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Apple Journal and Day One: I am going back

Eden Hare
2 min readSep 7, 2024

This isn’t going to be a deep dive feature comparison of the two applications. They both basically do the same thing, provide an online journal. The biggest differences is that Apple Journal exists only on your iPhone and Day One is accessible from your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

For me, that is the real difference. I gave Journal a good shot. I got an external keyboard and a small stand for my iPhone. I really don’t like typing long diary entries on that small phone keyboard. Dictation works pretty well, but I still need to go ack and correct it on that small keyboard.

And then, the screen size of my iPhone 15 Pro Max is such that with my vision impairment it is still a challenge to read what I am writing on the screen. Hence why I like the larger screen of the iPad and the Magic Keyboard.

It isn’t that one is better than the other. For me, it all comes down to what form factor I can use it.And since I can’t use Apple Journal on my iPad, it is back to Day One for now.

Oh, and there is no export functionality for Apple Journal, not even in the iOS 18 Beta. Thank goodness I only gave it 30 days …

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Eden Hare
Eden Hare

Written by Eden Hare

Eden is the co-author of seven books and author of more than 100 articles and book chapters in technical, management, and information security publications.

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