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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Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/
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Keeping the original’s streamlined interface, this version adds a wealth of new features. Enrich your journal entries with photos, location info, even fitness activity. And see your world at a glance with the beautiful photo view.
The best digital journaling experience
Apsalaar
I use this app since it came out. Been here through all the changes and all, and even if I don’t agree with every direction developers take on, I still consider this to be the best digital journal experience, the only one that doesn’t make me wanting to go back to paper immediately - and in fact it corresponds great with the paper. Love you and hope your product will be on for years xx
Pretty nice, but I have some issues
prezydent_eden
In general, app is ok, it does what it should, but 1. I have to idea how to easily make the text regular size when i have only couple of words in the entry, now I have to apply different style and click it once again, strange 2. Polish version of the app is simply horrible, it is even worse than just google translate, I’d like to change the language to English only for this application, without changing the system language 3. Interface looks a bit old, like from many years ago, some of it look even like the iOS 6 in my opinion 4. There is a problem with specifying coordinates, I have for sure properly working gps, in every other app, and this one sometimes added entry with 0 0 location, the permission is set to “always”No, unfortunately when I tried to use the app it’s even worse. When I don’t give permissions to location every time I enter map I receive the modal to turn on that permission, why? I only want to see the locations I entered manually. When I for instance try to see the history of locations I receive a new entry containing those information written.Eh, I see there is no a good app for daily journaling on the market
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback! We want to gather more information from you for troubleshooting and improvements to the app. Do you mind reaching out to us in the app via Day One > Settings > Support > Contact Support and quoting this review?Looking forward to hearing from you!
Good, but Polish translation is awful
Ozzy1973
It’s probably the best journalling app on the market (better than native IOS journal). However Polish language translation is very bad (i had to „reverse translate” some words to English to understand). For example „Media” is translated as „Głoska bezdźwięczna” („unvoiced consonant” - yep, it’s that strange - and that’s just the beginning). Five stars anyway, but please try to provide better translation (not automatic one).
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. We apologize for the poor translations. We have shared this with our dev team and are researching the issue. If you notice more translation issues, please don't hesitate to contact us directly: https://dayone.me/support
- Your collections now appear everywhere you pick a journal
- Fixed people you categorized on Android not appearing in your Daily Chat Bio
- Refreshed the entry editor header on iOS 26
- Improved translations
- Stability improvements and bug fixes
Learn more at dayoneapp.com/releases
Version 2026.19
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
Size
Up to 345.8 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 9.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it is not open, which can decrease device battery life.
