Diarly for Mac
Personal private note-taking application.
Free
In English
Version 2.5.11When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Diarly overview
Diarly is a journal, diary and notes app available for Mac. It allows you to track personal milestones, record fun moments, and hone your writing skills.
Features:
- Import entries from other journaling apps to make Diarly your new home
- Add your own images, drawings, emoji's, heading labels and website links
- Sort your ideas with bullet points, line separators, symbols, and highlighted text
- Keep your important files in one place by importing them directly into your entries
- Jump between past entries with ease using the Calendar tool
- Use Time Separators to create a distinction between multiple daily entries
- Filter and find your ideas with your own hashtags, lists or tags
- Locate untagged thoughts in a list using the handy Word Finder tool
- Customize and resize the font to suit your needs and save to favorites
- Access a light or a dark theme (upgrade to Premium for access to 100+ themes!)
- Pinpoint your memories by location with Map View
- Track your daily writing goals with word and character counts and targets
- Check off your accomplished goals with useful Checklists
- Export to Markdown for minimalist writing without formatting
- Create thought-cue templates to kickstart your writing entries or use or pre-sets
- Play embedded movies and audio-notes
- Use the automatic weather and location feature in your template
- Customize the built-in spelling and grammar checker to your preferences
- Dictate your written entries for quick, handsfree journaling
Premium Features:
- Secure your ideas with encryption and password protection.
- Access your notes on multiple devices, with seamless, secure sync via iCloud.
- Personalize your journaling experience with over 100 beautiful custom themes.
- Create and import your own design themes (tutorial available)
- Create and categorize unlimited journals that open in separate interfaces.
- View statistics on your writing achievements over the last 90 days or more.
- Export your journal to PDF, RichText or Print it
What’s new in version 2.5.11
- You can now add captions below images (Click on ... menu and select "Add caption")
- PDF exporter lets you choose image size
- You can disable AI Assistant (Chat GPT)
Diarly for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.5.11
What users say about Diarly
Value: 4.0
I've tried over a dozen journaling apps and have yet to find one that fits all my criteria, but Diarly comes closest. It has the simplest, clearest, cleanest UI (with some exceptions below). I like the ability to use a template, import from the calendar, have multiple journals and reminders, attach audio and other files, and CMD+N for creating time stamps within the same day. I *LOVE* the option of having any entry before 02:00 be considered part of the previous day (night owl), and really like the ability to pin an emoji to each day for at-a-glance of how the day went. The autocompletion of tags is a must-have, and Diarly has it. But there's room for improvement: • The UI is inconsistent — Tags/Filters, Timeline, Notes and Calendar should all be tabs in the sidebar instead of being accessed by different methods • There's no tag manager, so it's impossible to edit all occurrences of a tag, or even quickly select one • There's no #nested/tags • Tags don't stand out enough from the body text • Tags have to be manually cleared after selecting them from the Filter (would prefer Bear.app-like tags) • Lots of features have no keyboard shortcuts (Timeline, Notes, Filter) • Cannot make Formatting toolbar permanent (appears only when text is selected) • Cannot resize photos I'm going to keep using this app and hope for these improvements because there's nothing else out there I like nearly as much as Diarly.
Customer support: 5.0
This is a *required* field in MacUpdate's new Review format, even though *not everyone has had a reason to contact customer support for every app!* Since I was forced to rate customer support that I haven't received, I gave them 5 start so I don't sell them short, but I have NOT contact support for this app.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 4.0
Features | 4.0
Reliability | 5.0
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May 24 2021
Version: 2.1.2
This is a great free app. I've tried many different similar apps, but it's easy to use, looks nice, and doesn't require a lot of resources.
Aug 1 2020
Version: 1.4.13
"Note: This application contains in-app and/or external module purchases."
Then it's NOT free then, is it?
Jul 11 2020
Version: 1.4.12
This is a great journalling app that continues to get more refined with each release. I was a long time user of viJournal before it got discontinued, and I think I like Diarly even better than viJournal. For those people complaining of subscriptions, there is also the option of a one time purchase. I chose the subscription model because this app is so good I want to continue supporting it going forward.
Jun 15 2020
Version: 1.4.9
give me shout the day entries can (also) be deleted and the app doesn't create a new one at every launch.
or... these are premium only feature? :rolleyes:
