# My Diaries — Handwritten diaries, organised > Handwritten diaries, organised (iPhone/iPad app by Out West AI.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/my-diaries/id6770876564 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Out West AI](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896765889) - Category: Productivity, Lifestyle - Price: $5.99 - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-07 - Data updated: 2026-10-05 ## What is My Diaries? My Diaries replaces your paper notebook with a calm, focused iPad notebook designed for Apple Pencil. Keep separate diaries for different parts of your life — Work, Personal, Health, anything — each with its own paper colour, lock state, and calendar context. Write the way you think. • Free‑form Apple Pencil writing on a lined notebook page, hour by hour through the day • Every hour can be expanded for the moments worth writing more about • Calendar events appear gently on the right side of the page so the day's context is always there • Add per‑meeting notes that travel with each calendar event A diary for every part of life. • Create as many diaries as you like — Work, Personal, Health, Travel • Each diary has its own paper background colour • Tap to switch; the date stays in sync • Search jumps you to any day with content • Long‑swipe left or right to flip through days Privacy you can feel. • Lock any diary with Face ID or passcode; locked content is encrypted with a key that syncs through iCloud Keychain • Screen recording is hidden on locked diaries; backgrounded locked diaries zero out their pages • Local files are stored with the strongest iOS file protection • You can run entirely on‑device — iCloud sync is optional Sync and share. • Diaries sync between your devices through your private iCloud account • Share a diary with family or collaborators using CloudKit sharing • Per‑diary calendar selection — show only the calendars relevant to that diary Export when you need to. • Export a single page as PDF or PNG • Export the visual page (paper + ink) as a styled PDF • Export an entire month as a single PDF for archiving or printing Built for iPad with Apple Pencil. Universal across iPad sizes. No ads. No tracking. No account beyond your existing iCloud sign‑in. ## Is My Diaries safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess My Diaries. ## Is My Diaries legit? My Diaries appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for My Diaries is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-09-06 # MyDiary 1.2 — What's New Handwriting search, a Mac app, widgets, and a year view that doubles as a streak map. • Search your handwriting. Every page is read as you write, so a word you wrote by hand three months ago is findable — and it reaches Spotlight too. • A Mac app, with the tools along the foot of the window and the menus a Mac expects. • Home Screen widgets: today's page, and your writing streak. • A year view that shows every day you wrote at a glance. • List mode skips the empty days. • On This Day — what the rest of the world was doing on this date, plus a Murphy's Law quote of the day at the head of the page. • The day's weather beside the date, in your own units. • Duplicate or move a page — or a single block — to another day. • Notebooks now show their pages down the left on iPad and Mac, and say where you are: "page 4 of 12". • Drag the line under an hour to give it more room. • Dark mode throughout: the paper darkens at night and the ink follows. • Export or share any page as a PDF, a visual page, or a PNG — and now save straight to Files. • An evening reminder, set up during the tour. • Journaling Suggestions, tags and moods, and photos that stay where you put them. Plus the usual round of fixes: locked books now seal everything they hold, settings sync between devices without a phone's layout following you to the Mac, and the Pencil draws on iPads that cannot hover. ## Fuller list, by area ### Finding things again - Handwriting recognition runs as you write, is kept with the page, and is searchable. Results reach Spotlight. - Browse by tag and by mood. - A year view that doubles as a streak map. - List mode, which skips days with nothing on them. ### The page - Murphy's Law quote of the day at the head of the page, with a refresh and a close button; closing it lasts the day. - On This Day: what happened on this date, and whose birthday it is. - The day's weather and temperature beside the date, in system units, with an opt-in to stamp it onto the page. - Drag the line under an hour to give that hour more room. - Tags shown only when a page has them. ### Notebooks - A scrollable column of page previews down the left on iPad and Mac. - "Page 4 of 12" rather than just a number. - New page moved into the page menu with the rest of the page actions. ### Capture - Capture into the hour it happened, filed as a card you can move. - Capture into notebooks, and a Shortcut that files into today. - Journaling Suggestions (iPhone and iPad). ### Sharing and export - Save any export straight to Files, as well as sharing it. - Whole-month and whole-notebook PDFs; visual page PDFs that look like the page; drawing PNGs. - Photos now appear in exported PDFs. - Backups can be saved to Files. ### Mac - A native Mac app. - Tools along the foot of the window. - The menus a Mac expects, and ⌘, for Settings. - Quits when the last window is closed. ### Appearance - Dark mode throughout: paper darkens at night, and ink drawn in the default colour follows the system rather than staying black on a dark page. - The toolbar follows the system appearance rather than the paper. - Hiding the toolbar now hides all of it. ### Fixes - Locked books seal everything they hold, not only the ink. - Settings sync between devices, without a phone's layout following you to a Mac. - The Pencil draws on iPads that cannot hover. - A meeting can be opened with a finger while the Pencil is in use. - Typing keeps up: no lost characters. - Encryption failures on the Mac, from a keychain the app could not reach. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-08 No release notes. ## More apps by Out West AI - [DoseDiary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dosediary/id6776218462) - [Yard Tally](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yard-tally/id6776222662) - [AgDiary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/agdiary/id6782767556) - [PingMon](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pingmon/id6785174588) - [My Symptom Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/my-symptom-tracker/id6790290646) All apps by Out West AI: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896765889 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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