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Private diary

Your thoughts stay yours. Protected on your device.

PrivaLog is a calm, private diary for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Start writing right away, no account needed. With Pro, your diary also syncs, encrypted, to your other devices and the web.

  • iPhone & iPad · Available now

    Download on the App Store
  • Mac · Available now

    Download on the Mac App Store
  • No account needed
  • iPhone, iPad, Mac & web
  • Private by design

A focused journaling experience

No streaks, no badges, no pressure — just a quiet place to write.

Today, calendar & timeline

Open today, browse by month, or scroll your entries. Favorites and filters help you find what mattered.

A calm place to write

Titles, rich text, mood, tags, and autosave — with focus mode on the web when you want the chrome gone.

Search after unlock

Find titles and body text on your device once the diary is unlocked. Nothing readable is indexed in the cloud.

Your diary, everywhere

Write on iPhone, iPad and Mac, also without a connection. With Pro, your entries sync between your devices and you can write on the web too.

Export & backup

Export as PDF, Markdown or a readable backup, and import that backup again, with or without an account. With an account you can also keep an encrypted backup.

How privacy works here

Three simple steps. No jargon for its own sake.

  1. Encrypted on your device

    Every entry is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM and a random diary key. Titles, text, mood, tags, favorites and places are unreadable without that key. Without an account, your diary stays on this device and opens the way you unlock it: with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode.

  2. Synced without readable text

    With Pro, our servers hold only encrypted entries, so your diary can sync between your devices and the web. We see your account email, the dates of your entries and technical metadata, not what you wrote. Search runs on your device.

  3. Your diary passphrase

    When you create an account, you choose a diary passphrase. It locks your diary key and never leaves your device. We store only the locked key, which is useless without your passphrase. Only you hold the key.

How the encryption works

Keep your diary passphrase safe

You need it on a new device and on the web. Day to day, you open your diary with Face ID or Touch ID. PrivaLog cannot reset or recover your passphrase: if you lose it, nobody can restore the entries in your account, not even us. Store it somewhere only you control.

Your account password and diary passphrase are separate. Changing one does not change the other.

Example passphrase

blue ocean

Just an example — pick your own. At least 8 characters; spaces are fine.

Keep your diary safe

Without an account, your diary lives on one device. If it's lost, broken or replaced, your entries can go with it. Pro keeps an encrypted copy in the cloud that you can open on iPhone, iPad, Mac and the web. Only you hold the key.

€24.99 / year

or €2.99 / month

Try Pro free for 14 days: no payment, and nothing renews. Afterwards you keep writing on your device; sync and the web pause until you choose Pro.

Begin a diary only you can open

Download PrivaLog and start writing, no account needed. Already have a PrivaLog account? Sign in on the web.

  • iPhone & iPad · Available now

    Download on the App Store
  • Mac · Available now

    Download on the Mac App Store

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