Diariste · Your Private Diary vs Ember

Diariste is your private journal, designed to help you truly write, day after day. A caring community since 2010, with more than 85,000 members. A brand new app The app has been completely rebuilt. It opens in an instant, pages glide under your finger, and your whole journal fits in your pocket. Your memories on your home screen The Memories widget brings back an entry you wrote on this day in a past year. The Live journal widget draws the sky of your day and lets you add a note in one tap. Your journal on your wrist Diariste is also on Apple Watch. Add a note to your live journal in a second: dictate it or record a voice note, without reaching for your phone. Your day's dial fills up as the hours go by, and today's memory is one turn of the crown away. (Live journal is a Premium feature.) Meet Lumi Lumi is your caring writing companion. When the words won't come, you talk to Lumi. He listens without ever judging, and can turn your conversation into an entry you keep in your journal. Write your way Text, photos, audio, videos, mood of the day, keywords, fonts and colors. And if you don't feel like typing, voice dictation turns your voice into text you can read over and edit. A journal for every chapter of your life Create as many journals as you like: daily life, pregnancy, travel, reading, gratitude, childhood memories... each with its own atmosphere. Look back on your year Statistics, calendar, moods over the months: Diariste turns your entries into a gentle overview of how you've grown. Never judgmental, always to help you understand yourself better. Coming from another app? Import your journal from Day One, Daylio, Journey or a Markdown file. Your whole history comes with you. Your privacy first Your entries are private by default. Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID, turn on two-factor authentication, and see at a glance which devices are signed in to your account. With a legacy contact, you choose who will receive your journal when you're gone. Easy on the eyes at night Dark mode rests your eyes when you write late, and discreet mode keeps your journal away from prying eyes. A real community Discover, share and connect with other journal writers, anonymously or not, and take on the monthly writing challenges. And one day, a real book Whenever you like, turn a year of entries into a beautiful printed and bound book. Something to keep, to give, to pass on. Diariste is free. Go Premium for unlimited writing, multimedia, multiple journals, Lumi and time capsules. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Ember is a diary for the things you wouldn't say out loud yet. The day you almost quit. The walk that fixed you. The sentence your mother said in 2007 that you still think about. It's not a notebook for productivity or a journal for habits. It's a place to write the way you'd write to yourself at three in the morning, when nobody is watching and the sentences don't have to be good. The page is plain on purpose. Fraunces or Lora for the writing, set at a size that doesn't make you squint. A title field that doesn't ask much. A small line for the weather, the mood, the song that was playing. Voice memos when typing feels like too much. Photos when a photo says it faster. A drawing layer for the days a doodle is the whole entry. Each morning, one prompt, if you want one. Ignore it if you don't. Everything you write stays on this iPhone, encrypted with AES-GCM the moment you tap save. There is no Ember server. No account to make. No analytics looking over your shoulder. We couldn't read your entries if we tried — we built it that way on purpose. Ember is free to download with everything unlocked. One small banner supports development — remove it anytime with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, no auto-renewal, no popups asking you to upgrade in eighteen months. Export to Markdown or PDF whenever you like, and take what you wrote with you. The diary is yours; we're just the room it sits in. Write something today. Even one line.