Health & Fitness · 32 apps
Journal & diary apps: Privacy Labels Compared
Journals collect your private thoughts, moods and often your location and photos. A lock screen inside the app is not the same as encryption of the synced entries. Checked November 2026.
- Declare tracking
- 23%
- Linked, no tracking
- 39%
- Collect nothing
- 10%
- No label details
- 1
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32 of 32 apps · sorted A–Z
| Developer | Tracking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Minute Journal・Daily Diary | Intelligent Change LLC | Tracks you | Identifiers | 5 |
| A Journal A Day | George Jose | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Aksha | Aksha LLC | Not linked | None | 4 |
| AteMate Food Journal & Coach | Piqniq Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data | 8 |
| Being Me | Make Your Meaning, LLC | Tracks you | Contact Info, Identifiers | 5 |
| Bladder Journal | Julien Cheron | Not linked | None | 5 |
| Clearful | Clearful Journal Inc. | Linked | None | 4 |
| Confide | Von Ventures LLC | Tracks you | Purchases, Identifiers | 9 |
| Daily Tracker Journal & Diary | Lumen Spark LLC | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Day One | Bloom Built Inc | Linked | None | 8 |
| Daybook | Daybook Labs Inc | Linked | None | 5 |
| Diarly | Krzysztof Nowak | Linked | None | 3 |
| Diary AI | Lachlan Sonter | Linked | None | 7 |
| diAry AI Journal & Companion | GMX Quantum LLC | Linked | None | 5 |
| Halo | Mikalai Lahoika | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data | 5 |
| Journal | Apple Inc. | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Lightpage | Lightpage, Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers | 4 |
| Morning Pages | Health & Wellness Apps Limited | Not linked | None | 4 |
| OneThought | Wellington Mukahiwa | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Perspective | Blinky LLC | Not disclosed | — | — |
| Private Journal & Diary | Gregor Pichler | Linked | None | 3 |
| Recollect | Bryan Anderson | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Reflection | Journal Better Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers | 4 |
| Reflectly | Kodeon, Inc. | Linked | None | 5 |
| Rosebud | Just Imagine, inc. | Linked | None | 5 |
| stoic. journal & mental health | Stoic app inc. | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Time Diary | 哲铭 葛 | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Timeline | MAKSIM VOLOSHINSKII | Not linked | None | 3 |
| Untold | Thoughts ACC, Inc. | Linked | None | 6 |
| Voice Journal Diary Lock | Ilkay Kisayol | Linked | None | 5 |
| Writeway | Writeway Technologies Ltd. | Linked | None | 4 |
| ZenJournal | IdealistSpace Inc | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
Most common data types
- Usage Data84%
- Diagnostics84%
- Identifiers77%
- Contact Info52%
- User Content42%
- Purchases29%
- Health & Fitness16%
- Location16%
How to read this list
Health and fitness apps can read Apple Health data only for categories you approve, one by one. What they collect themselves is shown on the label.
Check whether entries sync to the developer's server and whether that sync is end-to-end encrypted; export your journal regularly.
Exposure follows the label's own structure: an app that declares any tracking is shown as “Tracks you”, even if it collects little else. Open any app for every data type explained and the iPhone settings that limit it.
FAQ
How many journal & diary apps track you?
23% of the 31 with an App Store privacy label declare data used to track you. 1 more have not provided label details.
Which journal & diary apps collect no data?
OneThought, ZenJournal, Recollect have a “Data Not Collected” label. Filter the table above by “Collects nothing” to see them all.
What data do they collect most?
Usage Data (84%), Diagnostics (84%), Identifiers (77%).
Are these rankings or recommendations?
No. The table reproduces each developer's App Store privacy label. We do not test apps, and fewer data types is not automatically better: some features need data to work.
Who tracks you?
Every app, A–Z, with a yes or no
Data types explained
Location, identifiers, health and 13 more
Lock an app
Face ID lock guides, app by app
Facts on this page come from Apple App Store privacy labels, as reported by the developer. Checked November 2026. How we collect data · Report a correction