Day One Diary: Daily Journal

In-app purchases
28.5K reviews
Content rating
PEGI 3
1M+
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About this app

With over 15 million downloads and over 300,000 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. Entries you create automatically capture your location so you can later revisit your memories on a map.

“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
• 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 or biometrics
• Export options (PDF, JSON, plain text) ensure your entries always stay yours

FORM A HABIT & STAY CONSISTENT
• “Daily Chat” helps you talk through your day and turn that conversation into a journal entry in your own voice*
• 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” provides a summary of where you’ve been and what you’ve done

MORE THAN WORDS
• Unlimited photos and video*
• Voice recording*

JOURNAL FROM WHEREVER, WHENEVER
• Cross-platform apps available on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows, and web
• Text message or email entries straight to your journal

BUILT FOR REMINISCING
• “On This Day” allows you to revisit past memories
• Tags, favorites, and search filters make it easy to find what you’re looking for
• Map view visualizes your entries by location, letting you explore everywhere you’ve journaled from

TYPE LESS, PRESERVE MORE
• Time, date, location, weather, moon phase, and more are automatically added to every entry
• Importing data from Strava and other apps with Zapier
• Android app shortcuts make it easy to start a new entry, photo, or video from your home screen
• Share your content from other apps, like Google Photos

CHOOSE THE PLAN THAT FITS YOU

Basic
Free forever with unlimited text entries and journals, 1 photo per entry, end-to-end encryption, templates, prompts, search, On This Day, streaks, and more.

Silver
Everything in Basic, plus unlimited photos and videos, journaling across all your devices, audio recording, PDF embed, custom colors, and Strava and Zapier integrations.

Gold
Everything in Silver, plus Daily Chat, advanced reflection tools, Go Deeper Prompts, Entry Summaries, Title Suggestions, Image Generation, and Day One Labs access.

AI features are optional. When you choose to use them, your content is processed only at that moment and is never used to train AI models.

Day One is free to use forever with unlimited entries. Additional features are available with Silver and Gold memberships. Start your free trial in the app.

Privacy Policy: https://dayoneapp.com/privacy-policy/
Terms of Use: https://dayoneapp.com/terms-of-use/

For technical assistance or other inquiries: https://dayoneapp.com/contact/
The perfect daily journal for recording notes, thoughts, photos, travels & more.
Updated on
Sep 25, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 5 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

27.1K reviews
Stephen Worden
February 9, 2025
Excellent with one exception: you cannot search inside a particular note. Here's how Day One search works - it returns a list of notes that contain your search term. You cannot search INSIDE a note using the Day One app. This is a huge deficiency. To get around this, use your PC to open Day One on the web. However, this does not work from your mobile device. If you try to use a web browser to access the Day One website you are redirected to the app. Bummer.
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Scott McCaughie
August 21, 2026
Great app. Super disappointed to see the AI integration though 😩 it's a journal! A personal reflection on our human feelings. Not another excuse to get a fake AI to write our entries for us. To the Product Owner... We don't want this! in response: they're optional yes, and a paid option at that... i don't want to see them 😅 I don't want to see the stupid ai star and wee gold crown in the app Every. Single. Time. So... still disappointed :)
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Automattic, Inc
August 24, 2026
We hear you. Having the AI star and crown show up constantly when you're not using those features is frustrating. That's exactly the kind of feedback we're passing along to our product team. Feel free to share more anytime via Settings - Support in the app, or dayone.me/support.
Elize Olivier
August 26, 2026
I absolutely love Day One Diary and use it every day! I especially love having multiple journals, making it easy to keep different parts of my life organised. I enjoy recording the everyday moments, thoughts and experiences that happen throughout my day. I recently had a problem with pasting data and contacted support. They responded quickly and resolved the issue just as quickly. Excellent app and excellent support!
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What’s new

Improvements:
- New Quick Start home screen widget
- Set a default template for each journal

Fixes:
- Editor: voice typing, caret above a leading photo, checked checklist items
- Wrong dates on some videos
- Crash when opening History
- Template placeholder text not clearing
- Repeated Google Drive backup sign-in prompts