GitJournal vs Private Offline Journal

GitJournal is an open source note taking / journaling app built with privacy and data portability in mind. It stores all its notes in a standardised Markdown + YAML header format or plaintext. The notes are stored in a hosted Git Repo of your choice - GitHub / GitLab / Gitea / Gogs / Any Custom-provider. Features - - Offline First - All yours notes are available offline - No Account Required - Categorize your Notes with Folders - Open source / Free Software / FOSS - Can easily be extended and integrated with other Git tools - Can also be used to manage Hugo / Jekyll / Gatsby websites - No Ads Never need to import / export your notes, as you always have control of the data. Apps may come and go, but your notes will always be with you. Git has been chosen as a backend as self-hosting a Git server is much simpler than almost any other software, additionally there are already many commercial providers of Git. So you can choose who you want to trust with your notes. We currently don't support encrypting the notes, but it's something we're actively working on.

Completely private and secure offline journal. No tracking. No analytics. No cloud. No sync. Offline. Secure. Encrypted. Password protected. You can add multiple journal entries per day. You can view all journals in a single scrollable page. You can navigate to particular days/dates using the build in Calendar. Light and Dark modes. You can export your journals for import at a later date if you need to uninstall or backup the app. Password protected and optionally you can use biometrics - FaceID.