Diurnal: Daily Journal & Diary

Diurnal is a private place to write your life down. Some days you want to write a page. Some days a photo and three words is all you have. Diurnal is built for both, and it never nags you about the difference. The whole app is free. WRITE HOWEVER THE DAY GOES Add photos, video, voice recordings, PDFs, and sketches you draw by hand. There is no limit on how much you attach on your own device. Place images inside the writing where they belong, not stacked at the top. Tag entries, set a mood from fifteen, sort them into notebooks, and keep the place you were. FOCUS, OR JUST TALK Zen mode clears everything but the page. Or dictate, and the words appear as you speak. Stuck on what to say? Open the prompts and pick one, whether you need to get thoughts out, work through a choice, let pressure out, or pick up something unfinished. ENTRIES WORTH REREADING Your writing is set like a page from a book. A drop cap opens the entry, the text sets in a proper column, and the date, time and place are recorded without you typing any of it. KEEP IT, HIDE IT, OR LET IT GO Not everything you write is meant to be filed away forever. Hide an entry and it stays out of your feed until you want it back. Lock one until a date you choose, a letter to whoever you will be by then. Or open release mode, which saves nothing at all. Write it, let it go, and it is gone. YOUR JOURNAL STAYS YOURS Entries are encrypted on your device and you hold the recovery key. Lock the app behind your fingerprint, your face, or a passcode, and hide its contents from screenshots and the app switcher. Diurnal collects no personal data and works completely offline, so nothing has to leave your phone for you to write. NO AI Nothing you write is read by a model, summarised, or used for training. There is no AI in Diurnal. COMING FROM ANOTHER APP Bring your old journal with you, with your photos and original dates intact. Diurnal imports from Day One, Journey, Daylio, Diaro, Diarium, Stoic, Obsidian, Joplin and others, so years of writing are not left behind. YOURS TO TAKE, ALWAYS Export everything whenever you want. Take it as a PDF to keep or print, as a web page you can open in any browser, or as plain files that will still work in ten years. Exporting is never locked behind a payment. Your journal is not held hostage. BACK UP TO YOUR OWN GOOGLE DRIVE Optional, and it goes to your private app folder on your Drive, not to our servers. Turn it off and Diurnal stays entirely on your device. FIND ANYTHING AGAIN Search every word you have ever written, then narrow by tag, place, mood, notebook or date. Or just the entries with audio in them. Browse by calendar, or open the map and tap a place to bring back what you wrote there, photos and all. SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR YEAR Consistency, streaks, total words, moods over time, your most used tags, monthly activity, and the hours you tend to write. Diurnal even works out your patterns, like the fact that you mostly write in the evening. All of it calculated on your phone. A DIARY THAT IS NOT ONE LONG SCROLL Your home screen is arranged in shelves you control. Photo stories, audio stories, video stories, quick thoughts. Show the ones you use, hide the ones you do not, in the order that suits you. Light and dark themes included. REMINDERS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Pick a time that suits you and Diurnal will quietly remind you. DIURNAL PRO An optional subscription. Everything described above is free. WRITE FROM YOUR HOME SCREEN Put Quick Entry on your home screen and catch a thought without opening anything. One tap, type the line, done. It offers a prompt when you are not sure where to start. The thoughts you lose are the ones that needed three taps to record. WRITE FROM A KEYBOARD Some entries want more than a phone. The Diurnal web writer opens in any browser, with the same notebooks, moods and places as the app, and sends what you write straight through to your journal.