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Your personal diary, private by default.
Write about your day, add a mood, photos or a voice note, and look back on a calendar. Your entries stay on your phone unless you turn on sync or a backup.
Free, with no ads
PIN lock and optional end-to-end encryption
Optional on-device AI that works offline
20 languages, 250+ colors, light and dark themes
New Planner Feature
Make space for habits and tasks.
Planner brings the routines you want to keep and the things you need to do into one calm place in the mobile app.
Build a rhythm that fits
Repeat habits daily or on your own schedule, anchor them to moments such as After lunch, and follow your streaks and history.
Give every task the right horizon
Choose a date and time, add an exact reminder or leave a task in Someday. Once complete, it can become a prompt for a journal entry.
Habits and goals are free and unlimited in the app. Plus syncs Planner across your devices and brings your habits to the web, where you can check off today's.
Today
Tap a row to check it off. It's only a sample, so nothing is saved.
New in the app
Write for others, or for future you
Nothing becomes public or gets sent unless you choose to.
Letter to your future self
Choose when it reaches you by email: in 3 or 6 months, or up to 2 years later with Plus. You can edit it for a day; after three days it stays sealed until it arrives.
Write one on the web
Wellness
A quieter way to pause and reflect.
In the mobile app, Wellness brings guided journaling and paced breathing together without turning either into a score.
Follow a path, at your pace
Browse paths by theme and intensity, answer one question at a time, and resume progress saved with your diary days.
Make room for a calmer rhythm
Follow visual, spoken, or sound-guided pacing, choose your cycles, and keep the countdown when reduced motion is on.
Wellness is in the mobile app. Eight complete Self-help Paths and all six breathing patterns are free; Plus expands the paths and adds the guided body scan and progressive muscle relaxation.
Wellness
On device
Resume
Guided paths
Gentle · Moderate · Deep
3 of 7 questions
6 free patterns
Calm breathing
Breathe out
4 seconds
A closer look
Everything you need to write your days.
Tap through what Inner Journal can do - each feature, on a real screen from the app.
See all your diaries together in a single monthly view, and jump straight to any day.
One app, many diaries
A diary for every part of life.
Keep separate diaries, each with its own look and lock - travel, gratitude, work, dreams, and whatever else matters to you. Switch between them in a tap.
Travel
Gratitude
Work
Dreams
Fitness
Ideas
Recipes
Reading
many more
Built for everyday use
A gentler way to look at your week.
Small habits, shown plainly. A few minutes a day in Inner Journal add up to weeks you can look back on.
Capture today before it fades
Words, photos, voice memos, and a mood - all in one entry that takes a minute to write.
See the patterns
A clean visualization of your mood and writing rhythm, with recaps by month and a writing style card you can share.
On this day, last year
A kind reminder of who you were on the same day a year ago. Watch yourself grow.
A lock just for you
Protect everything with a PIN, biometrics, and optional end-to-end encryption.
Yours forever
Back up locally, sync to the cloud, or export to Excel and PDF. Your diary stays yours - in any format you need.
Make it yours
Tune every pixel until it feels like yours.
Pick a primary color from over 250 hues. Swap fonts. Rearrange your diary list. Light or dark. List, grid, icons or books. With Plus, a Glass, 3D or Paper style and a color and font for each diary. 20 languages. Every surface bends to your taste - and syncs across your devices. In the app you can even choose where each item sits in the day editor.
Color themes
Fonts
Last 7 days
Day cards
Calendar
One of the deepest customization menus in a diary app.
Optional AI
AI on your device or in your chat app
Inner Journal runs its AI fully on your device - generating overviews, answering questions about your month, and suggesting moods. Your entries are not uploaded for it. You can also connect an AI chat app: it only reads your synced entries, and only after you approve it.
Month overview
Get a short, honest summary of how your month felt - built from your own entries, generated on your phone.
Ask your month
"What did I write about my brother?" Free-form questions, answered from your own pages - never the cloud.
Mood, suggested
When you close a day, the AI proposes a mood tag from what you wrote. You always decide.
It can also take dictation straight into an entry, rewrite a day when you ask it to, and write the month overview on its own once a month ends. The rewrite and the overview run on your device, and nothing is uploaded. Dictation is on-device by default; an optional real-time mode uses the phone's own speech recognition, so whether audio stays on the device depends on the mode you choose and what your device supports.
Journal in your AI chat app
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or another app that supports MCP, then ask about your synced entries in your own words. You approve each connection and can revoke it at any time.
The app you connect receives what it reads
Connect your AI appTry asking
Summarize my entries from last week.
Works with
- Claude
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Any MCP client
* AI model download required. Device with 6GB+ RAM recommended. Available on Android devices that support on-device AI, and on iOS 26+ with Apple Intelligence enabled.
One account, every screen
Write on your phone, continue in your browser
Inner Journal keeps your diaries in sync. Start a day in the app and finish it on the web - it's the same journal on both sides.
Your phone
Same account
This website
Write on either side
Days you write here appear in the app, and days written on your phone appear here.
Updates while you watch
The web listens for changes as they happen, so a day saved on your phone shows up without a reload.
Encryption comes along
Optional end-to-end encryption is available on Free and Plus. Encrypted diaries stay encrypted in the cloud. Enter your passphrase to read them here - it never leaves your browser.
Your look follows you
Theme color, day card style, calendar layout - change them on either side and both match.
Free accounts sync 2 diaries of your choice and Plus syncs all of them. Diaries you keep off the cloud stay on your phone.
Your fortress
Written by you. Read by you.
Turn on end-to-end encryption and your diary text and media are encrypted with a passphrase only you know. Some metadata stays cleartext so we can honor delete requests and keep your backups recoverable.
Offline AI Assistant
Ask questions about your month, generated on your device. Mood insights and prompts run locally - your entries are not uploaded for them.
End-to-end encryption
Optional, opt-in passphrase mode. Your diary text and media are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it.
With a passphrase, only you can read them
We can store your encrypted backups, but we cannot read them - and we cannot recover them if you forget the passphrase. Date, mood, and tag metadata stay cleartext so we can process deletions. Location coordinates of days and photos, and a photo's capture time, stay cleartext too. Only a day's place name is encrypted.
No ads, no ad tracking
We don't sell your data or build ad profiles. The only person profiting from your thoughts is you.
Simple pricing
Free forever. Plus when you're ready.
Start free and stay free as long as you like. Free syncs up to 2 chosen diaries; Plus expands sync to all your diaries and adds richer entries - choose monthly or yearly. The yearly plan can start with a free trial for new subscribers where your store offers one, and you can cancel anytime. The app offers a reminder 2 days before the trial ends, so nothing is charged by surprise.
Free
Everything you need to start.
- Unlimited diaries and entries
- Local backups & Google Drive backup
- Daily mood, vote & favorite
- Day Emoji - a mood emoji for every day
- Formatting toolbar: bold, italic, headings & quotes
- Offline AI Assistant: overview of your month, ask questions & automatic mood
- Offline AI: dictation, rewrite a day & automatic month overview
- PDF & Excel exports
- PIN & biometric lock
- Full visual customization (themes, fonts, hues)
Plus
Best valueEverything in Free, plus:
Starting from ~$1.67/mo- Cloud sync for all your diaries
- Day Blocks - paragraphs, lists, and dividers in one entry
- Day Tags for richer calendars
- Home Calendar across all your diaries
- Rich editor: live preview, tables, links & custom heading levels
- Change app style (Glass, 3D, Paper)
- Paper and 3D day cards
- A color and a font for each diary
- Attach a song to your day (Spotify & Apple Music)
- Alternate app icons
- More Wellness paths, body scan & progressive muscle relaxation
- Letters to your future self up to 2 years ahead
- Day location, Memories map
MonthlyYearly · save over 40%
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything you might want to know about Inner Journal before you start writing.
From the blog
Guides, prompts and notes on how the app is made. Useful even if you write on paper.
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