Day One Journal: Private Diary App Reviews

v2 has some nifty features but it is not as elegant as its predecessor. I find myself going back to the first classic. I do not even miss v2! It was easier to use, much simpler. v2 does not sync well with v1 and often looses the formatting. v2 is Akan loosing my pictures.

Been using this app for years! I use it for remember all the great things we have done as a family and see how much my kids have change!

Still very disappointed and not using the app anymore. Why so stuborn to not want to support the reliable sync services, but only your own sync service? Or do you promise to never start charging for that service, well that last part is now answered!

If I could rate this app 10 out of five I definitely would! It is the best app to capture special moments. I wish I could post more than 10 photos per entry. You wont regret your decision! I recommend this app to all my family, friends, coworkers and they buy it! If I were a billionaire or even a millionnaire I would buy this EXCELLENT APP for everyone!

It would have been nice if you all could have communicated with your loyal Day One Classic users who payed for both the Mac and iOS apps to let them know what your plans were, how they would have been affected and give them the opportunity to plan accordingly. I.e purchase Day One 2. We PAYED for your products, products that in the description says that we are paying for all of the features you just removed. I mean most of us use Day One daily with hundreds and even thousands of entries in our Journals. You should not have just blind sighted your loyal clients by sneaking in the subscription model and the removal of features we relied on, that we payed for in an app update without any communication what so ever about your companys plans. I dont understand how anyone could think it prudent not to communicate plans of a change so burdensome and impactful to your users. Some of us used Day One Classic and Day One 2 on multiple devices, simply because sync was included in our purchases as it rightly should have been and they worked together as they rightly should have. No one indicated otherwise or that this would change to us! Having "Plus" status on one device, the Day One 2 device doesnt help because the sync even though enabled, the data can not be received by the now "Basic" status accounts on the other devices that once were fully featured as payed for.......,since those apps are "Basic" they cant receive from or send data to the "Plus" enabled devices with sync enabled. So what do people like me who bought Day One 2 on my Mac and my wifes Mac but not on our iOS devices because we already bought Day One classic get for buying the new day One 2 Mac app ?... Nothing at all. We still cant sync across our devices. We dont even have the choice to use our own iCloud or any other ubiquitous services that everyone else seems to have the choice to use.... You have ruined this experience for me. I just wasted my money..$80 plus dollars. In fact it feels like it was stolen from me because of how you all chose to go about this. Few diplomatic words can describe the feelings of betrayal. MY ADVICE AND MY REQUEST: You should revert to normal and allow people to purchase day one 2 on all of their devices by a certain time! In fact!, having the account status/sync linked to purchases was an implementation lacking vision and a blatant disrespectful slap in the face to the thousands of Day One classic users who payed $50 + for their apps. Anyone and everyone who has purchased ANY version of Day One before X date should have been allowed to be plus members. This is how you reward those who made your success possible! Either this or notify us that we have until X time to buy Day One 2 apps to be grandfathered into "Plus"/ Syncing accounts. All complete new comers then unfortunately would be the ones burdened with the new subscription model. We already payed. Spent our hard earned money with you. You wouldnt be here today without us supporting and believing in your product. I cant fathom that other humans thought this was a good way to go about this, Im egregiously disappointed in you and your company. You should have never done this to us. You didnt have to affect your loyal clients in this way. You made that choice to do so. You can never say to us that this wasnt a move motivated by pure brazen greed, one without any consideration for the thousands who supported you over the years, your actions blatantly prove this. Also...... we all know that when Day One 3 is released. These grandfathered Day One 2 "Plus" accounts will not carry over to Day One 3 for free since your upgrades are all payed upgrades. There will be no way to buy the app outright anymore and everyone will be forced to go to the subscription. If the subscription model is necessary for longevity and growth we understand, however, this is the worst implementation of a subscription model that Im unfortunate enough to be the victim off. EDIT: To the developers response. YOU DID FORCE DAY ONE CLASSIC USERS INTO A SUBSCRIPTION by not allowing them to become plus members. From the moment you removed iCloud and Dropbox support you were no longer selling just a journaling application, you were selling a journaling service. When all Day One Classic users created their day one server accounts and used your servers for syncing they were now utilizing that service, the service they payed for. It was an ugly move to display scorn and prejudice towards Day One Classic users because we didnt purchase Day One 2 on ALL of our devices when there was ABSOLUTELY no reason or incentive to do so. NO ONE WAS INFORMED OF YOUR PLANS. There was no reason to purchase Day One 2 on every device when Day One Classic worked perfectly on iOS. We had multiple journals created using day one classic with a Day One account on your servers, you knew by implementing what you did it would lock us out of our own private journals, then to say we need to pay a subscription to access our own private information. Then you have the gall to say "we dont want anyone to feel forced into a subscription, thats not right". No descent vocabulary describes what most feel toward you and your company right now. Support is nonexistent. Ive been trying to get an issue resolved for days. EDIT: Their support team has been buried as is expected, however, they took everything into consideration and have granted me plus accounts across the board. I appreciate that because others could have said "well it is how it is now". I still dont like how they introduced this new model but Im grateful for the help Ive received. For better or for worse there is no replacement for Day One.

I really love this app but I feel for me its missing one big thing. I cant stand writing and my paragraphs are jagged. I prefer my text to be justified. Can this be something you guys add on please I really would like it. That the only thing that is missing but I feel like to continue using this app for years I need that to change.

I like that the app now saves an address, now I dont have to keep correcting it from saying I am writing my entries from my neighbors house ?. I also like that I can add more than one picture.

This was a great app. One of my favorites... I was telling my friends they needed to try it out, because it just worked so seamlessly, was so beautiful... this is all still true, but the subscription system means Im leaving and I now have to apologize to my friends and recommend they look elsewhere also. I want sync, and Im willing to pay $55 to have it on my mac and iPhone. I was saving to pay for the mac version, but Im not paying an annual fee for the right to sync. I already pay for iCloud. Im not paying annual or monthly dues for this other service as well...Best of luck to you all at DayOne. You made a good product. Wish you had kept with a pay model I was willing to work with. Unfortunately, subscription just isnt going to happen for me. *In response to the developers comment. That may be true, but I bought it with the intent that it could sync between my mac and iPhone at the price I was paying. Now, you want me to pay that price every year for that ability. My iPhone can sync for no annual subscription fee, but that does me no good when I have to pay annually for my mac to access the syncd info. It makes the program worthless to me. Again, great program, but there are alternatives that you have now made a far better value.

Searched for a journaling app for some time and found this. Although it was a paid app it felt like a good investment at that time. One year got over and i almost wrote for 150 days and looking back i improved a lot in terms of expressing ideas and introspection. This is a small investment in the long run. I tried it in different ways for keeping my ideas and expenses. It was most useful as a diary to keep track of good moments. I have bought an iPad, the experience of writing it in iPad is way more good than iPhone with additional features. In short it made writing fun and became a very good tool on a daily basis.

After charging high prices for an update that in many ways is worse than the original, they are now taking some of the "upgrade" features back and demanding subscription payments to continue using them. These guys are con artists.

I wont use Day One anymore

There are tons of other apps there that will provide better privacy options by storing data on users iCloud account. I will take my journals elsewhere.

This have been an incredible resource for me and my family. It is like an extension to my brain. Ive been able to recall stories, names, feelings and ideas better than ever because of this app. Its helped me get organized in a technical way and understand my emotions in a subjective way. They are constantly innovating the next element of their product making it a continuously developed masterpiece.

I love being able to scroll through my photos, find one worth using, and then write a tidbit about it. Whats beautiful is that it also time stamps the photo and appropriately places the journal entry, if you want it to. This allows you to miss a couple days of journaling, but then go back and add memories with photos. And the app works with great ease. Couldnt ask for more.

The improvements in this app have been terrific!! With the capability of miltiple journals I have created journals for not just me but also for all my cats. The sync between devices is great! Day One has made journaling so much easier and journaling was the most effective way of dealing with my depression. In some ways, Day One made the therapeutic benefit much more accessible, and for that, I owe the developers a great deal!

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. As a success coach I highly recommend this app to all my clients.

Use it every day. Worth every penny and more.

Now with end-to-end crypto finally good. Missing the ability to doodle in it, though

I actually toyed around with the idea of making my own journal on the computer. I like this app much better. Literally all I do is add photos of places Ive gone to and people Ive hung out with, then tag where we hung out and write a little blurb about what happened that day. Its like having a detailed photo diary. I love it! Need to toy around with other features ?

This app is better than the old Day One, and that app was near perfect. Give it a try! Im happy with every aspect of it. I like to support the app by Payton by for premium, but thats not necessary to enjoy the app! Journaling is a great habit, and this app helps facilitate it!