Day One Journal: Private Diary App Reviews

Ive loved using Day One for over four years now. Great journaling app!

This is a great journaling app for anywhere, anytime. It has a lot of features and acts as its own digital time capsule. I liked that it showed all the stats for the day like your fitness activity, what you did during the day or the weather OH and it also showed us our current altitude, that was cool! This app is great and definitely worth your money.

Love it!

I moved over from a text journal to this one that can handle media. I looked for other journal apps and this seemed to be the best. I do love it now.

I just started using this app but already I love it. I can easily tag personal or work stuff and it prompts me to write and even reminds me to add photos. I love it!

The ability to watch social channels and the integration with IFTTT is so key. Love how you can approve entries before they are committed to the main journals. Multiple photos per entry too. Im very new to this app and it will replace my recent Chronodex on paper experiment. I do wish there was a graphical representation of the day related to tags or journals when you view a single day on the calendar. Im solving this need with photos for as many entries as possible. Definitely one of my top 5 apps

Ok I downloaded this app due to a friends recommendation. It took me a while last night to figure this app out for as putting the pic in the journal. I thought it would be a way for you to custom name your own different folders and choose the font colors that you want to use. That would be nice. Also I would like for the picture to stay small once I save it. Or at least give me the option to change the picture size to show when you open the journal page to read. Last and Most important feature I would like to have is the "Music or song loaded in the journal." Once I place a song in the journal entry. "I would LOVE to have it AUTOMATICALLY play when I open that particular journal entry to read it. " This gives the reader direct emotion of what they were feeling while reading the journal entry.

The first version of the Day One app was... A revelation. It was the first time I felt any journaling app could be worth my time (and money). Before then, I didnt trust journaling apps, preferring instead to simply making my own solution: Markdown pages saved in Dropbox. I could then post these to Wordpress if I so wished. Then the original Day One came out and, again, revelation. Suddenly I could post my journals publicly if I wanted; I could save my posts to Dropbox; I could write in a clean environment that was, largely, free of bugs. My only complaints were the one-picture limitation, and the lack of notebooks. The later was a good thing, in some ways, because it taught me the value of effective tagging. The former... Well, that could be added, right? Then Day One 2 came out. It promised notebooks, with the same clean interface. It was everything I wanted! So without a moments hesitation, I plunked down the cash for both the iPhone app and the desktop app. I wanted to support this developer. For a while, things were OK. There were some bugs here and there, I could no longer save my stuff to Dropbox, and I could no longer publish my writings. (This was a huge disappointment.) But the overall experience was still OK. The multi-images meant the way that posts were displayed on my phone changed in a way I didnt like, but I was still willing to work with it. And the notebooks meant more information, which meant more tags. Not bad. Thats a "me" thing, not a DayOne thing. But then stability issues crept in. The app would crash once in a while, more so than before. (The iPad app was rock solid. The desktop app, not so much.) This would interrupt my workflow and, sometimes, lead to data loss. After that, I noticed that when working on longer journal entries, the screen would seem to skip randomly, particularly if I was editing a completed journal, so that it would take a second to know what I was doing. What was once a fun experience now turned into a chore. And so, while I *WANT* to give this app a higher rating, while I *WANT* to give this developer all my support... I just cant. Im thinking about moving all my stuff over. Maybe Ill do what I was doing before. Maybe Ill move to Evernote, instead. Maybe... I dont know. But Im not happy with DayOne2. Maybe I should switch back to the original DayOne.

Really enjoying daily journaling with this app!

Enjoyed getting back into journaling with this

I have had a great time with this. No problems.

I loved using Day One Classic, but was inconsistent in my use of it. Only having one journal for all my thoughts limited my desire to want to use the app. Only being able to upload one picture per post was something I found bizarrely limiting. These two features have changed in the new app, which is weirdly named Day One 2. Having multiple journals is a game changer. And now you can upload up to 10 pics. Thats a great improvement. The UI is slick and overall intuitive. It seems like they have lots of improvements on the horizon, although the iPhone, iPad, and Mac additions all update differently. It seems the iPhone app is given the first priority. Peoples biggest complaint thus far? Their sync is now limited to only them. No Dropbox or iCloud option because of flaws they ran into in the Classic version. Recently they had an outage of their sync function for over a day and a half. Not good. Hopefully they work out the kinks. It doesnt seem they have any interest in reinstating Dropbox or iCloud sync options. But all that being said, Ive found myself journaling and taking notes more than ever. It really is a great app and I look forward to the new features and updates down the road. Four stars instead of five for lack of consistency of features between the versions (iPad, Mac, iPhone). And the major hiccups with the sync.

The new version of dayone is great. Loving the multiple journals. Would like the option of dropbox sync again too though. Thanks!

LATEST UPDATE: After using this app for nearly half a decade and never once worrying if my entries were being properly synced and backed up via Dropbox, I now use the app with constant anxiety that the developers new custom sync mechanism (that hes forced onto his loyal users because he plans on switching the app to a subscription model) is in some state of malfunction. It continues to be down even though the developer insists its working again. This is an absolute farce. Way to erase years of goodwill. UPDATE: Its become rather obvious that the developer replaced the previously reliable Dropbox sync with his own wildly unreliable custom sync backend so that he can eventually charge users an ongoing subscription fee. Rather than being honest about this he continues to tout the new sync mechanism—a mechanism that, as of this writing, has been down for several days. PREVIOUSLY: Overall a great update and Im happy to support the developer but I think the removal of Dropbox sync is fishy. Forcing everyone onto a custom backend feels like a prelude to charging users a monthly subscription fee. I actually wouldnt have any issue with supporting the app on that basis, I just dont think the baked-in Day One sync is as robust or trustworthy as Dropbox. The developer claims users were experiencing data loss. Ive been using the app for over four years, all over the world, and have never once experienced this issue.

Error sync needs to be fixed! Tired of entries not syncing between phone and MacBook

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No feature improvement outweighs the loss of the CHOICE to sync with iCloud. I already pay for that cloud service, at least you could give the user who bought your software and supported your business the options to sync with iCloud (or DropBox) while providing your new sync service. Fine, pitch yours as the “most secure” but let the customer decide. Sticking with Classic Day One!

Got me into journaling again. Syncs perfectly across iOS devices and love how you can use Touch ID to secure your journal while using your Apple ID (no separate account) to enable sync.

Love the app. Have several journals and enjoy how I can put them together. The only drawback is it wont let you go back and add a new entry.

I am using Day one on my iPhone, iPad and Mac but recently the server generated lots of garbage on my entries. Extremely annoying!