Liney: Diary & Journal

Private journal with photos

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Capture life's small moments in words and photos. No sign-up, and your journal stays on your device. App Lock, a calendar view, Day One import, and Markdown export. Liney is a light, private journal for words and photos. Open it and start writing. Write as you go Titles are optional and everything saves automatically. Browse your timeline by date, switch to the calendar to look back month by month, or search titles and text to find a moment again. Keep photos with your words Insert a single photo or a group of photos into an entry and keep writing the story around them. Photos are copied into Liney, so they stay in your journal even if you delete the originals from your library. Room on larger screens On iPad, the iPhone Duo inner display, and larger iPhones in landscape, the timeline and the open entry appear side by side, and you can open an entry in its own window. A space for yourself No account, no ads, no subscriptions. Your journal stays on your device and is never uploaded to a Liney server. Turn on App Lock to protect it with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. Bring your past along Import text and photos from a Day One JSON archive, and export your journal as a ZIP of Markdown files and photos for backup and safekeeping. For iPhone and iPad, in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Liney does not sync across devices, so export a backup from time to time.

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Liney adds a Calendar View and Traditional Chinese, supports iPhone Duo, and brings side-by-side browsing and multi-window writing to iPad and larger iPhones. New - Calendar View: switch between List and Calendar to browse by month, with a representative photo for each day. Tap a day to see its entries. - Liney is now available in Traditional Chinese, including Hong Kong wording. - iPhone Duo support: Liney fills both the inner and outer displays. Opening or closing the device keeps your text and cursor, and after closing you can keep writing on the outer display without Liney locking. - In wide windows, the timeline and the open entry appear side by side on the iPhone Duo inner display, iPad, and larger iPhones in landscape. - On iPad and the iPhone Duo inner display, choose Open in New Window from the timeline or search results, or drag an entry out, to give it its own window. Entry windows come back when you reopen Liney. - In wide windows, text and photos stay at a comfortable reading width. On iOS 27.1 and later, photo detail shows the photo beside its Photo Info, and on a partly folded iPhone Duo the line you're typing stays above the fold. - App Lock now covers every window: one authentication unlocks them all, and they all lock together when you leave Liney. Fixes and Improvements - Editing the same entry in two windows no longer overwrites changes. - Cancelling authentication before an export now cancels only the export instead of locking Liney. - Opening Control Center or receiving a notification no longer asks you to unlock App Lock again. - Photo thumbnails no longer disappear while scrolling the timeline. - Photos that have already loaded appear immediately, without flickering. - Inserting or deleting photos or changing the date no longer reloads the whole editor. - When storage is full, Liney shows a clear message and leaves no damaged photos. - Leftover files from interrupted imports are cleaned up automatically to free up storage.

The developer, 远泓 周, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

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    Seller
    远泓 周
    Size
    6.9 MB
    Category
    Lifestyle
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 2 more
    • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Yuanhong Zhou