Diarly Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.9% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience8.0% of reviews

~ Based on 921 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Diarly

Is Diarly Safe?

Diarly: Diary, Private Journal appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Diarly is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,474 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,469 App Store ratings for Diarly.

Is Diarly Legit?

Diarly: Diary, Private Journal appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Diarly is 93/100.

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

Top reviews

Cool app

I’ve journaled extensively in the past, but this is the first time using an app and I really like it. No more messy handwriting! It comes with a ton of options to personalize your journal, including an extensive list of fonts and backgrounds.

I was told to keep a journal for medical/legal reasons, and once that process is finished with early next year, I’m going to keep using it for my own purposes.

I’m really impressed!
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App Keeps Getting Better and better

I’ve been using Diarly for over a year, switching from Day One, which I’d used for over ten years. The reason I switched was the user interface of Diarly is, for me, much better. General user interface, templates, customizing, ease of insertion of photos and files, and more. I thought I had it good. And then you all made it even better. Adding a frame to an inserted photo, and laying it out in a creative manner made me smile from ear to ear. Well done!
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The best Mac native Journal

I have been using Diarly for about 6months now in anger, I formerly was a long time customer of Day One, but their huge subscription hikes left a bad taste in my mouth a journal should not cost O365 money. In a way I am glad DayOne pushed me to change.
The migration was seamless, excepting a few headers not being picked up, the interface and writing experience feel really nice, I would akin it to the feeling you get when you use Bear. Customer support is brilliant and they are always adding new features.
The final clincher for me is you can export in markdown, so you can migrate to any note taking app, journal or document app.
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This application

Great

pleasant

I enjoy it, decorative , simple and sweet

10/10! Love!

Theres actually alot of things you can do for free! ive been using this app for a while now and its a must have if you like journaling!

Лучшее приложения для ведения дневника

Я считаю, что это лучшее приложение для ведения дневника. Я перепробовала все возможные популярные приложения, и оно отличное. Жаль что только для iOS, было бы круто чтобы для всех ОС оно было или чтобы была веб версия.

- Здесь можно отслеживать настроение, видеть календарь заметок, синхронизировать с Apple Здоровьем и автоматически подтягивать активность дня.
- Погоду, время, дату все тут автоматически отмечается.
- Можно добавлять аудио заметку, фото, видео.
- Очень приятный и простой дизайн.
- Великолепная вкладка Сегодня, где есть цитаты дня, воспоминание за прошлые годы в этот день. Самая любимая функция.
- Цитаты рандомные которые вы пишите, или просто приложение само дает цитаты известных людей.
- Можно скачать заметку
- Синхронизация на всех устройствах через iCloud.

Пожалуйста, продолжайте, вы делаете шикарный продукт. Это приложение сильно мне помогает чувствовать наполненность дней и значимость моих дней. Спасибо вам ❤️
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Response from developer

Большое спасибо за такие добрые слова! 😊

The function of the app

It’s quite decent I think the formatting of the app is kind of confusing for new beginners using the app. It doesn’t tell you how to close the entry and especially on the watch it’s quite strange. But it functions normally a couple of fixes will work

Love Diarly

The team has responded to any email I’ve ever sent them and they keep the app updated. I think for a journaling app, knowing that there’s an active team and knowing that they are doing everything to keep your data safe and not at risk of being lost is penultimate and I have no complaints so far after using this for years.
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Easy to find stuff I don’t want, hard to find stuff I want

For example, today, all I wanted to find was iPhone 15 Pro and it showed me "iPhone ." Lots of them.

The One To Have

This is the one to have, with all the features and an active dev constantly keeping it up to date. I have been using it for years and continue to appreciate its high quality.

Gets “all the things” right

Diarly has all the functionality of Day One, but it is more actively developed. And it has more customizability options, which make it easy to use and great to look at. The sheer range of things it can capture and track is impressive, but also if you don’t want to track, it doesn’t force the issue. And you can create your own tracking via templates. The developer is responsive both by email and on the active Reddit community. This is a team that gets it.
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Potential to be great

I love the customization options available. Unfortunately for some bizarre reason there are not any formatting options like being able to align all text in the middle, left, right etc and you also cannot change individual font sizes. If they fixed both of these it would be worth paying for

The best!

I had been a decades-long user of DayOne but needed a bit more versatility. Diarly has exceeded my expectations and a bonus is it costs less than DayOne. Thank you for an awesome product. Keep up the good work!

Great app

Please include monthly subscription. $25 per year is too expensive, $9.99 sounds more reasonable, or $1.99 per month.

I used DayOne for YEARS - this is BETTER!

As good DayOne is, it still has issues, I lost files many times and they recommend that I back up their database - just in case. Really have no time for that. Add problems with location entry and a video size limit led me to I was shopping around. I found this app in the wonderful cornucopia that came with my SetApp subscription (free promotion).

This is probably the 5th time I’m importing my DayOne entries; I got fed up and deleted this app each time. Too many niggling issues; I should also add that I tried the others, including Journey - paid for it and got rid of it. No that I’m back checking out Diary, it has improved A LOT.

GOOD
1. Excellent handling of tags - colour coding = nice touch
2. Exceptionally well organised
3. Now adds the option hide markdown tags 👍🏽
4. Filtering is top-notch = by mood, attachment type
5. Imports calendar events = nice
6. Remarkable ability to determine how you want the app to look

BAD
1. Synchronisation problems persist - I still can’t get it to work correctly across my devices
2. Adding locations is still rather iffy
3. Weird an inconsistent way to group photos (I don’t know when it will work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
4. Last time it sucked so much memory, may Mac ran out, and I had to force-quit it

It is a much more mature and dependable app compared to the last time I tried it!

All said this is a class act! My main complaint is the synchronisation issues. If that is resolved, it definitely beats DayOne- right now, I have a journal I can’t delete and I can’t remove it as my default journal either ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶

All things considered - I’d get rid of DayOne in a heartbeat if I can get my issues resolved. As it stands - 4 stars; support - your serve!
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Love it but something happened

I have been using this app for a long while now and when I got back into it last night all my work was gone I didn’t delete anything no one else was on it either so I don’t know what happened I had a lot and I do mean a lot of poetry haiku on here and I am sad that it is all gone does anyone know what would have happened I tried to do the iCloud thing but it won’t let me sync to it using this app so I guess all of my work is gone forever I hope not but I guess it is what it is
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xrixrox

Excellent, keep up the good work

Great journaling app

I recently came back to this app and I am very impressed. It is very flexible and being markdown based is a plus for me. If you are new or trying to build a journaling habit then start with simple gratitude prompts that you can do in 5 minutes each morning and evening.

Almost Great

Needs more work dealing with manipulation of images and videos.