Diarly feature roadmap

• EPUB export. Export your journal as an ebook to read in Apple Books or another EPUB reader. Included with Premium.
• Polaroid photo style. Give your photos a nostalgic instant-print look. Choose it in Settings → Editor & Styles.

• Search text in files & sketches. Search handwritten notes, sketches, and PDF attachments. Diarly now uses on-device OCR to read text inside your files, making searching for attachments and sketches much easier.

• Diarly now supports landscape mode on iPhone, making it easier to write and review your journal entries.
• Deleted entries are now kept for 30 days, giving you time to restore important memories if needed.
• Improved notifications: On This Day notifications can now include an image, and you can select multiple journals to feature in your daily memories.

Better speech recognition.

• Enjoy improved speech-to-text and smoother voice journaling.
• Premium transcription now uses Apple’s latest on-device model on iOS 26 and macOS 26, while AI+ transcription offers improved accuracy and language detection.

• Custom backgrounds now work in more places, including Timeline and Calendar.
• You can also adjust the app text size and choose a font that feels more comfortable to read every day.

Insights

We’ve completely rebuilt the Stats and renamed it Insights.

• Personalize Today and Journal views with new gradient backgrounds.
• Insights securely looks at your words, tags, moods, and saved health data to surface trends and connections you might otherwise miss, all while keeping your data strictly private.

Rebuilt for Mac

Diarly for macOS has been rebuilt from the ground up for macOS 26, featuring native glass effects and a UI designed to feel truly at home on the platform. This release brings the Mac experience in line with iOS & iPadOS for a consistent, seamless experience across all your devices.

• Today View on Mac: Stay organized with the new Today View and a reorganized sidebar.
• Redesigned Journal Views: Now includes widgets and support for custom backgrounds.
• Integrated Activities: Activity, mindfulness, and sleep data now appear directly on your timeline.
• Expanded Shortcuts: More Shortcuts app actions and lock screen widgets for quick mood and entry logging.

The note creation screen has been completely revamped — photos, audio, and Apple’s Journaling Suggestions are all one tap away.

• Improved iPad navigation with faster access to today’s note
• Enhanced sketch tools with multiple grid styles and canvas size options
• New importer from 750words.com

Apple Journal importer

Now you can import your journals from Apple Journal, and 15 other platforms.

iPad redesign

Discover the Today Tab, Journal Tabs, Custom Backgrounds, and Liquid Glass, all available now on Diarly for iPad.

Liquid Glass support

Write with clarity. Diarly embraces Liquid Glass, designed to reflect your thoughts beautifully on iOS 26.

Journal backgrounds

Now you can add photo backgrounds to your home and journal pages. Select from Diarly’s favorites or choose your own!

Achievement icons

New special app icons are unlocked when you keep a journaling streak.

iPhone redesign & Today

We launched a complete redesign of Diarly for iPhone — with smoother navigation, a calmer interface, and a focus on making journaling feel even more intuitive. All while keeping the simplicity and beauty you already love.

• Today: Your new daily hub for quick access to entries, memories, quotes, and more
• Customizable journal pages: A fresh card-style layout that makes each journal uniquely yours
• Redesigned calendar: A cleaner view with inline photo previews for visual reflection

Expanded widget selection

We added two new widgets to enhance your experience:

• On this day: Displays the number of memories and photos from your past entries.
• Happy vibes: Quickly revisit moments tagged with positive moods to uplift your day.

Today’s photo gallery

The Today’s photo gallery feature lets you effortlessly add all photos from a specific day into Diarly with just one click. You can customize which photos are displayed, and the gallery view shows all photos from the selected day.

Photo space optimization

To save storage, media inserted from the Photos app is now linked rather than fully imported. When you open a photo or video, Diarly will locate and display it in full resolution.

Apple Health mood tracking

• Diarly now features Mood Tracking and Health App sync. Track your emotions alongside journal entries and gain insights into your well-being. Starting with iOS 18, your mood syncs with the Health App, offering deeper insights into your mental health.
• We’re also thrilled to share that the Apple Editorial Team has included Diarly in The Best Apps for iOS 18 category in several countries. 🎉

Mood tracker & stats

We enhanced our mood tracking by separating it from the current Badges system. While integration with Apple’s mood & emotion tracking is not possible at this time, we are focused on making the feature user-friendly and will explore potential integration with Apple Health in the future.

Improved Timeline look

We differentiate more clearly between entries for the same day and for different days in the Timeline, and improved the design of entry cells.

Multiple entries & prompts per day

Now Diarly supports creating as many entries as you want per day. To go along with this new capability, we’ve also added the ability to have multiple custom smart prompts to choose from.

Improvements & maintenance

• Enhanced Weather & Location import speed.
• Upgraded DayOne Importer with added support for location from Apple Journaling Suggestions and enhanced timezone management.
• We’ve given our icons a fresh, modern look!
• Bug fixes & incremental improvements

Quick find and Obsidian importer

Quickly locate specific text in your notes: highlight the text and tap “Find selection” or use the CMD-f shortcut on your iPad with a keyboard.

Journaling Suggestions integration

Apple Journaling Suggestions integration (iPhone only): Access personalized topic suggestions by tapping the magic pencil icon above your keyboard during entry editing.

• New feature for notes: ‘Change Date of Entry’ is now available in the … menu, allowing you to adjust dates for your entries easily.
• Enhanced support for Right-to-Left (RTL) languages
• Improved PDF/HTML export functionality: We’ve eliminated the extra space above images in PDF exports and now support table formatting in HTML exports.
• Upgraded Calendar importer: The color of your calendar is now visible in the configuration list, and we’ve enhanced the handling of multi-day events.

Historical weather and WordPress importer

• Seamlessly import your content with our new WordPress import feature.
• Get accurate historical weather information that matches the dates of your notes.
• Improved Editor: Experience smoother journaling with our refined numbered lists and markdown tables.

Improved Health integration

• Sleep Time: Automatically records your last night’s sleep duration.
• Menstrual Cycle Tracking: Logs period cycles seamlessly.

Introducing Widgets

• Quotes Widget: Display favorite quotes from selected journal on your screen.
• Streak Widget: Track and display your journaling streak.

Stats & trends view

Unlock deeper insights into your journaling habits with our revamped Stats. For more details, visit our Statistics guide.

UI & UX Improvements

• Improved Theme picker
• Markdown Editor displays attached SVGs as images
• Tap the journal badge at the top of the editor to easily switch between journals.
• Tap the title at the top to toggle between timeline and notes.
• For Mac users: Right-click selected text to turn it into a new note.

Gallery enhancements

Gain more control over your gallery with personalized navigation and month-based sections.

• Items in the gallery are now grouped by months, similar to the timeline.
• Easily hide images: long press on iOS or right-click on Mac.

New themes

Two additional themes are available in free version: Diarly Light, and Diarly Dark

UI revamp & new sidebar

We’ve put a lot of effort into refreshing Diarly just for you! Our latest update brings a stylish makeover, smoother navigation, and improved search.

Experience a fresh Diarly interface with an improved sidebar, elegant design, and enhanced color scheme.

Improved AI Assistant

With our new ‘bio’ feature, you can introduce yourself to the AI Assistant. This allows the Assistant to provide personalized suggestions. Check out our new $advice prompt, where the AI Assistant dishes out random advice for your day.

New Importer - Evernote: We’ve made it even easier to bring your Evernote content into our app. Seamlessly import your notes from Evernote, and continue your journaling journey with us.

Tables in editor

Enhance your entries and notes neatly with new tables, available directly in the editor.

Audio recording improvements

Elevate your entries with audio transcriptions and capture additional metadata like time and location.

Learn how to record, transcribe, and dictate entries and notes

Editor upgrades

Inserting a link is now more than just text — enjoy rich previews from websites, YouTube, and Twitter.

Enhanced images & attachments

Add captions to your images to make your journal entries both informative and meaningful.

Diarly was born 🐣

The initial code for a modern journaling app was written, setting the foundation for Diarly.