Parchment is a private daily journal that brings your writing, plans, calendar, and reminders together in one quiet place. It uses Apple's Reminders and the system calendar to bring your task and events together.
Open today and start writing immediately. Your calendar events and due or overdue reminders can appear above your journal entry, giving you the context of the day without switching apps. Capture notes, reflect on what happened, plan what comes next, or use Parchment as a simple daybook for work and life.
On iPad, Parchment also supports handwriting and drawing with Apple Pencil, so typed notes and handwritten thoughts can live together on the same day.
Parchment is built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync available through your private iCloud account. There is no Parchment account to create, no advertising, and no third-party analytics SDKs.
Features include:
- Daily journal entries organized by date
- Calendar events shown alongside your writing
- Due and overdue reminders in your daily view
- Reminder completion from inside the app
- Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing on iPad
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Widgets for a quick look at your agenda
- Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents support
- Spotlight indexing for finding past entries
- Export tools for keeping a copy of your writing
- Custom appearance, fonts, and themes
Parchment is for people who want a journal that understands the shape of their day. It gives you one place to write what happened, see what is coming up, and keep a private record over time.
LOVE the simple design, the notes section, and 2-way integration it has with Calendar and Reminders
iss122
I love that this app combines reminders and events in one place while allowing you to take notes under each specific day. It makes it easy to organize your day and keep a log of what you did and when, and the search function means you can find that info later. This means the app can centralize all my tasks/events in one place instead of having to use different apps. I still might use reminders separately for some aspects (like organizing tasks across different project stages), but that’s for planning. Once things are scheduled to a particular day, I can just use parchment to check what needs doing on that specific day. Note: make sure you look through all the settings carefully. I thought the markdown features weren’t displaying properly, but I just didn’t have that turned on in the settings.I’m impressed that this app is so good despite being so new. If it stayed like this forever I’d be very satisfied, but I’m excited to see what changes the dev makes to make the app even better (if that’s even possible). Dev is clearly very talented!! Also, huge props for making it a 1x purchase instead of a subscription!
Great idea
Offline Reedler
Great idea, but not quite ready for prime time. I noticed some oddities with the times, and dates on my Reminders, and I don’t think he’s solved the Shortcuts/Reminders midnight issue. I’m also not happy about paying the full amount up front. I’d rather have a trial period, especially for a brand new app.
Parchment is exactly what i was looking for.
Ayng2906
So basically I want to get my study habits better using the book “How to get Straight As in college by cal newport” In the book he follow a similar workflow that this app provides but on paper…I know we live in the modern age so I really want to find something way more convenient then a piece of paper. Having an app like this just removes a lot of friction in my work flow. Less friction = more productivity. Now if there only was a windows version that syncs with my current work flow of my iPhone,iPad and Laptop. Keep up the great work the most recent update cleared up a lot of bugs I was facing Thank you.
I never leave reviews, but…
augaug
This app is simple, it works well, and it’s exactly what I was looking for. Perfection!
Bug fixes for the sync system and start up
Version 1.2.1
The developer, Chris Lawley, 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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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Christopher Lawley
Size
144.3 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
