Apple’s App of the Year with over 15 million downloads and 200,000 5-star ratings globally, Day One has reinvented journaling, letting you record your life as you live it. Securely save audio, video, photos, notes, and more wherever you are, whenever you want.
“Day One creates something so rare it feels almost sacred: A completely private digital space.” – New York Times
“Day One makes keeping a journal delightfully easy.” – Wired
WHY DAY ONE?
Day One is the original digital journal app. A decade of updates and feature additions make it the most private, trusted, and easiest-to-use journaling app in the world.
SIMPLE TO USE, EASY TO LOVE
• Beautiful, award-winning design
• Unlimited text entries
• Powerful rich text formatting with markdown
• Different journals for every aspect of your life*
PRIVATE AND SECURE
• Automatic backups keep your journal entries safe
• End-to-end encryption, which is a fancy way of saying your entries are 100% private
• Journal entries stay secure with passcode, TouchID, or FaceID
• Export options (pdf, plain text, etc.) ensure your entries always stay yours
FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
• Streaks and calendar view help keep your momentum going
• Programmable reminders through text message or phone notifications
• Unique, daily journal prompts help eliminate writer’s cramp
• Customizable templates save time and add organization to entries
• Today view provides a summary of where you’ve been and what you’ve done
• Integrates with the Health app to track mindfulness minutes
MORE THAN WORDS
• Unlimited photos and video*
• Auto-importer for your Instagram posts*
• Handwritten entries or drawings*
• Voice recording and transcription*
JOURNAL FROM WHEREVER, WHENEVER
• Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Mac
• The ability to text or email entries straight to your journal
BUILT FOR REMINISCING
• On This Day feature allows you to revisit past memories
• Tags, favorites, and search filters make it easy to find what you’re looking for
• Map view quickly shows all the places you’ve journaled from
• Print capabilities turn your digital journal into a premium physical book
TYPE LESS, PRESERVE MORE
• Time, date, weather, moon phase, and more are automatically added to every entry
• IFTTT applets allow importing data from Spotify, YouTube, Strava, Fitbit, Facebook, Twitter, and more
• Siri Shortcuts provides a powerful way to automate more of your journaling
• Share sheet allows you to add content from other apps, like Apple Photos and Safari
*Day One is FREE to use forever with unlimited entries. Additional features, including unlimited photos, videos, and audio recordings are available with a Day One Premium membership.
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Privacy Policy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/
For technical assistance or other inquiries: https://dayoneapp.com/contact/
It’s hard to make the best even better, but the sequel to Day One lives up to expectations—and then some. The app keeps its interface streamlined but adds a wealth of new valuable features. Your journal entries contain all sorts of information—you can geolocate them, add tons of photos to each entry, and even see your day’s fitness activity. Switch over to the beautiful new photo view when you’re ready to see your world at a glance.
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I have many apps on my phone, most of which I hardly use. There are only a handful that I adopt as part of my everyday life. Day One has very quickly become one of those. I was looking for a journal type app, saw the great reviews and decided to download on that basis. What sets these well coded apps apart is that the free version is so functional, and do not rely on missing functionality to get you to start paying. No, they are complete just as they are and you end up upgrading because you know the upgrade will be worth it and that the developers deserve it.
Formatting Issues
JerryGeeBee
I’ve been happily using Day One for the past 5 years. The last two upgrades have progressively made my experience with this app worse.I use Apple’s text replacement shortcuts extensively. The second last update stopped, among others, the correct display of italic formatting (which is done by inserting asterisks (*) in the text) unless the spacebar is pressed. This is not an issue if the asterisks are at the beginning and end of a text snippet, but it definately becomes one if the asterisks are inside the text snippet. This previously worked flawlessly in Day One.The current update have caused text replacement with asterisks to work even worse. A phrase like *Netflix* now displays as *Netflix* flix*I would have liked to discuss the above issues directly with the developers, but the “Contact Support” button in the app just brings up a screen telling me “Something went wrong”.In general: I get the distinct impression that the developers have been tampering with an app that was for all intents and purpose - about 2 or 3 updates ago - as close to perfect as it would ever get .I’m also annoyed by the fact that the developers have gradually transformed the app into “Rent Ware”. While I realise that they have to make a living, it would become financially impossible for many of us if every developer started charging rent - I have close to 300 apps on my iPhone, which is not uncommon, given the millions of apps in the App Store.In closing: Please stop embellishing an app that was once a model of elegance and functionally close to flawless.
Developer Response
We are sorry for the trouble. You can email support directly at support@dayoneapp.com. We would be glad to help you with these issues.
Better handwriting capability needed
kristivantonder
I really love this app. I upgraded to premium recently because of the Apple Pencil integration to allow drawing or handwritten notes. I can’t say that I like the way it’s been integrated. It creates a separate image of the handwritten notes and is not possible to edit it. You can add to it, sure, but once the image is created you can’t manipulate the handwritten text like you would in an app like notability. I would like to see a more integrated approach to the ability to write in ones journal by hand...much like you get in Notability. I was using notability before, but that is more for notes, like at work etc. day One is far better as a journal, I hope you improve the writing feature soon.
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We will pass this feedback on to our team.
- New Journal Drawer — Journal list now uses paged navigation, not a slide-up modal
- Text and highlight color options — now available in Labs for Day One Gold subscribers
- Improved search results (especially in some Asian languages)
- Stability and performance improvements
Learn more at dayoneapp.com/releases
Version 2026.11.1
The developer, Bloom Built Inc, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness
Purchases
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Provider
Bloom Built Inc
Size
Up to 334.2 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it is not open, which can decrease device battery life.
