CLUSTER ACROSS-DEVICES-PRIVATE · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2013-10-29
Private mood journaling apps
This cluster consists of private journaling and mood-tracking applications for capturing diary entries with rich media, mood tags, and cloud or local storage, primarily on Apple devices. The dated entries span from October 2013 to July 2026, appearing sporadically with single members in 2013, 2018, and 2021 and two in July 2026, showing a thin but recurring presence over time. Traction leaders based on activity signal are Journal-, Papyr: Journaling App, and Diarly: Diary, Private Journal, all tied at zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 1 hobby · 3 indie · 2 commercial · 7 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01lullo-releases0★4 days—Private video journaling app for macOS that records and stores personal before-bed video entries for self-reflection.
- 02Papyr: Journaling App0★23 daysliveindiePrivate journaling app that supports multiple journals, mood tracking, biometric lock, and iCloud sync across devices.
- 03MindLog0★1 molivehand-codedhobbyA private journaling app for recording entries with text, images, and audio, featuring calendar and timeline views.
- 04Diarly: Diary, Private Journal0★14 dayslivecommercialPrivate journal and diary app for capturing thoughts, photos, and notes with mood tracking and insights across Apple devices.
- 05Tend Journaling App0★2 molivePrivate journal app for rich text entries, mood tags, photos, voice notes, and local offline storage on iPhone.
- 06Mood Tracker: WellKit0★3 molivePrivate mood tracker and mental health journal with local storage, year-in-pixels view, mood history, and optional iCloud sync and app lock.
- 07Thundr - Video Chat Journal0★3 molivePrivate video journaling app that captures mood-tagged video entries, adds atmosphere filters and sound, and organizes them in a secure on-device emotional timeline.
- 08Secret Diary with Lock - Muse0★9 mostalelivecommercialA journaling app that captures notes, photos, audio, location, mood, and weather, and supports multiple private journals with iCloud sync.
- 09Simple Journals0★1 yrabandonedliveJournaling app for creating collections of text, image, map, photo album, and future event entries with local storage and iCloud sync.
- 10MiniJournal private diary0★2 yrabandonedlivePrivate journaling app that saves entries to iCloud with time, location, weather, and photos, offering themes and export.
- 11Afterthought Journal0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedJournaling app that captures moments with photos and text in a private personal feed, synced with iCloud and protected by passcode.
- 12Journey - Journal, Diary0★unknownliveindieJournaling application for capturing diary entries with photos, video, and audio, mood tracking, and encrypted cloud sync across devices.
- 13Yorkie, Everyday Journal0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedindiePrivate journaling app for capturing thoughts and photos with stats, tags, and iCloud sync across devices.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.