Journal - From Me
Paper-first handwriting
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
iPad
Journal freely, follow 5 daily guided prompts, or reflect on 7 stories from yesterday. Handwrite or type, customize every page, and keep your writing private.
Journal - From Me is a calm, local-first writing space designed for iPad.
Write freely with Apple Pencil, switch to typing when you want, follow thoughtful daily prompts, or reflect on the world around you — all without turning journaling into another noisy productivity system.
The page stays at the center of the experience.
Journal
Write whatever is on your mind. Create multiple pages, revisit past entries, organize with folders, search your writing, recover deleted work, and export when you need to take your thoughts elsewhere.
Guided Journal
Some days you know exactly what you want to say. Other days, you just need somewhere to begin.
Guided Journal gives you five thoughtful prompts each day. Choose one, answer several, or follow every prompt that speaks to you. Each response keeps its own pages, stays editable, and remains easy to find later in your Guided archive.
Yesterday, Through You
Yesterday, Through You offers seven daily reflection prompts inspired by stories from the world around you.
The goal is not to turn journaling into a news feed. It is to give you a quieter way to process what you read, notice what stays with you, and explore how the outside world connects to your own thoughts.
Use one prompt or all seven. Every reflection keeps its own pages and history.
Made for Apple Pencil
The iPad experience is built around handwriting.
Use Apple Pencil for a paper-like writing flow with finger gestures reserved for navigation. Apple Pencil Pro squeeze can open the radial writing tools, letting your tools stay out of the way until you need them.
Choose from pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, white ink, and custom colors.
Handwrite or type
Not every thought wants to be handwritten.
Switch between Pencil and Type while preserving existing work. Typed pages follow the visible ruling so writing still feels like it belongs on the page instead of floating over it.
Standard Apple keyboard input and system dictation remain available through the normal iPad keyboard experience.
Make the page your own
Customize the page color, ruling color, ink color, line spacing, and writing tools to create a journal that feels personal.
Keep the traditional cream-paper look, make it brighter, soften it, or build something completely different.
Built around your writing
Your past entries remain editable. A day can contain multiple pages. Guided and Yesterday, Through You responses remain independent so switching prompts never overwrites another reflection.
Page numbers stay subtle at the bottom of the page, giving the journal a sense of place without turning it into a document manager.
Private by design
Your journal is local-first.
Your writing is not sent to the public prompt service. Guided Journal requests only the date needed to retrieve that day’s prompts. Your journal content stays on your device and may sync privately through iCloud when available.
No social feed. No public profile. No advertising system built around your thoughts.
Free to journal
The core Journal experience is free.
An optional subscription unlocks Guided Journal and Yesterday, Through You, with monthly and annual options presented through Apple.
Saved guided reflections remain yours even if your subscription later ends.
Journal - From Me is for people who want a quieter place to think — whether that starts with a blank page, a thoughtful question, or something happening in the world around them.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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This update makes Journal - From Me simpler, more capable, and more personal on iPad.
What’s new:
• Guided Journal is now a full writing surface, with five thoughtful prompts each day and a searchable archive of past responses.
• Yesterday, Through You now supports all seven daily prompts, with each reflection keeping its own independent pages and history.
• Journal and freeform writing are unified into one cleaner library, with multiple pages per day and editable past entries.
• Apple Pencil writing has been refined with Pencil-only ink, finger navigation, Pencil Pro squeeze support, a radial writing-tools palette, white ink, and custom pen, pencil, and highlighter colors.
• Page customization is expanded with adjustable paper color, line color, line spacing, and writing tools.
• Typing support on iPad is improved, with text aligned to the visible paper ruling and safer switching between Pencil and Type.
• Subtle page numbers are back at the bottom of each page.
• Guided and Yesterday, Through You responses now preserve prompt ownership more safely, including across edits and sync.
• Cross-device conflict handling has been improved so independent edits are merged where possible and competing versions are preserved instead of silently overwritten.
• PDF, PNG, and ZIP exports are more reliable, with safer background rendering and protection against incomplete exports replacing finished files.
• StoreKit access handling has been strengthened for purchases, renewals, restores, billing grace periods, expiration, and revocation.
• Guided Journal now uses a curated 1,000-prompt corpus with five deterministic prompts published each day.
• Performance, persistence, CloudKit compatibility, migration safety, and crash resistance have all received a substantial reliability pass.
The result is a quieter, more flexible writing experience built around three simple ways to begin:
Journal — write freely.
Guided Journal — start with a thoughtful prompt.
Yesterday, Through You — reflect on the world around you.
The developer, The Clairos Group,LLC, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- The Clairos Group, LLC
- Size
- 5.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
- iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPad
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Mature or Suggestive Themes
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yesterday, Through You Monthly $0.99
- Copyright
- © The Clairos Group, LLC
