Apple Journal

What Apple Journal is

Apple Journal is a free journaling app for reflecting on everyday moments and special events. Entries can combine text with photos, videos, audio recordings, places, drawings, and a recorded state of mind. On-device intelligence groups moments such as outings, workouts, photos, and media to suggest ideas for entries; reflection prompts and scheduled notifications can support a writing routine. Users can create multiple journals, search and sort entries, browse a calendar, and view entries by location. Writing tools include text formatting, inline attachments, drawings, and audio recording with transcription. Apple says transcription is available in English except for Singapore and India locales. Users can record their state of mind and save it to Health, while writing time can be saved as Mindful Minutes. Suggestions are processed on device, and users choose which suggested moments to share with journaling apps. With a device passcode, entries are encrypted; entries stored in iCloud are end-to-end encrypted when default two-factor authentication and a passcode are enabled. With iCloud sync on, entries sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but are not included in iCloud backups.