Cozy Journal vs Daykeep

A private journal that stays yours. Cozy is local first: nothing is synced to a server, and nothing is fed to AI. Your words stay right on your device, in your own files, yours to keep or share however you like. Cozy is free to download, so you can open it up and look around first. Writing is what the one-time purchase unlocks: pay once, and it's yours for good. No subscription, no account, nothing to cancel. WHY COZY Your files, on your device Nothing is stored on a mystery cloud. Every entry is a file of your own, the kind any app can open, sitting where you put it. Your thoughts, experiences and writing live right where you write them, and they're yours forever. Nothing fed to an AI Your private writing shouldn't be used to train anything. Nothing you write in Cozy is scraped, read, or sent off to an algorithm. No AI, simple as that. Your words are yours What you write belongs to you. Maybe you're working through a rough day, maybe you're just keeping track of life as it happens. Either way, you stay in charge: keep your entries to yourself, or export and share them whenever you like. WHAT YOU CAN DO More than text Add a photo or several, a voice note, or a video. Drop in whatever made your day so you can find it again later. Make it yours Tag your entries, mark where you were, or build your own trackers for any habit or mood you want to follow. Cozy bends to the way you like to journal. Different ways to look back See your entries laid out on a calendar, or pinned to the places you wrote them. However you remember, Cozy helps you find your way back. Write in any language Your journal speaks whatever language you do. Write in Japanese, Arabic, or Spanish, mix a few in one entry, and the languages that read right to left flow that way on their own. SYNC THROUGH ICLOUD There's no Cozy server, so there's nothing to sign into. Keep your journal in the Cozy folder in iCloud Drive and the same journal opens on your iPhone and your iPad, and on Cozy for Mac and Windows too. Entries download on their own as you open them. ALREADY MOVED IN FROM ANOTHER APP? If you brought your old entries over from Notion, Day One, Obsidian or Bear, they reach your iPhone the same way every journal does, through iCloud. Your whole history comes with you. ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Unlock Cozy once and it stays unlocked. No monthly fee, no account, no ads, and nothing to cancel. It restores on any device signed in to the same Apple Account.

Daykeep is a private journal for the days worth keeping — your words and your photos, together, on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. There's no account to create and nothing to sign up for. If you use iCloud, your journals sync quietly across your own devices and stay in your private iCloud — yours alone. And there's no subscription: Daykeep is free to use, with a single one-off unlock if you ever want more. WRITE THE WAY THE DAY HAPPENED An entry is built from blocks — a paragraph, a photo, a few more words — kept in the order you wrote them, so your pictures sit exactly where they belong in the story. Add a title, or let the date stand in. PHOTOS, WITHOUT LIMITS Add as many photos to an entry as you like. Give any of them a caption, choose a key photo for the day, and set a cover for each journal. Daykeep can read the date, place and weather from a photo to fill the entry in for you, and it keeps a sensible, print-friendly copy so a long journal never balloons in size. KEEP SEPARATE JOURNALS A trip, the family, a private one — each journal has its own name, colour and cover. Pin your favourites to the top. FIND YOUR WAY BACK • On This Day — see what you wrote on this date in years past • Search everything you've written • Browse by tag, or jump to any date • Link entries together and follow the thread • Set a gentle daily reminder to write, if you'd like one COMING FROM DAY ONE Bring your Day One journal straight in — export it as a zip and import in a tap. Your entries, photos, dates, places and weather come across, and your original is left untouched. MAKE A BOOK Turn a journal into a readable book and print it or save it as a PDF, right from Daykeep. Want something more designed? Export to Mosaic Collage Maker and pour your journal into a designed photo book. SHARE A MOMENT Share a single entry as a designed card — the photo the hero, a taste of your words — to Messages, Instagram, WhatsApp or wherever you like. SAFE AND YOURS Back up a journal whenever you like, and recover it if you ever need to. Lock the app behind Face ID or Touch ID for an extra door. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No server of ours. No adverts, no analytics, no tracking. Your journal lives on your devices and in your own iCloud, and we can't read it. DAYKEEP PLUS Journaling, unlimited photos, iCloud sync and backup are always free. One optional, one-off Daykeep Plus purchase — never a subscription — removes the two-journal limit, prints books and PDFs without a watermark, and lets you split and combine journals to reorganise your writing.