Day One Journal: Private Diary

In-app purchases
4.6
13.1K reviews
500K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Day One is the journal app that reinvented journaling. Completely private, cross-platform, and designed to never fill up, Day One is designed to let you capture your life as you live it. Use Day One as a daily journal, personal diary, note taking app, travel log, or gratitude journal.

“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

“It’s perfect! Does what it says on the box. I was able to import my stuff from another (pricey) journal so that I didn’t lose those entries. It’s easy to add multiple entries to a day and to keep pictures. And it’s lockable, keeping private thoughts protected. I will happily use Day One for years.” – Day One user

PRESERVE EVERY MEMORY

- Unlimited text entries
- Unlimited photos*
- Different journals for every aspect of your life*
- IFTTT shortcuts allow importing data from Spotify, YouTube, Strava, Fitbit, Facebook, Twitter, and more

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 or Fingerprint lock
- Export options (PDF, JSON) ensure your entries always stay yours
- Seamless sync across multiple devices

FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
- Programmable journaling reminders
- Unique, daily journal prompts help eliminate writer’s cramp

- SIMPLE TO USE, EASY TO LOVE
- Beautiful, award-winning design
- Powerful rich text formatting
- Ability to star favorite entries to revisit quickly

DELIGHT IN THE DETAILS
- Time, date, and weather are automatically added to every entry
- 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

* Day One is FREE to use forever with unlimited entries. To get more out of Day One, try Premium free for 1 month.

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/
Updated on
Mar 17, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
12.5K reviews
Jennifer Mast
February 5, 2024
Less than a week in, and I'm already so in love with it. 40 years of traditional diaries under my belt & an additional private e-mail online to store letters and stories were my previous journaling methods. The abilities of this app -- to store photos, videos, texts, posted thoughts and letters all in one place with options to share, print or have multiple journals at once -- is a game changer. If I ever write a book, this app will have played a major role in that objective.
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Fatema Alhashemi
January 23, 2024
It's been buggy for me (I have android/PC). Keeps overwriting my words on the android. So if I missspel something, it wants to add the word twice when I go back and edit it. I also lost an entire (very long) journal entry in the sync between the web version and the android app. Last thing, I realized it only allows for left to right writing. I write in Arabic sometimes and that requires you to be able to write from right to left. Currently exploring other options tbh.
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Automattic, Inc
February 1, 2024
Hi there! We'd like to look into this further. If you have not contacted us directly, please do, so we can try and help resolve the issues mentioned above. As for left to right support, it is something we plan on adding in the future. https://dayoneapp.com/contact/
Billy Knox
February 26, 2024
This is currently a very well designed app on Android but for some reason, they do not have a Windows, Chrome, or browser based interface so I can't give it the credit (stars) it deserves. (Developers, yes I paid for Premium.) EDIT: I found the web interface through the forum (should be a clear home page link). Adding one more star until a Windows app comes out.
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What's new

- Fixed crash in editor when Talkback is enabled
- Implemented new Material3 theming on several views in the app
- Fixed an issue where sometimes a Shared Journal's participant status would be incorrect
- Made photos square and show 2 columns in media tab
- Disabled notifications menu in navigation drawer for logged out users
- Added push notification options for Shared Journals
- Added the ability to transfer ownership of a Shared Journal to another participant