet touch to be able to make each day unique and memorable when needed! I’ve also enjoyed the ‘template’ option for more focused journaling for different seasons of life! And I enjoy being able to have multiple journal types if I like to. I definitely like to organize my thoughts into categories or have a safe space to write my thoughts out on a specific subject where it is held all in one place and not mixed up in my day-to-day journaling. I wish there were more font or formatting options just to be able to create more emotion on the page or to be more creative with but that is not a deal breaker for me! This has really encouraged me to get back into journaling which has helped improve me mental health tremendously! Thanks for a great app!

Perfect journaling app. Update. April 2022. Still love this app. I use it as a sort photo diary. Every so often, I’ll post a picture of what I’m doing — traveling, fun project, or random thing from life. And I’ll make a note about it. I’ve been looking back at my photos and notes from four, five, six years ago and it’s so much fun. I love this app. Still recommend. Been using for over 2 years and still love it. I use as an photo journal and it's easy to use. Either snap a photo from in the app, or import a photo or "send" a photo into the app directly from the Photos gallery app. Exporting to PDF is the ideal archival tool. Highly recommend. Apr 2021 update. Still love using this app. Have been using it as a photo journal. I love going back 3,4,5 years and looking at photos of what I was doing then. It’s also a handy reminder - when I am trying to remember where I travelled or when we purchased the new “blah-de-blah”, I can scroll through and find a photo that reminds me of the date. Great app. Still recommend.

Excellent app, fun and easy to use, BUT NOT YET FOR PC. I finally got around to trying this app and immediately loved it. You can enter text, photos, videos, voice recordings, import your calendar and create notes from your calendar events, submit entries vis text. The free version gives you a single journal on one device but I upgraded to the premium version after a week. For a couple of dollars a month, you can sync between your iPhone and iPad and have multiple journals. One cautionary note: you cannot access your journal on a Windows PC. Desktop integration is only available with a Mac. In my opinion, this is a significant omission. I found Internet “rumors” that there would be a PC app available but they are a few years old so apparently one isn’t coming. (The Day One development team told me a web-based version is in the works.) Still the best journaling app I’ve found for its multiple features and ease of use, as long as you plan to use it primarily on an iOS device.

Not good. This is the first journal app I’m trying to use. I don’t understand the positive comments. This app has a lot of glitches and a wierd design. I have never seen journal entries done backwards. You can’t change the design. You have to look very closely for the date, as they are in tiny print, and the only large part of the date is the day - 05. 05 of what? Just made an entry on March 2, it doesnt show up at the top, I made another one. Then found both amidst the entries made in February, before February 3d, because there was no entry made on 02 February, the designers desided let’s stick 02 March entry in there. I want to clearly see the full date the entry was made on or have an option to change the design - if someone wants to only see the day of the month, let them have it, but I want to see the month and the year, and have it run chronologically forward. For some reason the designers think that the time and place where it’s made is more important. Hello most entries by most peope are made at home, the same location every time. Why half the screen is taken by a plus sign and a camera? Why one of the lines tells me how many entries I made and pictures taken? Does it matter to anyone who keeps a journal? Also has glitches with fonts and formatting.

Day One has come a long way!. I have been using Day One for about 4 years now. I have always kept a journal since I was a kid but I wanted something password protected to use on my MacBook. When I first started using the Day One, it was limited and the phone app was incredibly buggy especially on iPhone. Over the years the developers have absolutely refined Day One into one of the best apps you can invest in on the App Store. I truly enjoy looking back over the years to see how far I have come. I mainly use this app as a “mind dump” whenever I feel overwhelmed and to record my dreams. Over time it has expanded into several different journals. I’m just now starting to use it to record smaller and simpler thoughts throughout the day to replace social media and it’s doing wonders for my mental health. Since it’s much more stable and reliable on iPhone it’s been a joy to use on-the-go. We all have those thoughts we just want to get out and social media isn’t always the place for that. Day One is a perfect judge-free zone where I won’t look back on a post 5 years later and feel deep regret for making that thought public. I did try out Day One Premium for 1 year because I wanted to use the video feature. I could only record a couple of minutes at a time and I didn’t end up using it as much as I thought I would. I didn’t use any of the other features in that year so I ended up reverting back to the basic package, but I’m sure those extra features will be useful for others!

What happened. I absolutely love Day one. It has met my journal needs for years. It has been so easy and intuitive and such a rock solid dependable, almost friend. I don’t understand why the designers and developers have to do updates that make a perfect thing go bust. This last update has driven me crazy. It seems like everything has been changed. I love to work on an entry and then see what happened on that day in the past. I used to have one click to bring up all the entries from multiple journals in a simple scrolling list that I could review. Not so now. In order to find a list of all the entries it takes about 3 or 4 clicks and searches and then the entries come up in backwards order from what it was so that the newest is at the bottom. Navigating in Day one one used to be simple and easy and now with this latest update it just feels so disjointed. If this was my first experience with Day One I would say no thank you. Since a huge chunk of my life is put down in it’s pages, I will have to get used to a whole new way of getting around. I just wished as with most updates that those who do the updating would leave things alone. Don’t fix something that is not broke.

Easy to use, complex enough to keep it organized. Day One couldn’t be easier to use. Just start writing. I use it for everything- personal journal, research notes, project ideas and so much more. One single place to keep everything in my brain and heart. The genius is how easy it is to find this information when I want it. I love how I can keep separate journals, yet I can also view everything I’ve written in all the journals in a single timeline. I don’t have to decide which journal should this note be in, I can just write and decide later, without it getting lost. Very thoughtful design. Easy to capture thoughts and ideas; easy to find them when I want to follow up on them. The only possible thing I can think of to add would be the ability to make covers for my journals. I’ve tried many journals, this is easily my favorite and I use it daily. There’s many more great features. I would recommend to just try it. The more you use it, the more you’ll love it.

Fantastic journaling app!. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this app for anyone that wants to journal. I find that the paid version is definitely worth it but if too expensive the free version is fantastic as well. I’ve relied on journaling for a long time and downloaded this app for a change from my pen/paper approach. It does everything you could want. I especially love being able to record audio AND have it transcribe into written text so I can verbally process but don’t have to listen to my own voice if I want to review what I said. Also love being able to tag locations, add media/photos/videos/music. The tag function is also really nice so I can mark entries of things I want to discuss in therapy and not have to go searching for something. I’ll often create an entry for a given week’s therapy and have a chance to list out the important things beforehand. The app also has some great privacy/security options for anyone who doesn’t want someone snooping through your entries.

Back up your data, I lost special entries.. Day one has been my go to journal since 2016. The other day I went to search for one of my child’s births only to find that the entries are no longer there. The entries have been accessible for 2+ years then suddenly disappeared. I do not recommend using this service for entries without backing up. I would like to note that I did pay for the pro service with them. I’ve checked for the entries on my iPad, Mac and phone. I’ve synced many times praying they will appear. I am missing more entries than my child’s birth. All missing entries seem to be older than 2 years. Worked with their support; their claim is I deleted the entries, they restored all entries, the entries regarding my child’s birth is still not there. I’ve lost all my memorial journal entries from my child’s birth, I’m heart broken. WARNING TO OTHERS. Routinely backup your data. Do not trust your entries will always be available. Their terms of service states “the Company has no obligation to store any of your content that you make available on the company properties.” Read the legal services, responsibility for content, storage. Their team was nice, quick to respond and I believe tried their best to figure out what happened. This app is an awesome journaling app.

A blessing disgusted as an app. I love to write, as an over-thinker and someone who ruminates on things a lot it’s something very therapeutic. It’s nice to write down a reflection of how your day was, a good or bad moment of your day, something that triggered you, someone that hurt you or about the past. Oh the past! I could write for days. What’s really great about this app is that it has a feature where you can create a passcode for the app or even choose to unlock it with your Face ID like your phone. I’ve tried other apps that don’t have that, or they do have it but you have to upgrade to premium for it but not this one. As a kid I grew up with very strict people around me, and privacy was something I didn’t have most of the time, I’m now 18 and have a cellphone that I bought and pay each month, so there’s that just for reference. I always wanted to start journaling but because of the lack of privacy I help myself back but this has helped me a lot, I feel safe I feel that my thoughts are safe and that I can express myself and actually write what I want to write about my life. The cool thing is you can also add pictures and audio notes, it keeps track of how many days in a row you’ve journaled to keep you motivated and to keep a streak going. 10/10 for me. I hope to learn to process my thoughts and emotions through journaling to then be able to learn and be more aware of myself, heal and grow as a person. Thank you Day One!

Would Love an Accurate Word Search. Some search functions in other programs will show the exact location of each and every occurrence of a word entered in the search bar. Day One’s search will take you to the page only, so if the page is, say, for passwords (and I have multiple hundreds of them), I’ll find myself scrolling forever. And if I accidentally touch the screen I can just forget it, it will take me all the way back to the beginning, and I’m pulling my hair out by that time. I’ve been using this program for years and I’m a fan. Even share it / recommend it often. I’ve given it 4 stars here because of the inadequate search function but just know that I’ll not only pump it to 5 stars, but will pay well for an upgrade if Day One developers would install a solid global search engine. In the meantime, thank you much for you work, and your commitment to a wonderful app. David Sovereign, Filmmaker Update: The developer just answered back which is a plus. Thanks for that, and it means a lot to me.

My Fave App. I love and appreciate this app so much. My anxiety disorder has been out of control since the Pandemonium and while journaling never really stuck before for various reasons, this app is the first time i've been able to keep up with it and it’s been INSANELY helpful. I even told my shrink about it and he’s recommending it to other patients. In my darkest moments I have written novels to this app and it makes me feel good knowing it’s not at risk of seeing the light of day. I thought at first typing would lose some magic vs hand writing but I love the versatility more - if i need to, i can journal on my phone if that’s all i have with me. For an anxiety sufferer that makes a huge difference. I love that you can make a journal for each “thing” you want, so I have a regular journal plus one for therapy journaling and one for helpful notes and one for jotting down intrusive thoughts as part of a coping tool. This app is worth every penny and i wish more apps would just be paid upfront and then have a nice, ad-free experience. I love that they’re not trying to upsell me at every turn using it.

Seems great but one request. Found this app today and was really excited to use it with my partner until I realized there was no simple collaboration feature. Right now we use SimpleNote, and although they do not have much in terms of designing the entry more creatively like this app, the one thing they do have, the most important for us, is the collab feature. We do a ton of self-growth work and like to share our notes with each other, adding to them or just simply reading them and feeling connected when apart. Why that feature is so convenient on theirs is because you simply click “collab” in the drop down menu of each entry, add someone’s email address, it sends them an email a note was shared, but then the entry pops up under their app too. No need to edit/collab via that email, because you can collab straight from the app. Any collab entries just show up like they are your entries on your app. It’s so convenient and helpful. I really would love to see this app bringing something easy like that to it, because it already has everything we could ask for in journaling, but this one majorly important thing. Aside from this, amazing job developers!

best journal I’ve had. I got this at the end of 2020 and so far it’s the only journal I’ve been able to commit to. Physical journals can get tiring to carry around, longer entries get difficult to write and start to loose their meaning once I start to shorten phrases or words. Digital journals are great to be able to to carry around and have wherever you go, as well as the ease of typing but a lot of them feel tacky. Day one has such great and easy layout, with good daily questions that don’t feel cheesy to answer when you need some inspiration. I purchased the premium version yesterday and it doesn’t lack anything for me. I’m using two journals at the moment, one for just everything, and a 2nd to print out in a year with more important memories or ideas. The app has so many features without making it feel bloated or overwhelming to look at or use, it’s just a simple writing experience. I also really love how you can see where you took an entry/photo. It really adds to the experience to be able to look back on where I’ve been and what happened in different spots around town. I hope to use this journal for years to come, thanks to the developers for really making a great app.

Upload issues with multiple devices. I think the layout and the format is fine but the device needs to work on how it handles uploads. I’ll use an example of an issue: I begin an entry on my iPhone but then I go to finish it on my Mac. Should be no problem with cloud storage. What’s happening is the app will often re-recognize uploads from other devices as your working on editing an entry and will completely overwrite your work with the previous upload. So in my example, if I’m picking it back up on my Mac. After 10 mins of typing my uploads will resync and it wipe all my work I was doing. And this is a very frustrating issue. The only way I’ve prevented this is by closing all other instances of Day One when working on another device. But this could be fixed by having user prompts for conflicting iCloud uploads for similar entries. I have seen other apps simply have a message pop up saying they detected multiple instances of the same thing and asking for me to choose which one to continue working on or delete. Why is it so hard to utilize that kind of feature? Anyways that’s a big issue for me. Especially when your typing something that’s a journal replacing pen and paper thats subscription based.

On the fence. I have only been using Day One for a few days now and overall I like it, I think. I think it is great how they offer a 1 month trial period for premium, that gives you a lot of time to really figure out all the features and whether it is the right app for you or not. The photos with the location options is a great feature and it is nice to be able to easily reflect back on specific days. My biggest “upset” with the app is that I wish the entries were distinguished differently. I am only using the iPhone version of this app so I cannot speak on any other version, but every entry and day just seems to blend together. The only thing too indicate that entries are from different days is a small date stamp on the right side of the screen. Ideally, I would like to see an option that allows you to only see that days entries and you can toggle left or right to go in between days. I say that as an option because it seems like the majority of users of this app have no complaints about the layout but for those that do, something like that would be a great feature. EDITED: So I literally found the Today View right after posting this review. If there was an option to have the Today View as the primary viewing option in the Timeline tab than that would be perfect!

Great app and the BEST customer service. I love this app and have been using it daily since 2018 and have filled it to bursting with pictures and videos and all sorts of important stuff …..but unfortunately with a huge file like that, things will happen and entries have disappeared. Some entries disappeared on their own in December and January and I was helped significantly by a gentleman named Cameron. Plus I was very relieved to discover that they can restore deleted entries, but they can’t see what is in the entry. So privacy is super secure, which is important to me. Then on the morning of March 3, 2022 I accidentally created a duplicate entry, and instead of deleting the empty duplicate, I deleted yesterday’s extremely important entry, and was very upset at myself and distraught, and I emailed support through the app…. but since I still had the emails from Cameron, I emailed him as well, and then I went to the grocery store and the bank, and by the time I got home, he had restored it. No fuss, no muss, no coconuts. Most importantly, no judgment. And very shortly after Cameron resolved things, I heard back from the email I sent through the app. The importance of this wonderful customer service cannot be overstated. I cannot thank Cameron and Lindsey and everybody else who works there enough for their support. And I can’t emphasize enough what a great resource this app is for somebody who is getting older and whose memory is not what it used to be!

Love this app more year by year. I was happily using this app, doing audio recording from my Apple Watch. Now suddenly audio recording is only available in the Premium version. This is an unexpected downgrade. Grr. UPDATE: I take it back. I misunderstood the recording icon. There is a difference between dictating an entry and creating a recording. The developer contacted me to make sure I understood that point. This app is invaluable to me for one purpose: When I get sick, and have to take several medications on different schedules, I can simply dictate into my Apple Watch what time I take each med. Right now I have a bad cold and am so sick I can’t keep track of anything. This journal is exactly what I need. I have other journals, too. This is a great app. UPDATE: I just discovered that my subscription is now Premium. I guess I must have forgotten I upgraded. Anyway, it turns out that this subscription allows me to download and use this app on my Mac computer. That’s wonderful. Still love this app.

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Easy to record your memories. It’s simple to use with flexibility to do what you need. I like the way it allows you to upload photos against each entry and I’m just starting to get used to the email in functionality. If you want to start recording your experiences and feelings. This is definitely the way to do it. If have a manual diary this is a great way to transfer to digital for ease of entry and retrieval. Well done to this company!

Efficient, multi-purpose and user friendly!. I’ve been using day one only for a few days and I’m really enjoying the interface, the friendless and the ease of writing daily journals. It offers many things that help enhance your journal entries from the traditional aspect that allows you to add photos, add audio and many more other things that help capture your day. Another really great implementation is the daily quotes or phrase you’re given each day. Couldn’t recommend anything else!

day one. I liked this app - what i don't like is paying for the premium application as a yearly subscription, and the frigging sync deciding it isn't going to keep syncing, maybe because someone plays funny buggers with my apple accounts...either way, I'm less impressed now than I was initially. And correspondence from the application developers really didn't help! I don't appreciate paying for an application, to then have it's "creators" decide to up the ante on my personal writing/thoughts/photographs - without providing any addition security for the app. itself. The response from application developers is inconsistent with advice on the application help section and they very obviously don’t put negative reviews on the application download page, because they’d like you to believe it’s “safe”. It isn’t! Not only do the app developers have the capacity to access your content, paying for a yearly subscription does not mean you are a “preferred” customer - just that they think you’re too stupid to notice when entries go “missing”! Seriously - now exceptionally unimpressed!

Concept great but be warned. I began using this journal as a electronic note taking device for work as it has meta data showing when the notes were taken and last edited - brilliant. I paid for the premium being $40 or so to have syncing and unlimited journal entries. I continuously switch between my iPad and iPhone and thought the syncing feature was fantastic, however in the last week and a half, the syncing has failed and there is no eta on a fix or even an update. Consider this before buying the application. My recommendation is to wait until they have a patch for this.

Share option changed for no reason. Not sure why they’ve changed the share options so that you have to choose export now. Annoying when developers change things that are working got no reason. Also it could backup to iCloud for nothing but instead they try to charge for their own cloud backup. Silly. Your response kind of flips your business model and issues back on me as a user though. Responses like yours just make me feel worse about your app if I’m honest. Why not just have a subscription for features we need instead of making us pay for things we don’t need. I’ve also reported a bug ages ago about the extra carriage returns at the end of lists but it’s been ignored.

The original and still the best. I’ve been using Day One on my iPhone and Mac for many years now. One of my longest used apps. These guys are the best. Really great devs. Beautifully designed app that I use as my daily journal. They’ve added so many features over the years, lots of which I don’t really use (I just need a simple daily journal) but I’m sure others do and it shows their dedication to the product. Sync is fast and reliable, keeps my journal in sync between iPhone and Mac. They didn’t make my paid apps stop working when they switched to subscription model, which I really appreciate. Bloom Built are the best. Huge fan of these guys.

I feel a little betrayed. I have been using Day One since 2011. When they said I had to buy it to be able to sync between devices I did. I made my multiple journals such as my gratitude journal and my health fears journal and my anxiety journal. I have severe anxiety and have just been cured of cancer and this helped. Now I am told that my purchase was not enough and to be able to access my other journals I have to pay again. I was told as purchaser of the previous journal I was suppose to get a discount and it does not look like it is happening. What about the loyalty of your previous customers who have stayed with you for years? I do not mind buying results of your hard work but this subscription model apps are adopting is shameful.

Fantastic e-journal. Absolutely love it and use it almost everyday. I can add up to 10 photos now since they upgraded the version. Continuos improvement has been wonderful. Thank you, creators of DayOne. The one thing I can't do is save photos back to my camera when I want to. Could you enable this function? Tq. Update: sep2022 x why does it keep popping up a message saying another version is available and cuts me off my typing every other day? Did developer change something and not test the new version properly?

MAJOR bug not fixed for months: DayOne is not interested in the quality. DayOne bug After creating a backup, I clicked on “Send Backup” to send the ZIP file to another program Bug: The images are NOT included in the ZIP file. Consequently, I can’t backup the images! Please fix ASAP. The bug is present since v3.0. It’s v3.2 and DayOne still has not fixed it. Suggested Workaround does not work: DayOne support suggested using the export to JSON as a workaround. The workaround does NOT fix the problem. It does not preserve the links to other entries! All the inter-entry links in the imported journal points back to the original journal. So, if you lose the original journal, you lose all the inter-entry links! When will DayOne fix this bug? It’s been months they’ve introduced this bug (since v3.0) and despite assurances by their Support that they’re aware of this bug, they still haven’t fix this bug. My conclusion: fixing this bug is not a priority for them. They are not interested in producing a quality product.

Good app just needs a couple of extra functions. This is a good app for keeping all your notes in specific journal categories. If it could also use the apple pen (not just for drawing) and attach documents to notes it would be super fab for work. Be great if it connected to LinkedIn so you could send articles for my reading list journal. When I changed text colour it changed the entire paragraph - I only wanted one sentence. Otherwise, it’s probably one of the best note taking apps.

Moving Forward. I once wrote a less then pleasant review for Day One. Citing price and lack of sync without a fee. But with the dawn of Day One 2.0 well and truely here I have to recant my previous gripe and hand it to the Developer’s. Day One has evolved into an excellent application with a range of options available to the user. A notable feature is the book printing (iOS only at the time of writing) which lets you print your journals. If you’re will to hit the subscription and own a Mac you’ll make great use of the application across both platforms. There’s also quiet work underway for a web based version of application which will only further solidify Day One as the best Journal app you can have. I’m interested to see what the developers will do next in 2018!

Great app. I can’t remember what I paid for my subscription but whatever it is, it’s worth it. They really do offer personalised support and 5e app works seamlessly. I haven’t tried their printing service for journals so can’t comment about that, but I save my journals as PDF anyway, so can always print later if I want. I use this app on iPad and MacBook Air and have no problems syncing. Easy to add photos and other info to journals which is very useful.

Great Application for professional and personal items. I have been using the app for two years now and I recommended it to all my colleagues. I use it primarily as a work journal but I have made a travel diary with the family on our last family trip. Possible improvements would provide for interface with iOS calendar to see the entries or note events from the calendar for the day.

Amazing app - pity I can’t access ANY of my past entries. I used this app for photo, video and written diary entries. It’s awesome to use and fitted my needs perfectly. However, when I changed phones, none of my video or photo data was accessible. Not one. So I went to support, who asked me tons of questions, said they’d look into it and never got back to me. I tried to export my data several times and it failed. I had assumed that the data entered would be stored on a server so it would be accessible by all devices, and they never answered this question when I asked them about it. I also could never access my videos from my laptop either. Also never resolved. I followed up with them several times and it’s now been about six months and literally nothing was ever done. Zero answers from tech support other than “we’re looking into it” which they clearly weren’t. They seemed completely clueless and continued to ask me the same questions over and over. Nightmare. Now I’ve lost around 6 months’ worth of detailed entries. Thanks a million Day One. Don’t use this app if you want to actually access this data in the future. What a waste of time.

My life in Day One. I’ve been using this app for about four years. It has been my source of comfort through some very difficult times when living overseas. It has allowed me to become far more expressive and thoughtful about events that happened in my life. One thing about doing a journal entry is that you’re able to say the things you might not be able to say to another person. This allows you to really take an issue, remove it from your mind, verbalise how you feel and why and give clarity to things you may be confused about. Day One allows you to integrate other parts of your life into this one beautiful app too, such as photographs, that can represent your day and feelings.

Amazing!. After my father recently passing away from cancer. I had become depressed, resentful to my family and enter a dark place. It has been 5 months and I was watching a self help documentary. In this doco they recommended journaling everyday to help with my emotions. So I searched through loads of apps. I read current user reviews and thought to myself why not, this one sounds great. I’m not one to pay for apps but this was worth every scent. I have used this app for 4 consecutive days now. I know short, but I have created multiple entries. You can create more then one ‘journal’ at a time. I’m currently journal about ‘my life at 30’ and new business ideas for a project I’m working on. You can also create books from this app. How amazing, it’s absolutely changed my life and my vision to life. I can now express myself in words in total secret or I can chose to share through social media. Hope you enjoy and support this amazing app as much as me. I would love to see what else they can add in the near future. 5 stars!!!

Great. I have been using it for 3 years and just love it. Being reminded what happened on a particular day in the past is a real bonus. An update: This journal has improved since the last posting. Getting older it’s amazing how the memory distorts. This puts it all into perspective. A further update - July 2019 - the support team are prompt, friendly and helpful. Premium for me is worth it. It does make you more more diligent and disciplined. As for helping you remember past events it is exceptional. I love it

No activity location based map history?. I’ve located the activity feed for each day, with the list of various places and photos I have been to, however, when selecting the map tab I cannot see a daily rundown of my activity paths/where I travelled to and what paths taken, and what places I visited on a map? I can see the map, but no path/or hotspots showing activity. I think this is a necessity especially for people who may not necessarily want to write anything on a particular day in their journal, but still want to see their past activity on a map for each and every day? It would be much appreciated if this was integrated, thanking you 👍

Best App I Have Ever Had. I have tried to make a habit out of using multiple different kinds of apps, for all sorts of reasons, however Day One is the only one that had actually been successful. I use it daily, and couldn’t ask for a more user friendly / enjoyable app. Not only does it work very well, the rewards from using it are second to none. Having a safe and reliable place to journal for years on end, make what this app has given me, more than money can but nor words can explain. A place to save memories, record and remember things, otherwise impossible for the human brain to do alone. It has provided me with joy and security for a long time, and will continue to do so for a long time to come.

Enjoyable. After more than 600 days using the platform, I gotta say it is pretty enjoyable. You can track absolutely anything - from what day, to the place, to the weather, and many more. The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars was because of 2 main reasons - and those were because there hasn’t really been a major update (I would say add something like being able to create art diaries, or to be able to add a ‘mood meter’ for every diary day you make. The other reason is I think with so many other features, the ‘Basic’ version of the app should be with more features. Yes, I know you will need to make money no matter what - but with the amount of features, you might wanna add a few more features to the basic version. But overall, pretty enjoyable!

GAME CHANGER. Literally changed my life… Using the template function to prompt me to take action for myself, check off daily reminders and checklists, I have been able to find happiness and success in ways that I didn’t know possible. This app is the convergence point for all your of self improvement strategies and can be the catalyst for some serious change.

Loved Since Day One. I have used this application for what feels like a decade now. I have loved every second of it, from a moody teenager laying down my thoughts, to capturing ideas, university notes and more. It’s something you don’t notice because it just works. Two top features I love is one, Markdown, two encryption. If I could suggest just one feature it would be to regenerative a new key.

Perfect journal!. I have been using this app for nearly a week and I’m so happy with the flexibility that it offers. I have full control over what I want to cover every day and how many times a day. Thanks to this app, I can check in with my thoughts, feelings and actions 3 times a day without having to get out a physical diary in front of everyone at work. Thank you for making this!

Day One anchors my day. I have been using this app for 8 years now. Beside it being reliable and able to sync to my other devices without any problems. It has become a staple app for my life. I use it every day. Being able to record pictures, places as well as my inner thoughts is a powerful spiritual tool. Each day being able to track and remember where I was at the same date years earlier.

AMAZING. This is an amazing journaling app. I’m on the 7-day free trial. I’m definitely keeping this. It’s great for much more than journaling and planning. You can open as many journals as you like. Writing is so much fun on this that I can’t stop. You can also do audio recordings with transcripts that are almost accurate. Many many more features that I haven’t used yet. Got it only yesterday and I already have 5+ journals for different tasks.

Love this App.. This app allows me track and record my every movement, adding as many photos as I wish, mapping my location and multiple diaries each for different purposes. It’s a great way to record and sort your business life and personal adventures throughout the year. Looking back on your achievements or adventures is easy and enjoyable. I highly recommend this app for both business and pleasure recording.

This is a great App. It is the first app that has made me put the time aside to note what I have done through the day. It is making me feel organised and it is just so easy to use. I have only used the support once and they were great. The service was flawless. I sent the request on a Sunday expecting to get a response in a few days to a week and unbelievably I received a response in 10 minutes, absolutely amazing. Thanks guys, unbelievable service and a great app.

Pretty much only limited by your imagination. I tried this app out as a digital bullet journal alternative, and boy can I say, I’ve only had it for just under a week and I will be definitely keeping my premium status after the trial (though I changed it from yearly to monthly). I love that you can make different journals for different things, a few I have are: planner (to do lists and stuff), habits, dream journal and a budgeting section. I will say I was a bit confused at first, but you really just need to dive in and try things out. This app is exactly what I wanted and more, I think the one thing that would make it better would be a calendar planner section where you can add appointments and things ahead of time, without it clogging up the top of the main journal page you put it in, but it would only show up a set amount of time in advance (you could set it to a few days, a week, a month). I highly recommend this app to anyone looking for a good diary, notebook, to-do list, planner, or digital bullet journal.

Helping hand. Only had this app for 2 months. It’s very helpful to keep track of how things are going or not going. Sometimes I don’t want to or feel like posting but I force myself and make note of it. Really is a smart app, helpful in many ways, .. me iam not used to journaling , but this is baby steps for me to really make an effort, thank you for making the app... one of my more favourite practical apps. Cheers Zach

DAY ONE please add Monthly Mood Review as a new widget function PLZ. DAY ONE please add Monthly Mood Review as a new widget function PLZZZZ I really love your app, but it'd be perfect if you can add this!🥹💕 A really nice app! I use it as my diary, cafe collection, inspiration saver etc. But, if they can have a function of sharing folder with others to edit, that'd be good! And for the widget, I really hope there's one more widget for me to choose. Like the app MOODA, to show how each day's mood in a monthly review for widget, that'd be really cute!

Best journaling app. Very easy to get into the habit of writing everyday. The photos make it dynamic and all the metadata such as location, time and weather that gets added automatically makes for a unique experience you can’t get with a regular paper app. I love being able to export the journal at the end of the year and keep on my book shelf. The new look books are really cool with maps for each month. Highly recommended.

The best investment I’ve ever made for myself.. This App is a perfect companion for someone who is interested in growing and appreciate life. I’ve been trying many different journaling Apps over the years (mostly one-time payments.) Honestly, not a single one of them can provide me such a secured and trustworthy service as Day One do. I’ve paid for the whole year subscription. After experiencing it for over three months, I believe I’ll keep supporting this company because it really delivers its promise. Moreover, thanks to the unique options that Day One has. I get to explore different ways to record my life. It’s so much fun to use.

BEWARE. Absolutely love love love this app. I don’t post on facebook any more; I write into my Day One journal instead and make REAL friends in REAL life instead of keeping fake followers. BEWARE!! however... I attempted to download a copy to put on my Windows PC so I could type entries even faster. I went to the pcmacstore, which advertised a PC version that would work on Windows, using the Day One icon and everything... but when I followed the link to the Microsoft Store and added Day One, it was a Chinese knock-off designed to steal your money... it looked nothing like Day One and didn’t do any of the same things. Don’t fall into this trap.

Best Note Taking and Journaling App Ever!. No. I didn’t get a prompt to rate DayOne. I took the time to write a review. Just an incredible app. Love everthing about it. Very thoughtful design. Bit Applesque like Steve Jobs. The font, layout, user experience is simply amazing. It makes you want to write about your day and enter it into the journal. I love the layout and the style so much, I’m using it as my default to do and strategic planning app. Just brilliant. Highly recommended!

Privacy now gone?. [UPDATE] My prediction has come true. Gone is the brilliant support you used to get. Now, you receive an email that simply says “Read the help guides”. If your answer is not found, reply to this email and we’ll get back to you in 48 hours. Gee thanks! Only a matter of time now before they start losing users. Such a shame. The fact that this application has been sold is a real worry for me now. The new privacy policy emphasises the fact that they will be accessing our unique ID for our phones. This of course implies that our data will now be sold to other companies for the purposes of advertising and for Day One to make extra money. Too bad that greed has crept in and has made us nothing more than a commodity.

The perfect journaling app. DayOne is ideal for journaling. Some people have said to me, “Oh, I just use Evernote for that.” To me, that’s like doing your journal in your scrapbook, mixed in with other miscellaneous clippings. Your journal is important enough to warrant its own ‘place’ and app, and DayOne is the best app in this category. It has a beautiful interface, is intuitive to use, syncs between my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Pro (and to the cloud) and adds value to my entries with things like tagging my location for each entry. Highly recommended.

Making a habit out of journaling easy. Day one is awesome because you can take it anywhere with you. You always have your phone or other device so your never unable to journal. It has streaks to keep you building the habit. I love that even if you miss a day and you go back the next day you can change the date it was for and therefore not lose your streak. I also love you can design your own templates/questions. Because everyone is different and everyone needs to journal about different moments and experiences.

Almost perfect.. I’m so thankful to D1 for having end-to-end zero knowledge encryption. It means all my private notes, photos and videos cannot be read by anyone including D1. I literally moved apps for this feature, it is really a deal maker or breaker, after all… it is your diary! Would give this 5/5 stars but the lacking of some basic features really need to be highlighted. It took ages for D1 to implement highlighting! Finally it’s here but you still can’t cross out text or make a basic table, or weird bugs like when you copy a checkbox, the original one disappears… it shouldn’t be like this, D1 please give us the low hanging fruits. Thanks for implementing the web version! Literally the last bit feature we could ask for!

Obsessed.. This app goes above-and-beyond. The desktop and mobile apps are both fabulous, and the watch app is incredible!! Love love love audio recordings on watch. Day One makes it so easy to create rich memories using all different mediums – words, photos, location, what you’re listening to, stats about your day like the weather and how many steps you’ve done, videos, audio recordings, documents, the list is goes on. I also love all the different font options. Look up “day one markdown guide” for some cool extra ones. ☆ I have made shortcut integrations for planning my day, reflecting on my day, reflecting on my breakup (use the ‘days since’ in shortcuts so you can automatically insert that into your entry, eg. “120 days post-breakup” – nifty.) I use templates for things like recording my 5km runs, budget etc. Like I said, this app is just above-and-beyond. MORE THAN worth the 10¢ /day I pay for premium. I’d pay many many times that for the value I get from it! ♡ Thank-you Day One! ♥

Favourite Feature Gone. So I downloaded this app maybe six months ago now and I loved the option of accessing my journals from my PC. It seems this feature is now completely gone and it is one really big reason I committed to this app and a premium account. I haven’t benefitted from a feature I was so excited for yet. I read about things under way but it’s awhile since then and still not an option. I have enjoyed the ability to add all sorts of media but I was really looking forward to having access on the web and I wanted to know if it’s coming back or not. I’d like to be able to write/edit from my windows pc at times.

Fabulous diary app. I used to handwrite a diary, especially when travelling. Sadly, I have developed arthritis in my hands and writing is no longer a joy. I’m no longer disappointed - I’ve discovered Day One and I have it on my phone, iPad and MacBook. I mainly use my phone and iPad when on holiday and can record a great diary record almost instantly, including photos. I made a book from a two week road trip last year and am very pleased with the results and the price, considering I live in Australia and it had to travel through Covid-delayed post to get to me from USA. I’ve also found the support to be extremely responsive and helpful. I have the Premium version and consider it well worth it.

Looks different than on the AppStore. Hi, I’m a new user and just downloaded the app, but my timeline view looks different (not as nice) as in your appStore screens: My photos are aligned at the right, bunched up with the date, which makes it look not nicely :( On your screens in the AppStore the photos are on the left, which looks much better and cleaner. Was that changed by accident? I don’t like the look now, it’s such a pity as the rest of the app works well, but this timeline view seems to be the main view to see all my data and be able to read through it, but it’s so squeezed and unpleasant now :( Will that be changed again?

On version 3. I’m missing a few things about the older version. There isn’t an option to copy entry text anymore. I realise I can tap the text and select all using iOS’s default functionality, but the old way was much cleaner and easier. Also, the paper clip icon above the keyboard sometimes goes missing meaning I have to close my entry and reopen it so I can attach photos and location info. I’d like to add photos from Google Photos to my entries from previous years so they show up on the “On this day” feature. Copying is now a very manual process, one by one, from GP to DO. When using the sharing function in GP, it just creates a blank entry, with none of the selected photos.

I have given up the paper diary, which took too much space and storage!. As much as it pained me to to the change, I now have all my entries in one place, searchable and environment friendly. We have a small house and the 30+ journals were really stacking up. I’ve used this app for at least a year now (possibly more, I could check but I couldn’t be bothered!!) and I absolutely love it!

Day one review. Journaling is a way of life me, and has been a part of my existence for well over 30 years After writing in paperback diaries every day since 1991. I have came to appreciate the true value of this release I switched today one digital diary around a couple of years ago and from the beginning of this year it was totally Digital for me After scanning in all of my old diaries I’m beginning the process of digitising themAnd I am still nowhere near finished that process On occasions I still use my digita pencil with good notes to make me feel expression of writing but mainly I digitise each day Day one is a very good program but by no means perfect, I have small issues nearly every day but I always manage to get around them and enjoy the process After my first year going totally digital there is no going back And day one is my preferred option for moving forward

Web-Based Version?. As per your website, “Believe your eyes, it’s happening. We’re hard at work building a web-based version of Day One that will allow secure and encrypted journaling from within your favorite web browser like Safari, Chrome, or Firefox.”, I was wondering if you have a timeline. Over the last couple of years, the same comment has been provided to users asking about the availability of a web-based version, and with the above comment being over 7 months in age, will we get to believe our eyes?

New version. It’s taking some getting used to after using the last version for so long, but I am sure I will get the hang of it. I am a little bit disappointed about the ‘one size fits all’ subscription service. There are many new features like unlimited journals, but I am not likely to use most of what it pays for. I just want to back up before I get a new phone. $1 a day doesn’t sound like much, but $36 for a year does. It roughly equals 250G of Google storage and I am sure I am not backing up that much data. It would be good to have tiered pricing plan.

Great app! But no sync in the new version. I’ve been using this app on my phone and laptop for the past 2 years and love it! Super easy to use and access past entries. Just using the standard free version I loved how my entries would sync across my phone and laptop, but after downloading the new version I realised it doesn’t do that any more (unless you get premium), so in terms of that it’s a little inconvenient that I won’t be able to use both my phone and laptop to write entries - may have to just choose one and stick with it if I don’t want to worry about having entries on different devices. Nevertheless - ones of the best journal apps out there!

Day one keeps me grounded. Day one has helped me capture my thoughts and allowed me to process a series of things that trouble me during day to day living. It is a fantastic tool to keep you honest with what’s happening around you, especially during these trying times. Whilst I know I won’t always go back to re-read the pages as I use this as a daily journaling exercise, it is always good to know that 5-10 years down the line, I have a place to revisit my thoughts again, if needed. Highly recommend!

The BEST journaling app. I have used Day One on a daily basis for over 7 years. During that time I have never discovered anything that came anywhere near close to Day One. As a creative it enables me to add different kinds of media, which I value and appreciate. I’m a committed Day One user and recommend it often to friends and anyone who will listen. 10/10 for Day One from me!

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No iCloud sync. Still the best journaling app out there, however its biggest minus is the lack of iCloud sync, and therefore a loss of two stars.

What the Price Tag is Happening?. I’ve had Day One for several years on my Mac. I just downloaded it for my iPad and discovered if I want to sync or do anything other than type, I have to pay a premium fee. F&$% that.

Love it? Not anymore!. A year ago, I said I loved it. Well, not so much anymore. In fact, I'm going to stop using it after too many syncing problems, too many instances of entire entries lost and absolutely NO help from their "support" people. Do not buy/use it - not for iOS, and not for the Mac either.

$30 a year for dark mode????. I love the app however not allowing dark mode outside of a yearly subscription smacks of greed. IOS will now have system wide dark mode I hope you guys rethink this business model.

Great app, company should update App Store pricing. I’ve been a user since the beginning, and really love the app for many reasons, including that they had a monthly subscription available. However, once automattic took over, the monthly subscription was removed from the app, even though it shows in the App Store. It would be great if, at the yearly price, users would also get a subscription to Wordpress.com as an added incentive.

Thought Journal. With todays influx of information, the modern journal needs to be able to quickly capture new ideas while also incorporating outside resources. Day1 is easily the best way to do this. Visualize your life as it’s captured in your journal. Love it.

What's with the price?. I bought this app before and it was fine. But now im sippose to pay $5 a month just to sync back the old entries i made and keep paying forever? Seriously?! I hope the app dies a slow horrible death.

Disappointing to original Day One Classic Users. No Premium subscription discount offered to original Day One Classic Users who first supported this app. Very disappointing. We feel very ripped off.

Too expensive for basic features. I recently decided to go back to daily journaling and resume using what I remember being a stellar app only to find out that basic syncing between devices and posting pictures costs US$40/year. Are you guys for real? I’m happy to provide ongoing support to the team but this is just too much. $9.99 per year is the upper limit before you really have to think if you’re going to get that much use out of a subscription. So, I’m out. I’ll find an alternative.

Major issue with security. This app has a major flaw. Even when you set a PIN to unlock your personal notes, there is a moment when you first open the app that you can view the contents before you enter in the PIN. Anyone can open the app and take a screenshot of the journals before the PIN prompt comes up. This is careless from the development and testing team for this app. Fix this and I will bump up my rating.

Best way to journal in our digital world. In our digital world it’s social media has kinda become the easiest place to document our lives. Dayone changes that. I can capture all the digital aspects of my life in one beautiful streamlined way, designed to help me engage with it in a really inspiring way. But completely privately. It’s definitely the journal of modern times. The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because it’s not open source so I can’t know for certain it’s truly end-to-end encrypted. I would also love a couple features such as OCR for photos of handwritten journal entries I log here; a tag management system; smart journals; the ability to hide individual entries from timelines; synced entries (entries that show up in multiple journals but when edited, changes show in both); creating blocks that don’t show in the entry preview or show up in search would be helpful (ie: wanting to put a quote at the top of a template). These very specific desires are very much a a result of loving this app so much and wanting to use it in every possible way. I’m so in love. A must try for anyone struggling to keep an analog journal in a digital world and those already journaling digitally (your journal app if probably not as good as this one…)

You need a model change. I loved this app and invested a great deal in using it when it first came out. Then rue developers decided to go to a subscription model and graciously allowed older users to stay on without paying subscription – though this meant far fewer features. But it was never easy to transition between phones, max, etc., especially when you bought new hardware so that you ended up with issues with back ups, etc. even though the developers offered some assistance. In the end, I simply stopped using the app as it wasn’t worth the hassle. I think it’s time we go back to a model that is non-subscription where we perhaps we get charged for version upgrades but not anything else. Subscriptions are expensive, especially when you consider them cumulatively per app and across apps, and while it may be a sustainable model On the business front, it is not for the consumer.

Made the Switch. Made the switch 2-3 years ago. I was using Momento but switched because of sync ability and because you could use landscape rather than stuck in portrait. However I wished that you could import from momento without having to buy desktop version. Did find a work around that took me a lot of time without having to buy desktop. Besides - don't have Mac to update from. Also would like to import from other formats, csv, or even plain text. Recently they have allowed special formatting like bold, italics, point/number/checkbox form etc. great addition.

Amazing App. This is the best journaling app I’ve used. I love being able to track my ideas and thoughts over time. The team is great keep it up!!

Simply Awesome!. I have been using this app for 10 years and it is great! I have 10+ years of my memories at my fingertips (literally as I get hard copy journals made of all my entries!). Love it!

The only feature I’m paying for stopped working. It has almost been a year that I’m a paid customer of DayOne. After multiple tries with the support team, the only basic function I’m paying this app for, (adding a picture to post) stopped working with no fix in sight. It was a flawless app, loved it so much and wanted to be a lifetime customer. After spending weeks with support, I was told that there’s nothing that can be done.

Record keeping. Number one reason I can go back any day and see what I did where I went what I added - now I need to journal more to fill in the blanks that is the goal for my 4th year having the app

Exactly what I need and want. I’ve tried several other different journal applications, and have not been satisfied with any of them. Some offered too much; some offered too little. Day One has become my choice, because it allows synchronized entries from my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro. The interface is simple and effective, and that encourages me to continue with my journaling. The price is reasonable, and the support is great!

Tenté d’acheter la version payante. Fonctionne bien. Privé, intuitif et agréable à utiliser.

Something to look forward to each morning. Day one has been a wonderful addition to my daily routine. I have struggled for years with consistent journaling but Day one’s prompts, excellent interface, and ability to incorporate photos and video into the entries make it a next level experience. Add the fact that it has cloud support so you can pick it up across multiple devices and you have an A+ winner.

Media View. Please Day One team, could you add a settings option for the media view on the iPad to fill the entire screen the way it does on the iPhone version. Otherwise, a great journalling app.

Too expensive for a text app. New free Apple app!. Being an original support, sad to see this app become too greedy and expensive for basic features. Can’t wait for the new Apple journal app that does everything and more for FREE!!! IOS17, peeps!

Loving this app (even though I still journal on paper). I am a long time journalier who has been on and off for decades. I still keep a paper diary and love all the artistic possibilities of doing so. But Day One is BRILLIANT because it allows me to save photos and videos in a way I couldn’t do on paper. I wanted to curb my social media usage and possibly the only thing I missed from Facebook was their “on this day” feature. Day One brilliantly solves that problem. And because it’s private, I can add a lot more emotion or insight than I would have publicly. I’m on a 200+ day streak and I hope I’ll never break it!

Great app but…. Customer of the classic version and it’s no longer supported on recent iOS. Support your legacy customers please. I’m not looking for more subscription services.

Suspicious. So a “private” journal states in the privacy section that it may collect data linked to you on: your location, your health and fitness, your contact info, your own user-generated content, and other identifiers. Maybe it’s fine, maybe it’s not. Either way I’ll stick to an app that chooses not to collect any of my personal data.

If you don’t sign up to premium, all your journal entries are lost. One thing that they don’t make clear is this, if you don’t sign up for premium, and the app is deleted off your phone/something happens to your phone, all your entries will be lost. This just happened to me. I lost over a years worth of entries. Stories about my little kids I will never get back. That my tired mom brain will not remember. I feel just sick about it. And premium is $50/month which is way too expensive for a journal app. And I don’t even know if I can trust it anyway after what happened.

Simply the best!. I am an avid writer and have always kept a daily journal along with various writing projects. Day One is such a terrific improvement over an app I already used daily! Having the ability to have multiple notebooks alone was worth the upgrade! Throw in the custom notebook colours, and multiple photos in an entry, plus more little perks, and you've got one very slick app! Plus the design is so pleasing to the eye! If you enjoy writing in any way, this is a must try!!

Great!. Great journaling experience on all my devices. It actually makes me want to write regularly.

Best journaling app. One of my essentials. Have been journaling on DayOne daily for the last 12+ years. Absolutely love this app. Complete and powerful features. Splendid interface. Very user friendly. A Must have. 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Fking Love This App. That’s it.

Lacking. Lacks basic features that many of the other note/journal apps have for free. Deleted

I have been using this for over 10 years now, and I love it. I will never moved to another provider.. Love it best system ever

crashing since the update. Love this app, but i need it to work! It wont even open...

This app is goated. Fr the best notes app I’ve ever used. I love the note templates feature I use it for every note it’s so great. The widget where you can see your streak on your home page is amazing I added it the first day and haven’t removed it since. If premium was cheaper I’d get it for sure but so far the free version has been great.

Great app. Would be perfect if audio recorded on the Apple Watch or in MacOS had the same transcript feature as the iPhone. Or at least a button to 'transcribe' an audio recording after the fact

Disappointing. The only single reason this app is disappointing to me is the pricing structure. There is so option for a one time buy, and since there doesn’t seem to be any option to export your data, and obviously ya don’t want to delete all your journals, their recurring pricing structure pretty much means that you are committed to keep paying for it for life. This is very disappointing to me as it seemed like a very good app, otherwise, and I would have gladly paid for it as a one-time buy, but for the sole reason that there is no such option, I just cancelled my free trial, and am on the hunt for another journal app.

Best journal app. I’ve tried many journal apps, day one has been the best becsuse - I can add tags to my notes - I can add photos and videos - I can use pre built templates like the 5min morning template, - it tracks Every that I journal to encourage habit building, All in all, a great app!

Not bad. I would subscribe if there was a monthly option.

Really?. I love this app, but do we really have to PAY to add photos????🙄

Bien trop dispendieux!. Je vais transférer tout ça dans un autre logiciel. That’s it. Extrêmement décevant.

subscription. The need for a subscription makes this app useless, would be more willing to make a one time purchase of $5 to $10 dollars.

A Month’s Worth of Entries Vanished. Over a month’s worth of entries have simply vanished from my devices and cloud backup. Very disappointing.

All journals from old app lost. With the update to the new version of the app access to old journals seems to have been lost entirely.

1 star for now. Dev: “Unsustainable to reduce price.” App: 500,000 premium subscribers. This equals 20 million a year. I’m all for honest income, but if 20 million a year is not sustaining the developers than it’s pure greed…

stopped working???. i wrote one entry and then after that whenever i clicked to write a new one the app kicked me out

Been using it for years. Day One is one of the apps that I’ve just kept around for years and years. I don’t love all of their design decisions, but the core experience of writing and recalling has remained solid. I also do love the streak tracking feature. Feels good to breach 100 days in a row.

Pricing is ridiculous. 🤬

Hi. Only suggestion I have is to improve the spellcheck 😇

way too expensive for what it offers. $50 PER YEAR? Subscription models are bad enough, but to pay 50 whole dollars every year for a diary app is insane.

Subscription models 🤢. It’s a shame such a nice app is wrecked by a subscription model. It would be nice to be able to do a one time purchase for dark mode.

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Excellent journal with deep functionality! Highly recommend!. This app works great. I love the gamification of the streaks. Admittedly I’ve missed a day and as long you change that date on the entry it keeps your streak. I have had many, many paper journals in which I have written two entry’s or less, and this is honestly the first journal I have ever looked forward to writing in every single day if not more. It has greatly improved my mental clarity. It’s relieving to get your thoughts out of your head and into a simple elegant journal. Reflecting on one’s own thoughts at a respectful, objective distance is a valuable tool in self discovery and growth. With the comfort of knowing your journal remains truly private with encryption, and the ability to write across all of your devices, whichever is handy, this app is the clear choice if you have decided to start a journal.

Apple Pencil not great. The whole reason I want a digital journal is so I can have the satisfaction and flow of handwriting my thoughts and feelings. IPad and Pencil have opened up the opportunity to have the satisfaction of handwriting with the convenience of a digital format for editing and saving. While I think this app is great so far (I’m just getting started using it), it does not work very well with Apple Pencil. So far I’ve spent more time editing the write-to-text results than actually recording my thoughts/feelings for the day. It would be great to have the option to just have pages of handwriting that just stay that way. I’m sure it will be nice to be able to type if I need to make notes on my phone or another device, but when I sit down in the morning with IPad and Pencil, id like to just let things flow instead of having to constantly correct mis-interpreted words. I haven’t purchased Premium yet, and probably won’t unless I can find a way to make this app work better with my handwriting and with Pencil.

So Many Ways to Utilize!. I have had this app for three years now and I certainly can never live without it again. I love the search function, the ability to keep it totally private and being able to add pictures. Sometimes if I’m really busy I will just take a picture and post it in my journal. I love being able to look at the entries from the prior years each morning and even if it’s just a photo it takes me back to what was going on that day. I keep my journal totally private because it is just for me. I can vent as much as I want and no one will see it but me. I can record my weight. I even keep one entry called “questions for the doctor“ and each time I think of one more thing that I want to ask I search that and add it. That way when I go into the doctor I remember everything I need to ask. I also love that you can tag certain words.

I want to like DayOne but . . .. The issue for me is that it doesn't sync with iCloud, a cloud service I already subscribe to. Yes, it's true that iCloud has had issues in the past but it's very robust now. It's also encrypted in transit and at rest. The subscription model is an issue with me too. Especially since the three day outage and loss of data around the time I signed up. Also, the sync between the Mac and iPad was always running into non-connect issues. I worked with the developer on this, sent many dumps, but nothing was resolved. When I discussed the issues I was having with my devices not syncing (iPad, iPhone, MacBook) I discovered that the developer didn't have five 9s (high availability) and this was scary to me. Also, the files are not stored individually but rather in a location I can't access. This ties me to an export function should I decide to move journaling apps. Although I'd been with DayOne since the beginning and upgraded to DayOne's subscription service, I decided to cut my losses and move to iA Writer which supports sync with iCloud (and it's encryption) and write individual files in markdown (no special format) thereby future-proofing my 20 years of journals. I can at any time view my journals/journal entries and open them with any markdown or text editor. Apple's new "Shortcuts" (workflows) makes adding a new entry or updating an existing one a breeze. For me this is the best journaling solution. Your mileage may vary.

Looks powerful but seems to miss an important feature. I downloaded the app and spent some time exploring its features. Even the basic version seems to have plenty of nice features, but even after some careful search in the settings I wasn’t able to find an option to require any form of authentication when the journal is opened. I get the idea that the device itself requires some form of authentication (passcode / fingerprint) in order to unlock, but I’d like the app to require (optionally) an additional level of authentication, like password management apps do. Unless, I missed something, that critical feature is missing from this otherwise great app. UPDATE: the company pointed out that there is an option for setting a 4-digit passcode or a biometric form of authentication and that’s great! I just didn’t notice it. Still, it’s not possibile to have a classic free form password like I’d prefer, but it’s still a great app. Thanks for the help.

Best journaling app ever. I seriously love this app so much. I have been using it for about ten years now, around the time it was first introduced. No other journal app compares, and honestly I love this app so much that once I started using it years ago, I never even tried searching for another journal app. This is always gonna be the one for me so I hope you stick around for the long haul! ☺️ I have written in it daily for almost 450 consecutive days. Some days I spend 2-3 hours hammering away at my keyboard, typing up my thoughts and memories of the day. Other days I write small highlights. My new habit has changed my life! I recommend keeping a daily journal to everybody. Day One makes it super easy to organize your thoughts, memories, photos, etc into beautiful journals. I love how you can type on any device and it’ll sync, and create multiple journals with their own color label. It’s easy to find entries on the calendar or by searching. The Premium subscription is worth every penny! You won’t regret it. I’ll always be a fan!!! Thanks for all your amazing and hard work with this app. It’s seriously my favorite!! I had an issue a while back and their devs replied right away and helped me resolve it so quickly and easily. Best app AND customer service… this is coming from a Product Owner at another SaaS company, so I know apps very well! Thank you very much for everything you’re doing!

Journal, Thoughts And Book Outlines. An idea hits you when you least expect it. As a leader of an organization I am always thinking about the future, about conversations and ideas to advance our organization. Eighteen months ago I decided that going all digital was a way to capture my ideas when they happen. Searching for a journal app I tried out the free version of Day One. I used it as a personal, spiritual journal, documenting teaching, scriptures that helped me focus my life on Jesus and to study scripture. I set up templates for these things. Then I needed more! I needed to record impact stories from our camp and retreat center. I needed to capture article and white paper ideas. I needed to keep a journal on the maintenance for my vehicles. I now do all of this through Day One. It’s always with me when I have a thought. If you want to always capture your ideas, then purchase Day One. It’s my best app of 2021.

Converted me to journaling.. I have repeatedly tried to keep a journal to no avail. This app changed that. It's so simple, and it's not all up in your face with locked features that need to be payed for. I think there is a premium service but it doesn't remind you every other minute, and I haven't needed anything else so I never noticed it. You can write in your journal anytime, and it doesn't matter if you write a novel's worth or a couple of sentences. Sometimes, I just write a short paragraph after a rough day and that works wonders to ease the burden. I would recommend this app to all my friends and family, or anyone who wouldn't just look at me like a weirdo for randomly approaching and trying to sell them on an app. And guess what? I did recommend it to all of my friends and family! No strangers though.

Day One Review 5 STARS. I've been attempting to keep a journal since high school. The longest effort lasted less than a week which was about three descriptions of personal events. With Day One I've made over years worth of entries. This is a great tool. My writing has improved and I'm using it for much more than a "Dear Diary" record. I use D1 to compose letters to family and friends, log events, track personal exercise, make to-do lists, record favorite recipes, plus many more things that I wouldn't have kept in other journals including photos, heirlooms, travel snapshots, sketches, maps and more. Thank you! Day One you make it easy and fun. Day One has also served well to backtrack events as mundane as service records for appliances, autos and electronic equipment. It has saved the day a few times. Thank you!

The only journal app I love. I’ve tried lots of different journaling solutions including Apple Notes (which is my “second brain”), various journaling apps, Markdown, various notes apps, PC/Linux apps before I used Apple, bullet journaling; but for some reason Day One is the one that actually makes me want to use it. Maybe it’s the UI, maybe the features, maybe it’s the whole package; there’s just something psychologically satisfying about using it. With my ADHD executive dysfunction, certain apps just don’t sit right because there’s little things that take additional effort: whether it’s having to do an extra step, the entries are a pain to review, or organization is not as easy. If you have poor and hazy memory like me, the Premium subscription is 100% worth it to have a solid timeline that contains your thoughts, emotions, intentions, concepts, ideas, brainstorming/brain-dumps, pictures, videos, links, and whatever else all packaged into one app available across your devices. Journaling is cathartic, helps you figure out where you’re at, helps you process your emotions, and gives you a history of your life that you can review at anytime. With Day One, everything just feels right and makes the whole process easy, intuitive, and enjoyable.

Versatile Digital Journal. This app makes me want to journal, and it enables me to do so in a variety of ways. I’ve used it for years now and the improvements just keep getting better. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for a digital journal! I have it on my iPhone, MacBook, and iPad. It’s convenient having an app that syncs across devices so I can jot things down wherever I am. I also love having the ability to create multiple different journals and make entries based on text, images, a quick audio recording, and more. DayOne offers prompts when I’m not sure what to write but have the itch, and has multiple notification/reminder options for in-app push and SMS where you can reply to the text to generate a quick entry on the go. I love it so much, I upgraded to the full experience—worth every penny.

Too convoluted. A journal is supposed to be simple, however this app is not. Sadly, it never has been. I originally bought the app on my MacBook a decade ago, fast forward to today and its almost exactly the same on my iPhone. The moment you open it, you are greeted by an interface that makes no sense. The default notepad on my iPhone is more user friendly than this. The whole point to a journal is mostly to jot your thoughts down, perhaps a photo; that is not the case with this app. I would go as far as to say that it’s discouraging to use because you just want to type your thoughts into a notebook and have it be chronological. You can’t do that with Day One. They want you to create a journal for every category of your life. That’s not journalling, that’s compartmentalizing your life. Twitter is more useful as a journal than this is. Not to mention, but I bought the app on my MacBook and now they want me to pay annually just to sync everything. What’s funny about that is I only ever had two entries before I stopped using it. So to pay just for syncing can’t be justified, instead it’s insulting. How this app has raving reviews is beyond me.

Other journaling apps just don’t measure up. Day One is by far the best journaling app I have come across. Its user experience is unmatched, providing a seamless and visually appealing interface. The GUI is simply beautiful, making the act of journaling a delightful experience. One standout feature is the effortless insertion of media from the current date, allowing me to easily enhance my memories. Additionally, Day One offers simple markdown support, enabling me to format my entries exactly how I want them. The inclusion of daily prompts adds a creative touch, sparking inspiration for my journaling journey. I particularly appreciate the "On this day" pop-ups that remind me of my thoughts and experiences from a year ago, giving me a chance to reflect and appreciate my own growth. Furthermore, Day One rewards users for creating streaks, encouraging consistency in journaling. Overall, Day One surpasses all other journaling apps with its unmatched user experience and features.

FAVORITE JOURNAL. I absolutely love this app! It’s easy to use and convenient! My favorite features include: 1. The automatic time/date/weather/location date it puts in and how if I forget to journal an event and days later I go back to do so, it remembers those facts and asks if I would like to attach them! Of course! It’s neat looking back at entries and seeing the weather, location and time. Gives more depth to the memory. 2. A Mac App!! For longer journal entries or more reflective entries, I always prefer to type on a computer and I love that they have a desktop version that syncs so fluidly with my ios one. 3. Multiple Journals and tags! I love sorting my journals! Tags are nice to sort but the addition of being able to tag AND have other journals is great! 4. Can include movies and photos 5. Can print journals into a book 6. On this day feature showing memories on this day 7. Templates! Makes routine logging convenient and consistent. 8. Calendar integration 9. Password safe 10. BEST JOURNALING APP! Pay the subscription fee! It’s worth it because it supports all the awesome work they do! Besides, a physical journal would cost money too and wouldn’t be half as wonderful. They really do a great job at maintaining this app and they have done a phenomenal job creating it! Love it!

NEW FEATURE: Must now pay to sync between devices!. This app was amazing, was recommended to me by a family member who used it for years and I would occasionally help them and record and edit entries for them. I recently decided to purchase the app for myself and noticed only after I wasted the money purchasing it, that new users must pay yearly to sync thru day one and there is no iCloud sync option like there was previosly. They literally went out of their way to redesign the app so they could make more money despite complaints from many consumers. I will find another solution. It’s a shame because this was a great app, that’s why I gave it two stars instead of one for the greedy developer. Most people pay Apple for extra iCloud storage, asking them to pay the developer for the same functionality is a disgrace. They can use whatever lame excuse they want, that it’s going to benefit for future software features. Then charge for those features when they come out, if people want them that bad they will spend the money then! Bad business. Typical growth for the sake of growth has taken this app down an awful path.

Almost 5 years of journaling and Day One keeps getting better. When I first started journaling almost 5 years ago, I hoped - but couldn’t really believe - that I could make it part of my daily routine and I could keep it going. I give a good bit of the credit to Day One for the fact that I did. This app is superbly crafted to support any kind of journaling activity and makes it very easy to incorporate all forms of input - typing, dictation, audio, photos, videos. I don’t use Instagram, but for those who do the ability to automatically populate your journal from your Instagram account looks very powerful. My favorite feature is how, each day at the time I choose, it reminds me that “on this day” I have prior year journal entries. Looking at those entries, now 4 prior years, reminds me what a rich source of memories my journal is and provides additional motivation to keep it going. Thank you Day One.

Exactly what I need!. This is exactly what I’ve been thinking about! For weeks, I’ve been thinking : “I wish I could get an audio journal of sorts.” I’ve always tried keeping a written journal. But I feel like I don’t get all my thoughts written or typed before I run out of time, or get too tired. More importantly, this app transcribes what I say in my journal. I can add videos and pictures. It documents what the weather was like as I did my entry. It can also keep an exercise journal, which I have yet to explore. I like how this company is focused on allowing giving people the tools necessary to document who they truly are. I deleted my Facebook account because I hate how it has pushed so many people to forget about their true genuine selves in documenting their lives. I gave four stars because I don’t like that I have to go back and add punctuation for everything that was transcribed. If speech-to-text can punctuate, this should be able to punctuate too.

My new best friend. I absolutely love this App. In the past I would try to journal the old fashioned way, with pen and notebook, but it felt like “put it out there and forget it therapy”. Using Day one is like creating a back up of your day to day life and happenings. It’s one of the most intuitive and feature rich applications that I have ever used. I don’t know how I managed before without this app. I think the only way they could improve it for me is to add the ability to write a journal entry using a range of dates or even just allow you to group a span of days. I use it for trips and would love to be able to group the days for a particular trip or event. Sort of like a trip report or event report. That would come in handy for printing a little trip journal or event journal. Customer service is fantastic. It’s just a great app.

Versatile and So Simple. I was an avid journaler since being a teen but I haven’t been able to stay consistent since my thirties when life got so busy raising kids. This app has finally gotten me back into it. It is VERY easy to use. I pay for premium and don’t know if I’d use it without all of the amazing features — I use it online for typing long updates but mostly I use the mobile app. I upload pictures, videos and voice recordings. I often dictate voice to text. I really like the ability to have multiple journals for different purposes. Does everything I need it to, and I feel a huge relief that I’m finally capturing the important details of life again. I’m now in my forties, kids range from elem school to college and ‘Grandmotherhood’ is even on the horizon now — eeek! I don’t want to miss out on keeping record of any more years.

So Far so good. Loving the first few weeks recording my entrepreneurial journeys. I wouldn’t go too crazy with all the details in the journal if you don’t trust others readily (I personally keep trade secrets out of digital writing) just in case... Everything else is extremely good though and nice to have digitized to quickly skim through and see one’s progress. For myself writing is starting to show its value since one can quantify all the work one has put into something over time. It helps psychologically quite a bit, particularly when others don’t quite give you the support needed to go through your adventure, annotating it to later share with new friends and/or to throw it in the face of those that doubted you through the hard times helps to not completely give up on the progress/dream. Only using the free version thus far, I can only imagine what else they have made for me that I will look forward to using as my reflection desires evolve

Favorite Journal so far. I have been interested and journaling more for a long time, but never found the journal that was best for me until now. I'm not sure why it took me so long to discover this app since is been around for a long time, but I'm glad I stumbled upon it now. It seems clear that the creators of this app I have put a lot of work into holding it based on user feedback as it has some really great features that I haven't seen implemented this well in a journaling app. I haven't noticed any glitches so far and it seems to save my journal entries periodically so if I have to exit out in the middle of an entry I don't lose what I've already typed in. I'm only a weekend to using it, but I hope to use it more and more for things like preparing for my day, preparing blog posts about my travels and other adventures, personal journaling, end of day review, and dream journaling. Keep up the good work Day One team!

So close.. I’ve logged hundreds of entries in Day One. I love it. But still, after so much time there are problems. One click has wiped some of my journals, which is due to the poor execution of the ‘merge’ feature, and the book printing and shipping has been less than stellar. I’ve been waiting months for my book to arrive, after they already lost one in the mail and took a long time to handle it. Customer service has done what they can, but it hasn’t quite cut it. On top of that, the book printing options aren’t great either. The paper, cover, and colors are limited, and force a rather obnoxious aesthetic. If a journal is meant to last a long time, I’d expect the options, quality, and choices to be robust. Look. It’s a decent app. But when it comes to journals it needs to be better than decent. Handling personal information, sometimes massive amounts, needs to be handled well.

One of my favorite apps. I have used DayOne for the past few years. It started when we were all in quarantine and I needed an outlet for positive thinking. I decided to challenge myself to one entry a day. Over time, my entries went from “the sunrise was pretty today” to more complex entries that I enjoy looking back on. My favorite features are “on this day” and tag entries, so you don’t have to have multiple journals of different topics, you can just sort down to the category using a tag. Also great when you just want to reread your favorite memories of people by tagging them. I think my only suggestion for improvement is allowing more freedom with photo structure. I absolutely love how digital and physical journals allow for more creativity and expression by doodling or adding a quick sticker along text. It would be a great touch.

Excellent Journaling App!. I've been using Day One for several years, after trying any number of other apps. While some of the other apps were definitely decent, Day One has my I vote for the best one yet! I love its simplicity despite the many great features it provides. The only difficulty I've had with it is when I bought a MacBook and downloaded the Mac Day One app and then tried to bring over my 2 years worth of entries from my iPad version. They're two different versions, so a simple synch doesn't work. Despite very prompt and thorough tech support from Day One, I still haven't managed to bring over my old entries. But, that's not a problem with the app itself, so I even hesitate to risk dampening the enthusiasm of my recommendation by mentioning it :) Do try it and see if it's not the very app you've been looking for! I should add that now, with the new version, I can journal on my iPhone, iPad or MacBook and they all synch seamlessly. LOVE IT!

The power of journaling!. I’ve been using DayOne as my private journal for the last 3+ years. I started using it when I realized I was never doing the journaling I wanted to do because 1.) writing on paper meant leaving it around the house for prying eyes, and 2.) I never had my journal on me when I had something to say. Keeping my journal with its own password on my phone means I can jot down my thoughts anywhere - on the train, in the bathroom, sitting next to a family member, in the middle of the night in the dark, etc. It has allowed me to explore my brain and change my world view. I love the photo journaling aspects and that I can see what I was thinking a year ago, 2 years ago, etc. It has become my own personal ‘Facebook’ memory. I have a file for recipes and food ideas, too. DayOne is an integral part of my life now. I recommend it to friends, family, and my patients. Thank you!!

Excellent app, fun and easy to use, BUT NOT YET FOR PC. I finally got around to trying this app and immediately loved it. You can enter text, photos, videos, voice recordings, import your calendar and create notes from your calendar events, submit entries vis text. The free version gives you a single journal on one device but I upgraded to the premium version after a week. For a couple of dollars a month, you can sync between your iPhone and iPad and have multiple journals. One cautionary note: you cannot access your journal on a Windows PC. Desktop integration is only available with a Mac. In my opinion, this is a significant omission. I found Internet “rumors” that there would be a PC app available but they are a few years old so apparently one isn’t coming. (The Day One development team told me a web-based version is in the works.) Still the best journaling app I’ve found for its multiple features and ease of use, as long as you plan to use it primarily on an iOS device.

Your Digital Companion for Life's Journey. Day One Journal App stands out as a premier digital journaling platform, providing a seamless and enriched experience for capturing life's moments. Its interface is elegantly simple, inviting users to document their thoughts and activities without the distraction of cluttered toolbars. One of Day One's most compelling features is its versatility. Whether you're a minimalist who appreciates the one-click entry system and clean design or a detail-oriented person who enjoys cataloging entries with metadata like location, weather, and music, Day One caters to all. The app's use of templates and prompts ingeniously lowers the barrier to journaling, making it accessible even when inspiration is scarce. For those who like to journal on-the-go, Day One's multimedia capabilities allow for a rich recording of experiences, enabling users to add photos, videos, and even audio to their entries. The app also respects the private nature of journaling, offering robust security features to protect personal musings. Customizable reminders are another innovative aspect, helping users build a consistent journaling habit by setting multiple prompts throughout the day, tailored to their schedule. In essence, Day One excels not just as a digital journal but as a companion for life's journey, providing a versatile, secure, and user-friendly space to document personal growth, reflect on experiences, and store memories.

Not surprised. Day One has always been a solid app with good design and functionality for a journaling app. I quickly became a fan years ago buying both the iOS and Mac versions. Then they (like many others) went the subscription route. I understand the subscription model and the need for developers to earn a living so they can (hopefully) continue to develop and maintain the apps we live and use. That said, the subscription fee for Day One is quite steep at $25/year. That’s like buying a new version of a desktop app every single year forever (or as long as they maintain it). Momento (their primary competitor) by comparison is charging $4/year! They say the subscription offers the desktop app (now free), but I had already bought that. They say it offers unlimited journals, photos and syncing, but I already owned those features too. To be honest, I don’t really know if I want to spend $25/year for this product, but now, since I have purchased the subscription, I’m asked to after a certain number of taps over and over again. It’s like an advertisement over and over and it’s quite annoying to not be able to use an app I’ve spent a considerable amount of time and money on.

“Private Diary” but 👀 all the data they collect. I saw the ad for this on TikTok so I came to check it out. The first thing I always do is look to see what data an app collects. I find it very contrary to tout a “private diary” then collect data on users. I understand free apps do this as one of other possible ways to make income but this app has available purchases from which to earn money or it can make itself a paid app. I find it annoying that even apps that charge you to get it or have in app purchases still want to collect your data. Data collection should stop once you purchase products. I get that apps need money to create upfront and then continually maintain their apps (in some cases). But users should get choices. I have been looking for alternatives that don’t collect data and systematically replacing or just deleting data collecting apps. I like my privacy and I don’t like being used as a commodity for businesses to make money off of my personal information or tracking everything I do.

Best journaling app, but still requires work. This is by far the best journaling app. There isn’t much to say about this front. However, while they don’t figure out an interface that requires less tapping to reach the location name, I can’t give it 5 stars. In the past, all you had to do was to tap the automatically assigned GPS location at the bottom, while editing your entry, to see the panel with Foursquare locations near you. Then you would select the name of the place and that’s it. Now you need to tap the map at the bottom, then “Location”, then open on Day One, then edit location and THEN select the name of the place you are. The location name is very important to me, to keep track of the places I’ve been. Until they deal with all this tapping, I won’t give it 5 stars.

Best journaling app. I’ve tried dozens of journaling apps over the years, and this is the one I settled on a few years ago. I love that I can sync it with my Mac laptop, which makes it easier to add pictures that I don’t have on my phone. I love that I can export a PDF (I use as a backup!), although the photo layouts end up awkward. I’ve never tried printing one of the books. And I love that, like Facebook (which I’m trying to use less), it will show me all my entries from a specific day of the year, across the years. This means that every year, I get to relive those funny things my kids said, or the weird situation that happened on the metro, or the amazing sporting event we saw. My memory is like a sieve, and this makes me feel more connected. I have a bunch of journals in the app, including a family book that I intend to eventually publish yearly for memories with the kids, and a personal journal, and a reading journal. Lately I’ve added a new journal for all the miscellaneous memorabilia I want to have a memory of, but for which I no longer need the physical items around my house. I just use the date I let the item go as my date for the entry, with a note about the object in question. Highly recommend giving this app a try! I rarely tell people about apps, but this is one of the ones I constantly tel people about!

Bug needs to be fixed.. and more customization needs to be available. I’ve emailed this issue before but I received zero response. When I go to search for a tag I am met with all my tags coming up as 0. I can still click them and their entries will show but I can’t see how many times i’ve used the tags. Suggestions: More customization. The app interface is nice. But could be so much more. Stickers, colors, change picture sizes, etc. All my entries start to look minimalistic and bland the more I write. i’ve already suggested this and someone from Day One replied and said it’s in the works, but i highly doubt that. The app no longer has any actual team working on improving the app for its customers. 2nd suggestion: Allowing for the alphabetization of my tags. I hate that they pop up in most used to least used (from what I see; I can’t view the #of times the tags have been used as I mentioned). It would be nice to have my tags be organized from A to Z for easy finds.

Love this app more year by year. I was happily using this app, doing audio recording from my Apple Watch. Now suddenly audio recording is only available in the Premium version. This is an unexpected downgrade. Grr. UPDATE: I take it back. I misunderstood the recording icon. There is a difference between dictating an entry and creating a recording. The developer contacted me to make sure I understood that point. This app is invaluable to me for one purpose: When I get sick, and have to take several medications on different schedules, I can simply dictate into my Apple Watch what time I take each med. Right now I have a bad cold and am so sick I can’t keep track of anything. This journal is exactly what I need. I have other journals, too. This is a great app. UPDATE: I just discovered that my subscription is now Premium. I guess I must have forgotten I upgraded. Anyway, it turns out that this subscription allows me to download and use this app on my Mac computer. That’s wonderful. Still love this app.

Gratitude Journaling. I’ve been using day one to keep track of my gratitude journal. I’ve never been consistent keeping up with it on paper since I have a bad habit of forgetting helpful things. But I decided to put the day one ‘streak’ widget on my home screen so that I see it every time I open my phone. It’s helped immensely. I can see my progress daily and I even get a little dopamine reward for keeping up the streak. It’s helped to make my phone a bit of a healthier place for my brain. I really recommend this app if you’re interested in gratitude journaling (which has a lot of great benefits for your well-being). I use the free version and it is 200% worth the $0 I paid. I only write reviews for things that I feel really strongly positive about and I’ve never written a review for an app before. So in terms of gratitude, I'm really grateful for this app.

5 stars is almost an impossible rating. The more I dig into this app, the more that I realize the developers have thought of everything. I got this app because it promised a few features that I thought would be helpful, such as the layout, prompts and regular tagging capabilities. I thought it would be neat to support a local company as well. But as I’ve played with the various features (and I only have the free edition ride now) I’ve discovered features that I’ve wanted in an app for a long time, such as integration with my calendar events, linking notes and entries to other notes and entries and recording the location of entries. I love that you have a choice to export to PDF for free and have options for something nicer, so that your journal can exist in both physical and digital format. I’m an extremely frugal person but I’ve been very tempted to expand into the paid subscription to enable a few more features such as having additional journals and IFTTT. Well done!

Gardening Journal. I have used Evernote religiously for over 10 years to great satisfaction. However, I wanted something a little less free-form and more intentional for my gardening journal. I have been using Day One for a full year of vegetable and flower growing, and it is a fantastic app for this purpose. One thing I love is that you do not have to save the pictures and audios into your iPhone’s albums. This has helped to de-clutter my iphone albums to other parts of life, as I love taking a lot of pics with my garden. There are some improvements I am looking for. For example, I want to use rules to search for multiple tags. The “section” styling of text is only available as part of custom template, but not available when I am editing. Also, I wish photos could have captions directly associated with them, and one could edit and annotate photos direclfy in the app.

It’s a good app but…... They really need to do something different with it I’ve had it for quite a few years now and it’s the same boring old display over and over again. There’s no good colors you should be able to maybe change each page to a different color depending on your mood, you should be able to add stickers to the pages to make it look more appealing. It’s just the same boring thing to look at every single day and I have found that I write in it less and less because there’s just no appeal to it. They keep doing all these updates but it’s nothing about the appeasement to the eye. You should be able to insert stickers into your texts and have the text move around the stickers each page should be able to be a different color. This reminds me of a diary that would’ve been on Windows 97 or 98 whatever version it was. It’s like I keep saying just not appealing to the eye they need to really do something about that

Must have for those who want a convenient, beautiful journaling experience!!. I never write reviews but I am for this one because I just want to say that I LOVE THIS APP!! Particularly the ability to print the books. Just got my first one in the mail and it is BEAUTIFUL (and it was effortless to make!) I loved all the details like the location and weather. I love the ability to have multiple journals! (Easily worth the $30 subscription I paid back in January) This has made journaling so much easier (a huge New Years resolution for me that has been easy to keep because I always have my phone with me) and then I can easily get a beautiful hard copy to share with friends and family. I used to do a blog to book program, but I would spend hours rearranging everything and not to mention the inconvenience that came with only journaling when logged into the blogging platform. Get the subscription, it is so worth it if you are serious about journaling properly!!

E. Goodrick. So I try to record something every day. Sometimes I go for 2 or 3 days without recording. Beauty is I can look back on the calendar and look back in the history and find out where I was, what I was doing, and whether or not, there was an activity worthy of a journal entry. I also keep a spiritual journal where I record impressions and thoughts about spiritual matters. I can put photos in this system and refer back to the photos later on. I can transfer, copy paste notes that I’ve taken and conversations I’ve had and it goes to the cloud ultimately. If you want to keep a journal and you want that journal to be a record for the rest of your life, I can’t imagine a better journal app. I can also use the Apple voice feature on my phone to record verbally—but ya hafta ck it to make sure it types what ya said.

It does what it does well. DayOne is not the most fleshed out app in terms of aesthetic; it’s very simplistic and minimal, and there isn’t much you can do to stylize it as far as I can tell. It does what it does pretty well though. I like that the information is housed within the app, so I can see all my entries on all my devices without using iCloud or other cloud-based storage. I also like that you can add videos. It’s nice being able to add tags to quickly look up entries related to x topic, and there are folders to facilitate organization as well. I mostly use it to track things like my mood, as well as books and movies I’ve read/watched. It’s annoying that everything is subscription-based nowadays, but I do pay the yearly subscription as I think it’s worth it for quick journaling, field guides, or tracking things.

Used to work great. Not anymore. I tried to get help with a few issues preventing me from making my 5th book. For some reason this year when I renewed my membership, it now doesn’t work properly. Book is incorrect , shows 70 pages then when I preview there’s 5 pictures on each page and the picture description isn’t where is should be. It’s all jumbled and I’ve put countless hours into figuring. I tried uninstalling the app. I tried getting help through email support and they sent me some standard response. Then after I responded a second time through emails support they asked for me to video record what I as happening. I recorded the pages incorrect, and the multiple pictures per page, and how it doesn’t save my changes and won’t save my cover page etc etc etc. I heard NOTHING back from them but did just today get an email asking me to rate their help. (Which I never got help). My issues are still unresolved and I wish I hadn’t purchased this again because it’s useless to me now

Excellent program - a must have. I have avidly used a Day Timer journal for the last 12 years. Until now I had not found anything close to the versatility of using pen and paper. I have used Day One every day for the last 35 or so days and found it amazing. Sometimes I use my iPad and sometimes I use my iPhone but it always works well and syncs up quick. I have even used the Apple Watch to enter a quick entry (great while traveling). I will also Day One’s support is beyond amazing. Three times I have asked for assistance and all 3 times I received it in a matter of minutes (maybe seconds). In my case Adam was the support person and he was prompt and very helpful. Yes, I do miss a few things about using pen and paper, like having a one page monthly summary where I could note highlights or maybe a place to record meetings by the hour, but life is about compromises and Day One’s pluses far out weigh anything I gave up. I highly recommend the App.

Great options for recording thoughts but lacking in visual layout and ease of use. I like that I can do a number of different things such as include photos, recordings, writing etc, but the apps layout makes it difficult to navigate. This includes the Mac version as well. It needs a makeover, less complex and easy to read and use. The text options also get frustrating to use, such as bullet points and number listing. It would be nice to have more customization options with this (colors and indentation ease with listing). 4 stars because I can see it improving down the road given its current high ratings (I can tell the team behind its creation will listen to customers and continually strive to improve it); also rating this way because I’m relatively new to using the app and with time and use I will adjust and be able to navigate more easily. Just a first impression here!

Love it!!!. I am so excited to start journaling again. I have been journaling for years, but always stopped because using a physical journal was not always the most convenient. However, DayOne allows you to have your journal with you at all times, because it is an app on your phone/iPad. It is so much easier to just grab your phone/ipad instead of reaching for a physical journal and pen all the time. I especially love the media feature where you can add pictures or videos about your day - that right there makes it so much better than using a regular notebook. I am so excited to have all of these memories with me. Best part is that day one journal also can provide an extra layer of security by prompting you to use FaceID/password. Thats pretty cool! I also love the different prompts that you can use. I have it set up where i do prompts in the morning and in the evening I have a second journal to reflect on my day. As soon as i logged in my first entry i knew i had to purchase the subscription right away because of all of the different functions. I think this journal is extremely valuable especially if you want to quickly capture your day. I highly recommend it to anyone who is truly interested in journaling!!!

Great app but this update is.... I've used this app for years and this last update has me clicking more buttons just to complete an entry. I used to like that in the activities tab would have a check mark to tell you you've already made an entry about this location/photo, etc and I could keep track of what I haven't written about because sometimes I'll go a week without an entry. Also I wish that instead of having to choose an address when in activity section you could bring up the map and select it based on where on the map. How am I suppose to know what the address is related to what event/memory? I keep having to select a random address and then see where it is via the entry and if it's the wrong address, then I have to delete the a entry and start over. It would be so much easier to geotag an entry seeing a map and remember what happened then. Hopefully bring something similar to what the old activity section had with the new features. Because this update has me so frustrated I don't even want to write anymore. Thanks guys!

Catchall. I Purchased day one as a journal. Because it’s a journal. Its chief advantage is the ability to link with just about every other program that I can think of and through every app or device that I have. If I want to keep pictures I can do that. If I want receipts, I can do that if I want to know about the weather or where I am, I can do that. If I want to keep track of a journey, I can do that. If my wife tells me to do something I can do that. (at least I can easily log the task where I can find it later; regrettably, I still have to actually do the thing that needs to be done. :-)) but the point is it is the best place to act as a catchall in my computer that I have seen. It is the one thing that I have used from year to year after app and device to device even if you have no intention to use it as a you know – Journal.

Pinnacle of perfection - if subscription was optional. Anyone else feeling the burnout? I love day one, and have used it consistently since 2012. Not gonna lie, it’s a fantastic, league-of-it’s-own app. But I can’t give it five stars, because it, like many other apps out there, charges a subscription without a monthly benefit. I would gladly pay a one time purchase cost of even $100 for this app, because as I said, it’s excellent. But to be charged monthly or yearly simply so they can host it on their servers and provide the occasional update, seems a bit ridiculous. But companies continue to do it because not enough customers complain. So complain with me, guys! I’d happily host it myself or choose my cloud storage preference, especially for something like my own journal, which I’d prefer not to have in a small company’s hands anyway. Having said all that, if you don’t mind being overcharged and having less control about where your journal is, the app itself is near perfect. I can’t think of any faults. It’s phenomenal.

Great Journaling App - lots of great features!. This is a great app! I love that it syncs across my devices so I can journal on my phone, computer or ipad— I am not limited to just one! Being able to add pictures in is a sweet touch to be able to make each day unique and memorable when needed! I’ve also enjoyed the ‘template’ option for more focused journaling for different seasons of life! And I enjoy being able to have multiple journal types if I like to. I definitely like to organize my thoughts into categories or have a safe space to write my thoughts out on a specific subject where it is held all in one place and not mixed up in my day-to-day journaling. I wish there were more font or formatting options just to be able to create more emotion on the page or to be more creative with but that is not a deal breaker for me! This has really encouraged me to get back into journaling which has helped improve me mental health tremendously! Thanks for a great app!

I love this app…but. I love this app!! I’ve been using this app to give myself cognitive because I feel like being interrupted during my rants to ask questions by a therapist, is something I can do better. I do these sessions through talking in the audio box. I feel like every time I get to a really mind blowing point in my audio session it cuts off a big chunk of the audio clip and if i’m not paying attention, the clip won’t record everything i say past a certain point. I really love Day One, but I really would encourage you guys to fix the bug with the audio cutting off randomly. I would like to some day listen back to my old audio clips and reminisce on problems I faced throughout my life and when the audio cuts off part of what i’m saying…i essentially have to restate everything that i gave an in-depth explanation on, in a more simplified way through the text feature or if i have the patience, the audio feature. I think the bug starts when I get a notification or I shake my phone and the push notifications pops up about if I want to “undo” and usually this happens when i’m not paying attention. I think this is where the recording stops and then it’ll still act like it’s recording, but it really isn’t. Please can you guys fix this!! Thank you in advance!!

Disappointing. I purchased this app because there was a possibilty to print a book, or export to pdf. Neither works well. I collected 8 months worth of entries. You can’t edit the pdf, you can try to print a book and after about 5 hours of it uploading or something, randomly making pages of one pic per page which you also can’t edit, you get to apple pay and you can’t pay. Then you have to try agaon and repeat the whole process. You write to their support and they say they are aware but don’t know when they will fix it and they are sorry. So useless. I did better with aNote last yesr which connects to my Evernote and it only cost me a fee dollars and not this ridiculous subscription. Needless to say, i am not resubscribing. Just annoyed i wasted 8 months worth of meticulous entries on this. And still they haven’t fixed it. I gave up and won’t be renewing my subscription. Possibly the worst app ever. What a waste of time.

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The application Day One Journal: Private Diary was published in the category Health & Fitness on 04 February 2016, Thursday and was developed by Bloom Built Inc [Developer ID: 379561506]. This program file size is 115.68 MB. This app has been rated by 96,359 users and has a rating of 4.8 out of 5. Day One Journal: Private Diary - Health & Fitness app posted on 11 January 2024, Thursday current version is 2024.1.1 and works well on iOS 16.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.bloombuilt.dayone-ios. Languages supported by the app:

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