GoJournal: Diary & Planner 4+

This app is easy to use and makes keeping a daily journal quick and simple. Love that it’s free too! A few quirks though:
- Love the syncing across devices, but the font doesn’t convert well from Mac to iphone/iPad. It’s much larger when you type on the computer then open the same entry in another device.
- Sometimes the bullet points initial cap the first word, sometimes they don’t. Would love to see that fixed (and potentially made a setting you can choose yourself, I prefer it not capped)
- If you use an emoji, the space after it is gigantic and the font gets screwed up, a fix for that would be great too.
- It would be nice to be able to pin a journal entry to the top.

Have you ever wanted to jot something down, write a journal entry about a specific topic, or perhaps just write to yourself to ease any and all stress that you may have? Whatever your use case, GoJournal makes journaling a breeze with its intuitive interface, allowing for swift entry of your thoughts, feelings, or greatest ideas. A simple swipe gesture downward allows for instant access to a blank page to type, handwrite, insert media (such as photos or videos), record audio, and much more. The homepage showcases your various Journals, so that you can easily access each and every journal, allowing for you to better refine your journal entries to a specific journal when searching or perusing through your many journal entries. Many other useful features are included in GoJournal, such as an inbuilt calendar of sorts, which shows all of your journal entries on the various days that day were created, while also revealing one or more media thumbnails to help assist with finding a specific journal entry that includes media of some sort. GoJournal also collects no personal data, except for diagnostics and analytical data, ensuring that your very thoughts, feelings, and ideas can't be seen by anyone; you can even enable Face ID in the settings for extra privacy from anyone that might peer through your phone.

I’m encouraged by the recent update that fixed the crashing update on iOS 18. Previously I was feeling that the app may have lost the love of its developers as they poor all their energy into Noteshelf 3, their flagship product.

I hope they continue to nurture and mature GoJournal by giving it the the attention it needs to flourish. If that means switching to a subscription model, so be it. But please keep GoJournal alive and well.

I was really hoping that with iOS 18 they would reveal an exciting new version with some new features and functionality.

For example, things like …

* Drag and drop of notebooks to rearrange in order we want
* Journal groups to organize our journal by area
* Drag and drop of list items for managing a daily todo list easier or any type of list (like Noto)
* Entry bookmarks / favorites
* Custom background themes
* Wiki links for developing a knowledge base by linking related entries (like Bear notes)
* Trash can for deleted entries
* Multiple icons to choose from and support ios18 tinted icons
* An Apple Watch app (on par with Noteshelf) for adding audio entries.

I guess we will wait and see … Meanwhile, I will hold to the faith that new life will be breathed into GoJournal soon. 🤞

Even though it hasn’t been given the attention it deserves, GoJournal is still one of the best kept secrets in iOS Journaling apps, that’s why I’m bothering to write this review.