Parchment is a private daily journal that brings your writing, plans, calendar, and reminders together in one quiet place. It uses Apple's Reminders and the system calendar to bring your task and events together.
Open today and start writing immediately. Your calendar events and due or overdue reminders can appear above your journal entry, giving you the context of the day without switching apps. Capture notes, reflect on what happened, plan what comes next, or use Parchment as a simple daybook for work and life.
On iPad, Parchment also supports handwriting and drawing with Apple Pencil, so typed notes and handwritten thoughts can live together on the same day.
Parchment is built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync available through your private iCloud account. There is no Parchment account to create, no advertising, and no third-party analytics SDKs.
Features include:
- Daily journal entries organized by date
- Calendar events shown alongside your writing
- Due and overdue reminders in your daily view
- Reminder completion from inside the app
- Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing on iPad
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Widgets for a quick look at your agenda
- Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents support
- Spotlight indexing for finding past entries
- Export tools for keeping a copy of your writing
- Custom appearance, fonts, and themes
Parchment is for people who want a journal that understands the shape of their day. It gives you one place to write what happened, see what is coming up, and keep a private record over time.
NOT just another third party take on calendar and reminders
Downtown Sophisticate
The killer feature is that it integrates into, AND IS, your native Reminders and Calendar. Accessed from one place. It even gives a handy spot for personal notes to scribble for tracking things in your day. What it gets right: Time-sensitive reminders, daily to-do (agenda), and a place for miscellaneous mnemonic notes just for today’s scope. What it gets wrong: It’s mixing a flexible pop-up space for tracking projects or tasks that aren’t due today but have to be handled flexibly when you can get to them, some time this week or this month. It needs a digital sticky note TO-DO for all those “get to it later” items that need a reminder for the time period (upcoming week/month/quarter), but resist assignment to any particular day or time of day. And you DO NOT want to see them carried over in the same list of things that are assigned for today and today alone, if that makes sense.
A Beautifully Simple Daily Planner
Butteř
I’ve been waiting for an app like this for a long time. It’s simple, elegant, and incredibly powerful without feeling overwhelming. Having my daily notes, calendar events, and reminders all in one clean, distraction-free interface makes planning my day feel effortless.I also appreciate that it’s a true native Apple app with iCloud sync, widgets, and excellent privacy. There are no unnecessary features or clutter—just a beautifully designed experience that helps you stay organised and focused.Sometimes the best productivity apps are the simplest, and Parchment proves exactly that. Highly recommended.
Finally someone gets it!
Downtown Sophisticate
It’s a Command Center integrating daily To-Do, time-sensitive Reminders, Calendar, and odd miscellaneous notes and ideas you track for the day. The killer feature is that it integrates into, AND IS, your native Reminder and Calendar. All in one place.👉🏻 There's ONE THING it’s missing to finally conquer this all-in-one-app concept: ❥ Ongoing non-deadline stuff you want to get to over the course of the upcoming week or month. Some kinda pop-up pad you can track ongoing “get to it later” important-but-non-urgent things that you need to remember to squeeze in but defy categorization into today’s checklist.
Simple and Pleasant
JakeCornette
I learned about this app from a newsletter from The Verge. I’m glad I gave it a try. It’s very simple and I love how it ties directly into Calendar and Reminders. It makes me actually want to write things down that I normally would not. I’m using it almost like a journal, which I’ve never had a desire to do. I expect to be using this for a long time.I would love to see it suggest Reminders and Calendar events based on what you write.This is a very pleasant app to use. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
- Fixed: Critical Sync fixes
- Added: the ability to hide ended events from the agenda
- Added: Default alerts when creating events and tasks
- Change: Added a card view for adding information to a event or task
- Fixed: Sync would get confused
- Fixed: Issue where search index would crash the app in the background
- Fixed: Issue where the app would lock up when opening details page
- Fixed: Issue where dates aren't assigned to new events or tasks
- Fixed: Typing dates like Aug 1st or August 1st work with natural language input
- Fixed: Text Alignment for Small and Medium widget
- Fixed: System theme color option
- Fixed: Issue where Markdown wouldn't render if you had the option selected
- Fixed: Lock screen & control center shortcut
- Fixed: Daily Note Shortcut Action
Version 1.0.4
The developer, Chris Lawley, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
