Simple Diary Journal with Lock
Simple Diary Journal with Lock has 714,395 installs (+2.1% a month, measured over 58 days), rated 4.7 from 17,376 ratings, #7,075 of 247,759 in Tools.
Description
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Simple Diary is a private diary app for writing daily notes, saving memories, and keeping personal thoughts on your device.
No account is required. Your diary entries and photos are stored locally on your device, so you do not need to upload personal writing to a company server or cloud diary service. You can also write offline, making it a good choice for people who want a simple journal they can use privately.
Protect your diary with a passcode lock, add photos to your entries, search past writing by words you used, and customize the app so it feels comfortable to write in every day.
Main Features
* Private diary with local storage
* No account registration required
* Works offline
* Passcode lock for privacy
* Add up to 15 photos to each entry
* Search past entries by words or phrases
* Write multiple entries on the same day
* Reminder notifications for daily writing
* 19 color themes
* Adjustable font size, line spacing, and text appearance
* Simple design for everyday journaling
Keep Your Diary Private
This app is designed for people who want to keep their diary personal.
Your diary entries and attached photos are stored locally on your device. You do not need to create an account, sign in, or sync your diary to a cloud service just to start writing.
You can also use the app offline. This makes it useful when you want to write in a private place, while traveling, or whenever you do not want your journal to depend on an internet connection.
Passcode Lock for Extra Privacy
You can protect your diary with a passcode lock.
This helps prevent others from easily opening your journal when they use your phone. It is useful for personal notes, private thoughts, daily reflections, mood records, and memories you do not want others to see.
Write Freely Every Day
Use the app to write about your day, your feelings, ideas, work notes, travel memories, family moments, hobbies, or anything you want to remember.
There is no fixed format. You can write a short note when you only have a minute, or write a longer entry when you want to look back on the day in more detail.
You can also create multiple entries on the same day, so it is easy to separate morning notes, work notes, photos, thoughts, and small moments from different parts of the day.
Add Photos to Your Diary
Each entry can include up to 15 photos.
Add pictures from your device to keep memories together with your writing. This is useful for a photo diary, travel journal, meal record, hobby log, pet diary, family memories, outfits, events, or everyday moments.
Search Your Past Entries
You can search past entries by words or phrases.
For example, you can write words such as #travel, #work, #family, or #idea in your diary and search for them later. This is not a separate tag system, but it can be used like simple hashtag search when you want to find related entries.
Comfortable Writing Settings
Choose from 19 color themes and adjust the writing screen to match your style.
You can change the font size, line spacing, and text appearance so your diary is easier to read and more comfortable to write in.
Reminders for a Writing Habit
Set reminder notifications when you want to make diary writing part of your daily routine.
A small reminder can help you write down the day’s thoughts, memories, and feelings before you forget them.
A Simple Private Journal
This app focuses on simple writing, local storage, offline use, photo entries, search, reminders, customization, and passcode protection.
Use it as a private diary, daily journal, photo diary, mood note, idea notebook, travel journal, or personal record.
Pricing
Writing, photos, passcode lock, search, and reminders are free with ads. Premium removes ads and unlocks data export and all theme colors. Choose a monthly, yearly, or one-time plan.
Start keeping your thoughts and memories in a simple diary that stays on your device.
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From 17,247 ratings.
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★★★☆☆ Simonas Gudavičius · 6 Nov 2026 · v3.3.0This app's backup function does not work. EDIT: backing it up to Google Drive doesn't work, error message is: unable to compress data to upload.; So can't transfer to another device. Would be great if you'd fix it. EDIT2: The phone has plenty of free storage, 10 Gb+... EDIT3: Zero photos, not more than 30 text entries. :) I don't think I can provide you with anything else that would help you fix the app. But I'm upp'ing the rating to 3 for such responsiveness.Developer reply · 6 Nov 2026Thank you for the additional details, and for raising your rating. We are sorry the backup to Google Drive still fails. The information you added is very helpful, and there is no need to send us anything further. We will share it with our development team and look into the cause.
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★★★★★ dumdum · 21 Oct 2026been using this sincw october 10, no issues since what i do is only write stuff. at first, i thought this will be another app that ill try, give it a shot, then delete afterwards. no, i gave it a shot and i still have it now. im used to this now. verryyyyyy love it!!!! themes are not an issue either since i prefer dark themes and my default is the dark mode. i don't get adsDeveloper reply · 22 Oct 2026Thank you so much for your kind review. We are glad to hear that the app has become part of your routine and that writing works smoothly for you. We will keep working to make it even easier to use. Thank you for using our app.
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★☆☆☆☆ Papa Billy · 14 Jun 2026 · v3.0.6Lost all of my 8 years of precious diary entries after my phone got stolen and after trying to download back on my new phone it was unsuccessful. Contacted company but they were unhelpfully and couldn't get my data back... Uninstalled the app and found one which does the job...Developer reply · 15 Jun 2026We are sorry that you lost years of diary entries. For privacy and security reasons, diary data is not stored on our servers. If the data was not backed up through iCloud or the app’s backup feature, we may not be able to restore it. We are sorry we could not provide the help you needed. We will improve backup and data transfer guidance.
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★★★★☆ Ben Walker · 27 Sep 2025 · v2.2.5Nice and simple app, just what I was looking for. However I find it confusing in the Calendar view when you select a day that has no entry, it still displays days below where you have made entries. When you select a day, can you have it just display that day only?Developer reply · 30 Sep 2025Thank you for using the app. Normally, when you select a day with no entries, it should simply show a message that there are no notes for that date. Do you actually see entries from other days instead? If so, it may be a bug. We would appreciate it if you could take a screenshot and send it to our support team so we can investigate.
Growth change in installs
| Per | Growth | Growth % | Actual change | Measured over |
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| day | Not enough history yet | |||
| week | +3,783 | +0.5% | +4,712 | 8.7 days |
| month | +14,297 | +2.1% | +27,878 | 58.5 days |
| year | Not enough history yet | |||
How these figures are measured
Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.
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