Day One User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience72.0% of reviews
Neutral7.5% of reviews
Negative experience20.5% of reviews

~ Based on 2,693 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Day One Safe?

Day One: Daily Journal & Diary appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Day One is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 117,746 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

97.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 117,746 App Store ratings for Day One.

Is Day One Legit?

Day One: Daily Journal & Diary appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Day One is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Help! The last update froze my app

And ive restarted my iphone15pro. Can you release another update to fix please! I dont want to lose 5yrs of journal entries!

Ridiculous pricing for a basic app

Average UI, basic features, ridiculous price.

Upgrading phone login issue resolved – everything is back.

I upgraded my phone. I tried to log on my new phone. When I logged in my Journal was empty. There’s no way to contact Day One other than an email. No phone support, no chat. Emailing eventually works. Took a little longer than I had hoped for, but I got all my entries back. It was basically more an error on my side and how I logged in. There are two ways to login via Apple ID or username and password. I couldn’t remember which way I had done it and when I logged in with Apple ID, nothing was there. And apparently I tried logging in using username and password too many times and it locked me out. So it was a little scary. But everything is good now. Thanks for your help.

I do recommend users exporting your data every once in a while to save us a backup.

Also, it would be helpful if Day One had an online chat. If they had a online chat, I would give five stars.
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Since 2014

I’ve been using this abs since 2014. It has helped me express myself in a way that wasn’t really available on the phone back when I started using this. There are other apps now, but I have loyalty and come back to this time and time again.

Best Journal App

Been using Day One for years now across devices and love all its features. I’m an avid journaler so this has been one of the best additions to my routine!

VPN required

Overall I love it honestly, everything is very good, BUT the app limits usage in several countries and requires VPN for synchronization to work properly. Like… come on, guys… Are you getting paid for this??

Faulty on an iPad Pro

I should give it 5 stars as this is one of my favorite apps but something has happened to make it almost unusable. It quits working on a regular basis so I have to use my iPhone and thankfully it saves on the cloud so when it decides to work on my iPad I have everything from my phone. Update as I was contacted by DayOne and all is working fine again.
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1234

I’m in love with this app! When I remember, I take a photo at 12:34 pm… just for kicks!!

But whyyyy?

So I haven’t journaled in a really long time and decided I would open up this app to start back only to be met with a screen asking for $50 or a yearly subscription. I had a free subscription and I am no longer able to access my earlier entries because I cannot get around the screen asking me for money. Is there a workaround?
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Lost all my entries

I upgraded my phone. I tried to log on my new phone. I lost all of my journal entries. There’s no way to contact Day One other than an email. No phone support, no chat. Very disappointing. I emailed I got a response now they are looking into it and not to try and logon again. but now it has been two days from when I have have not been able to get on Day One Journal. I’m really worried that I lost all my data. I’m still waiting on a response to help me fix it.
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Captures the sentiment of the moment

Whether in text, audio or photo; it is always the right place to share. So easy to adapt into my routine and a terrific reminder of what matters most.

Missing 2 months of Journal Entry - No help from app support team

If you have this app I recommend you quickly export your journal so you would not be in the same position. I had the misfortune of losing 2 whole months of daily journal entry. All of the recommended troubleshooting amounted to diddly squats. After going back and forth with the support team and happiness engineer I am still awaiting resolution. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU EXPORT YOUR ENTRIES ASAP ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE THE FREE VERSION. Hoping Dayone resolves the issue and “recover” the missing entries without forcing me to pay $50. Still waiting patiently
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i’ve had this app for years

i’ll never delete it honestly. i love it

Time tested

I’ve been using this app for over 10 years now. If you casually journal, the free version is just fine. I regularly journal and enjoys the extra features with the premium version. I love being able to look back to certain dates in past years to see growth, and also like that it can sync between multiple devices.
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Love this journal app

Have been keeping my journal for years. One less star as the 5 min video cap is a pain. But having flashbacks from years before and a mix of voice notes, pictures, links and writing is brilliant.

La mejor

He usado varias y creo que está esta es la mejor y más completa

Love this app so much!!

Really good app, way easier to use than my usual notebook. Lots of features available for the free version, although i'm considering getting premium because i like it so much.

Great app!

Easy to use & navigate

Day one has brought me from a long way

it helps remind me what I really think about things

The iPad DayOne seems buggier than the MacOS version.

Lots of odd hesitations in keyboard entry, not seen on my iMac or my iPhone. Odd glitches in cursor movement. Sometimes I have to quit and restart the app before it’s usable. No problems at all with the Mac version.