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
- 39%
- Linked, no tracking
- 4%
- Collect nothing
- 21%
- No label details
- 1
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| Developer | Tracking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aDiary | 威 罗 | Not linked | None | 1 |
| Airi | 庆辉 廖 | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Boono | Aditya Asdhir | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Cute Journal | 俊镇 吴 | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Other Data | 4 |
| Daily Journal Log | Custom Arts Ltd | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Daily Journal·Note Book Diary | 柳青 王 | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Other Data | 4 |
| DDiary Pro | Hanung Lee | Not linked | None | 3 |
| Diamond Diary Notes With Lock | Milica Petrovic | Tracks you | Purchases, Identifiers, Usage Data | 6 |
| Diary & Journal | James Cooper | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Diary With Password | 帆 杨 | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| DIARYit | Seunghoon Baek | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Entries | Paper Tech, LLC | Tracks you | Identifiers | 5 |
| Munra | Sidewalk Society Inc. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| My Diary - Journal and lock | Syed Imran Hussaini | Tracks you | Usage Data | 2 |
| My Journal-Cute notes | Hangzhou Shunchang Asset Management Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics | 3 |
| My Super Secret Diary Notes | Ivan Antic | Tracks you | Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data | 7 |
| Notebook Diary & Journal App | Koji Ito | Tracks you | Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Other Data | 7 |
| Noteit | 羽浩 邓 | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Paper Planner | Digital Legal Tech, Societatea cu Raspundere Limitata | Not linked | None | 1 |
| Planner Daily | Digital Legal Tech, Societatea cu Raspundere Limitata | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Pocket Planner | Digital Legal Tech, Societatea cu Raspundere Limitata | Not linked | None | 2 |
| Quick Diary | TopOfStack Software Limited | Not disclosed | — | — |
| Reflect Journal & Diary | SPLURB | Tracks you | Identifiers | 3 |
| StoryPad | Thea Choem | Linked | None | 3 |
| Success Life Coach Day Planner | Success Wizard, Inc. | Tracks you | Identifiers | 7 |
| Sweet Diary - Journal App | 敏华 黎 | Tracks you | Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics | 3 |
| Timeline Journal | Umayanga Alahakoon | Not linked | None | 1 |
| TimelineMemo-Journal and Notes | 峰 胡 | Not linked | None | 3 |
| Weekly Planner | Digital Legal Tech, Societatea cu Raspundere Limitata | Not linked | None | 2 |
Most common data types
- Diagnostics68%
- Usage Data57%
- Identifiers46%
- User Content21%
- Purchases21%
- Other Data21%
- Contact Info14%
- Location11%
How to read this list
Productivity apps tend to collect the work you do in them — documents, notes and files — so User Content is common. The question is whether it syncs to the developer's servers and how it is protected there.
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.