What are the best journaling apps for iOS?

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Best journaling apps for iOS	Price	Last Updated
87 Awesome Note	-	Nov 6, 2018
-- Everyday Timeline	-	Aug 28, 2018
73 Day One	-	Jul 28, 2018
-- Moleskine Journal	-	Oct 30, 2018
-- Momento	-	Jan 4, 2018

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

GenuineGaleru's Experience

i like this one 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

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

Everyday Timeline

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Top Pro

Weekly backup

To Dropbox, Evernote, or email. 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

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 Pro

Imports data from external sources

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

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Pro

Has statistics

The application gives you statistics about your postings. See More

Day One

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Top Con

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

Capture 365 Journal

Top Pro

Automatically posts photos and locations if I don’t have time to

Top Con

Couldn’t synch

I couldn’t synch, I couldn’t save into the cloud, couldn’t make an extra journal and ended completely disappointed because I paid and can’t really use it for anything. See More

Top Pro

Multiple media types supported

Can attached multiple images and videos to each entry. See More

Top Con

Images way to small in entry page

The images in an entry don't automatically appear. You have to click a slightly dark button that tells you there are images in your entry. However, the images still appear small. If you double-click, the image appears large but the text gets covered. See More

Top Pro

Local syncing

Can sync locally with WIFI and not use cloud services. See More

Top Con

Feeds are charged individually

You have to pay for each of the feeds that you want to import and you can’t import your photos from the roll with a date like in other more famous journaling apps. See More

Top Pro

macOS app

Has a macOS app counterpart. See More

Top Con

Can’t see all the entries within a specific tag

And the service wouldn’t give an answer about this feature. See More

Top Pro

Rich text formatting

Supports rich text formats. Bold, Italics and underline. See More

Top Con

Unreliable and buggy

It's still 'flaky', what you would expect from an app in beta. It sometimes crashes, thus unstable; it also freezes; it does not import, as yet. You are also unable to try before you buy. It has some work to do before becoming a quality app. See More

Top Pro

Templates

Supports custom templates for quick insertion into entries. See More

Top Pro

Location and weather support

Location and weather data is automatically acquired and added to entry. See More

Top Pro

Feeds support

Can import from social media services and calendar such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr. See More

Top Pro

Cloud syncing

Can sync with iCloud and Dropbox. See More

Top Pro

Multiple tags

Supports more than one tag for each entry. See More

Top Pro

Multiple journals

Can have more than one journal. See More

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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