Reviews for Day One Journal: Private Diary

An Almost Perfect Experience! I’d gladly pay $5 a month for premium (much higher than the actual cost), if I only had a way to access my journals some place other than my phone. Without a Mac or iPhone, however, I’m out of luck. Please, please finish development of a Windows desktop version, or at […]

I’m obsessed. I have always been a constant journal keeper and have mostly preferred handwritten books but this app has changed everything for me. I love having multiple journals, some photo-based, and tags as well to keep things organized across time and topics. The synchronization across devices would be better if it werent somewhat delayed, […]

So first off, let me give a positive review. I’ve been using this app for three-four years now, and I’m a fan. This is my journal, and I love it. With that said, it’s been glitching a lot lately. The font changes when I’m typing (and when I change the font back, it ignores me) […]

I was trying out the app and started an entry with just a title. Checked on my phone if it would show up and it did. Went back to my computer and wrote the entry; a couple paragraphs. Went back to my phone, opened the app and it said it was “synced” but the note […]

I like plenty of the features in the app, but like others have stated, it’s really annoying when words double up while typing. I also wish there were more font options. When I try to alter font size under settings, it doesn’t actually change. I’d also like the option to toggle entry previews so I […]

The app so far is pretty great! I’ve only had it a little over a week so take me with a grain of salt. I have only one complaint thus far and that is when I retype a misspelled word, it auto corrects the word by doubling what I type. for example if I retype […]

First off, I don’t usually write reviews so writing one should tell you I’m passionate about these thoughts. If you have an android don’t even bother downloading the app on your phone. Save yourself the heartache and literally hours of frustration. It takes up to much space on my phone, export does not work (after […]

Had to downgrade my review. After getting a new phone, I realized my journal had stopped synching with the back up some time ago. I have no idea why. When I requested help from support (just to see if there was any work around), they informed me that they only “support” premium members. Really disappointed […]

I’m really surprised by the generous reviews here. Did somehow download an old version on my Chromebook? After pulling the trigger on the full year subscription in order to use my journal between my iOS and Android devices, I was disappointed to see that the Android app appears to be comically rudimentary and bare-bones compared […]

This app has the potential to be amazing. It is heavily designed for apple users. A couple things in my opinion that would get it to 5 stars is if you had the ability to log onto the desktop version and journal from their. Typing up my narratives from my phone is a bit cumbersome. […]

Love it on Mac, loved it on my old iPhone, but I’m still waiting for parity on the Android app. I like being able to write in markdown, easily add images, manage multiple journals, and tag entries. The integrations are cool too. The Android app doesn’t get much development attention though, and I prefer to […]

Update: according to their Twitter feed, this version for Android is no longer being maintained while they explore ways to completely rebuild it. Doesn’t make it sound like there will be anything soon. Need end to end encryption for Android. It’s been “coming soon” for a very long time. Update: maybe they should remove the […]

I used to be a frequent user of this app, but over time moved on to different kinds of journal apps that just fit me better. But when it comes to the category of traditional style journal apps, Day One wins the trophy. The ability to add multiple journals, images, location, weather, video, app lock, […]

Amazing journal. I love that I can make separate notebooks, customize my entries (underline, bold, bullet points, headings, etc), AND I can use their program via dayone website!( + syncs with little to no issues.) The interface is also very clean and simple! Keep up the great work! 🙂

I have lowered my original review due to an ongoing issue where the app and desktop client do not refresh properly. I have lost hours of typed content that is typed in to only go back later to find that when I opened my phone to double check it had copied over it instead Refreshes […]

I’ve been using this app on my iPhone for over a year now and I love it. I recently switched over to the S25 Ultra and noticed a slight difference between how the font appears on iOS &, how it appears on Android. The default font appears smoothly throughout the ios version, but on android […]

Not ready for prime time. Used this app for about a half hour, and the incompleteness of it kept adding up. Pretty sure it’s still in Beta, so I’ll wait for the actual product. My first grievance was that there’s no way to change the font. Followed immediately by the “dealbreaker” that there’s no way […]

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 […]

This is a decent, reasonably simple, although somewhat minimalistic diary. Has “daily prompts” you can answer, and a significant amount of templates to cover all of your basic Journaling needs. I just wish the app was not so bare minimal, but offered more tools and unique features that allowed one to toon into their creativity […]

It’s ridiculous that our paid family account doesn’t allow anyone but the primary to add videos and audio, the invited people can’t even see or hear those, and the invited people can only do one image per post. It used to be different and better. Now that they’ve taken away those features, we have to […]