Journal

Name: Journal
Rating: 4.7 (2410 reviews)
Author: Apple

Reflect on life’s moments

Free

2.4K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Apple
Language

EN
English

Take a moment to reflect on your day. Capture and write about the details of everyday moments and special events using photos, videos, audio recordings, places, your state of mind and more. Journalling suggestions make it easy to remember your daily experiences — so you can add them to your journal and never have to start with a blank page. Organise your entries by creating multiple journals for different aspects of your life, keep track of your journalling goals with insights and streaks, and sync your journal between iPhone, iPad and Mac using iCloud. Get started writing with journalling suggestions • Choose from suggested moments to start your journal entry with intelligently grouped outings, photos, workouts, media and more. • Get a writing prompt to guide your insights. • Find inspiration with reflection prompts to focus on gratitude, kindness, purpose and more. • Journalling suggestions are created using on-device intelligence based on how you use your iPhone. Choose what information you want to enable for suggestions. • Suggestions created on your iPhone sync securely to iPad. Preserve powerful memories in rich detail • Illustrate your entries with the photos, videos and places that tell your story. Customise the layout by placing attachments seamlessly within the text you write. • Get creative and express yourself with lettering, sketches and doodles using your finger, or Apple Pencil on iPad. And you can make your journal even more personal with entries in your own handwriting. • Record your voice directly into your journal and have it transcribed automatically or record your surroundings to add context to your entry. • Express yourself with text formatting options, including lists, quotes and various text styles. • Add a widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen that shows your current streak at a glance or presents writing prompts that change throughout the day so you can reflect on what’s going on in the moment. • Start a new entry and add content from other apps like News, Music or Safari. • Keep your entries organised by creating multiple journals for different aspects of your life, and add a custom name and icon for each. Enjoy past moments • Browse, search and sort your journal to look back and reflect on key moments in your life. • Easily find past entries using the calendar. • See entries written at a specific location or find entries you made nearby in the new Places view. • View each entry and its attachments in a beautiful full-screen view. • Print or export your entries. Build a good habit • View your journalling streaks, the days you journalled and other fun stats in the new Insights view. • Set a schedule or receive notifications at convenient times based on how you use the app. You’ll get reminders when it’s time to write, or when new journalling suggestions are ready, so you can keep a consistent journalling practice Journal for wellbeing • Log your state of mind in Journal and save it to the Health app. • Automatically save your writing time as Mindful Minutes in Health. Keep your journal private and secure • Protect your journal with your device passcode, Touch ID or Face ID, so no one but you can access it. • Store your entries safely in iCloud so they’re automatically backed up. Certain features are available only in selected languages and regions.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

2.4K Ratings

Ｉabsolutely LOVE it😻😽
21/10/2024

和su双手合十
This app made me more organized. It substituted some of my notes in my messy Note App folder, It also decreased the amount of photos I had to keep in my Photos App and audio records. (I normally take photos to show my future self what was the day like for me, and write about my day separately on my journal notebook 📔 ) It organizes your journal automatically by date. It folds the long texts and makes it available when you tap it. It can make you record your day with various ways: picture, audio recording, text, mood and more. It’s so much vivid then just plain pictures or written words! And they’re all together so you don’t need to quit and visit different application to puzzle out what was the day like.It’s one of the best upgrade features in my opinion😜😜
Ｉabsolutely LOVE it😻😽
21/10/2024

和su双手合十

This app made me more organized. It substituted some of my notes in my messy Note App folder, It also decreased the amount of photos I had to keep in my Photos App and audio records. (I normally take photos to show my future self what was the day like for me, and write about my day separately on my journal notebook 📔 ) It organizes your journal automatically by date. It folds the long texts and makes it available when you tap it. It can make you record your day with various ways: picture, audio recording, text, mood and more. It’s so much vivid then just plain pictures or written words! And they’re all together so you don’t need to quit and visit different application to puzzle out what was the day like.It’s one of the best upgrade features in my opinion😜😜
Great but needs upgrades quickly.
28/03/2024

JoniP
Very useful but it needs to be for iPad as well and even more importantly it needs a search function. It is crazy to have to scroll through countless entries to get to a specific date or topic etc. Ideally a “word” search and a calendar to click on to bring up a day will be added soon. I’m surprised it wasn’t built in straight away. Or is it there and I’m missing it?Still waiting for a Search and Calendar view 🤷. I see now how it uses data picked up from your phone during the day so an iPad version wouldn’t do that until it syncs with your phone so I’m guessing the only reason for this App is data revenue for Apple and an iPad version not a revenue boost.
Great but needs upgrades quickly.
28/03/2024

JoniP

Very useful but it needs to be for iPad as well and even more importantly it needs a search function. It is crazy to have to scroll through countless entries to get to a specific date or topic etc. Ideally a “word” search and a calendar to click on to bring up a day will be added soon. I’m surprised it wasn’t built in straight away. Or is it there and I’m missing it?Still waiting for a Search and Calendar view 🤷. I see now how it uses data picked up from your phone during the day so an iPad version wouldn’t do that until it syncs with your phone so I’m guessing the only reason for this App is data revenue for Apple and an iPad version not a revenue boost.
I like but…
29/01/2025

Darryn Lowe
I’ve started taking up journaling in order to more or less clear my head. It’s way better than meditation I feel because you’re not stuck in your head doing it. Quite the opposite. My biggest gripe is the lack of Mac and iPad versions. At least give us a web version so we can edit on a bigger screen. Typing on a cell keyboard is pretty pokey, which is why I use a BT keyboard, but that’s something extra I have to carry around. I’d give this app 5 stars if it had a desktop version.
I like but…
29/01/2025

Darryn Lowe

I’ve started taking up journaling in order to more or less clear my head. It’s way better than meditation I feel because you’re not stuck in your head doing it. Quite the opposite. My biggest gripe is the lack of Mac and iPad versions. At least give us a web version so we can edit on a bigger screen. Typing on a cell keyboard is pretty pokey, which is why I use a BT keyboard, but that’s something extra I have to carry around. I’d give this app 5 stars if it had a desktop version.
Handy prompts, easy to use
15/12/2023

tielqt
I always struggle with journalling consistently because I’m never quite sure what to use as a starting point. Things of note, no problem, I can journal that. Having access to this, combined with photos and other data, and getting suggestions on what I can use as my jumping off point makes this a really compelling package. Will definitely be making an effort to check in and reflect more.
Handy prompts, easy to use
15/12/2023

tielqt

I always struggle with journalling consistently because I’m never quite sure what to use as a starting point. Things of note, no problem, I can journal that. Having access to this, combined with photos and other data, and getting suggestions on what I can use as my jumping off point makes this a really compelling package. Will definitely be making an effort to check in and reflect more.

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- Differentiate Without Colour Alone
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Information

Seller: Apple Pty Limited
Category: Health & Fitness
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.2 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.2 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.2 or later.
Languages: English
Age Classification: 4+

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