Turn everyday moments into a journal you'll actually keep — one small entry at a time.
You don't need a free hour or the right words to keep a journal.
Start with five minutes and one honest sentence. Write with your first coffee, on the train home, or in the quiet before sleep. A journal grows the same way a life does: one ordinary day at a time.
Diarly is a private journal, diary, and notes app for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Each entry becomes part of a personal timeline you can search, revisit, and keep.
DAILY JOURNAL, DIARY, AND PRIVATE NOTES
Use Diarly as a daily journal or diary, a gratitude journal, a travel journal, a mood diary, a photo journal, a voice journal, or private notes with a password. Create separate journals, or keep dated entries and undated notes together.
Diarly Free includes one journal with unlimited entries and media. Add photos, videos, drawings, audio, tags, locations, weather, and calendar details. Write in Markdown and organize notes, lists, ideas, plans, and quotes.
MOOD TRACKER AND JOURNAL INSIGHTS
The built-in mood tracker makes it easy to log how you feel. You can also save your mood and feelings to Apple Health. Mood Calendar and Insights show how your logged moods change over time, gently highlighting lighter or heavier stretches without judging what they mean.
Diarly can be used as a private mental health journal for writing about thoughts, feelings, stress, or anxiety. It is a journaling and reflection tool, not a medical or mental health tracker.
JOURNAL PROMPTS, TEMPLATES, AND DAILY WRITING
Journal prompts and reusable templates make daily journaling easier to begin. Build a journal template with a prompt, weather, location, calendar events, today's photos, or Apple Health details such as sleep, steps, and workouts. These optional details can support a sleep journal, fitness journal, or health journal without analyzing your health.
The Today view gives you a quick glimpse of your journal through a customizable feed of recent entries, mood check-ins, writing suggestions, quotes, tags, calendar events, and On This Day memories. Reminders, writing goals, and journal streaks help you return without making the diary another chore.
FIND AND REVISIT YOUR MEMORIES
Search finds entries and notes by words, tags, moods, and dates. Timeline and Calendar organize daily entries by date. Map shows travel journal entries saved with a location. Gallery gathers journal photos, videos, and drawings. On This Day recalls earlier years.
PRIVATE DIARY WITH PASSWORD AND ICLOUD SYNC
Your journal stays on your device. Premium syncs your diary through your personal iCloud Drive. There is no separate account to create, and we never store your journal on our servers. Lock the app with a password, Face ID, or Touch ID for free. Premium adds encryption for the text of your entries and private notes.
The app is built exclusively for Apple devices. One Premium subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch and adds iCloud sync, multiple journals, encryption, themes, export formats, and the AI Assistant.
IMPORT, EXPORT, AND KEEP YOUR JOURNAL
Import journals from Apple Journal, Day One, Journey, Stoic, Evernote, Markdown, and CSV. Export your journal to Markdown, PDF, Rich Text, and HTML so your writing remains readable outside the app.
AI+ is a separate optional subscription. It lets you transcribe audio journal entries into text and use OCR to extract text from photos.
Your journal remains yours, whether you write a daily diary, track moods, collect memories, or keep private notes.
Help Guides → https://diarly.app/help
Privacy Policy → https://diarly.app/privacy
Terms of Use (EULA) → https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Honestly, I've never had an app like this. The UI is simple and direct. I like the features that enables me to add tags, headings, lists, etc., all I need to write, honestly.It would be nice to see what a folder feature would look like for this app but honestly, this app right now is perfect for me.Ps. I've been through a lot of writing/journal apps and nothing ever made write the way Diarly made me write. It's like a match made in heaven
Developer Response
Your feedback made our day, thank you so much! 😊
Diarly over Day One
janepornel
I had a hard time thinking about which digital journal I should subscribe to. I narrow it down to 2. Day One vs Diarly… Diarly won me over because I could customize my journal! I love how my digital journal is purple/lilac in color! I already made several templates that I may use, and several books too! I’m looking forward that Diarly will have many users. It’s worth it!
Developer Response
Glad to hear it! Enjoy your journaling journey! 💜
Just the right Journal for me!
Eydreeyawn
I don’t need a very expensive journal but upon checking this app. The price is just right and reasonable. Free apps on the other hand lack features.
Developer Response
Hello & Thank you for the review! We will do our best to keep improving the app, if you have any suggestions please don't hesitate to contact us at hello@diarly.app Again thanks for 5 stars - it motivates us a lot!
Thankful for a very simple, easy to use, but very helpful app!
yvesdenise
Quick and easy to use. The diary format structures your notes helpfully and the tags are great for categorizing and finding specific matters quickly. I use it for work to quickly jot notes, tasks and ideas for the day. And at a very small annual subscription price, it syncs with your Apple devices!
Developer Response
Thank you for your review!
Ready for iPhone Duo: Diarly is fully tested and optimized for the new iPhone Duo.
Also in this update:
- Diarly is now available in 12 additional languages.
- Markdown formatting symbols now appear around your cursor or selected text. Enable "Show Markdown syntax" in Settings to try it.
- Enjoy improved list editing and the option to collapse the keyboard toolbar on iOS for more writing space.
We've also made a few under-the-hood improvements to keep things running smoothly.
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Version 3.6.3
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The developer, Krzysztof Nowak, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More