An iPad is the closest thing to a paper notebook that also remembers everything. Diarly is a private journal and diary app that works with Apple Pencil, a keyboard, or with your fingers on the sofa.
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Write in the editor with Apple Pencil and Scribble turns your handwriting into text as you go. Or open the drawing pad and keep the page handwritten, with a sketch beside your words.
Handwritten pages stay in the entry next to your typed text. With Premium, search also finds the words inside your sketches.
The sidebar, entry list, and main page sit side by side. Tap a day on the calendar and read it without leaving what you were doing.
Attach a keyboard and use shortcuts for formatting, search and moving around. Hold ⌘ to see them. Format with Markdown, or hide everything but the page in focus mode.
Browse a whole summer in the gallery, find a trip on the map, and let On This Day bring back the same date from earlier years.
Catch a photo or a quick line on your phone during the day. With Premium, it syncs through your own iCloud and is waiting on your iPad in the evening.
One Premium subscription covers iPad, iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch. No iPhone? Diarly works fully on an iPad by itself.
“This app is exactly what I was looking for in a diary app. I was wanting something to use my iPad + Apple Pencil to write my thoughts out and this works perfectly.”“Finally! A journaling app that lets me handwrite as well.”“I haven’t used a diary app as good as this. The design is amazing, the sync is perfect, I’ve used it on my phone, Mac and iPad.”Yes. Keep one journal with unlimited entries and photos, sketches, templates, mood tracking, and a password lock. Premium adds iCloud sync, entry-text encryption, multiple journals, and more. Compare Free and Premium.
Yes. Scribble turns your handwriting into typed text in the editor, and the drawing pad lets you keep handwritten pages and sketches on blank, dotted, lined or grid paper. Using Apple Pencil in Diarly.
Yes. Diarly supports hardware keyboards, with shortcuts for formatting, search and moving around. Hold the Command key to see the list. See the keyboard shortcuts.
Yes, with Premium. Your journal syncs through your own iCloud account, and one subscription covers iPad, iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch. How sync works.
Yes, for free. Set a password in Diarly, then unlock with Face ID or Touch ID on supported iPads. Premium adds optional encryption for your entry text.
Yes. Your journal is stored on your iPad and works without an internet connection.
Open Diarly on your iPad. Type a few lines, or write them by hand.
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