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About Day One
Day One is a journal app for keeping a personal diary over years. Entries can hold text along with photos, videos, drawings and audio recordings, and the On This Day view brings back entries written on the same date in earlier years.
Journals can be locked with a passcode or biometrics, and sync uses end-to-end encryption with automatic backups. You can export your data at any time. Apps cover iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Apple Watch and Windows, and journals can also be opened in a browser. The app is free to use, with more features on the Gold plan.
Strengths
- Entries can include photos, video, audio and drawings
- End-to-end encrypted sync and data export
- On This Day view for revisiting past entries
- Apps on phones, tablets, Mac, Windows and the web
Limitations
- Some features require the paid Gold plan
- Closed source
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to use, with extra features in the paid Gold plan.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Best suited for
- People who want a long-term personal journal on phone and desktop
- Categories
- Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Day One
Compare allSoftware that can replace Day One for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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.
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NotePlan
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