Apple’s App of the Year with over 15 million downloads and 200,000 5-star ratings globally, Day One has reinvented journaling letting you record your life as you live it. Securely save audio, video, photos, notes, and more in the world’s most trusted digital journal.
“Day One creates something so rare it feels almost sacred: A completely private digital space.” – New York Times
“Day One makes keeping a journal delightfully easy.” – Wired
“This superb journaling app remains pleasant to behold, easy to use, and a tough act for any rival to follow.” – Macworld
WHY DAY ONE?
Day One is the original journal app and a decade of updates and feature additions make it the most private, trusted, and easiest-to-use journaling platform in the world.
SIMPLE TO USE, EASY TO LOVE
• Beautiful, award-winning design
• Unlimited text entries
• Unlimited photos and videos*
• Powerful rich text formatting with markdown
• Different journals for every aspect of your life*
PRIVATE AND SECURE
• Automatic backups keep your journal entries safe
• End-to-end encryption, which is a fancy way of saying your entries are 100% private
• Journal entries stay secure with passcode or TouchID
• Export options (pdf, plain text, JSON, etc.) ensure your entries always stay yours
FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
• Programmable reminder notifications
• Unique, daily journal prompts help eliminate writer’s cramp
• Customizable templates save time and add organization to entries
• Today view provides a summary of where you’ve been and what you’ve done
JOURNAL FROM WHEREVER, WHENEVER
• Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac
• The ability to email entries straight to your journal
BUILT FOR REMINISCING
• On This Day feature allows you to revisit past memories
• Tags, favorites, and search filters make it easy to find what you’re looking for
• Map view quickly shows all the places you’ve journaled from
*Day One is FREE to use forever with unlimited entries. Additional features, including unlimited photos, videos, and sync are available with a Day One Premium membership. Start a free trial today.
Privacy Policy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/
For technical assistance or other inquiries: https://dayoneapp.com/contact/
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Beautiful and functional
unterhauser
A tool should simplify the process, to get where you need to go. DayOne is my favorite at capturing and retrieving memories on the Mac or iPhone, and also works for paper journaling through it's scan. Been tyring all kind of apps, but ended up sticking with DayOne for nearly half a decade now … and it always pulls me back in.Pleased to see how they evolved the tagging feature to jump in and out of context more easily (on Mac for now). And most importantly, they built it privacy-first. Well done! Enjoy!
great app that makes me want to journal
pigsterman
this is a great app that helps inspire me to keep putting in effort to create entries for my journal. i personally prefer to edit the entries from my macbook due to the keyboard. the ease of creating the first entry from my ipad or iphone helps lock in the memory or event that i would like to entry on. and then the details come in later through my macbook.even after having used this for more than 12 mths, i think there are still some features that i am not using nor have the time to explore. the 'tag' feature is useful for me as the entries grow and I have to search for previous entries. it would be helpful for me to have an easy way to look through the tags.
loving it
GeoffLim
I had subsribed ton One Journal before and while it was good, I sort of fizzled out of the habit of journalling and recently got back to the habit. I resubscribed and fell in love with the app again. It does make journalling so much better and easier. They have also added new features so overall, it does help with creating a new habit of journalling if that is what you are into and One Journal is one of the best app out there.
Waiting for Version 3
saen.13
I love using Day One App but with Version 2 they really added a lot of bloat to it. It was slow to load and displayed too much information. I almost gave up on the app. Then ver 3 of the ios App was released and everything I disliked went away and Day One is amazing and part of my life again. So now I'm eagerly awaiting the upcoming update to the Mac App which I'm sure will also be amazing. In the meantime the current app is worth 3 stars, good but not amazing like the first release was to me then.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. Version 3 for Mac is coming. We are working on it right now.
- Introducing Journal Collections - group your related journals together
- Fixed an issue where moving an entry could get stuck
- Fixed list editing issues in the editor
- Stability improvements and bug fixes
Learn more at dayoneapp.com/releases
Version 2026.15
The developer, Bloom Built Inc, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Accessibility
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