A year of feeling, at a glance.
Each day takes the colour of its mood, so patterns surface without you going looking.
Some days are a voice note. Some are a photo.
Encrypted Private Journal · No data collection · No AI · The whole app included
Your entries, typeset like a book.
A page, not a text box.
A drop cap opens the entry and the body sets in a justified column, the way a book does it. You're going to reread this in ten years.
Photos inside the writing.
Place an image where it belongs in the story, with its own caption, and let the text carry on beneath it. Most journals can only stack photos at the top.
It remembers the details for you.
The date, the time, the place and the notebook it belongs to, recorded without you typing any of it.
Photos, video, audio and PDFs. All free.
Attach anything to an entry, as much as you like. No caps on how many, no storage plan, no upgrade prompt when you reach for the camera.
Kept, hidden, or gone. Your call.
Not everything you write is meant to be filed away forever.
Some things you write to get rid of.
Release mode doesn't save. Write it, press release, and it's gone.
Some things aren't for today.
Hide an entry and it stays out of your feed until you want it back.
Some things are for later.
Lock an entry until a date you choose. A letter to whoever you'll be by then.
And the rest of it.
Every entry remembers where it happened.
Tap a place and the entries you wrote there come back, photos and all.
A notebook for every part of your life.
Travel, work, the food you keep meaning to write down. Each one its own place.
Not sure what to write?
Guided prompts for getting thoughts out, working through a choice, letting pressure out, or picking up something unfinished.
Two ways to write.
Zen mode clears everything but the page. Or dictate, and the words appear as you speak.
Bring your old journal with you.
Import your entries from another app, and export yours whenever you want.
See the habit forming.
It works out that you write mostly in the evening. Streaks, moods, top tags and word counts, all figured out on your phone.
Private by design, not by promise.
There's no account to make and no server holding your journal, because there's nowhere for it to go but your phone.
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Encrypted on your device.
Your journal is encrypted where it lives, and opens with your fingerprint.
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Your Drive, not ours.
Backup and sync go straight to your own Google Drive. We never hold a copy, which is why we don't have to charge you for it.
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No AI. None.
Nothing you write is read by a model, summarised, or used for training. There is no AI in Diurnal.
Everything above is free.
Diurnal Pro adds two things.
Quick Entry widget
Catch a thought from your home screen without opening the app.
Web Writer
Write longer entries from any computer, in a browser, on the same journal.
