Alternatives to Day One
A journaling app for writing daily entries with photos, video, audio and drawings, synced across devices. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Day One
A journaling app for writing daily entries with photos, video, audio and drawings, synced across devices.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Day One.
Diarium
A private diary app for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac that syncs through your own cloud storage.
Diarium syncs entries through your own OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or WebDAV with no account needed, sold as a one-time Pro purchase per platform instead of a subscription.
Daylio
Micro-journal and mood tracker app where a daily entry takes two taps.
Daylio replaces written entries with two-tap mood and activity logging and correlation statistics, but it is Android only and suits micro-journaling more than long entries.
RedNotebook
Keep a searchable desktop journal with dated entries.
RedNotebook is a free GPL-2.0 desktop journal for Windows and Linux with tags, templates and exports, but it has no mobile apps or cloud sync.
jrnl
A command-line journal that stores entries in plain text files, with optional AES encryption.
jrnl is a free, open-source command-line journal storing plain text files with optional AES encryption, dropping photos, media and apps for a terminal-only workflow.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Cryptee
An encrypted cloud service for storing photos and videos and writing private documents and journals.
Napkin
An iPhone app for collecting quotes and ideas and resurfacing them for reflection.
Twos
An app for quickly writing down notes, to-dos, reminders and events organised by day.
Agenda
A date-focused note app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that links notes to calendar events.
NotePlan
A daily-note app that combines notes, tasks and Apple Calendar events for Mac, iOS and web.
