Day One is the rare app that lives up to its hype. The award-winning app’s simplicity and elegance has made it the standard to which all other journal apps are compared. Day One’s best feature may be that it’s so easy and pleasant to use that you actually want to use it. The app has negligible load time, a clean interface, and nearly every feature you would want, such as: the ability to create multiple entries on the same day, style and font choices, optional passcodes and reminders, auto-addition of location and weather data, photos, tags, searching, and exporting all or some entries to PDF. In fact, the developers of Day One add features so often that it’s quite possible that the few features currently lacking (e.g., multiple journals and connections to social networks) will be added by the time you read this. Day One also sets itself apart with its effortless syncing via iCloud that works nearly error-free between iOS devices and the companion Mac app.
Day One (Journal / Diary)
After testing nearly two dozen journaling apps for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and the web, these are the top journaling apps we'd recommend to record your memories this year and in years to come. What Makes a Good Journaling App. A paper notebook and pen are fine for journaling, but apps offer more.
Day One is the rare app that lives up to its hype. The award-winning app’s simplicity and elegance has made it the standard to which all other journal apps are compared. Day One’s best feature may be that it’s so easy and pleasant to use that you actually want to use it. The app has negligible load time, a clean interface, and nearly every feature you would want, such as: the ability to create multiple entries on the same day, style and font choices, optional passcodes and reminders, auto-addition of location and weather data, photos, tags, searching, and exporting all or some entries to PDF. In fact, the developers of Day One add features so often that it’s quite possible that the few features currently lacking (e.g., multiple journals and connections to social networks) will be added by the time you read this. Day One also sets itself apart with its effortless syncing via iCloud that works nearly error-free between iOS devices and the companion Mac app.
Everyday Timeline: Personal Journal/Diary with Calendar/Maps/Evernote/Dropbox
Even though it lacks the polish of Day One, Everyday Timeline is a great free option with some features that might make it worth using in addition to some of the other more prestigious apps on this list. Specifically, Everyday Timeline can automatically import your data— including past data— from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Foursquare as separate entries on your timeline. As the name suggests, Everyday Timeline displays your entries on a chronological feed that is sorted by date and time. The app supports tags, multiple entries each day, as well as adding photos, location information, and your mood to entries. Everyday Timeline has virtually no learning curve, gives you statistics about your postings, and can be configured to backup weekly to Dropbox, Evernote, or email, add a passcode lock, reminders, and offer you a daily question. It’s important to note that Everyday Timeline requires users to create an account before using the app, which means that your entries are synced to their website and accessible via any web browser, but all entries are private by default.
Chronicle - Journal and Writing Notebooks
Chronicle is the successor to the still-popular Chronicle for iPad, and in many ways it has already eclipsed its predecessor. Specifically, Chronicle is a universal app that syncs via iCloud and can be linked to Dropbox to automatically back up each day. The app also supports multiple journals, multiple entries for a given day, Markdown formatting, search, a passcode, reminders, and an extended keyboard. The interface is simple but somehow still a bit confusing to navigate quickly. Aside from some iCloud-related hiccups the developer is investigating, Chronicle’s one clear lack is the ability to export all of your entries as a text file or PDF.
OnePAD Pocket Notebook
For simplicity, you can’t do better than OnePAD. The app eschews files, folders, and interfaces to put the focus on the writing. To that end, OnePAD opens quickly to the page with today’s date, so that you can start capturing your thoughts, notes, and diary entries. The app syncs via iCloud, can export your entire journal as a text file, and supports searching and editing notes.
myMemoir
At first glance, My Memoir doesn’t seem impressive enough to challenge the top apps, but it has one killer feature that sets it apart: the ability to export journals as ePub, PDF, or Text files. This flexible export function means that anything you write in MyMemoir should be readable by you and others years later, and importable into another application should the developers abandon MyMemoir. MyMemoir’s spartan interface and lack of full retina optimization, however, may render it unpalatable to those accustomed to more stylish iOS apps. In terms of features, MyMemoir supports multiple journals, adding video files and three photos to each entry, and the ability to buy additional themes as in-app purchases.
Remembary Connected Diary
Remembary was clearly designed with social media power users in mind. The app can automatically import all sorts of content as part of your daily entries, including tweets, Facebook updates, images from your camera roll and photo stream, iCal events, and up to five RSS feeds directly. However, instead of adding the data directly into your daily entry, it is placed on a clickable icon on the side. This makes it difficult to see the data when flipping through entries. Remembary also nods to the past with its skeuomorphic design and font, which some may like and others may hate. The app has multiple export options, including formatting entries as data or text, and whether to export to iPad, email, or Dropbox. Remembary does have some notable flaws: it doesn’t support automatic syncing between iPhone and iPads or adding photos to entries manually.
Moleskine Journal
Moleskine has been a premiere maker of high end physical journals and notebooks for many years, and their app is a promising start to their digital expansion. The app is only partially successful in translating the analog experience to the digital, but the failure is mostly in execution rather than design. The app is slow, prone to crashing, and has some odd flaws, such as the fact that the text isn’t properly aligned to the lines on the paper and the exclusive use of gestures for navigation. Moleskine does have some great features that set it apart from other apps; specifically, the app supports handwriting as well as text entry, has paintbrush, highlighting, and color options, and allows users to create multiple notebooks with different “paper styles” or templates such as storyboards, weekly planners, and recipes. If the execution problems are corrected, Moleskine could easily become a top app in this category.
MacJournal for iPad
MacJournal is one of the most popular and oldest journaling apps for Mac, but the iPad version is somewhat lacking in comparison with the others in the list. The app’s interface is clean and polished, and it has most of the essential journaling features and can even send your entries to a blog. However, MacJournal has been known to have numerous syncing issues, especially when you make the considerable investment and purchase the iPad, iPhone, and Mac apps.
My Wonderful Days : Daily Journal/Diary
My Wonderful Days is an attractive app that has many great features, including iCloud sync, PDF export, reminders, and a mood rating system. However, these features are implemented oddly, and somehow combine to make the app less usable than that list of features would suggest. The interface is clean but not intuitive enough, so it’s possible to get frustrated using it.
Quiller
Quiller incorporates the rich features of the best digital journals without compromising its skeuomorphic design. The app displays your journals as books on a wooden shelf, and the pages of the journal aren’t white or lined— they have slightly dimmed flowers! Quiller also sets itself apart in its inclusion of prompts and quotes (some of which are submitted by users) to jumpstart your entries. It supports search, exporting as text or PDF, adding photos and tags to entries, and can show you statistics about your journal and writing habits. To be truly excellent, Quiller needs to add links to one or more cloud services, preferably with syncing, and make it much harder to accidentally delete notes or whole journals.
The Dream Log — A Diary For Dreaming
The Dream Log is very stylized, so much so that people are likely to love it or hate it nearly immediately. The app has a Steampunk-style design, and uses colored themes that even tint the keyboard. Although The Dream Log looks quite beautiful, its design may not make it something you want to incorporate into your daily workflow. In terms of utility, The Dream Log can export to a website, back up your journal, search the Internet from within the app (to interpret your dreams), and has a robust passcode and alarm system. The Dream Log seems more concerned with creating an atmosphere than specific features, and it succeeds.
Great apps for your Mac. Right there on your Mac.
The Mac App Store makes it easy to find and download Mac apps as well as widgets and extensions — like editing extensions for the new Photos app. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music and more. Or do a quick search for something specific. Read descriptions and customer reviews. Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it. The Mac App Store has apps for just about everything and everyone. Here are a few of our favourites.
Pages
Create beautiful documents, letters, flyers, invitations and more.
View in Mac App Store
Numbers
Make eye-catching spreadsheets and charts in just a few clicks.
View in Mac App Store
Keynote
Put together a presentation with captivating graphics and transitions.
View in Mac App Store
iBooks Author
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Create stunning Multi-Touch books for iPad and Mac.
View in Mac App Store
Final Cut Pro X
Bring your film to life using revolutionary video editing software.
View in Mac App Store
Logic Pro X
Turn your Mac into a complete professional recording studio.
View in Mac App Store
Wunderlist
Manage and share your to‑do lists across all your devices. View in Mac App Store
Evernote
Take notes, save web pages, create lists, attach images and PDFs, and more. View in Mac App Store
Cobook Contacts
Find, organise and keep your contacts up to date in even easier ways. View in Mac App Store
Things
Keep track of to-dos, deadlines and projects with this task manager app. View in Mac App Store
Notability
Annotate documents, record lectures and take notes with this all-in-one app. View in Mac App Store
Autodesk SketchBook
Take your ideas further with a complete set of digital drawing tools.View in Mac App Store
Day One
Keep a journal that sends reminders and looks great in day or month view. View in Mac App Store
Pocket
See something you like? Save interesting articles, videos and web pages for later. View in Mac App Store
The Photo Cookbook
Follow over 240 easy‑to‑prepare recipes picture by picture. View in Mac App Store
Kuvva Wallpapers
Choose specially curated wallpapers from a new artist each week. View in Mac App Store
Tonality Splice app for mac.
Create inspiring black-and-white images on your Mac.View in Mac App Store
swackett
Get visual weather reports that turn complex data into fun infographics. View in Mac App Store
Sky Gamblers Cold War
Rule the action-packed skies in over a dozen different aeroplanes. View in Mac App Store
Sparkle 2
This easy-to-play but enthralling game makes the most of the Retina display. View in Mac App Store
Bike Baron
Beat hundreds of challenges as you master over 100 different bike tracks. View in Mac App Store
Civilization V: Campaign Edition
Build and defend the most powerful empire the world has ever known. View in Mac App Store
Galaxy On Fire 2™ Full HD
Battle your way through a 3D war-torn galaxy against an alien armada. View in Mac App Store
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Build a city from the ground up and manage your metropolis in every way. View in Mac App Store
Money
Set a budget, schedule payments and track investments — all in one app. View in Mac App Store
MoneyWiz – Personal Finance
View all your accounts, transactions, budgets and bills in one secure place. View in Mac App Store
iBank
Manage your money with this fully featured, intuitive personal finance app. View in Mac App Store
Next - Track your expenses and finances
See your expenses by year, month or day, and take control of your finances. View in Mac App Store
Investoscope
Monitor your portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and more. View in Mac App Store
StockTouch
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Keep track of the market in a whole new way. View in Mac App Store
djay
Mix songs from your iTunes library and spin live on a digital turntable. View in Mac App Store
Sound Studio
Record, edit and produce digital audio. Create your own mixes and add effects. View in Mac App Store
Shazam
Like what you hear? Identify a song at a moment’s notice. Then share it or buy it. View in Mac App Store
Tabular
Read and write tablature notation for guitar, bass, drums and more. View in Mac App Store
AmpKit
Turn your Mac into a powerful guitar amp and effects studio. View in Mac App Store
Sound Forge 2
Record, edit, process and render high-resolution audio files. View in Mac App Store
Install any app with ease.
The Mac App Store revolutionises the way apps are installed on a computer — it happens in one step. Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy apps and music on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or iPod touch. Within seconds, your new app flies to Launchpad, ready to go. So you can spend more time enjoying new apps and less time installing them.
Keep your apps up to date.
Since developers are constantly improving their apps, the Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when an update is available — including OS X software updates. Update one app at a time or all of them at once, for free. You can even have your apps and OS X update automatically, so you’ll always have the latest version of every app you own.
Journaling Apps For Mac DesktopThe app you need. When you need it.
Can’t open a file you’ve downloaded or received in an email? OS X can search the Mac App Store to find the app that can open the file. Buy what you need instantly and get back to business.
Buy, download and even re-download.
You can install apps on every Mac authorised for your personal use, and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own.
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