Alternatives to Diarium
A private diary app for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac that syncs through your own cloud storage. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Diarium
A private diary app for Windows, Android, iOS and Mac that syncs through your own cloud storage.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Diarium.
Day One
A journaling app for writing daily entries with photos, video, audio and drawings, synced across devices.
Day One adds end-to-end encrypted sync, a web app and video, audio and drawing entries, but syncs through its own service and puts some features behind the Gold plan.
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 built-in sync.
Daylio
Micro-journal and mood tracker app where a daily entry takes two taps.
Daylio replaces written entries with two-tap mood and activity tracking and statistics, but runs only on Android and focuses on micro-journaling.
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 with plain text files and optional AES encryption, trading Diarium's map and gallery views 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.
