Diarly: Diary, Private Journal

Name: Diarly: Diary, Private Journal
Rating: 4.7 (1431 reviews)
Author: Krzysztof Nowak

My Daily Notes & Mood Tracker

Free · In‑App Purchases

1.4K Ratings
Age Rating

9+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Krzysztof Nowak
Language

EN
+ 13 More
Size

168.3
MB

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. Set a password to encrypt the text of your entries and private notes, then unlock the app with Face ID or Touch ID. The app is built exclusively for Apple devices. One Premium subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch and adds iCloud sync, multiple journals, password protection, encryption, advanced Insights, 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/

Events

NEW SEASON
Mindful moments in August

Celebrate National Wellness Month 2026 with Diarly. Pause every day to reflect, track your mood, and find your calm.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

1.4K Ratings

Awesome app and support team
03/26/2024
Leo McBride
When there is a problem your not ignored, they respond fast and normally have a fix within days. Not like other apps that ignore you cause they don’t care. They care about their customers and their apps performance. Awesome app. Does it have bugs? Yes! but what app doesn’t? Plenty of features. Great price for those that need more options and its yearly not monthly. I have been with them for 5 years and counting. I am here to stay. No other diary app can come close not one. Enjoy. Believe it or not it saved my life. Don’t believe me I wrote a book about getting clean off doctor induced Vicodin addiction this app was with me from day one. Helping get threw every horrible part in recovery. From seeing how much I got done everyday to being able to track what I could and could not eat when I had bad days and good days. It kept me going just to see the celebration of making my word count daily to seeing my improvements from day to day. I recommend this to everyone and have had many friends and book purchasers download and even wrote me that the app was awesome. Enjoy your journaling in a digital format. No more big bulky books and one more thing. You can add pictures tags and even look up a certain incident in the search bar. Plus it does log in mindfulness minutes in the apple health app. Awesome just awesome. Well worth a try. You’ll fall in love with it fast. Of course there is a time frame to learn the app and all its function but that’s with any app. Thanks for all your help and support from Diarly. Thank you so much. ~ Doc ( Leo McBride)

Developer Response
Hello & Thank you for the review.We are constantly working on app improvements, and we hope you will enjoy future updates.We try to balance number of features and simplicity.
Awesome app and support team
03/26/2024
Leo McBride

When there is a problem your not ignored, they respond fast and normally have a fix within days. Not like other apps that ignore you cause they don’t care. They care about their customers and their apps performance. Awesome app. Does it have bugs? Yes! but what app doesn’t? Plenty of features. Great price for those that need more options and its yearly not monthly. I have been with them for 5 years and counting. I am here to stay. No other diary app can come close not one. Enjoy. Believe it or not it saved my life. Don’t believe me I wrote a book about getting clean off doctor induced Vicodin addiction this app was with me from day one. Helping get threw every horrible part in recovery. From seeing how much I got done everyday to being able to track what I could and could not eat when I had bad days and good days. It kept me going just to see the celebration of making my word count daily to seeing my improvements from day to day. I recommend this to everyone and have had many friends and book purchasers download and even wrote me that the app was awesome. Enjoy your journaling in a digital format. No more big bulky books and one more thing. You can add pictures tags and even look up a certain incident in the search bar. Plus it does log in mindfulness minutes in the apple health app. Awesome just awesome. Well worth a try. You’ll fall in love with it fast. Of course there is a time frame to learn the app and all its function but that’s with any app. Thanks for all your help and support from Diarly. Thank you so much. ~ Doc ( Leo McBride)
Developer Response 09/19/2022
Hello & Thank you for the review.We are constantly working on app improvements, and we hope you will enjoy future updates.We try to balance number of features and simplicity.
Fantastic App!
12/09/2021
KatieLewisQuiltng
I've only been using Diary for a short time so far, but I'm really loving it. I'm amazed at how much they've included in the free version. I'm seriously considering replacing my bullet journal with Diary. There are basically two sections: Timeline (i.e. a place to create journal entries based on dates) and Notes (a place to create entries that are independent of the calendar). I'm using the Timeline for my Planner and Journal and plan to use it to also drop in photos to add a little scrapbook element. I've set up the Prompts to automaticaly insert a checklist of the routines/habits I'm working on developing each time I start a new entry. I also have it set it up to automatically insert my current location, today's weather, and important events from my calendar. I use Tags which then makes sections of my journal searchable - like having an index - so no searching my planner for the notes I took at a specific meeting. I can also search Diary for words or phrases. I use the Notes section for annual planning, brainstorming, notes for an online course I'm taking, etc. Tags and searching also include notes AND I can link my Notes and Timeline entries together. So a task on my timeline "Do module 3 lessson 1" can link to the notes for that class in my notes section. Everything I love about an analog bullet journal plus the searchability and linking of a digital platform. Plus I type faster and longer than I can write, so my journal entries are more representative of what I really want to get on "paper". I highly recommend Diary!

Developer Response
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write it - we really appreciate it. ❤️
Fantastic App!
12/09/2021
KatieLewisQuiltng

I've only been using Diary for a short time so far, but I'm really loving it. I'm amazed at how much they've included in the free version. I'm seriously considering replacing my bullet journal with Diary. There are basically two sections: Timeline (i.e. a place to create journal entries based on dates) and Notes (a place to create entries that are independent of the calendar). I'm using the Timeline for my Planner and Journal and plan to use it to also drop in photos to add a little scrapbook element. I've set up the Prompts to automaticaly insert a checklist of the routines/habits I'm working on developing each time I start a new entry. I also have it set it up to automatically insert my current location, today's weather, and important events from my calendar. I use Tags which then makes sections of my journal searchable - like having an index - so no searching my planner for the notes I took at a specific meeting. I can also search Diary for words or phrases. I use the Notes section for annual planning, brainstorming, notes for an online course I'm taking, etc. Tags and searching also include notes AND I can link my Notes and Timeline entries together. So a task on my timeline "Do module 3 lessson 1" can link to the notes for that class in my notes section. Everything I love about an analog bullet journal plus the searchability and linking of a digital platform. Plus I type faster and longer than I can write, so my journal entries are more representative of what I really want to get on "paper". I highly recommend Diary!
Developer Response 12/14/2021
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write it - we really appreciate it. ❤️
Love it! Enhancement suggestion for the devs~
08/09/2018
Mariezeee
I pretty much never write reviews. But I’ve been low-key searching for the perfect app for my journaling over the years. And I’ve finally found the one! I love how you can really simplify the look of the screen to help you stay focused on your writing, yet lots of useful little features are just a click or two away. I love how there’s a little preview for each entry, and the themes, and the search — I just really like all of the features and how they’re neatly tucked away. And I really appreciate the added protection of the password. *So* worth the one-time in-app purchase.There are enough options that I can feel like I’m customizing the app to my liking, but not too many options such that I feel overwhelmed and distracted by features rather than what the app is intended for - writing. One idea that would make this *perfect* for me, would be if the devs added the option to choose your cursor color as well as the theme. I love the pink cursor that is built into the darkest theme, but I prefer the second-darkest theme. If I could have the best of both worlds, this would be completely perfect for me. (It’s already pretty close to perfect in my opinion!)

Developer Response
Hello & thank you for such positive review and suggestions! Can confirm that new version will allow making custom themes (by modifying exported theme css). We hope you like it!Please don't hesitate to contact us if something does not work as expected or maybe will have more ideas how to make app better.
Love it! Enhancement suggestion for the devs~
08/09/2018
Mariezeee

I pretty much never write reviews. But I’ve been low-key searching for the perfect app for my journaling over the years. And I’ve finally found the one! I love how you can really simplify the look of the screen to help you stay focused on your writing, yet lots of useful little features are just a click or two away. I love how there’s a little preview for each entry, and the themes, and the search — I just really like all of the features and how they’re neatly tucked away. And I really appreciate the added protection of the password. *So* worth the one-time in-app purchase.There are enough options that I can feel like I’m customizing the app to my liking, but not too many options such that I feel overwhelmed and distracted by features rather than what the app is intended for - writing. One idea that would make this *perfect* for me, would be if the devs added the option to choose your cursor color as well as the theme. I love the pink cursor that is built into the darkest theme, but I prefer the second-darkest theme. If I could have the best of both worlds, this would be completely perfect for me. (It’s already pretty close to perfect in my opinion!)
Developer Response 08/11/2018
Hello & thank you for such positive review and suggestions! Can confirm that new version will allow making custom themes (by modifying exported theme css). We hope you like it!Please don't hesitate to contact us if something does not work as expected or maybe will have more ideas how to make app better.
Very convenient
09/14/2025
taeiulover
I’m using this app for 2 days now, I wrote my poem there and the events from each day. It’s hard for me to write by hand in journal, quite dismotivating, so I never had one. I dislike the inability to freely put my photos, read my handwriting or buy lots of stickers to decorate. Here I was able to choose the font, theme and write as much as I want. It’s amazing and so comfortable. I love that I can upload photos to decorate my writings. The only thing that I worry in a long term about is the safety of my writings to be saved for a long time. I don’t know the limit of the writings I can do yet, I don’t know how to save them to never loose them yet but also don’t want to use iCloud for it. So I really hope this app can serve me for years and one day my writings won’t disappear. Also what I can suggest is to maybe give more freedom to put photos in different places, it would be lovely. Like I could put a small cute sticker on the upper right corner of my writings or somewhere on the side, near my writings, not above or under it. I enjoy the simplicity of the app and all the functions I need are free.

Developer Response
Thank you for such a detailed and thoughtful review! We understand your concern about data safety — you can always make manual backups (File → Export) to keep your writings safe long-term. 💾
Very convenient
09/14/2025
taeiulover

I’m using this app for 2 days now, I wrote my poem there and the events from each day. It’s hard for me to write by hand in journal, quite dismotivating, so I never had one. I dislike the inability to freely put my photos, read my handwriting or buy lots of stickers to decorate. Here I was able to choose the font, theme and write as much as I want. It’s amazing and so comfortable. I love that I can upload photos to decorate my writings. The only thing that I worry in a long term about is the safety of my writings to be saved for a long time. I don’t know the limit of the writings I can do yet, I don’t know how to save them to never loose them yet but also don’t want to use iCloud for it. So I really hope this app can serve me for years and one day my writings won’t disappear. Also what I can suggest is to maybe give more freedom to put photos in different places, it would be lovely. Like I could put a small cute sticker on the upper right corner of my writings or somewhere on the side, near my writings, not above or under it. I enjoy the simplicity of the app and all the functions I need are free.
Developer Response 09/23/2025
Thank you for such a detailed and thoughtful review! We understand your concern about data safety — you can always make manual backups (File → Export) to keep your writings safe long-term. 💾

- Diarly now supports landscape mode on iPhone, making it easier to write and review your journal entries. - Deleted entries are now kept for 30 days, giving you time to restore important memories if needed. - Improved notifications: On This Day notifications can now include an image, and you can select multiple journals to feature in your daily memories. ~ ~ ~ Enjoying Diarly? Please leave a rating on the App Store. Your support helps us improve the app and make every update better. Diarly is a private journal and personal diary app for capturing memories, reflecting on your day, and building a meaningful daily journaling habit.

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Seller: Krzysztof Nowak
Size: 168.3 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.

Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.

Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Languages: English and 13 more

English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian
Age Rating: 9+

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In-App Purchases: Yes

Premium Journal – Yearly Plan $20.99

Yearly Premium $19.99

Yearly Premium $25.99

Monthly AI+ $1.99

Monthly Premium $2.99

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Mindful moments in August

Ratings & Reviews

Awesome app and support team

Fantastic App!

Love it! Enhancement suggestion for the devs~

Very convenient

What’s New

Subscriptions

Premium Journal – Yearly Plan

App Privacy

Data Linked to You

Data Not Linked to You

Accessibility

Supported Features

VoiceOver

Larger Text

Dark Interface

Information

Supports

Family Sharing

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See What’s New in iOS 27

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