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Add to SafariWhen comparing Day One vs Moleskine Journal, the Slant community recommends Day One for most people. In the question“What are the best journaling apps for iOS?” Day One is ranked 4th while Moleskine Journal is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Day One is:
Between iOS and Mac.
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Pros
Pro Effortless syncing via iCloud
Between iOS and Mac.
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.
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.
Pro Easy to to find old posts
With a good search and calendar view.
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.
Pro 2012 Mac App of the Year
Pro Markdown support
Pro Everything in one spot
Saves having multiple apps.
Pro 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.
Pro Paper styles
Pro Handwriting support
Cons
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.
Con Lack of DropBox and iCloud syncing
Con Cannot local sync between Mac and iOS devices.
Con No encryption
Data is stored in a plain-text XML file.
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.
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.
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
Con Lack of instructions
There's some difficulty getting an answer from Moleskine.
Con Unresponsive to Apple Pen and palm rejection when using a small tip
This causes random signs and overflows of different line thickness.
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.
