What are the best journaling apps for iOS?

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Best journaling apps for iOS	Price	Last Updated
87 Awesome Note	-	Jun 13, 2019
-- Everyday Timeline	-	May 29, 2019
71 Day One	-	Jul 10, 2019
-- Moleskine Journal	-	May 12, 2019
-- Quiller	-	Jun 17, 2019

Awesome Note

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Top Pro

Multiple folders

You can make as much folders as you want, and although the colors available aren’t infinite they are pretty and enough. You can organize them with small index titles. See More

Top Con

No folders inside other folders

Although there is a little option to organize the folders in a category index you can’t make folders inside other folders so you waste time looking despite how organized your stuff is. See More

PatientJumis's Experience

I Moved to Android and this is the only App. I miss. Loved it and got me started on Journal and Planning. I keep waiting and sending emails to the makers of Awesome Note to get it for Android as well. Samsung Galaxy S8. Eye candy? Yes Organize? Yes Love it ? Yes Rafael. See More

Top Pro

Sync with Dropbox / can edit in Dropbox

Can use it for planning and Journalling almost like digital bullet journal. See More

Top Con

Backgrounds are girly and corny

You can’t add your own backgrounds, not in the start page neither in the individual entries, so you only have the ones provided and after a while they become boring. They don’t say this in the App Store, so it’s possible to buy it thinking you’ll be able to have personalized backgrounds but no. See More

GenuineGaleru's Experience

i like this one See More

Everyday Timeline

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Feature-rich

The app supports tags, multiple entries each day, passcode lock, reminders, a daily question, post statistics, weekly backups, synchronization, as well as adding photos, location information, and your mood to entries. See More

Top Con

Lacks support

Multiple reports of dropped features, unfixed bugs, lack of updates. See More

Top Pro

Online account means syncing and web access

You can access your data from anywhere you have a browser and internet access. See More

Top Pro

Weekly backup

To Dropbox, Evernote, or email. See More

Top Pro

Has statistics

The application gives you statistics about your postings. See More

Top Pro

Imports data from external sources

From different social networks as individual entries on your timeline. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Day One

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Subscription based

For former users, it's $24.99 per year. For new users, current discount is $34.99 per year while full price is $49.99 per year. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful UI

Choice of color palette, icon glyph variety and animations create a design that is pleasurable to look at and does not get in the way. See More

AmbitiousNut's Experience

Outrageous pricing move! See More

Top Con

Lack of DropBox and iCloud syncing

Top Pro

Easy to use

A high level of attention to detail, intuitive suggestions and automation of common tasks make this application very easy to use. See More

jasonology's Experience

Very clean, easy to use design. See More

Top Con

No encryption

Data is stored in a plain-text XML file. See More

Top Pro

Easy to to find old posts

With a good search and calendar view. See More

Top Con

Limited to one photo per entry

Currently, in both the mobile and Mac apps, only a single photo can be added to a journal entry. See More

Top Pro

All the features you need

You can create more than one entry in one day. You have many styles and font choices. You can add photos, tags to your entries. Optionally, you can have pass-codes, reminders. You can opt to automatically add location and weather data. Search function built-in. Ability to export a portion or all entries to PDF. See More

Top Con

You need to purchase two separate subscriptions to sync your iPhone and Mac

Read this from Day One Support: http://help.dayoneapp.com/day-one-2-0/how-many-licenses-do-i-need-to-run-day-one-on-multiple-devices See More

Top Pro

Effortless syncing via iCloud

Between iOS and Mac. See More

Top Con

Lacks Windows or Web support

Day One has no Windows or Web support, which can be inconvenient. For example, if users don't want to write a long journal entry on their phones and only have a Windows PC available as an alternative, they are not able to use it as a more practical alternative to write said post, not even using a web browser. See More

Top Pro

2012 Mac App of the Year

Top Pro

Markdown support

Moleskine Journal

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Innovative

Moleskine has unique and rarely seen features such as handwriting support, paintbrush, highlighting, color options, multiple notebooks that can be derived from different templates. See More

Top Con

Complicated interface. No page or word search

The interface is quite cumbersome; not as easy as Good Notes. If you need to find a page, there's no index or a way to search by word. The Page-Turn Assist works but as soon as you turn it off, pages are very hard to turn. See More

ToughResheph's Experience

Started with high expectation, ended up with high disappointment See More

Top Pro

Paper Styles

Top Con

Unresponsive to Apple Pen and palm rejection when using a small tip

This causes random signs and overflows of different line thickness. See More

Top Pro

Handwriting support

MacJournal

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Clean UI

Diarly - Daily Journal

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Once - Jounal/Diary/Note

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vicissi's Experience

Once - Journal/Diary/Note App is diary app focusing on immersive writing and reading memory. It supports rich text editing, multiple photos, weather temperature and location, different themes, book covers, password, iCloud sync and pdf export. See More

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