Day One Journal: Private Diary Reviews

I love to write, as an over-thinker and someone who ruminates on things a lot it’s something very therapeutic. It’s nice to write down a reflection of how your day was, a good or bad moment of your day, something that triggered you, someone that hurt you or about the past. Oh the past! I could write for days. What’s really great about DayOneJournal is that it has a feature where you can create a passcode for DayOneJournal or even choose to unlock it with your Face ID like your phone. I’ve tried other apps that don’t have that, or they do have it but you have to upgrade to premium for it but not this one. As a kid I grew up with very strict people around me, and privacy was something I didn’t have most of the time, I’m now 18 and have a cellphone that I bought and pay each month, so there’s that just for reference. I always wanted to start journaling but because of the lack of privacy I help myself back but this has helped me a lot, I feel safe I feel that my thoughts are safe and that I can express myself and actually write what I want to write about my life. The cool thing is you can also add pictures and audio notes, it keeps track of how many days in a row you’ve journaled to keep you motivated and to keep a streak going. 10/10 for me. I hope to learn to process my thoughts and emotions through journaling to then be able to learn and be more aware of myself, heal and grow as a person. Thank you Day One!

hi guys, thanks for improving DayOneJournal .. but i wanna point out some things. Make timeline page have a customizable ‘action’ button, because i wanted to just click once to pull a video and start recording me talking for 30 mins about my life. Currently there are photos, audio and text. Make it customizable. This will be very helpful to truckers, delivery drivers that works alone but don’t want to fiddle a lot of buttons just to record. And second, after recording a video, can you label the ‘input title’ field with ‘write your title’, because right now, there’s only blank which confuses the user to navigate the title field. Also the timeline, it’s way too cramped especially the bottom part where you’ll see the time of the audio, address and weather, can you put a separator between them, cause right now they are just connected in one line, makes the UI jarring to read. also for audio clips, put an icon on the right hand side, and maybe put the length of the audio overlaying the icon. instead of cramping it at the bottom of the journal entry in the timeline view.. make it look beatiful and simple, easy to navigate.. but i really love what youre trying to do, its the best journal app there is… i would love to subscribe if these features are available… theres more that i would love to input but its getting too long. Do you have suggestions email? Thank you, i’ll rate it 5 stars for you guys

I love DayOneJournal and have been using it daily since 2018 and have filled it to bursting with pictures and videos and all sorts of important stuff …..but unfortunately with a huge file like that, things will happen and entries have disappeared. Some entries disappeared on their own in December and January and I was helped significantly by a gentleman named Cameron. Plus I was very relieved to discover that they can restore deleted entries, but they can’t see what is in the entry. So privacy is super secure, which is important to me. Then on the morning of March 3, 2022 I accidentally created a duplicate entry, and instead of deleting the empty duplicate, I deleted yesterday’s extremely important entry, and was very upset at myself and distraught, and I emailed support through DayOneJournal …. but since I still had the emails from Cameron, I emailed him as well, and then I went to the grocery store and the bank, and by the time I got home, he had restored it. No fuss, no muss, no coconuts. Most importantly, no judgment. And very shortly after Cameron resolved things, I heard back from the email I sent through DayOneJournal . The importance of this wonderful customer service cannot be overstated. I cannot thank Cameron and Lindsey and everybody else who works there enough for their support. And I can’t emphasize enough what a great resource DayOneJournal is for somebody who is getting older and whose memory is not what it used to be!

I can't update my old review which was 4 stars, so I'll just do a new one. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars at that time was a feature that they fixed (adding voice recordings within a text entry). Thank you!

I love Day One and I use Premium which is worth it. I created a template for a daily journal which has become a mixture of habit tracking (using the checklist feature), voice recordings for reflection, pictures to capture memories or lessons, and actual written highlights and reflections of my day. I have found a way to use Day One that creates a powerful tool not just for capturing memories, but creating growth experiences and tracking my personal growth journey. I look back at old posts (On This Day) from 1, 2, or 3 years ago and am amazed with how far I've come, and by keeping track of what I've learned, I can reread it and remember to apply them over and over. Day One is so customizable as a journal, and you can even create multiple journals too with Premium if you want to separate your entries. I've recently started going through and taking notes on some of my audio lessons/recordings since Day One also makes it easy to keyword search what you're looking for, which is way faster than going through hours of audio lessons. The tag feature is also helpful here.

Highly recommend!

THANK YOU for continuing to improve the PDF format! Just as I was about to give up and look for a journaling method elsewhere, the PDF format was improved and now there are multiple pictures per page, and the flow and format is a lot nicer. I also like that the text is larger and one page can even fit up to 9 pictures. It still isn’t perfect. If I could give the suggestion to make the date and time font darker and maybe a little bigger, it would be near to perfect. That is hardly visible, especially once printed out. But the picture flow has dramatically improved, and I applaud you! I am fine paying a subscription as long as these updates are being made, because I appreciate the continuous work to improve the customer’s experience. So far, to the best of my knowledge, these improvements haven’t been made to the book printing, but I assume they are working on that as well. Thank you and please, for your subscribers, continue with these improvements! It’s the only thing that keeps me hanging on to DayOneJournal because a physical, printed copy is so important to me, and though I love everything else about DayOneJournal digitally, I would be forced to look elsewhere if I wasn’t satisfied with the printing (via book or PDF). I’m sure I’m not the only customer who feels this way. Thank you for hearing me out!

I’ve been using your app for years, definitely one of the best apps I have ever used. However lately I have been facing problems. I have an iPhone 8. Often times when I copy or past something, DayOneJournal would lag a lot and then crash and I would need to restart it. Another huge problem I have is that when I want to edit an entry, DayOneJournal would instantly take me to the bottom of the entry instead of the place I already was. I write long entries so if I’m in the middle of something and notice a typo, I don’t want to fix it because it will take me all the way to the bottom. And if I slide up and tap on the text I want to edit, most of the time DayOneJournal just keeps taking me back to the bottom. I think I have to double tap it sometimes and make sure I am not sliding to get it to select the text I want. It is so frustrating for me, why can this not work like google docs where it just stays at the same spot I click edit instead of going all the way down. Please, I have been a loyal customer for a very long time and I hope you fix this, or either give me an option to disable this ‘function’. Lastly, I would greatly appreciate if you guys would give us the option to sync with iCloud/Dropbox again, if we’re paying for something we really should get the option of where we want to save our data.

I have always wanted to journal, but the inconvenience of having the small book, an appropriate pen, and the physical circumstances seemed to prevent me from doing so. As I have an iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook Pro, and have one of those readily available just about all the time, journaling becomes practice. The two missing elements are a busy life and moments I want to capture that are sufficiently stirring that they will make me want to record the event. Day One reminds me each day to journal (Important!) and allows me to take a photo either in Photos or right from DayOneJournal . The combination inspires me to write about what I have photographed. I have been frustrated with photo apps in that they are not focused on a written description of what was going on a the moment the image was captured. Day One solves that. Perhaps the greatest benefit of Day One is that I can easily see and read (unlike my handwriting in awkward places and in a small journaling book) what I have written in the past. The "me" that is revealed in my writing is a different "me" than the one I perceive in my mind's eye. Writing is, as others have noted, a window into the soul and a reflection of reality. I am benefitting from that window and that reflection thanks to Day One. I am sincerely thankful for the creators of this wonderful app.

My favorite journaling app. I was never able to commit to journaling— I’ve tried keeping physical journals, I’ve tried other apps, but DayOneJournal was the only one that was able to keep me committed to writing. It offers so many useful tools and options, like templates, the ability to add photos, etc. (I do have the paid version btw.)

There is one problem I have with DayOneJournal though, and that’s privacy. DayOneJournal does allow you to have a passcode, but I’ve found that if you go to your device’s home screen and use the spotlight search to search on your device, you can actually use keywords to search for your entries and read them from there (therefore bypassing app’s passcode). For example, if you wrote an entry about apples, you could search “apples” on your device and the entry will show up there, where you can read the title of the entry, as well as a good portion of that entry’s content. This has actually gotten me into a good bit of trouble at home because someone else was able to search for keywords on my device and read my private entries from my device’s home screen.

I really, truly hope this is fixed. I love DayOneJournal and would hate to have to stop using it for this reason.

I got this at the end of 2020 and so far it’s the only journal I’ve been able to commit to. Physical journals can get tiring to carry around, longer entries get difficult to write and start to loose their meaning once I start to shorten phrases or words. Digital journals are great to be able to to carry around and have wherever you go, as well as the ease of typing but a lot of them feel tacky.
Day one has such great and easy layout, with good daily questions that don’t feel cheesy to answer when you need some inspiration. I purchased the premium version yesterday and it doesn’t lack anything for me. I’m using two journals at the moment, one for just everything, and a 2nd to print out in a year with more important memories or ideas. DayOneJournal has so many features without making it feel bloated or overwhelming to look at or use, it’s just a simple writing experience. I also really love how you can see where you took an entry/photo. It really adds to the experience to be able to look back on where I’ve been and what happened in different spots around town. I hope to use this journal for years to come, thanks to the developers for really making a great app.

I’ve been journaling and digitally archiving for decades now. If I could retire right now I’d do it a lot more but, in the meantime, it’s important to me to take and keep snapshots of my and my family’s life as the years roll by. I stopped using Facebook and Instagram years ago and journaling has been a great replacement. I still have motivation to take pictures of semi-ordinary events, along with a note about what happened. Beyond that, it’s helped me to see a picture of my overall mental health year by year and identify things I struggle with over and over.

Day One has been a near-perfect companion for the last several years. The product is both easy and fun to use and it’s rare that I think of something I want but don’t have. The updates are thoughtful and have yet to encounter an issue of any kind. I would love to see more support for the more technical folks, like a first-class command line API, but I know that I’m probably in a tiny minority of folks that care about it. I would also love to see automatic bi-directional linking, like Roam Reaearch.

I constantly try new note taking and journaling tools and keep coming back to Day One!

Day one has been my go to journal since 2016. The other day I went to search for one of my child’s births only to find that the entries are no longer there. The entries have been accessible for 2+ years then suddenly disappeared. I do not recommend using this service for entries without backing up. I would like to note that I did pay for the pro service with them. I’ve checked for the entries on my iPad, Mac and phone. I’ve synced many times praying they will appear. I am missing more entries than my child’s birth. All missing entries seem to be older than 2 years. Worked with their support; their claim is I deleted the entries, they restored all entries, the entries regarding my child’s birth is still not there. I’ve lost all my memorial journal entries from my child’s birth, I’m heart broken. WARNING TO OTHERS. Routinely backup your data. Do not trust your entries will always be available. Their terms of service states “the Company has no obligation to store any of your content that you make available on the company properties.” Read the legal services, responsibility for content, storage.

Their team was nice, quick to respond and I believe tried their best to figure out what happened. DayOneJournal is an awesome journaling app.

Most of the apps we use provide information/entertainment, help us do things faster, or allow us to share with others. DayOne is not just a journalling app, not just a way to put thoughts and words on a piece of “digital paper”. No, DayOne provides an simple, clean environment to reflect on our lives, document the happy moments, express the angry frustrating ones, and help organize our life’s activities.

The elegant design, clean interface, and robust features enable me to declutter and unstress each and every day. I look forward to opening DayOne and seeing my past entries and a prompt to write more. Clicking the “+” to add a new entry opens my mind and heart to share myself. As I begin to write, the keyboard shortcuts allow me to stay focused on my thoughts instead of searching for menus and commands. I use tags on every entry to help organize and group like writings. Finally, the ability to add media in any area of my journal page creates a wonderful professional looking product. All of these features allow me to focus on the writing and more importantly to put my life’s activities and emotions into perspective.

Can your app do that? DayOne does!

I love Day One, I don’t do a whole lot of writing myself, or even audio recording, I have “photojournalistic tendencies”, that is I tend to just take pictures of everything. Or short videos. I used to do short text notes in iOS’ Notes App to complement my pictures, and I’ll admit, I still do on occasion, but I’m doing more and more in Day One, mostly because it’s easier to associate with a picture. I also love the location recording for notes, used to be I’d take pictures of just whatever wall or floor my phone was facing simply to record a location to accompany a text note in Notes, now, don’t have to. I still don’t write a whole lot, but the convenience of logging things, like weather and location has encouraged me to use Day One more. I highly recommend trying it for anyone who’s meticulous like I am about recording all the little details. Only thing I would improve is having the ability to save location data forever, currently location data is only saved for six weeks unless you manually save an entry for a place. I’d love to see that location history saved for forever.

Found DayOneJournal today and was really excited to use it with my partner until I realized there was no simple collaboration feature.

Right now we use SimpleNote, and although they do not have much in terms of designing the entry more creatively like DayOneJournal, the one thing they do have, the most important for us, is the collab feature. We do a ton of self-growth work and like to share our notes with each other, adding to them or just simply reading them and feeling connected when apart. Why that feature is so convenient on theirs is because you simply click “collab” in the drop down menu of each entry, add someone’s email address, it sends them an email a note was shared, but then the entry pops up under their app too. No need to edit/collab via that email, because you can collab straight from DayOneJournal . Any collab entries just show up like they are your entries on your app. It’s so convenient and helpful.

I really would love to see DayOneJournal bringing something easy like that to it, because it already has everything we could ask for in journaling, but this one majorly important thing. Aside from this, amazing job developers!

DayOneJournal is a very serviceable personable journal. I believe it’s worth the annual cost for the premium features if maintaining a journal is something that you find beneficial to your well-being as I do. I appreciate the synchronization between my devices more than anything, and the security seems adequate for such personal data. I also enjoy the metadata tagged in each entry (location, weather, activity, etc) which I feel will be very interesting in the long run as I review older entries.

My biggest ask is that I very much wish the developer would make the journaling canvas more free form by allowing entries to contain mixtures of text, handwriting, photos, and drawings similar to how iPadOS notes works. As it functions at the time of this review the entry is more like an e-mail composer where you enter text, and then can attach photos and drawings in a somewhat rigid manner.

Unleash the creative potential of the journaling canvas and I’ll call this the perfect journaling experience worthy of five stars! Unless something else comes along with that capability though, this is likely still your best choice for a journaling app.

Journaling was very new to me about 2 years ago when I started on this version of Day one . I had the previous version that I downloaded from “starbucks app of the day” and then didn’t use it for a while in which time they had changed the entire interface and upgraded it to what it is today. Sadly I forgot my password for the first version and had no way of retrieving the entries. However I started this and glad they have back up options and so on. Anyways it’s been a great tool helping me through bright and dark days .
The only thing I would ask of the Dev team is optimize syncing across devices, especially with notifications . I use my Mac to journal most of the time and when I do finish , I still get notification on my watch to “record my day” . Also the pop up mini reminder screen that comes up on the Mac to start an entry is a hit or miss with starting on the mini screen in which case I have to click “open” for the larger interface.
Other than that all is good ! Thank you .

I have always been one to keep a journal and fail at maintaining one. Throughout my life, I have kept a written journal where I would process my day, my emotions, and my goals. But, I have always given it up after a couple of weeks or sometimes even days. Why this has happened so consistently throughout my entire life, I do not know. But then Apple recommends Day One, and I said, hey, let's give this a shot, and since then, I have not turned back.

Day One makes it easy to journal in a meaningful way that a traditional journal has a problem. I can choose the form of my journal with pictures and videos, sound clips, or writing. Having the ability to create different journals around different ideas is also very helpful. I find it easier for me to track my health, emotions and thoughts, and exciting events that pop up in the day with the different formats.

Day Ons gives me the urge to journal, and they make it simple and easy to do it. Let's just say I plan on having a long and fruitful relationship with DayOneJournal.

I love journaling!! I came to Day One because a friend shared on social media about a book she printed over a year ago. I was so excited to finally move away from handwriting my journals, but still have a physical copy. For a year I’ve recorded about the birth of my second son and all our family’s adventures! I love it!
But now that It’s time to print I’ve wasted a whole day (seriously, so many hours carrying my phone around and retrying to upload and enter the payment information) trying to order the book to no avail. I was given a few suggestions by the support team, but none of those worked either and I’m so sad! This was the whole reason I downloaded DayOneJournal and now I feel like I won’t have a physical copy of all the things I journaled this year. I hope they sort something out ASAP for the book printing so I can come back one day and print all my memories.

So for that, I have to take a star away, and let the book printers out there know that it may not be DayOneJournal for you if a physical copy is your goal. But if you’re happy with the digital copy, then DayOneJournal would be amazing!

I have a brain injury, so I have very very poor penmanship... but I have always love love LOVED the idea of journaling so so much though, so I started to journal first on Microsoft Word on that app on my phone, but the very annoying thing about doing that was that I had to keep scrolling down down down alllllll the way until I found where I left off! 👎🏼 I first got so annoyed that I started to reverse my order of journal entries so that the first thing I could do when I opened Word was write my newest journal entry! It eventually got so messy and long though, so then I thought, “there’s GOT to be something else out there!!! This is the 21st century for Christ’s sake!!!”
Then, I opened DayOneJournal Store and found Day One, and my life was literally changed forever, and I could not be more thankful for DayOneJournal!!! 🤩🤩🤩
I’m currently using Day One’s free premium trial, and it’s so great that I wish so so badly I could make my own money bc if I did, I would TOTALLY pay for a subscription immediately!!! Too bad I only have so long until my trial ends... 😔

When it works correctly I like it. When it acts quirky, I can’t stand it. I’ve been using it daily for over a year. My biggest gripe is losing paragraphs of information while I am writing. Poof! Suddenly it’s gone! I save often but it will sometimes drop my text before I save it, which is really frustrating. Or, it will show the text in the side panel yet the display for that day is blank, or vice versa. Quite often, there is a significant delay between when I type the letters and when DayOneJournal shows the text on screen. I can type a full sentence then sit back and watch it display the letters slowly one by one. It’s nerve wracking! It seems that the apps synch on my devices only when DayOneJournal is open simultaneously on each device.

The support team is great about responding. Usually, they are aware of the problems and are working on them. I’ve been told to reload DayOneJournal which sometimes helps and sometimes doesn’t. The problems are intermittent. Sometimes it works perfectly but most of the time I have some performance issue with DayOneJournal .

I have over 35,000 entries in Day One. I use it to organize everything from receipts, invoices, tax returns, emails, etc. I LOVE the newest update to add PDFs! I used to have to convert documents into JPEGs and then add each page as a photo. Now I can add a multiple page PDF by dragging into an entry and then see all the pages when clicking on it. The best!! I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while and I’m so thankful the developers have done this.

If you’re OCD/crazy organized like I am, the subscription is well worth it. Plus, it allows the developers to continue working on an app that helps so many people. Come on, they need to be able to pay their bills too!

One request I have would be the search and filter feature. The filter feature doesn’t narrow down a search result, it adds to it. So it’s hard to find stuff unless you have really specific keywords. I use a tagging system to help with this but I know it’ll eventually get better! I’m sticking with DayOneJournal forever!

I am sadly going from 5 stars to 4 stars after the change to On This Day. The old interface, which showed the map and the complete content with media for each day in a nice scroll pane was fantastic! One of my favorite parts of the day was being able to look at what I did on this day in previous years. Now, with the preview without media loaded, it is FAR more difficult to look over previous years. Having to manually click on each entry. It’s a huge hassle to the point that On This Day is now totally useless. Having all the entries fully loaded to scroll through is what made On This Day so great.

Yes, I know that each day you can click the On This Day button on the main screen and get the old interface. However, sometimes it randomly disappears. And even if I do manage to click it but want to see On This Day again, I can’t. It is a one and done thing.

I sincerely hope you will consider bringing back the old (full) On This Day screen and scrap the terrible summary without media. Or at least add the option for either. That’ll definitely bring this back to five stars from me!

Don’t really need to take up anyone’s time in realtime, just want to make a request regarding the creation of Templates: Can you add the ability to make each template automatically add user-selected Tags. It seems I can kind of do this now, but I’m left with big ugly hashtag text in the body of journal entries in addition to the native Day One Tag.

I’ve been a user of DO since shortly after it first hit the market and have happily stuck with it through all of the years. Please continue to stay as far away as possible from subscriptions - I’ve done a lot of reading and research on this issue from all sides and I’m pretty sure that it only SEEMS like a reasonable and viable panacea for developers, but in the end, will be filled with lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth for everyone, including developers.

I have three main writing tools and DO is one of those, the other two are expensive and completely subscription-free, and, I joyfully pony-up the dough for desktop and mobile versions whenever there’s a major update - Just FYI. Love and Cheers to all of the brave women and men at Day One.

I like Day One and have used it off and in for a few years now. I just redownloaded it a few days ago and wrote my first new entry this morning. It took me about 30 minutes and after I was done I was searching for a way to indent the paragraphs, so I selected the entire entry and was surveying the options when I accidentally pasted a link I had copied. Everything was deleted because I pasted the link when the entire entry was selected. Here is why I’m giving two stars: there is not an undo button or back button. I feel as though it is imperative and, quite frankly, obvious that a journaling app, centered around writing and composition would have a feature that allows you to undo the most recent change to an entry. I haven’t journaled in months and this easily avoidable accident does not make me very optimistic about trying it again any time soon, especially with Day One if there is a chance this could happen again. I would happily continue using DayOneJournal if an undo feature was added, but for now I am too shaken up from those memories being deleted and having no way of getting them back to use Day One again without doubting that this will happen to any of my future entries.

I think the layout and the format is fine but the device needs to work on how it handles uploads. I’ll use an example of an issue: I begin an entry on my iPhone but then I go to finish it on my Mac. Should be no problem with cloud storage.
What’s happening is DayOneJournal will often re-recognize uploads from other devices as your working on editing an entry and will completely overwrite your work with the previous upload. So in my example, if I’m picking it back up on my Mac. After 10 mins of typing my uploads will resync and it wipe all my work I was doing. And this is a very frustrating issue. The only way I’ve prevented this is by closing all other instances of Day One when working on another device. But this could be fixed by having user prompts for conflicting iCloud uploads for similar entries. I have seen other apps simply have a message pop up saying they detected multiple instances of the same thing and asking for me to choose which one to continue working on or delete. Why is it so hard to utilize that kind of feature? Anyways that’s a big issue for me. Especially when your typing something that’s a journal replacing pen and paper thats subscription based.

I absolutely love Day one. It has met my journal needs for years. It has been so easy and intuitive and such a rock solid dependable, almost friend. I don’t understand why the designers and developers have to do updates that make a perfect thing go bust. This last update has driven me crazy. It seems like everything has been changed. I love to work on an entry and then see what happened on that day in the past. I used to have one click to bring up all the entries from multiple journals in a simple scrolling list that I could review. Not so now. In order to find a list of all the entries it takes about 3 or 4 clicks and searches and then the entries come up in backwards order from what it was so that the newest is at the bottom.
Navigating in Day one one used to be simple and easy and now with this latest update it just feels so disjointed. If this was my first experience with Day One I would say no thank you. Since a huge chunk of my life is put down in it’s pages, I will have to get used to a whole new way of getting around. I just wished as with most updates that those who do the updating would leave things alone.
Don’t fix something that is not broke.

This is the first journal app I’m trying to use. I don’t understand the positive comments. DayOneJournal has a lot of glitches and a wierd design. I have never seen journal entries done backwards. You can’t change the design. You have to look very closely for the date, as they are in tiny print, and the only large part of the date is the day - 05. 05 of what? Just made an entry on March 2, it doesnt show up at the top, I made another one. Then found both amidst the entries made in February, before February 3d, because there was no entry made on 02 February, the designers desided let’s stick 02 March entry in there. I want to clearly see the full date the entry was made on or have an option to change the design - if someone wants to only see the day of the month, let them have it, but I want to see the month and the year, and have it run chronologically forward. For some reason the designers think that the time and place where it’s made is more important. Hello most entries by most peope are made at home, the same location every time.
Why half the screen is taken by a plus sign and a camera? Why one of the lines tells me how many entries I made and pictures taken? Does it matter to anyone who keeps a journal? Also has glitches with fonts and formatting.

I will not use DayOneJournal because I don't believe it's safe to have such personal data on the servers of DayOneJournal developers. If they bring back iCloud I will use DayOneJournal again. They say the data can be better encrypted on their servers but if you google "iCloud encryption" it clearly states that the data is encrypted in transit and on the server. So, why not give us the option to use iCloud? I used iCloud sync on the previous version with no issues at all. In fact I was better able to secure my private data as it was automatically copied to my Mac and backed up with Time Machine. I couldn’t have asked for a more secure, fault tolerant way to store my private data. No thanks. I don't want to pay any more small monthly fees. Guess I'll just make a folder in the notes app and store my journals there. Too bad, this had potential to be a good app with a loyal following. For me any "subscription model" service is just a constant reminder to re-evaluate weather or not I really use a service enough to make it worth it. Usually the answer is "NO" after the first payment. I saved off my old journals to PDF files, encrypted them and stored them on iCloud. I won't be using DayOneJournal again unless thy decide to bring back iCloud storage / synching.

I never write reviews but I am for this one because I just want to say that I LOVE DayOneJournal!! Particularly the ability to print the books. Just got my first one in the mail and it is BEAUTIFUL (and it was effortless to make!) I loved all the details like the location and weather. I love the ability to have multiple journals! (Easily worth the $30 subscription I paid back in January) This has made journaling so much easier (a huge New Years resolution for me that has been easy to keep because I always have my phone with me) and then I can easily get a beautiful hard copy to share with friends and family. I used to do a blog to book program, but I would spend hours rearranging everything and not to mention the inconvenience that came with only journaling when logged into the blogging platform. Get the subscription, it is so worth it if you are serious about journaling properly!!

I have avidly used a Day Timer journal for the last 12 years. Until now I had not found anything close to the versatility of using pen and paper. I have used Day One every day for the last 35 or so days and found it amazing. Sometimes I use my iPad and sometimes I use my iPhone but it always works well and syncs up quick. I have even used the Apple Watch to enter a quick entry (great while traveling).

I will also Day One’s support is beyond amazing. Three times I have asked for assistance and all 3 times I received it in a matter of minutes (maybe seconds). In my case Adam was the support person and he was prompt and very helpful. Yes, I do miss a few things about using pen and paper, like having a one page monthly summary where I could note highlights or maybe a place to record meetings by the hour, but life is about compromises and Day One’s pluses far out weigh anything I gave up. I highly recommend DayOneJournal .

The more I dig into DayOneJournal, the more that I realize the developers have thought of everything. I got DayOneJournal because it promised a few features that I thought would be helpful, such as the layout, prompts and regular tagging capabilities. I thought it would be neat to support a local company as well. But as I’ve played with the various features (and I only have the free edition ride now) I’ve discovered features that I’ve wanted in an app for a long time, such as integration with my calendar events, linking notes and entries to other notes and entries and recording the location of entries.

I love that you have a choice to export to PDF for free and have options for something nicer, so that your journal can exist in both physical and digital format. I’m an extremely frugal person but I’ve been very tempted to expand into the paid subscription to enable a few more features such as having additional journals and IFTTT.

Well done!

DayOneJournal was amazing, was recommended to me by a family member who used it for years and I would occasionally help them and record and edit entries for them. I recently decided to purchase DayOneJournal for myself and noticed only after I wasted the money purchasing it, that new users must pay yearly to sync thru day one and there is no iCloud sync option like there was previosly. They literally went out of their way to redesign DayOneJournal so they could make more money despite complaints from many consumers.

I will find another solution. It’s a shame because this was a great app, that’s why I gave it two stars instead of one for the greedy developer. Most people pay Apple for extra iCloud storage, asking them to pay the developer for the same functionality is a disgrace. They can use whatever lame excuse they want, that it’s going to benefit for future software features. Then charge for those features when they come out, if people want them that bad they will spend the money then!

Bad business. Typical growth for the sake of growth has taken DayOneJournal down an awful path.

I absolutely love DayOneJournal! It’s easy to use and convenient! My favorite features include:
1. The automatic time/date/weather/location date it puts in and how if I forget to journal an event and days later I go back to do so, it remembers those facts and asks if I would like to attach them! Of course! It’s neat looking back at entries and seeing the weather, location and time. Gives more depth to the memory.
2. A Mac App!! For longer journal entries or more reflective entries, I always prefer to type on a computer and I love that they have a desktop version that syncs so fluidly with my ios one.
3. Multiple Journals and tags! I love sorting my journals! Tags are nice to sort but the addition of being able to tag AND have other journals is great!

Features I wish were available:
1. Ability to add movies!!!! Pictures are great to look back on memorable moments, but videos add so much more to a memory!

That’s really the only feature, I feel, they are currently lacking.

I haven’t used the ability to print my journals but I LOVE that they have that feature now! I was thinking they should have something like that! And I don’t currently subscribe as finances don’t allow right now, but I wouldn’t mind when our budget allows so I can insert more photos in an entry because I understand supporting the developer. They really do a great job at maintaining DayOneJournal and they have done a phenomenal job creating it! Love it!

Day One has always been a solid app with good design and functionality for a journaling app. I quickly became a fan years ago buying both the iOS and Mac versions. Then they (like many others) went the subscription route. I understand the subscription model and the need for developers to earn a living so they can (hopefully) continue to develop and maintain the apps we live and use.

That said, the subscription fee for Day One is quite steep at $25/year. That’s like buying a new version of a desktop app every single year forever (or as long as they maintain it). Momento (their primary competitor) by comparison is charging $4/year! They say the subscription offers the desktop app (now free), but I had already bought that. They say it offers unlimited journals, photos and syncing, but I already owned those features too.

To be honest, I don’t really know if I want to spend $25/year for this product, but now, since I have purchased the subscription, I’m asked to after a certain number of taps over and over again. It’s like an advertisement over and over and it’s quite annoying to not be able to use an app I’ve spent a considerable amount of time and money on.