01 — a journal for your everyday life
Save the little moments. Keep the rituals that matter. Read your life back, on iPhone, iPad or any computer.
free to keep · iPhone, iPad and the web · bring your Day One journal
02 — most days don't feel important
A quiet morning coffee. A family milestone. A new puppy. Little things rarely feel important in the moment; later, they're the ones you want back. Mark makes them easy to keep, and turns them into a story you can look back on.
the journal's home shows a different memory each time you come back
03 — everything in mark
01 capture
01momentsA photo, a few words, a place, a voice memo, the song that was playing. Saved now, or finished later.
02ritualsThe practices that shape who you are, daily, weekly or monthly. Tap once and they go into the day's story.
03promptsStuck? One question at a time, drawn from your own days, or from seven packs of 245 questions.
02 read it back
04the day's storyEverything you saved, in order, written for you. Forgot something? Add it to any day, even last week.
05threadsMoments that belong together, read like a book: the trip, the renovation, letters to nan.
06chaptersName a stretch of days, a trip, being sick, a busy week, and every day inside it carries the name.
03 keep it yours
07private threadsLock a thread with Face ID. Its moments stay out of your story, search, widgets and the web.
08on any computerRead your whole journal and write with a real keyboard at markjournal.app, sealed before it leaves your phone.
09made yoursEight themes, your own colours, widgets for the Home Screen and Control Center.
04 — made yours
The same journal, dressed the way you like it. Every theme has its own paper, ink and accent.
Then make it yours: the sky at the top of Today takes the tint you choose, the accent is any colour you like, and the doodles behind the page change with the season.
05 — behind the scenes
Your journal lives on your iPhone and in your own iCloud. What reaches your computer is sealed on the phone first. Our server carries it, and can't read a word.
nothing to break, nothing to lose — mark counts the days you showed up
06 — on any computer, on iPad
Go to markjournal.app/journal, scan the code with your iPhone, and you're in. No account, no password. On iPad, Mark opens up into columns: your day beside what's next, a chapter beside the timeline of every chapter you've lived.
iPhone · iPad · the web · one journal · open your journal →
07 — coming from day one?
Years of writing shouldn't stay behind because you want a different app. Mark reads a Day One export and brings everything you wrote over.
In Day One, export your journal as a JSON .zip file.
Open the file with Mark. Choose which journals come over; each one becomes a thread, and you can bring tags too.
Everything you wrote lands on its own day with its words, photos and places. Changed your mind? Take the whole import back out in one tap.
08 — plans
Mark is free for as long as you like, with your whole history. Premium adds every photo, your voice, your other devices and the web.
A whole journal on your iPhone, for as long as you like.
or $5.99 a month · or $79.99 once, for life — founders' price, first 1,000
Prices in US dollars; in Canada, CA$39.99 a year, CA$6.99 a month or CA$99.99 for life. Premium is billed through Apple and renews automatically until you cancel in Settings. Stop paying and you're on Free: nothing is deleted, and anything beyond Free's limits stays yours to read. Downloaded Mark before August 25, 2026? You keep everything you had, free.
good to know
Yes. The free plan is a whole journal on your iPhone, with your entire history, one photo per moment, three rituals, one thread plus your favourites, and a daily question. There's no time limit and nothing to cancel.
Up to 30 photos per moment, voice memos turned into words, the song and the day's walk or workout, unlimited rituals and threads, chapters, all seven prompt packs, insights across all your history, your Sunday summary, every theme and widget, and Mark on your iPad, on more than one iPhone and in the web journal.
Go to markjournal.app/journal. Scan the code it shows with your iPhone's camera, and that browser is paired. (Or in Mark, go to Settings → web app → show a code, and type the six digits into the page.) There's no account and no password: your phone hands the browser the key. Next time, go to markjournal.app/journal and you're straight in; markjournal.app itself is always this site. You can add a four-digit passcode and have the page cover itself when you step away.
Yes, on every plan. Export your journal from Day One as JSON, then open the file with Mark. Each Day One journal becomes a thread, your moments keep their dates, words, photos and places, and you can undo the whole import at any time. How it works.
Your journal lives on your devices and in your own iCloud. There's no Mark account, no ads and no feed. If you turn on the web journal, everything is sealed on your iPhone before it's sent, and our server only ever holds locked boxes it can't open. Private threads open only with Face ID. Read the privacy policy.
You move to the free plan. Nothing is deleted and nothing is locked away: every moment stays readable, and anything above Free's limits, extra photos, rituals, threads, stays yours. You just can't add more beyond the free limits.
Nothing you had is taken away. You keep the whole app, free, as it was, and your history is no longer trimmed to 14 days. A few things that are new in 2.0, like 30 photos per moment and voice transcripts, are part of Premium.
Yes. It's the same app, laid out in columns for the bigger screen, and it syncs through your iCloud. Using Mark on an iPad, or on more than one iPhone, is part of Premium.
Mark has no chatbot, and your journal is never sent to us or to anyone else to be read. Voice memos are turned into words on your iPhone, and the audio never leaves it. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, your Sunday summary can be written by Apple's model on the phone itself.
Yes. Premium subscriptions work with Apple Family Sharing. The lifetime purchase is just for you.
Yes. You can export your journal from Mark whenever you like, on every plan.
Something else? Visit support or write to hello@markjournal.app.
Little things, kept, become a story. Start with one moment today.
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