Diarly: Diary, Private Journal

Name: Diarly: Diary, Private Journal
Rating: 4.7 (1360 reviews)
Author: Krzysztof Nowak

Journal & Notes with Password

Free · In‑App Purchases

1.4K Ratings
Ages

9+
Years
Category

Lifestyle
Developer

Krzysztof Nowak
Language

EN
+ 13 More
Size

164.3
MB

Turn your thoughts into a daily ritual—beautifully, effortlessly, and just for you. Start today and see how a few mindful minutes can change everything. Whether you’ve journaled for years or never written a single entry, Diarly makes it easy, beautiful, and rewarding to start. START YOUR DAY WITH FOCUS, END IT WITH CLARITY Begin with a thoughtful daily prompt, enriched automatically with the day’s weather, your location, calendar events, or health data. Note your plans and track your mood. In the evening, reflect on what happened, attach photos from your day, and capture your thoughts before bed. Everything saves automatically and syncs across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. BUILD YOUR JOURNALING HABIT EFFORTLESSLY Stay consistent with daily templates, gentle reminders, streak tracking, and inspiring stats — all designed to help you write more without pressure. TRACK YOUR MOOD, IMPROVE YOUR WELL-BEING Mood tracking helps you spot patterns over time — connecting how you feel with what’s happening in your life. It’s a simple way to support your mental health, boost self-awareness, and build habits that help you feel your best for the long run. KEEP NOTES, NOT JUST JOURNAL ENTRIES Diarly isn’t only for daily logs — you can also create timeless, topic-based notes for ideas, projects, lists, or anything you want to remember. Store private thoughts, plans, and reference material right alongside your journal, without assigning them to a date. CAPTURE EVERY MOMENT Add unlimited photos, videos, drawings, and audio notes to bring your memories to life. Entries are organized with timelines, maps, and calendars so you can easily look back and see your journey unfold — and relive past moments with On This Day. CONNECTED WITH YOUR LIFE Diarly can work seamlessly with the apps and services you already use. Save mood entries to Apple Health, log mindful minutes toward your wellness goals, and record activity time automatically. Bring in calendar events to remember your schedule, add the day’s weather and location, and enjoy a Today Gallery that displays all the photos you took that day — beautifully linked to your journal. MAKE IT TRULY YOURS Pick from dozens of light and dark themes, customize layouts for each journal, and write in your preferred font or markdown style. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your thoughts are yours alone. Diarly encrypts your journal database and offers Face ID or Touch ID for instant, secure access. SWITCHING IS SIMPLE Import your existing journals from DayOne, WordPress, Blogger, Ghost, Penzu, Evernote, and more — so you can continue your journey without starting over. WHY PEOPLE LOVE DIARLY: * “An impressive number of features for such a minimalistic app — remarkably intuitive.” * “Exceptional app, works perfectly every time. Well worth the price.” * “The most effective and efficient way to keep a daily journal. Can’t do without it.” TRY DIARLY FREE WITH UNLIMITED ENTRIES AND CORE FEATURES. Upgrade for password protection, cross-device sync, unlimited journals, custom themes, AI assistance, and more — one subscription covers all your devices, with a 7-day free trial. ——————————————— Help Guides → https://diarly.app/help Privacy Policy → https://diarly.app/privacy Terms & Conditions → https://diarly.app/terms_conditions/

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

1.4K Ratings

Awesome app and support team
03/26/2024

Doc Wyatt
When there is a problem your not ignored, they respond fast and normally have a fix within days. Not like other apps that ignore you cause they don’t care. They care about their customers and their apps performance. Awesome app. Does it have bugs? Yes! but what app doesn’t? Plenty of features. Great price for those that need more options and its yearly not monthly. I have been with them for 5 years and counting. I am here to stay. No other diary app can come close not one. Enjoy. Believe it or not it saved my life. Don’t believe me I wrote a book about getting clean off doctor induced Vicodin addiction this app was with me from day one. Helping get threw every horrible part in recovery. From seeing how much I got done everyday to being able to track what I could and could not eat when I had bad days and good days. It kept me going just to see the celebration of making my word count daily to seeing my improvements from day to day. I recommend this to everyone and have had many friends and book purchasers download and even wrote me that the app was awesome. Enjoy your journaling in a digital format. No more big bulky books and one more thing. You can add pictures tags and even look up a certain incident in the search bar. Plus it does log in mindfulness minutes in the apple health app. Awesome just awesome. Well worth a try. You’ll fall in love with it fast. Of course there is a time frame to learn the app and all its function but that’s with any app. Thanks for all your help and support from Diarly. Thank you so much. ~ Doc ( Leo McBride)

Developer Response
Hello & Thank you for the review.We are constantly working on app improvements, and we hope you will enjoy future updates.We try to balance number of features and simplicity.
Awesome app and support team
03/26/2024

Doc Wyatt

When there is a problem your not ignored, they respond fast and normally have a fix within days. Not like other apps that ignore you cause they don’t care. They care about their customers and their apps performance. Awesome app. Does it have bugs? Yes! but what app doesn’t? Plenty of features. Great price for those that need more options and its yearly not monthly. I have been with them for 5 years and counting. I am here to stay. No other diary app can come close not one. Enjoy. Believe it or not it saved my life. Don’t believe me I wrote a book about getting clean off doctor induced Vicodin addiction this app was with me from day one. Helping get threw every horrible part in recovery. From seeing how much I got done everyday to being able to track what I could and could not eat when I had bad days and good days. It kept me going just to see the celebration of making my word count daily to seeing my improvements from day to day. I recommend this to everyone and have had many friends and book purchasers download and even wrote me that the app was awesome. Enjoy your journaling in a digital format. No more big bulky books and one more thing. You can add pictures tags and even look up a certain incident in the search bar. Plus it does log in mindfulness minutes in the apple health app. Awesome just awesome. Well worth a try. You’ll fall in love with it fast. Of course there is a time frame to learn the app and all its function but that’s with any app. Thanks for all your help and support from Diarly. Thank you so much. ~ Doc ( Leo McBride)
Developer Response 09/19/2022
Hello & Thank you for the review.We are constantly working on app improvements, and we hope you will enjoy future updates.We try to balance number of features and simplicity.
Fantastic App!
12/09/2021

KatieLewisQuiltng
I've only been using Diary for a short time so far, but I'm really loving it. I'm amazed at how much they've included in the free version. I'm seriously considering replacing my bullet journal with Diary. There are basically two sections: Timeline (i.e. a place to create journal entries based on dates) and Notes (a place to create entries that are independent of the calendar). I'm using the Timeline for my Planner and Journal and plan to use it to also drop in photos to add a little scrapbook element. I've set up the Prompts to automaticaly insert a checklist of the routines/habits I'm working on developing each time I start a new entry. I also have it set it up to automatically insert my current location, today's weather, and important events from my calendar. I use Tags which then makes sections of my journal searchable - like having an index - so no searching my planner for the notes I took at a specific meeting. I can also search Diary for words or phrases. I use the Notes section for annual planning, brainstorming, notes for an online course I'm taking, etc. Tags and searching also include notes AND I can link my Notes and Timeline entries together. So a task on my timeline "Do module 3 lessson 1" can link to the notes for that class in my notes section. Everything I love about an analog bullet journal plus the searchability and linking of a digital platform. Plus I type faster and longer than I can write, so my journal entries are more representative of what I really want to get on "paper". I highly recommend Diary!

Developer Response
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write it - we really appreciate it. ❤️
Fantastic App!
12/09/2021

KatieLewisQuiltng

I've only been using Diary for a short time so far, but I'm really loving it. I'm amazed at how much they've included in the free version. I'm seriously considering replacing my bullet journal with Diary. There are basically two sections: Timeline (i.e. a place to create journal entries based on dates) and Notes (a place to create entries that are independent of the calendar). I'm using the Timeline for my Planner and Journal and plan to use it to also drop in photos to add a little scrapbook element. I've set up the Prompts to automaticaly insert a checklist of the routines/habits I'm working on developing each time I start a new entry. I also have it set it up to automatically insert my current location, today's weather, and important events from my calendar. I use Tags which then makes sections of my journal searchable - like having an index - so no searching my planner for the notes I took at a specific meeting. I can also search Diary for words or phrases. I use the Notes section for annual planning, brainstorming, notes for an online course I'm taking, etc. Tags and searching also include notes AND I can link my Notes and Timeline entries together. So a task on my timeline "Do module 3 lessson 1" can link to the notes for that class in my notes section. Everything I love about an analog bullet journal plus the searchability and linking of a digital platform. Plus I type faster and longer than I can write, so my journal entries are more representative of what I really want to get on "paper". I highly recommend Diary!
Developer Response 12/14/2021
Thank you very much for your review and for taking the time to write it - we really appreciate it. ❤️
Love it! Enhancement suggestion for the devs~
08/09/2018

Mariezeee
I pretty much never write reviews. But I’ve been low-key searching for the perfect app for my journaling over the years. And I’ve finally found the one! I love how you can really simplify the look of the screen to help you stay focused on your writing, yet lots of useful little features are just a click or two away. I love how there’s a little preview for each entry, and the themes, and the search — I just really like all of the features and how they’re neatly tucked away. And I really appreciate the added protection of the password. *So* worth the one-time in-app purchase.There are enough options that I can feel like I’m customizing the app to my liking, but not too many options such that I feel overwhelmed and distracted by features rather than what the app is intended for - writing. One idea that would make this *perfect* for me, would be if the devs added the option to choose your cursor color as well as the theme. I love the pink cursor that is built into the darkest theme, but I prefer the second-darkest theme. If I could have the best of both worlds, this would be completely perfect for me. (It’s already pretty close to perfect in my opinion!)

Developer Response
Hello & thank you for such positive review and suggestions! Can confirm that new version will allow making custom themes (by modifying exported theme css). We hope you like it!Please don't hesitate to contact us if something does not work as expected or maybe will have more ideas how to make app better.
Love it! Enhancement suggestion for the devs~
08/09/2018

Mariezeee

I pretty much never write reviews. But I’ve been low-key searching for the perfect app for my journaling over the years. And I’ve finally found the one! I love how you can really simplify the look of the screen to help you stay focused on your writing, yet lots of useful little features are just a click or two away. I love how there’s a little preview for each entry, and the themes, and the search — I just really like all of the features and how they’re neatly tucked away. And I really appreciate the added protection of the password. *So* worth the one-time in-app purchase.There are enough options that I can feel like I’m customizing the app to my liking, but not too many options such that I feel overwhelmed and distracted by features rather than what the app is intended for - writing. One idea that would make this *perfect* for me, would be if the devs added the option to choose your cursor color as well as the theme. I love the pink cursor that is built into the darkest theme, but I prefer the second-darkest theme. If I could have the best of both worlds, this would be completely perfect for me. (It’s already pretty close to perfect in my opinion!)
Developer Response 08/11/2018
Hello & thank you for such positive review and suggestions! Can confirm that new version will allow making custom themes (by modifying exported theme css). We hope you like it!Please don't hesitate to contact us if something does not work as expected or maybe will have more ideas how to make app better.
Very convenient
09/14/2025

taeiulover
I’m using this app for 2 days now, I wrote my poem there and the events from each day. It’s hard for me to write by hand in journal, quite dismotivating, so I never had one. I dislike the inability to freely put my photos, read my handwriting or buy lots of stickers to decorate. Here I was able to choose the font, theme and write as much as I want. It’s amazing and so comfortable. I love that I can upload photos to decorate my writings. The only thing that I worry in a long term about is the safety of my writings to be saved for a long time. I don’t know the limit of the writings I can do yet, I don’t know how to save them to never loose them yet but also don’t want to use iCloud for it. So I really hope this app can serve me for years and one day my writings won’t disappear. Also what I can suggest is to maybe give more freedom to put photos in different places, it would be lovely. Like I could put a small cute sticker on the upper right corner of my writings or somewhere on the side, near my writings, not above or under it. I enjoy the simplicity of the app and all the functions I need are free.

Developer Response
Thank you for such a detailed and thoughtful review! We understand your concern about data safety — you can always make manual backups (File → Export) to keep your writings safe long-term. 💾
Very convenient
09/14/2025

taeiulover

I’m using this app for 2 days now, I wrote my poem there and the events from each day. It’s hard for me to write by hand in journal, quite dismotivating, so I never had one. I dislike the inability to freely put my photos, read my handwriting or buy lots of stickers to decorate. Here I was able to choose the font, theme and write as much as I want. It’s amazing and so comfortable. I love that I can upload photos to decorate my writings. The only thing that I worry in a long term about is the safety of my writings to be saved for a long time. I don’t know the limit of the writings I can do yet, I don’t know how to save them to never loose them yet but also don’t want to use iCloud for it. So I really hope this app can serve me for years and one day my writings won’t disappear. Also what I can suggest is to maybe give more freedom to put photos in different places, it would be lovely. Like I could put a small cute sticker on the upper right corner of my writings or somewhere on the side, near my writings, not above or under it. I enjoy the simplicity of the app and all the functions I need are free.
Developer Response 09/23/2025
Thank you for such a detailed and thoughtful review! We understand your concern about data safety — you can always make manual backups (File → Export) to keep your writings safe long-term. 💾

- Made it easier to navigate between days in the Calendar - Fixed a bug where the Today view could show entries from the previous day after reopening the app. - A handful of other bug fixes and small improvements. Thank you for your bug reports. Happy journaling.

Version 3.4.5

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