Diarium: Личный дневни‪к‬ 4+

Update 9/3/23: I continue to love, use, and heavily rely on this app for journaling. No complaints, no problems. It easily syncs across my MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, iPad Mini, and iPhone. Search works extremely well for when I need to dig back through entries, looking for something. I found it easy to import entries from the journaling apps I'd used before. I love how easy it is to add photos and graphics taken/made each day. My thanks to its authors for creating, maintaining, and constantly improving this excellent application. ⏩My only wish is that the authors would add integrations with Mastodon, Threads, etc., so that my posts could be pulled in automatically, as my tweets used to be.

Update after using this app for over 3.5 months: I have been keeping my journal, and I have not missed a day. Because I wanted to re-connect with writing journal entries in longhand, I use Nebo to hand write entries, and I then convert them to text and paste them into Diarium. Sometimes I'll make quick additions by typing them in, but my handwriting has improved, and this feels like a very natural way to keep a journal. This app does everything I need, and I am profoundly grateful to its authors for doing such a great job with it.

Original review: I love this app. It makes it easy to make daily entries, easy to find prior entries, and fairly easy to move entries from other apps into this one. It syncs well, and so far it has not let me down.

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this review! Happy to hear you are successfully using the app for quite a while already and had a good experience with it ☺️

TL;DR: Has everything you need for free or a little more for a reasonable price. My holy grail, honestly.
I’m not usually one to leave app reviews but this one deserves it. I’ve tried to use Instagram or blog platforms for a “digital journal” before and failed repeatedly, but this app took everything I liked about those experiences and made it into something I can actually use every day.
You can add photo galleries to your entries, organize and tag them, scroll through a timeline of your entries’ photos, change the font, check out stats including word count… and, unlike using a social media platform, you can export entries as documents in case you want a physical copy. I’m probably not going to use all of the features provided (app integrations, customizable templates, inbuilt map of your entries…) but I happily paid the 10$ just to be able to add more than 1 photo to an entry and journal in Times New Roman. And to support a developer who 1) doesn’t make me pay a subscription forever, thank you and 2) genuinely seems to care about their product and how well it works! Bonus points for having a simple, understandable, and reasonable privacy policy for a journaling app. Idk man, I love this app so far and I’m excited to keep using it. :)

Wow, thanks so much for your amazing review! That just gave me another boost of motivation! :) Hope you'll enjoy tht app for many years to come

I found this app and read a bunch of reviews on the App Store. I was so impressed that I saw the creator of the app responding to many of the reviewers, looking to improve the app and actually willing to make changes. I had already downloaded and tried a different journaling app because I thought it would suit me, only to find that you basically have to pay to do anything other than sample the app. I don’t like that bait and switch approach. So I tried Diarium and have been pleasantly surprised by a few of the features. I’ve used it at least once a day for a week so far, and have tried out most of the features. I especially like that I can customize my tags, and trackers, and I’m having fun figuring out ways I can use the customizable templates to work magic for me. I also love that it links with my Fitbit and calendar, automatically documenting things I would want to put in my journal anyway, like my sleep and activity. I still feel a little nervous about having a digital journal - like, what if something unforeseen happens and I lose everything? But I am reassured, feeling like the creator actually cares about whether or not the product functions appropriately.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write this extensive review! Of course I do read all reviews and I try to answer to as many of them as possible.
Regarding your concerns about losing your journal: you can either du manual backups of the whole database in the app settings, or you can use the cloud sync, which will automatically keep a copy of your data online, using your personal cloud storage. And you can also export your entries as .docx or other file formats. So enough options to choose from I hope :)