Diarium Diary: Private Journal

Name: Diarium Diary: Private Journal
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Author: Timo Partl

Secure notes for life & travel

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

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Timo Partl
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Mac

The most functional journal for macOS lets you keep all your precious memories in one place and even reminds you to write down your experiences every day. Completely without ads or subscription. • The most feature-rich diary app for macOS, iOS & more • Write your journal anywhere (PC, laptop, tablet, phone, …) using Cloud Sync* • Sync via your personal cloud: OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud, WebDAV (incl. Nextcloud/Synology) • Get daily reminders to capture your memories • Use bullet point lists & text formatting • Attach pictures, drawings, audio recordings, files, tags, people, ratings or locations to your diary entries • Lock your journal with password, PIN or Touch ID • Automatic integration of your social media activity (Facebook, Last.fm, Untappd, …) & fitness data (Google Fit, Fitbit, Strava, …)* • Easy migration of your existing journal from other apps like Day One, Journey, Diarly & many more • Backup your diary with importing & exporting the database • Export your diary entries as Word file (.docx), website (.html), JSON (.json) or plain text (.txt)* • Perfect travel diary: Revisit your journeys on the world map • Track your mood with stars & tracker tags • Flexible: use as gratitude journal, bullet journal or travel journal • Free to use - better with the Pro Version * Pro version feature - Free 7 day trial period of the Pro version included. Pro version is a one-time-purchase, no subscription. License will be bound to App Store account. App licenses for other platforms need to be purchased separately. More details in the FAQ

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exactly what I was looking for!
05/18/2022

LClooper
I have a memory loss condition and constantly feel like I'm chasing my own tail, trying to remember what I've done and where I've been. Journaling is massively helpful but it can be so tedious trying to get it all down on paper and then still having everything in so many different places. Between the calendar features, customizable templates, social media and cloud syncing, and the multitude of tagging and search capabilities, it is everything I needed. ideas for improvements: I would love a view option for "focus mode" where the only thing on my screen is the writing part. The extra features are AWESOME but being able to see them all the time while I'm writing (and so colorfully) can be a bit distracting for me. Additionally, I use Apple Activity and an apple watch for my step tracking. That would be amazing to see if possible. I'm not sure how to access that through Fitbit unless I can get the Apple watch to sync there? Haven't tried but that's all I've got!

Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your positive feedback and your suggestions. I will consider a focus mode for a future update. I would love to incorporate Apple Health data but Apple only allows access to that data for "Health apps". It could be possible to sync the data to Fitbit and then connect to that in Diarium though
exactly what I was looking for!
05/18/2022

LClooper

I have a memory loss condition and constantly feel like I'm chasing my own tail, trying to remember what I've done and where I've been. Journaling is massively helpful but it can be so tedious trying to get it all down on paper and then still having everything in so many different places. Between the calendar features, customizable templates, social media and cloud syncing, and the multitude of tagging and search capabilities, it is everything I needed. ideas for improvements: I would love a view option for "focus mode" where the only thing on my screen is the writing part. The extra features are AWESOME but being able to see them all the time while I'm writing (and so colorfully) can be a bit distracting for me. Additionally, I use Apple Activity and an apple watch for my step tracking. That would be amazing to see if possible. I'm not sure how to access that through Fitbit unless I can get the Apple watch to sync there? Haven't tried but that's all I've got!
Developer Response 05/19/2022
Thanks a lot for your positive feedback and your suggestions. I will consider a focus mode for a future update. I would love to incorporate Apple Health data but Apple only allows access to that data for "Health apps". It could be possible to sync the data to Fitbit and then connect to that in Diarium though
PERFECT JOURNAL
Jan 18

skwidney
I just got my first MacBook ever and wanted to get into journal on here. I find writing to be physically painful lol after just a few paragraphs my hands are tired. So I tried a number of apps for my MacBook. A lot of them were great, some had TOO many features for no reason. But they all wanted monthly subscriptions. Which I really don’t understand. I just need to write and have it stored nicely. Not sure what kind of future improvements are needed for journaling to require an app to have monthly subscriptions. So that is definitely where this app is different. A single payment for the premium features. Which I don’t know yet what they are because I just got this app, wrote one entry found it to be absolutely perfect & decided to get the pro version to support the developer. I will absolutely be using this app everyday. Thank you!!

Developer Response
Thanks for the great review! I'm really glad you're finding Diarium straightforward and fitting well with your new MacBook. It's awesome to hear you appreciate the one-time payment approach. Hope it continues to meet your journaling needs effortlessly. Happy journaling!
PERFECT JOURNAL
Jan 18

skwidney

I just got my first MacBook ever and wanted to get into journal on here. I find writing to be physically painful lol after just a few paragraphs my hands are tired. So I tried a number of apps for my MacBook. A lot of them were great, some had TOO many features for no reason. But they all wanted monthly subscriptions. Which I really don’t understand. I just need to write and have it stored nicely. Not sure what kind of future improvements are needed for journaling to require an app to have monthly subscriptions. So that is definitely where this app is different. A single payment for the premium features. Which I don’t know yet what they are because I just got this app, wrote one entry found it to be absolutely perfect & decided to get the pro version to support the developer. I will absolutely be using this app everyday. Thank you!!
Developer Response Jan 19
Thanks for the great review! I'm really glad you're finding Diarium straightforward and fitting well with your new MacBook. It's awesome to hear you appreciate the one-time payment approach. Hope it continues to meet your journaling needs effortlessly. Happy journaling!
I keep trying others but always come back
Oct 14

Tuggers1
This just works… it has a few quirks but it works. From my entries it looks like I started using it in 2016. It has slowly but steadily improved with updates since then. It’s not overly fancy or bloated like most others. If you want to set it and forget it look no further this is your app. With the help of my custom templates (very useful) it has become my daily journal, ship’s log, woodsman’s logbook, travel journal, photographers journal, and a bit of a creative writers journal. Basically it is useful to say the least. I do have a few wishes like the ability to have more than one journal, also the ability to make tables in templates would be helpful and the last wish would be add blocks for text on different parts of a page (not sure what the correct term is). Thanks to the developer for working on this for so long. I am a minimalist and this checks nearly all the boxes for me.

Developer Response
Thanks so much for your positive feedback. Much appreciated! Glad you're enjoying the app for so long
I keep trying others but always come back
Oct 14

Tuggers1

This just works… it has a few quirks but it works. From my entries it looks like I started using it in 2016. It has slowly but steadily improved with updates since then. It’s not overly fancy or bloated like most others. If you want to set it and forget it look no further this is your app. With the help of my custom templates (very useful) it has become my daily journal, ship’s log, woodsman’s logbook, travel journal, photographers journal, and a bit of a creative writers journal. Basically it is useful to say the least. I do have a few wishes like the ability to have more than one journal, also the ability to make tables in templates would be helpful and the last wish would be add blocks for text on different parts of a page (not sure what the correct term is). Thanks to the developer for working on this for so long. I am a minimalist and this checks nearly all the boxes for me.
Developer Response Oct 16
Thanks so much for your positive feedback. Much appreciated! Glad you're enjoying the app for so long
A great journaling app that could be even better
08/21/2023

SMsentinel
Diarium is a great app. It works well and the developer listens and responds to feedback. There are just three things keeping Diarium from five stars in my book:1) The design could use more polish. I'd especially like to see recent posts in a sidebar and have a search bar present all the time at the top of the app.2) Speaking of search, you can't search for more than one term at the same time unless those terms are immediately adjacent to each other in the text of an entry. This is a big issue for me and others.3) Most Mac and iOS users these days expect purchases to be universal across devices, so when you buy an app on your Mac, it's also available for your iPhone. While it's great that Diarium is available for the iPhone, it does feel unusual that it's a separate purchase. That said, it should very much be celebrated that the app is a one-time purchase and not a subscription.

Developer Response
Thanks a lot for your fair review & feedback! Please let me give a short comment to each of your points:1) I agree with that and I hope to find ways to make the app feel more polished.2) This is indeed a popular request in the community forums and I hope to implement this in a future update (once I am done working on the topics I think are more important). Please feel free to comment on the thread in the forums. For example, should there be a way for a user to differentiate between the current search mode and the new one that searches for each term individually? Or should the app do both modes automatically? How should the terms be separated in the search box and how to force the app to treat multiple words as one term instead of individual terms? Can you give an example on what you tried to search for that Diarium wasn't able to find?3) The way I designed the Pro version is (what I think) the cheapest way to offer the app to users. It may be "unusual" to have the Pro version separate for iOS and macOS, but so is that the app doesn't rely on a subscription to offer a cross-platform experience, right? If I tried to have one single payment that works for all platforms Diarium is available on, it would have to be so much more expensive which doesn't help anyone in the end. I tried to explain this topic in more detail in the FAQs and I also inform users about how the Pro version works before they decide to buy the appThanks again for your feedback!
A great journaling app that could be even better
08/21/2023

SMsentinel

Diarium is a great app. It works well and the developer listens and responds to feedback. There are just three things keeping Diarium from five stars in my book:1) The design could use more polish. I'd especially like to see recent posts in a sidebar and have a search bar present all the time at the top of the app.2) Speaking of search, you can't search for more than one term at the same time unless those terms are immediately adjacent to each other in the text of an entry. This is a big issue for me and others.3) Most Mac and iOS users these days expect purchases to be universal across devices, so when you buy an app on your Mac, it's also available for your iPhone. While it's great that Diarium is available for the iPhone, it does feel unusual that it's a separate purchase. That said, it should very much be celebrated that the app is a one-time purchase and not a subscription.
Developer Response 08/22/2023
Thanks a lot for your fair review & feedback! Please let me give a short comment to each of your points:1) I agree with that and I hope to find ways to make the app feel more polished.2) This is indeed a popular request in the community forums and I hope to implement this in a future update (once I am done working on the topics I think are more important). Please feel free to comment on the thread in the forums. For example, should there be a way for a user to differentiate between the current search mode and the new one that searches for each term individually? Or should the app do both modes automatically? How should the terms be separated in the search box and how to force the app to treat multiple words as one term instead of individual terms? Can you give an example on what you tried to search for that Diarium wasn't able to find?3) The way I designed the Pro version is (what I think) the cheapest way to offer the app to users. It may be "unusual" to have the Pro version separate for iOS and macOS, but so is that the app doesn't rely on a subscription to offer a cross-platform experience, right? If I tried to have one single payment that works for all platforms Diarium is available on, it would have to be so much more expensive which doesn't help anyone in the end. I tried to explain this topic in more detail in the FAQs and I also inform users about how the Pro version works before they decide to buy the appThanks again for your feedback!

• Diarium now fully supports macOS 26 and the Liquid Glass Design • Diarium now supports fullscreen mode • You can now resize and collapse the sidebar • Many more fixes and improvements

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