Journal 4+

Name: Journal
Rating: 4.6 (697 reviews)
Author: Apple

Reflect on life’s moments

Apple

- 4.6 • 697 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.

4.6 out of 5

697 Ratings

Suggestions

I think Journal could add a custom password feature? My sister can get through my face id and she knows my phone password so she can easily access my private entries.

I also think it might be neat if journal could have streak freezes or smth like duolingo does. I hate losing my streak bc of some busy thing. I get there are reminders, but it's not good enough. Maybe you could earn a streak freezes after a complete 5 day streak or uses "the prompt of the day"(another idea) in a task-for-reward system.

Also I understand there's a mood feature where you could put your feeling and reason. I think you should add a school option coz school is very troubling for a lot of people.

The way of viewing the entries should also be customizable. i've nothing wrong with the current, but i think it would be cool if it were arranged like the list for notes app, where the title is at the top and a bit of subtext of what was written.

You also missed out a drawing feature. I like to express my feelings through quick drawings, and i might find it funny to look back on. I don't really have pictures for everything. Hence, I think this feature should definitely be implemented in the app.

I have a lot more to say but I doubt anyone will read this so yeah, bye.

No search or calendar feature

It would be difficult to search or read back on journal entries. As there is no search features or at least a calendar feature to narrow down the search. Similar to the design that the apple fitness app has for the rings.

Also the way to bold text or maybe a title for the entry is quite of a hassle. Maybe apple would update the journal app soon.

I was looking forwards to this app since it was announced in wwdc.

still quite early stage and basic but can see potential

So far this is quite simple and basic but think there’s much potential to improve and link all the information in the phone with artificial intelligence for suggestive journaling ideas. example like significant events that is out of trend or norm recorded in the apple health app or mental wellness or workouts, calendars - apple or email apps and significant usage of certain apps (eg time spent on social media or travel app when planning or apple wallet spending or banking even work email app, excel, powerbi etc). indeed a lot of information is available on the phone that could be journaled in these days where the phone does so much and hours spent on it!

The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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Provider

Apple Distribution International