Day One Journal: Private Diary

Gratitude, travel, daily notes

Published by: Bloom Built

Description

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/
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In-Apps

Day One Premium
USD 34.99
Day One Premium (1 Month)
USD 5.99
Premium
USD 34.99
50 Text Messages
USD 0.99
300 Text Messages
USD 4.99

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User Rating

4.94 out of 5

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Day One Journal Reviews

One of my favorite apps!

zeyneb98 on

Azerbaijan

I’ve never seen such a good application like this one. Thank u for creating it! Love it so freaking much😍

Garbage

Zippy Mystic on

United States

Cancelled key features just after subscribing and neither Apple nor Dayone offers any support. Not worth the money . Definitely a scam

Mindfulness tracking

ArcticSkua on

United States

New version removed that feature. Takes an extra level of incompetency to break what worked. Simple: bring that back.

Once great journaling app stopped working after last update

phongsta on

United States

It was a good app until the last update. Now on all my devices Day One will crash at startup. Opened tickets and no one replies. After being turned into a paid app, you get zilch support. And I can’t even get in to the app and it broke my journaling streak (Day One takes pride in that). NOT worth it anymore. Use the Apple Journal app since Day One Support barely exists. My old review: Beautiful app and UI, but no optional sync with iCloud or Dropbox. Also zero encryption for Day One's old sync. Deal breaker for some like me. Don't buy unless you're fine with zero encryption sync to their servers (encryption will be available later in 2016). Wished I would have waited.

It could be perfect with handwriting function

911苹果 on

United States

Overall good experience. It could be perfect if adding handwriting function. A bit expensive by the way.

Used to work perfectly, now completely broken

BAWilliams95 on

United States

I have used this app for years with no issues and everything was fine. Lately however, the app won’t let me type in it. It completely ignores all keystrokes from Magic Keyboard and won’t allow the iPad’s virtual keyboard to even open. I literally can’t write in this journal now.

The perfect Habit!

Moosedog33 on

United States

I can’t think of anything more valuable than a history of memories and this app makes it so easy. It’s super easy to learn how to use because it makes sense the way it’s put together. I use it on my phone and air book. I have used Day One for years sometimes daily for two straight! I’ve slacked off lately but what a beautiful record I have! Thanks Day One!

Original Paid app no longer supported…bait and switch

BobSmi on

United States

I started using Day One back in Jan 2015 and paid my one time fee of $8.49. Now they want an annual subscription for not just new features but features I have been using since day one. No longer can I add multiple photos to an entry. No longer are all of my photos accessible to add to entries. And no longer can I synch with my MacBook. I’m done paying for more and more monthly subscriptions. If Apple Journal would import my entries, I’d gladly pay just to get away from an app that changed the rules. Bye bye Day One! Update: Received a reply from developer explaining pricing. However, no explanation as to why features I originally paid for are no longer available unless I upgrade. Update 1/7/25: I reached out to developer as recommended. I received a reply stating that the version I purchased is no longer supported. So now I understand. The developer was allowed to change the name of the app and no longer support that version and no longer will provide the same features as I had originally purchased unless I pay $35/year. You would think original users would be grandfathered into the new version since the original users are those who helped with their success.

Colors

SteveInWeston on

United States

With every update that comes out I look forward to the day I can write and see colors to display my various moods. It seems so simple but for some odd reason Day One doesn’t implement it.

No Longer Free

Needle16 on

United States

I’ve used this app for years and absolutely loved it, but I took a little break and when I can back, the pop-up for premium simply doesn’t go away. I have no interest in being forced to pay $35 a month for this. It’s very frustrating to suddenly lose access to everything and not have any way to get ride of the pop up.

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App Info

Publisher
Bloom Built
Languages
Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew (modern), Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese
Recent release
2025.2 (2 days ago )
Released on
Feb 4, 2016 (8 years ago )
Last Updated
2 hours ago
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