Journal

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] 5/5 · US Journaling On the Go: I love it!
2. [R2] 5/5 · US Awesome Journal: I have been trying to get into journaling. This app has really helped me. I love the security of the app. I feel like I can keep it private. If I may the only suggestion that I have is that I can create sub journal folders. That way I can create a journal for 2026 and have another journal for each month inside that journal. Or I can create a Books journal and have a journal for ea
3. [R5] 5/5 · US Enjoying digital journaling: Keeping track of what my days are like is easier than recording in an actual notebook.
4. [R20] 5/5 · US The best habit I’ve ever formed: This app helped me form a wonderful habit I was never able to form in my almost 30 years of life I’m about to hit 365 days straight of journaling and I already almost had 800 injuries because I just write all my emotions throughout the day. I’ve had a hard time remembering my life throughout the past often having to ask my brother for help on memories and my friend
5. [R34] 5/5 · US GET IT: Also i automatically get it cuz i have an apple but its the best cuz it saves and u can put face id into it so none of ur family or friends can look at ur personal stuff and its easy and not complicated like some other apps so YAAAA have a preppy day yall 💅🏻💅🏻
6. [R28] 5/5 · US 5 Stars!!!: Journal has given me so many opportunities to open up and share my emotions and feeling without anyone seeing what I wrote. Journal is a trusted source and app to use with experiences in hard times, feelings, and more. If you are feeling overwhelmed, having anxiety, or feeling insecure, write it all in Journal! I give this app a 5 stars for everything! Journal even had personal goals
7. [R15] 5/5 · US Easy. Simple. Varied. Personalized.: You can write, submit photos, videos, audio recordings… the widgets have thought provoking questions. There’s a location function too. It’s honestly the best app I’ve ever had for my mental health. And no ads. Plus there’s a search function, and you can make multiple journals- but also still have an “all entries” tab to see all of them. Super simple, intuiti
8. [R47] 5/5 · US I like it: It’s really nice and I like it because you can add photos 😊📷
9. [R456] 3/5 · CA Feature Request: The app is better than decent. The integration with other Apple products (music, maps, photos, etc) is awesome and “suggested entries” feature is world class. However, I wish there were these two features: 1. Sharing with friends or family, it would be great if I could share some events with my people 2. Obsidian like backlinking, with so many journal entries, referring to other
10. [R458] 3/5 · CA Bring in all media would be cool !: I’m growing to really enjoy this app but it would be chiller if we could bring in voice memos and other media like a real scrapbook! I think a ‘recents’ tab would be nice bc that’s often what I use to reflect on my day (even though it also doesn’t show voice memos or photos ): Would be cool to have one place to see the whole daily run down w all media, even a
11. [R13] 5/5 · US Good software: The pop-up recommendation content is really well done. It would be even better if it could integrate with Apple Intelligence in the future. Useful. · translated
12. [R33] 5/5 · US So Good: Super good, shows you when you have a streak, and gives you prompts if you can’t think of anything.
13. [R30] 4/5 · US Awesome sauce!: It’s fun because I can open it up at any time and write about how I’m feeling it has a lot of good settings and suggestions and it’s very good
14. [R18] 5/5 · US Must Have-Love It: It’s very well organized and it’s easy to find things I’ve written or copied that I intend to view in detail later. Very happy with this app!! It’s a must have if you like to be organized.
15. [R24] 5/5 · US Caretaker and babies: I have a caretaker journal and baby journal
16. [R3] 1/5 · US Doesn’t work with pencil: The app will delete anything you write with the Apple Pencil beyond a certain length. As it is now, it is completely unusable on iPad.
17. [R8] 3/5 · US Potential, but: Writing on iPad w Apple Pencil randomly deletes paragraphs of written text. Should be same tech to write in Notes app which works much better. Have lost pages and pages of written text with no way to recover
18. [R23] 3/5 · US Undo Bug: Great journal app, except if you hit the Undo button for mistyped word, you’ll lose a whole sentence, then try to Redo only to see that button faded with nothing to bring back. Hit Undo again, you’ll lose a whole paragraph or more. Maybe you had the presence of mind after opening the journal entry and then immediately hitting the checkmark and exiting the entry so that it actually saves
19. [R27] 1/5 · US I'm devastated: My 100,000-word diary... it's all gone, I can't get it back. I can't breathe right now... · translated
20. [R14] 1/5 · US Security: I love Apple products. Been using them since ‘91. I just wish you would allow this app to have a different PIN than my phone’s. IF someone gained entry to my phone the first PIN they’d try to gain entry to Journal would be the same PIN as my phone. Please allow different PINs for unlocking the device and Journal. You already allow separate password access to Notes that is different from
21. [R449] 3/5 · CA Missing critical option: I have downloaded the app but I haven't started using it yet. For me, having a password that is independent from my Apple ID/face I'd is essential. For backup reasons, by family has access to my Apple ID and lock code. I need a password that is independent of these so that I can write what I want without getting in trouble. Please consider this for a further release.
22. [R551] 3/5 · CA Password: Is it possible to set a different password than the iPhone password to login to this app? Privacy concerns.
23. [R556] 3/5 · CA Passcode: Please add the ability to lock app with a separate passcode then the phone passcode.
24. [R117] 3/5 · US MajorC: Great concept Needs work! So much of our lives we capture with photos but getting a photo in this journal exactly where you want is not as easy as it should be. The same goes for recordings-why do they have to be at the top of the page?? And why, my good gravy WHY can’t we change the name of the first journal?? Apple this is a great idea, but make it easier to insert and size pictures, re
25. [R158] 2/5 · US Words, but pictures? Not so much: I have kept paper journals for years, but I spend so much time on my iPad, i thought it made sense to journal there too. The app is fairly straightforward to use, but as a person who has used MSWord, PowerPoint, and other apps to generate documents, this one offers less functionality and a LOT more aggravation. Insert a picture, and it squeezes it into a square ti
26. [R231] 3/5 · GB Good but a lot of issues: I love the majority of journal, but missing many solid features. No way to add tables, it doesn’t link to reminders or calendar (that would be a GAME-CHANGER, especially if you could see in your calendar when you’ve made an entry) The pencil support is ok, but randomly loses information, and I’ll write lots then it disappears! No ability to have paper templates or even si
27. [R246] 2/5 · GB Need to improve iPad pencil UX: Hard to write, format etc
28. [R50] 5/5 · US Bad search feature: Although this app is very good and greatly beneficial, it has a flaw that I hope the developing company can overcome: the search feature does not work well. It sometimes works after every update, but after a few days, the flaw returns where you search for a word and it doesn't find the real results. It only gives you one or some of the results; it doesn't find them all. · translated
29. [R248] 3/5 · GB Some issues: Please add an undo button that actually works because earlier i deleted more than half of my journal by accident simply because i copied it and pressed space. Just like that it was all gone and it’s very annoying and upsetting. Also the searching sometimes stops working. But thx for fixing the issue where the title of the journal does not print
30. [R570] 3/5 · CA Search needs improvement: Works great but the search doesn’t work the greatest hard to go back and find info that it should find with key words
31. [R581] 3/5 · CA New search feature: The new search feature can scan journal entries from before the update! Otherwise, it’s a good app.
32. [R225] 3/5 · GB Add a folder and a collapsible docs inside a folder: This is a very handy digital journal however I find it messy and disorganise. I hope you will add more functions in it where we are able to create a folder inside the main folder to create a sub-categories and inside each category are all collapsible documents where the contents in it are not expose unless you click on it so that it doesn’t loo
33. [R159] 1/5 · US Obnoxious nag: Nagging about how to sync across devices every time I create a new journal entry is obnoxious. Prompt me once and then go away. Not every. Single. Time.
34. [R283] 2/5 · GB Stupid pop ups when I want to write: I use this journal to vent, I don’t want to click out of 3 pop ups before I even write a word. Streamline the process or at least let me turn it off
35. [R213] 1/5 · GB What I want to change: I want it to not message me every time I go somewhere But actually I meant to press four stars
36. [R41] 4/5 · US No Streak: Stopped recording my streak even though I’ve added entries daily… Now indicates ‘No Current Streak’. Doesn’t correct even if settings are changed. WHEN WILL THIS BE FIXED?
37. [R368] 3/5 · GB Not logging days journaled: It isn’t counting the days I’ve logged. No matter how many days I log it goes back to the amount of weeks I’ve logged. I’ve been using this app over a year and it’s only just started doing it
38. [R298] 1/5 · GB Screws up your dates: Used this during a 4 month trip around the world on both my phone and tablet. It would completely screwup dates when entries were synced between the two devices. Would end up with entries created on the 23rd and 24th after syncing both being on the 23rd. Or it would show the same entries twice on the same day, but when you deleted one of the duplicate entries it deleted both
39. [R234] 2/5 · GB Desperately needs import: I really do want to use this app because it seems like a fantastic journal, but many of us invested literally over a decade’s worth of time into other journalling apps while Apple was working on this. And as such I’m not about to leave behind all those entries. This app is in dire need of the ability to import entries from another app. Loads of other journals do it, it is
40. [R9] 1/5 · US Sugg. For Journal: 1) Pls allow LONG PRESS to enter EDIT mode to make it more convenient 2) Pls allow writing Journal for a FUTURE DATE to allow it to be used as a reminder, should user wants to use Journal & Reminder in interchangeably to simplify their informal planning & record-keeping. Thank you
41. [R106] 3/5 · US Handwritten Notes: I wrote handwritten note and it did not save!
42. [R119] 1/5 · US Very buggy: I normally do not write reviews but this problem has made me sick of this app. Everytime I try writing more than a couple paragraphs with my Apple Pencil it will not keep anything I have written down, and even if I made a short entry, when I try to come back later during the day it will not keep the edits I’ve made to my entry later on during the day. I was really excited about this ap
43. [R31] 1/5 · US Doesn’t save full entry: I had high hopes for this app but it continuously doesn’t save my full entry. Very annoying. I’ve decided to stop using it entirely
44. [R42] 2/5 · US Can be better…please fix this app!: I love that I can easily access this and all its features. However, lately, when I save my entry, it erases part of my writing or drawings. These cannot be duplicated, so it is a bit upsetting to lose them. Please do some updates to fix this. Please fix this app!