# PaperDusk: Journal & Diary — Daily Mood Tracker, Self Care

> Daily Mood Tracker, Self Care (iPhone/iPad app by Darshankumar Ramani.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paperdusk-journal-and-diary/id6809358641 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Darshankumar Ramani](https://appshunter.io/developer/6808553341)
- Category: Lifestyle, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 18 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-16
- Data updated: 2026-10-26

## What is PaperDusk?

PaperDusk is a daily journal and mood tracker that writes back.

Tap how you feel, write a line, or say it out loud. Every Sunday, PaperDusk reads your week and writes you a personal letter about it, in your own words.

Every week:
• The Sunday letter: your week, read back to you.
• Reflections: open an entry and PaperDusk asks one question about what you actually wrote. Answer it, or tap a quick reply, and it asks the next. Stop whenever you like.
• The weekly report: the same week, counted. Your mood across the seven days, the best and the hardest day, the themes that came up.
• Insights: how many days you wrote, which were bright, your mood trend, and the month as a calendar coloured by mood.
• Your year: every day of the year as one small square, coloured by how it went, filling in as you go.
• At the end of the year, a letter about the whole of it.
• A keepsake of any week: a booklet of your week, saved as a video or a PDF.

Every day:
• Five moods, one tap. Then a line, or your voice. With Plus, voice notes are written down on your phone, so what you said shows up in search and in your letters.
• Photos and stickers, taped to a ruled page.
• A line for the day on the home screen, in PaperDusk's own voice. Keep it, or share it as a card.
• One year ago: the same day, last year, back on today's page.
• One day as a journey: your mood across the day, with every entry on it.
• The timeline: every month folded, any day a tap away.
• Search by a word, a mood, a theme or a day of the week.
• Two minutes to breathe, or to ground yourself, before you write.
• Widgets for today's mood, the week and your Sunday letter, on the Home Screen and the Lock Screen.
• A reminder at the time you choose.

Yours:
• Lock it with Face ID.
• Reflections and letters are written by a language model. When they're on, the text of the entries involved is sent to write them; your photos, your voice and your name never are. 

You choose during setup, and you can turn it off in Settings at any time. Then nothing you write leaves the device.
Free keeps ten entries a day and a taste of the letters. Plus takes the limits off, and adds writing your voice notes down, the year letter and keepsakes.
One line a day is enough. By Sunday, it becomes a letter.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PaperDusk Plus - Yearly | $79.99 | per year |
| PaperDusk Plus - Yearly Offer | $79.99 | per year |
| PaperDusk Plus - Weekly | $4.99 | per 7 days |


## Is PaperDusk safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess PaperDusk.

## Is PaperDusk legit?

PaperDusk: Journal & Diary has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PaperDusk is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-09-22

Bug fixes.
Weeks where you only tapped a mood now get their Sunday letter too.
The weekly report is a tap away, even on a week when a letter couldn't be written.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-19

- Bug Fixes.
- A new bar along the bottom. The four tabs now wear the real iOS glass, and the pen has a button of its own beside them, so writing is one tap from anywhere.
- Plus unlocks the moment the app opens. Subscribers could spend the first few seconds of a launch seeing sealed letters and a paywall they had already paid for.
- The year letter, the once a year look back over everything you wrote, now arrives when it is due.
- Older voice notes get their transcripts written instead of being passed over.
- Fixed a crash that could close the app when you picked a mood on the home screen.
- Setting up fits properly on smaller iPhones, and the reminder dial turns the way it should there.
- Backing up and restoring is safer. If a restore ever stops part way, your journal is kept and handed straight back to you.
- Usage counts stay off until you turn them on.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-16

No release notes.

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