Notebook - Diary & Journal App

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.7 14307 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5One suggestion

   I’ve been using this app for three years. I’ve loved using it, but recently I’ve noticed a bug. I write in this notebook every day, and sometimes my entries are long. However, I like to keep all my entries in the same page, adding the dates myself. I’ve recently noticed that once I had written a very large amount on one page, the app started glitching. Every time I would try to write on said page, the app would glitch and close. I ended up just starting a new page, but the same thing happened to the new page. It is annoying as I just want to have all my entries from the year in the same page. I do not know if the app is just too overwhelmed, as I can still read the entire page, just not edit it. This app is wonderful, but I do not think at the moment it can handle extremely long entries.

   💙💚🎀 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Quick way to jot down important events… and find them again!

   I am really pleased with the ability to journal, backtrack to enter information for past dates, and physically flip through the pages to retrieve information. I do worry about the developer keeping the app current whenever there are iOS updates, because too many times I have embraced an app and put all of my information into it only to have it no longer work and losing everything! Otherwise it’s a solid app. A couple of suggestions for future updates: the ability to add photos or attachments to notebook entries would be awesome. I would also love the ability to maintain more than one “notebook” for different subjects to make it that much easier to refer back to relevant entries.

   Moonbobbie · 30 Aug 2026

3. 3/5Fine, but turns into a worse version of itself if you use it for free for long enough

   Tl;dr: I think this app is rigged to make the ads more annoying after you use it for half a year. I downloaded this app because it was the only one I could find that arranges your entries oldest to newest instead of vice versa like a social media feed. And its minimalistic approach is its greatest strength and weakness. (Sometimes I want to attach photos to an entry.) But one day, the app just switched up on me. Every time I opened it, the ad banner at the top of the screen would load for three seconds and then expand to take up 50% of the screen, so I can’t see what I’m typing until I click the little ‘shrink ad’ button in the corner. This change may have simply been added in an update… But it feels more like the app was programmed to wait until I was a long-time, stalwart user, before hitting me with bigger and better-paying ads, believing I’d be so hooked I would either put up with them, or shell out $5 to remove them. My greatest regret is not making a note of the exact day this happened, so now I have to guess based off of the slow decline of my journal-per-month rate: I downloaded this app in February, and my output peters off at July to September? Anyways, future users beware.

   Tanuki-Paraglider · 30 Aug 2026

4. 3/5OK

   I like the simple design, minimal bells and whistles are AOK for me. But the app has several issues. There doesn’t seem to be a way to change or enlarge the font. The page flipping doesn’t work consistently, sometimes it is really hard to get the pages to turn. Also when you want to search for something, you get the results but if you open one up and try to go back to the results, it seems to ‘forget’ the search and you have to start over. Worst of all is the unbelievable number of ads. An amazing variety of advertisers, so good for the developer. But they take up about a third of the page and I’d say at least 30% of the time when I click the down arrow to minimize the ad, if my finger is an iota off, it opens the ad instead. Hope these issues can be addressed in an update. UPDATE: arghh! You just moved ads to top where they take up less room but now they cannot be removed?! Please let us get rid of them entirely after we have seen them as was the case before! Or let us revert to the older version!

   Artygrrrrl · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5One small suggestion

   I gave this app 4 stars as opposed to 5 because there’s one small improvement that could be made to this app to make it perfect! This app functions as a personal journal for me to write my thoughts down in an to vent when necessary. The only thing is missing is that I cannot paste images or pictures onto the pages of the notebook. I can use emojis but I can’t paste any of my own personal images, Memes, or use my Bitmoji at all. I attempted to see if I could use my Bitmoji and it actually locks the keyboard down and then I cannot get it back to the regular keyboard in order to type in my passcode to allow myself back into my Notebook. There seems to be a bug there. I’ll have to wait several days for it to reset itself and let me back in. But I enjoy this app very much and I use it several days a week. I hope the developer will read this and consider my suggestion because it would be fantastic if I could paste in anything I wanted to on my pages. Thanks!

   Tms2564 · 30 Aug 2026

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