- Welcome to Everlog. New users get a short welcome that asks what they'd like from their journal, offers to bring over their old one and sets up a daily reminder - Switching from another journal app is easier. Choose Day One, Apple Journal, Journey, Diarly or another app, and Everlog shows each step with the app's icon, opens it for you and imports right there - Share your export to Everlog. Share a Day One or other journal export to Everlog and it goes straight into the import, with the app it came from already picked - Import settings have the same new look, with every app's icon and a one-line how-to - A redesigned Premium screen, with reviews, the free trial timeline and the plans always in reach - Fixed iCloud Sync, automatic backups, weather and Premium fonts being turned off for subscribers who hadn't opened Everlog across a renewal. If yours were turned off, you can turn them back on in Settings - Fixed restoring a backup deleting its videos and voice memos from iCloud Drive, and encrypted backups restoring videos without a preview or length - Fixed importing a Markdown folder deleting the videos in it - Fixed Day One journals shared from the app being imported with the export's date in their name - Fixed places from Apple Journal imports not showing under Locations in the sidebar. Places already imported are fixed automatically - Fixed Everlog freezing at launch for some people after updating to 2.11 with iCloud Sync on - Fixed Everlog freezing when adding several videos, or a very large one, to an entry - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Themes. Choose from 14 themes in Appearance settings: Classic Light and Dark, plus Paper, Sepia, Solarized, Nord, Dracula, Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, Catppuccin and Tokyo Night with Premium. Each theme brings its own tint, heading and attachment colors, and your widgets and the share sheet follow it too - Light and dark themes. Turn on Match System Appearance to pick one theme for light mode and one for dark mode, and Everlog switches between them when your device does. If you had Appearance set to System, it's turned on for you with Classic Light and Classic Dark - Journal colors in your writing. With the Classic themes, headings and list bullets take the color of the entry's journal - Pinned entries. Swipe right on an entry or touch and hold it and tap Pin Entry to keep it at the top of your timeline. Tap the Pinned header to collapse it - Tags in the timeline. Entries show their tags below the text; tap one to see every entry with that tag. Choose Show Tags and Hide Tag Syntax in Timeline settings - Thumbnail layouts. Show attachments in the timeline as a Mosaic, a Grid or a scrolling Carousel, and choose the thumbnail size, in Timeline settings - Timeline settings at hand. Tap the new settings button in the timeline to choose what it shows, or in On This Day to change its settings - Reflections written on a different day show a preview of the entry they reflect on - Audio attachments show their length in the timeline - Better on iPhone Duo and large iPhones in landscape. With the timeline beside your entry, search, Focus Editor and Select First Entry by Default work as they do on iPad - Faster scrolling through large libraries, and the app stays responsive while iCloud syncs thousands of entries - More journaling prompts. Choose from 137 built-in prompts, with new questions about today, memories, people, the future and hard days, and better translations in every language - Unread recaps. The Recaps row in the sidebar shows how many recaps you haven't opened yet - Sketches are free for everyone, and so is moving entries between the journals you have - Resizable videos. Drag the corner of an inline video to resize it, just like a photo - Shortcuts and Siri. New Add Tags to Entry, Move Entries to Journal and Get On This Day Entries actions, Find Entries can filter by any entry detail, and Everlog's shortcuts now show up in Spotlight and the Shortcuts app in every language - Show Another Memory. Tap the new button on the On This Day widget to see a different memory - Cloud Encryption is now in iCloud settings, no Expert Mode needed. With Advanced Data Protection on, it keeps your journal end-to-end encrypted in iCloud - Fixed entries sometimes not opening when you tap several in quick succession on iPad - Fixed your devices repeatedly waking each other in the background through iCloud sync - Fixed the entry list for a recap stat including reflections, so it no longer disagrees with the count - Fixed day headers in the timeline showing another day's word count, or a stale one after an edit - Fixed weather loading forever when it couldn't be fetched. You now see why, for example when location access is off - Fixed resizing a photo not being saved unless you also edited the text - Fixed the Update Entry shortcut removing photos from the entry - Fixed Apple Journal imports losing the text of entries with emotions when Cloud Encryption is on - Clearer wording throughout the app, and permission requests in every language - Various bug fixes and improvements

- More privacy with a passcode. Your journal, tag and template names stay out of Shortcuts, Siri suggestions, widgets, Control Center and the share sheet unless you allow them in Settings › Privacy, where each permission now explains what it allows - What's New now shows the notes for every release - Fixed underline, bold and italic not working between Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters - Fixed month names being capitalized in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and Brazilian Portuguese - Fixed New Entry and other commands staying unavailable after you turn on a passcode - Fixed photos and videos sometimes not uploading to iCloud after your iPhone locked - Fixed the Add Comment shortcut not returning whether the entry is bookmarked - Fixed rare crashes in Shortcuts, widget setup, and when turning iCloud Sync on or off - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Fixed entries imported from Diarly all getting the same creation time when a note holds several entries - Fixed a second Diarly note from the same day being imported on the 1st of the month - Fixed On This Day opening with the first entry hidden under the header - Fixed Recaps on iPad leaving the last selected entry open beside it - Fixed a recap's photo mosaic filling the screen on iPad and pushing the stats out of view - Fixed a second photo showing behind the current one after swiping in the photo viewer on iPhone Duo - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Paste a link over text. Select some words and paste a web address to turn them into a link - Editor settings. Tap the new settings button in the editor to change editor options without leaving your entry - A new share sheet. Sharing to Everlog looks like the editor, keeps everything you share in order, and saves only when you tap Done - See the entries behind your recap stats. Tap a top tag or place, or a day on a monthly recap's calendar, to see just those entries - Live Photos stay live when you share them to Everlog or drag them into an entry - When no entry is selected, the editor offers a New Entry button - Manage Templates opens right over the editor instead of taking you to Settings - The timeline no longer repeats the journal name on every entry when you only have one journal - Fixed faces getting cut off in recap slideshows - Fixed the confirmation for deleting a template appearing next to the wrong template on iPhone - Fixed the bottom of an entry with photos getting cut off when you reopen it - Fixed long entries opening scrolled down - Fixed entries saved from the share sheet, widgets or Shortcuts not showing in Everlog right away - Fixed the share sheet not showing the date and location of the photos and videos you share - Fixed a photo's location being replaced by your current location in a new entry - Fixed the editor jumping to the top after you insert a separator at the end of an entry - Fixed getting stuck on the subscription screen when plans couldn't load - Fixed a crash when importing a backup with entries in the Trash - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Encrypted backups. Protect your iCloud Drive backups with a key only you hold, plus a recovery key to keep somewhere safe - Back up to a folder. Save backups to an external drive, a network share or another location in Files. Backups settings are clearer too, with a progress ring and a list of all your backups - Better search. Words match from their start, "quoted words" match whole words, and results show the text around the match. On iOS 26 and later, search sits in the toolbar - Customize the sidebar. Tap Edit Sidebar in the sidebar's More menu to show or hide sections - Timeline settings. On iOS 26 and later, tap the new settings button in the timeline or On This Day - Recap settings. Choose how much thought goes into your recaps, write your personal context in a full-size editor, and delete a recap's summary - Landscape on iPhone. Write and browse with your iPhone turned sideways - New Entry on the Lock Screen. Start an entry with one tap, in a journal or from a template - Quicker text styles. Tap the heading button above the keyboard to switch styles - Open in Apple Music. Tap the new button on a song to open it in Music - Everlog in Swedish, and improved Spanish translations - Fixed animated GIFs becoming still images in backups and exports, and GIFs skipped when importing from Apple Journal - Fixed songs and workouts imported from Diarly showing the wrong time; ones you already imported are fixed automatically - Fixed restoring a backup leaving a deleted journal's entries in the Trash; restoring again brings them back - Fixed backups failing when a download from iCloud was interrupted, and made restoring large backups faster - Fixed a year in review failing when the year had no monthly recaps, and recaps ignoring your font - Fixed crashes when sharing an attachment on iPad and when deleting a new entry while finding its location - Fixed the open entry closing on rotation, and the keyboard covering your text in iPad Split View and Stage Manager - Fixed the faint streak in the Lock Screen widget and fonts from font manager apps missing in Appearance - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Songs from Diarly. Imported songs now get their full title, artist, album and artwork from Apple Music - Fixed tapping a checkbox in the timeline erasing the rest of the entry - Fixed Live Photos being lost when restoring a backup or importing a JSON export; restoring again brings them back - Fixed moods imported from Day One showing no date; re-importing dates the ones you already have - Fixed selecting or deselecting entries by dragging stopping at the end of a day or month - Fixed highlights not showing inside quotes - Fixed Lock Screen widgets showing grey blocks on the always-on display - Fixed the line you're typing hiding behind the formatting bar on iPad with a hardware keyboard - Fixed slow launches and launch crashes on very large libraries - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Import from Diarly. Moods, workouts, songs and weather now come across as attachments instead of leaving tokens behind in your text, and photos without a description are no longer skipped - Attachment safeguards. If Everlog's data is deleted from your iCloud storage settings, Optimize Device Storage turns itself off so newly offloaded photos can't go with it, and Delete iCloud Data now tells you how many attachments exist only in iCloud - Fixed exports failing completely when one attachment's data was no longer in iCloud; those attachments are now skipped and counted - Fixed a failed export stopping without telling you why - Fixed Day One moods importing as "Neutral"; re-importing fills in the missing ones - Fixed a Day One re-import removing photos and videos from entries you had already imported - Fixed downloading attachments before deleting your iCloud data failing with a CloudKit error - Fixed Optimize Now appearing to do nothing - Fixed turning iCloud Sync on or off not taking effect until the next launch - Fixed recaps showing an error code instead of what went wrong - Fixed the calendar opening on the wrong month at launch - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Recap language. Choose the language your recaps are written in from Recaps settings, even when your entries are in other languages

- Recaps. A written look back on any month or year, drawn from your own entries and shown alongside the photos and videos from that time. Find them in the sidebar. Requires iOS 27 or iPadOS 27 - Automatic recaps. The month or year that just ended is recapped for you in the background; older months and years can be created on demand from the Recaps screen - Recap stats. Every recap includes a writing heatmap, words, time spent writing, entries, days journaled, top tags, and top places. Year recaps also chart your words month by month - Recap notifications. Get notified when a new recap is ready to read - Recaps are written with Apple Intelligence and sync across your devices - Personal context. Tell recaps about the people and places in your life so they understand your entries, and choose which journals they draw from (Recaps settings) And More… - Save as Template. Turn any entry into a template from the editor - Entries created from an AI prompt now go in the same journal as the entry you were reading - Improved Day One import: PDFs are no longer skipped, formatting is rebuilt more faithfully, hashtags in text no longer become tags, and re-importing repairs earlier imports - Fixed a launch crash on libraries containing mislabeled GIFs - Fixed the sidebar loading slowly for libraries with many journals - Fixed notification taps not opening the right screen when the app was closed - Fixed On This Day notifications drifting to the wrong day - Fixed bold, italic, and other inline formatting sometimes applying to the wrong text - Fixed stray text appearing in AI-suggested prompts on iOS 27 - Fixed the calendar getting stuck when swiping between week and month views - Fixed a rare crash while the timeline updates - Various bug fixes and improvements

- iCloud Sync on upgrade. Turn on syncing across your devices right after you upgrade - Show in Context. Jump from a search result straight to the entry where it sits in your timeline - Photo date and location. New photos and videos can set your entry's date and location. Choose Always, Never, or Ask each time - Fixed all-day entries showing a time on some winter dates - Fixed rare crashes on launch, while typing, and when opening entries in new windows - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Animated GIFs. Add GIFs to your entries and choose where they play - Fixed excessive battery use caused by background syncing - Faster search that keeps the app responsive while you type - Faster, lighter app launches - Fixed search not matching text inside Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words - Fixed calendar dots showing on the wrong day or not updating after syncing - Fixed tags with apostrophes not matching - Fixed images not importing when referenced by Markdown files - Fixed photo thumbnails not centering on faces - Fixed text briefly disappearing when typing backticks - Fixed occasional crashes when selecting tags - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Entry Details. See dates, stats, journal, location, weather, and sync status for any entry from the "…" menu - Fixed typing being lost if iOS suspended or closed the app - Fixed an editor save from one device overwriting newer content synced from another - Fixed the New Entry button creating a sub-entry of the currently selected entry - Fixed losing recent typing when deleting an inline attachment - Fixed quick taps on timeline entries opening the wrong entry - Various bug fixes and improvements

- Default journal. Pick which journal new entries go to from General Settings - Template date placeholder. Use {entry-date:} to insert the entry's date in templates - AI prompt suggestions toggle. Turn AI-suggested writing prompts on or off - Smarter prompt ordering. Prompts you've used recently appear lower in the list - Tag escape. Type \# to write a hashtag without creating a tag - Locations now group by country, so journals split across languages no longer appear duplicated - Update Entry shortcut now correctly changes the entry date - Backups now include thumbnails for photos, videos, and other media - Faster, more reliable cold launches - Fixed a hang and crash in the editor on large entries - Fixed sync issues that could freeze the app or duplicate entries - Fixed all-day detection when traveling across time zones - Various bug fixes and improvements

- AI prompt suggestions toggle in Editor settings - New {entry-date:} template placeholder that inserts the entry's date instead of today's - Default journal picker in General Settings - Previously used prompts now rank lower in the prompt list - Fixed duplicate entries appearing after CloudKit sync - Fixed tag duplication after CloudKit sync - Fixed missing thumbnails for media attachments in incremental backups - Fixed Update Entry shortcut not changing the entry date - Fixed calendar background missing on Liquid Glass when entries aren't grouped - Fixed duplicate countries in the Locations sidebar when syncing across locales - Fixed underline conversion not respecting the markdown syntax flavor setting - Fixed all-day detection breaking after a time zone change - Fixed new template view dismissing while typing - Fixed crash from journaling suggestions with emotion attachments - Fixed a crash in the timeline after rapid entry changes or returning from the background - Fixed app hang and crash when editing certain text patterns - Fixed cold-launch crashes from deferred initialization memory pressure - Fixed iCloud backup silently failing without an error - Fixed the app occasionally failing to terminate cleanly - Fixed Day One PDF import running out of memory on large files - Fixed media attachments not round-tripping correctly through export/import - Various stability and performance improvements

- Resize inline images by dragging the handle - Drag attachments from the editor panel directly onto timeline entries - Search now includes attachment metadata (locations, contacts, songs, etc.) - Import entries from Diarium - Import markdown and text files, with a warning for any skipped files - Configurable editor line width setting - Keyboard shortcuts to shift entry date forward/back and toggle all-day - Improved passcode screen layout on macOS with inline buttons - Fixed a bug where CloudKit sync could permanently orphan tags - Fixed settings resetting on macOS after a cold launch - Fixed cursor disappearing after pressing Return at the end of text - Fixed Live Photos not saving to the photo library correctly - Fixed date suggestions not updating correctly when setting an entry date - Fixed workout attachments being skipped during import - Fixed altitude not being parsed from GPX files - Fixed iCloud storage quota errors not being reported clearly - Fixed a crash when trashing entries on macOS - Fixed passcode field not re-focusing after a failed attempt - Various stability and performance improvements

- Inline attachments. Place photos, videos, audio, and more right in your text - Sketches. Draw your ideas directly in entries with customizable grids - Colored highlights. Highlight text in multiple colors from the Everlog palette - Attachment placement. Choose whether new attachments appear inline or in the panel - Copy and paste. Move attachments between entries with copy, cut, and paste - Search highlighting. Search terms are highlighted when viewing entries - Smart reminders. Daily writing reminders are skipped when you've met your goal - Improved import from Day One and Apple Journal - Fixed an issue that could cause the app to hang during sync - Various bug fixes and improvements

What's New in 2.7.12 New Features - Alphanumeric passcode. You can now use a full alphanumeric passcode instead of just numbers. On Mac, the passcode screen now uses a native text field instead of number buttons. - Search term highlighting. Search terms are now highlighted in the editor. - Smart daily reminders. The daily writing reminder is automatically skipped when you've already met your writing goal for the day. - Remember sidebar state. The app now remembers whether the sidebar was open or closed between launches. Bug Fixes - Fixed quote block backgrounds appearing split or double-drawn in the editor - Fixed placeholder text backgrounds rendering inconsistently - Fixed the date picker popover on Mac being too short, cutting off content - Fixed the sidebar resetting after authentication on iPad - Fixed the sidebar closing on every item selection on iPad - Fixed the month button layout not refreshing when returning from the app switcher on iPad - Fixed AI-suggested tags not allowing spaces - Fixed weather label getting truncated in the timeline - Fixed the header border color not updating when switching between light and dark mode - Fixed the floating button menu not appearing on tap in some cases - Fixed settings screen content being cut off at the bottom

# New Features - Incremental backups: Attachments are now only backed up once, which speeds up backups significantly and reduces overall size. # Improvements - Improved tag validation and rename consistency - Refined timeline header design with adjusted font sizes and weights - Improved sidebar cell spacing and font weight # Bug Fixes - Fixed status bar color sometimes changing when scrolling - Fixed sidebar cells growing progressively when scrolling - Fixed journal tint not applying to Timeline edit mode navigation buttons - Fixed Month Button layout issues during transitions - Fixed video/audio import from Apple Journal - Fixed video thumbnail regeneration - Fixed editor focus when creating new entries - Fixed Core Data threading issues in location updates

- Add smart tag suggestion setting in Settings > General > Editor - Fix swipe to indent - Fix Update Entry shortcut action - Fix unzip error when importing from other journal apps - Bugfixes

- Added new simplified Premium screen

- Improvements to Apple Journal imports - Bug fixes and performance improvements

- Import entries from Apple Journal - Added grid layout option for attachments in editor with adjustable thumbnail size - Added timeline separators setting - Updated Korean localization

- Improved memory management during imports - Enhanced keyboard focus handling in passcode screen - Small bug fixes

- Added Korean localization - Added "Select First Entry by Default" setting in Settings > General > Timeline (iPad & Mac) - Added auto-save photos to library setting in Settings > General > Attachments - Added drag and drop functionality to drag entries onto locations in the sidebar