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.
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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/
It’s hard to make the best even better, but the sequel to Day One lives up to expectations—and then some. The app keeps its interface streamlined but adds a wealth of new valuable features. Your journal entries contain all sorts of information—you can geolocate them, add tons of photos to each entry, and even see your day’s fitness activity. Switch over to the beautiful new photo view when you’re ready to see your world at a glance.
Day One has come a long way!
Dejasmiles
I have been using Day One for about 4 years now. I have always kept a journal since I was a kid but I wanted something password protected to use on my MacBook. When I first started using the Day One, it was limited and the phone app was incredibly buggy especially on iPhone. Over the years the developers have absolutely refined Day One into one of the best apps you can invest in on the App Store. I truly enjoy looking back over the years to see how far I have come. I mainly use this app as a “mind dump” whenever I feel overwhelmed and to record my dreams. Over time it has expanded into several different journals. I’m just now starting to use it to record smaller and simpler thoughts throughout the day to replace social media and it’s doing wonders for my mental health. Since it’s much more stable and reliable on iPhone it’s been a joy to use on-the-go. We all have those thoughts we just want to get out and social media isn’t always the place for that. Day One is a perfect judge-free zone where I won’t look back on a post 5 years later and feel deep regret for making that thought public. I did try out Day One Premium for 1 year because I wanted to use the video feature. I could only record a couple of minutes at a time and I didn’t end up using it as much as I thought I would. I didn’t use any of the other features in that year so I ended up reverting back to the basic package, but I’m sure those extra features will be useful for others!
Grateful
sraem
I am so grateful for this app! Thank you to all of the creators. I quit using social media consistently about 5 years ago. I’m sure it is great for so many people, but I became compelled to check my likes and comments multiple times a day. It wasn’t good for me.Day one is everything I enjoyed about social media, without any of the energy I spent thinking about the reaction of others. Basically just keeping track of the little and big things in life that are meaningful to me. You can add details, photos, web links, music. Honestly, I haven’t even taken advantage of all that is available. And editing is such a breeze. I’ve kept paper journals in the past and making changes, or correcting mistakes is frustrating. This app solves that problem. Okay, I could go on and on but won’t. But one last thing I am so excited for is being able to print your journal through the app. I’m working on a second journal from a little camping road trip I did last year. I kept notes in a notebook and photos on my phone, but it felt overwhelming trying to figure out how to organize them into some kind of scrapbook. With DayOne I just entered all of the pictures I had, which automatically divided by date, and now I’ve been going back, adding text from my notes into each corresponding dated entry. You can preview your book before printing. It’s great being able to have multiple journals at once. I better call this review right now! It’s getting long winded, but very sincere! First time I’ve ever left an app review!
Life‘s moments, recorded well.
DrFunk
I saw a video where a photographer was taking two seconds out of each day for a whole year and put it together in a few minutes of a movie. The images went flashing by in high speed, but your minds eye could capture the moment, and it was a memory brought forward. Fascinating how a short movie was able to remind you of the whole year. I was all excited and thought I needed to do this however, that’s a lot of editing! So I found this app and decided that using the dictation system on the iPhone, and this app, I would start to record, the salient features of each day. I felt like life is going by too fast so I needed to record it. That was in 2019. Boy was I right because since then we’ve had multiple years of Covid, death in the family, issues at work and a national awards that my daughter got, all recorded in it in this app. After losing my wife, I’m so glad I have images and jokes and things to remember her by. I started recording 4 years before her death and now wish I had done this at the beginning. The app works flawlessly and I will continue to do so. I record a little something and some photo of each day. The stuff I want to remember and even the stuff I want to forget because I don’t wanna do that again! I finally printed out five books by now, so I have them on paper on my shelf. Time is your most valuable asset and we don’t record the events very well, thinking that will remember it all. Looking back at the books I can tell you those books are priceless. Thank you Day One.
- Introducing Day One Gold — AI-powered journaling that helps you reflect deeper. Includes Daily Chat, entry summaries, smart title suggestions, and more.
- Day One Premium is now Day One Silver. Your existing features and pricing haven’t changed.
- Stability improvements and bug fixes.
Learn more at dayoneapp.com/releases
Version 2026.7.2
The developer, Bloom Built Inc, 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:
Health & Fitness
Purchases
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Bloom Built Inc
Size
Up to 328.6 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
