Smart Journal by Nova
Guided Ai habit tracker
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Nova's Smart Journal helps you find balance across the things you actually care about: work, school, training, hobbies, sports, nightlife, or whatever you pour yourself into.
At its core, the Smart Journal is a flexible journaling app. But for people who want more structure (students, athletes, high-output professionals), it also handles goals, habits, routines, and custom metrics without locking you into a rigid template.
A built-in AI scans your entries to surface patterns, trends, and moments worth noticing. It can connect behaviors to outcomes, flag recurring themes, and help you spot shifts you'd probably miss on your own, without making you reread weeks of notes to find them. It's also good at digging through a lot of history to pinpoint specific moments in time.
We don't think AI belongs in the deeply personal parts of journaling. The AI here is there to make reflection more practical, not to do it for you. By design, it can't write entries or edit your data.
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What's inside:
A goal system for short- and long-term focus
A color-coded calendar that shows intensity, balance, and consistency at a glance
Optional tracking for habits, performance, mood, or workload
An AI chat system
A minimal interface designed to cut friction and mental clutter
The look is intentionally calm and simple, but there's a lot under the hood. The Smart Journal is an empty canvas: structured when you need it, free-form when you don't. It adapts to your life instead of asking you to rearrange it around the app.
Journaling isn't supposed to be effortless, but it can be practical. Nova's Smart Journal stays out of the way so you can stay in the moment.
A fresh look for Nova.
• Refreshed App Store artwork and a clearer picture of what Nova does
• Everything inside the app stays exactly where you left it
Thank you for journaling with Nova. Your feedback shapes every release.
The developer, Evan Bibby, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Evan Bibby
- Size
- 219.9 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Medical Treatment information
Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Power User Plan - Yearly $69.99
- Power User Plan - Monthly $9.99
- Premium Plan - Yearly $34.99
- Premium Plan - Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Evan Bibby