Journal 4+

Name: Journal
Rating: 4.8 (914 reviews)
Author: Apple

Reflect on life’s moments

Apple

- 4.8 • 914 Ratings

- Free

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Description

Take a moment to reflect on your day. Capture and write about the details of everyday moments and special events using photos, videos, audio recordings, places, your state of mind and more. Journaling suggestions make it easy to remember your daily experiences — so you can add them to your journal and never have to start with a blank page. And with the new Insights view with streaks, it’s easy to keep track of your journaling goals.

Get started writing with journaling suggestions
• Choose from suggested moments to start your journal entry with intelligently grouped outings, photos, workouts, media and more.
• Get a writing prompt to guide your insights.
• Find inspiration with reflection prompts to focus on gratitude, kindness, purpose and more.
• Journaling suggestions are created using on-device intelligence based on how you use your iPhone. Choose what information you want to enable for suggestions.

Preserve powerful memories in rich detail
• Illustrate your entries with the photos, videos and places that tell your story.
• Record your voice directly into your journal and have it transcribed automatically, or record your surroundings to add context to your entry.
• Express yourself with text formatting options, including lists, quotes and various text styles.
• Add a widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen that shows your current streak at a glance or presents writing prompts that change throughout the day so you can reflect on what’s going on in the moment.
• Start a new entry and add content from other apps like News, Music or Safari.

Enjoy past moments
• Browse, search and sort your journal to look back and reflect on key moments in your life.
• Easily find past entries using the calendar view.
• View each entry and its attachments in a beautiful full-screen view.
• Print or export your entries.

Build a good habit
• View your journaling streaks, the days you journaled and other fun stats in the new Insights view.
• Set a schedule and receive notifications to keep a consistent journaling practice.
• Get a notification when new journaling suggestions are ready.

Journal for wellbeing
• Log your state of mind in Journal and save it to the Health app.
• Automatically save your writing time as Mindful Minutes in Health.

Keep your journal private and secure
• Protect your journal with your device passcode, Touch ID or Face ID, so no one but you can access it.
• Store your entries safely in iCloud so they’re automatically backed up.

Certain features are available only in selected languages and regions.

4.8 out of 5

914 Ratings

Good start, improvement suggestions

A very good start, but lack of essential features, such as searching for keywords, calendar view, filter by Month, format text etc.
I’m sure these features will come but until then it is no more than a good start with great potential.

Update: with the ios18 the app now has some great features, but still no proper map view for example. I would really welcome the “on this day” alert from the previous entries, and also the possibility to import your journal from other diary apps. With these features many will consider to switch to the Journal app ;)

Someone who journals everyday

I was pretty hyped to see this app.
My impression is that it’s a good start but definitely need some improvement and more features. Like multicoloured bookmarks for example and I the possibility of putting multiple bookmarks within a text, so if I write about similar content I can put f.e. my yellow bookmark there and later I can see notes that contain the information I need. Also that would be cool too to later on search for the “yellow bookmark” And be able to see all yellow marked sections from different notes in one place. One note thing I find misssing: When I create a journal I like to note the time, so there should be an option to add the time when the journal was created next the date. There should be an option to add the current time within the journal on new entries f.e.: I start the journal at 10:10 am that should be after the date, but if I later on write different things then I should be able to start by setting a time for that as well while the main time 10:10 stays. It shouldn’t use the time when it was edited last!! I read other comments with all of them useful suggestions. So they’re legit too but for me these updates would be the most op. Thanks.

I'd like it to be better automated

It's nice that it automatically suggests entries and compiles all the things from a certain day or a longer period. The problem is that it dates them to the date when they were saved not the (last) day the compiled things happened. I don't want to write, just confirm the compilations. Also pretty often when I click on the push notification it just loads forever and sometimes doesn't show the suggestion which was promoted in the notification. If I click on a specific suggestion on the notification I want it to bring me there right away and I don't care about loading other stuff, it can do that in the background after I'm done with the one thing I opened the app for.

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