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Day One Journal: Private Diary app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8592 ratings )
Productivity Lifestyle Health & Fitness
Developer: Bloom Built Inc
Free
Current version: 2024.15, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 04 Feb 2016
App size: 130.84 Mb

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.

Privacy Policy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-policy/

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

For technical assistance or other inquiries: https://dayoneapp.com/contact/

Pros and cons of Day One Journal: Private Diary app for iPhone and iPad

Day One Journal: Private Diary app good for

Even though I had to pay in order for it to be usable, it is worth it to have such a great tool to help me document my life privately.
It really helps keep my emotions in check. I trade for a living and write in journals all the time now I can just this app instead of buying hundreds of journals!
This is by far one of my favorite apps on my phone. Its very simple and easy to use. I love how easy I can write down a journal entry and add a time and place, maybe a photo. Every entry is nicely recorded and organized. I use this for many notes, entries or blog articles I want to remember by copy and pasting. I also love having an option to have multiple journals which I can access by tabbing over and customizing the color for better organization. I give this app 5 stars easily!
Works well for journaling, although it can be non intuitive to navigate. Id like to see Apple Pencil support for the iPad Pro.
This app integrates every feature I would imagine a good journal app to have, from printing options to cloud syncing, plus a few more! Im thrilled with it, and recommend it to everyone from the most occasional to the most hardcore journaling enthusiasts.
I had some issues with the upgrade process in Day One. I contacted them and the customer support was very helpful and courteous. I am very pleased with this app.

Some bad moments

I find when journaling and Im not on a wifi network that the typing grinds to a halt. I can keep typing, but the display is about four to five words behind me, so I have to stop, let it catch up, fix any typos, and it really slows down typing on the go. The entire point of being able to journal on your phone is so its always accessible. This is a really big bummer. And then theres the entire neutered Markdown thing. I was a DayOne Classic user from way back. I have over 800 entries now, and when they finally brought end to end encryption to Day One 2, (since they moved to their own servers), I thought I could finally migrate. With end to end encryption, I figured my journals were safe from their snooping. But I found out that they changed how they handle markdown. Basically, they dont respect the line breaking of markdown, so all my old journal entries look terrible and the formatting is completely broken. Instead of going with a half-implemented version of markdown, why not just bring in a toggle. Then those of use who want to use markdown properly can, and it doesnt break all our old journals. And for those whove never heard of markdown, (which I suspect is the larger group), they can go on using it like a normal text editor. Its very frustrating when a company makes such a massive change to the software that breaks basic functionality without providing any warning, work arounds, or rationale. Its for this reason Im on a hunt for a new journaling app. Im cool with the subscription model. Im not cool with not being able to trust whats going to happen to my journals over the long term.
Very very annoying bug with pictures showing up as small white cubes. Ive been patient with the developers for over a year now and unfortunately will leave this review with one star. Ive been using Day once they the app hit the App Store. I have it on all my devices iPad, iPhone and MacBooks and Macs. I am also a year paid subscribing customer. Last few months have been painstakingly horrible with this app. It constantly crashes. Then it crashes my iPhone 6 Plus. Usually when I try to add more than 10 pictures at a time to my journal entry. Then theres a bug that my pictures will not show up. They are instead displayed by a square thumbnail icon. I have been back and forth with all the tech support personnel and they still say they can not replicate the issue therefore can not fix it. This is unreal. When you decide to charge a yearly paid subscription now to your already paid app, you should fix these issues asap. You guys should seriously reconsider your priorities. This is unacceptable.
Ive bought this app and now you are guys making an update with a subscription! Its ridiculous! I will never use this app again, greedy developers!
Ive been a Day One user since March 2013. I successfully synced with iCloud and Dropbox, as did many other customers based on recent reviews that criticize your unethical behavior. Basically, you advertised and sold an app that allegedly had glitches so you rebuilt the app eliminating features customers previously paid for. You now charge customers to use your proprietary syncing service. The ethical solution would have been to continue allowing customers -- like me -- (who paid for and successfully utilized iCloud and Dropbox) to resume syncing with those 3rd party services. Instead you took the unethical route and rolled out an update that forces customers to use your syncing service, added new functionality (multiple journals) then as time passed, started charging (bait-and-switch) for your syncing service and to access the new features. I now have multiple journals I cannot access, and I no longer can sync between devices without paying for "Day One Premium". I was already a Day One plus user and now you want to charge me more. Day One will propose using Day One Classic to continue syncing with Dropbox. Again, another example of how disconnected they are from the end users (customers). Day One Classic does not support the journal entries created in the subsequent version -- namely, multiple photos per journal entry.
Best journaling app for iOS, no contest. Would love the option to import calendar events into the meta data like I see weather, steps, and music to help add important context to my day. Id also like the ability to create a timeline page from my calendar data which would be useful for printed books and seeing my year at a glance. Itd also be cool if I could link to other journal entries from other dates for referencing events and people. Since we have multiple storylines arching through our lives at any given moment, Id like better way to organize those data points. Basically I wish this journal automatically indexed names and events or let me manually do that so that with a tap I could pull up all journal entries about a person, place, or event without using hashtags. Finally I wish it had an option to automatically add more stuff to each day without creating new entries. Right now I use TextExpander to time stamp and I dont have the ability to add updated meta data like weather, steps or locations to that update. Instead I have to create a whole new entry which creates a lot of stuff to scroll through. 1 star so the developer will acknowledge - after that Ill update to 5.
What happened to the Dropbox sync function?! Now I have to pay monthly just for the backup :/

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