OwnJournal

OwnJournal – Your private journal, protected in your cloud OwnJournal is a privacy-first journal app built on a simple idea: your data belongs to you. We don't store your journal on our servers. You choose where it's stored. 📌 What's free • Write and edit entries • Track your mood with an emoji picker (great, good, okay, poor, terrible) • Tag activities — exercise, social, work, meditation and more • Mood calendar heatmap & statistics (distribution, trends, streaks) • Attach photos to your entries • Save and sync to your own cloud (Google Drive, Dropbox, Nextcloud) • End-to-end encryption (optional) • Use and sync across phones, tablets, and PCs • Available in 21 languages • Open source (AGPL-3.0) • No ads Only Plus is paid (AI analysis, PDF/Word export, activity insights). Start with a 14-day free trial. Writing, syncing, mood tracking, and encryption are always free. ☁️ Stored in your own cloud Your journal lives in your cloud account. • Google Drive • Dropbox • Nextcloud It is not stored on OwnJournal's servers. So you get: • Full control over your data • Seamless sync across phone, tablet, and PC • Access from any device • No lock-in to a single service Your cloud. Your control. 🔒 End-to-end encryption (optional) With E2E encryption turned on: • Entries are encrypted on your device • Only you hold the keys • We can't read your journal • Your cloud provider can't read it either With zero-knowledge design (we don't hold keys), your journal stays entirely under your control. 📊 Mood & activity tracking Keep track of how you're feeling and what you did: • 5-level emoji mood picker on every entry • Tag activities like exercise, social, work, reading, meditation • Mood calendar — a month-at-a-glance heatmap colored by your daily mood • Mood statistics — charts showing distribution, trends over time, best/worst days, and streaks • Filter your timeline by mood, activity, or tag to spot patterns Perfect as a minimalist mood tracker or a full journal — use as much or as little as you want. 🧘 Simple, focused design • No social features • No followers • No public posts • No ads Just a quiet place to write. 🔄 Use it on any device Because everything is in your cloud: • Write on your phone • Continue on your tablet • Read back on your PC Everything syncs automatically. You're not tied to one device. ✨ OwnJournal Plus (optional) Try Plus free for 14 days. Plus adds: • Smart AI analysis – mood, emotions, and themes in your entries • AI title and tag suggestions (now also suggests activities from your content) • Activity Insights – discover which activities correlate with better or worse moods • Mood and trend insights – see patterns over time • Export to PDF and Word AI only runs when you explicitly use it. The text you send is processed by third-party AI services (Google Gemini or OpenAI), but we don't store it on our servers. Plus is optional – the core journal works fully without it. 🔐 Minimal data collection We collect only what's needed: • Email for sign-in • Display name if provided by your sign-in provider • Anonymous diagnostics to improve stability 🔓 Open source OwnJournal is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. You can inspect the code, verify our privacy claims, and see exactly how your data is handled. No black boxes. 📔 OwnJournal is for anyone who wants: • A journal app that respects privacy • Their data in their own cloud • A minimalist mood tracker or a full journal — your choice • Sync across all devices • AI when they want it, not forced on them • No ads or social noise • A journal they can trust for the long term Your thoughts and records stay yours.