Journaling, the act of recording daily events, feelings, and thoughts in notes or diaries, is a popular activity for many people around the world. It helps to increase self-confidence, develop memory, better express feelings and thoughts, relieve stress, anxiety and stress.
With the development of technology, we can now write diaries on mobile phones, tablets and even computers. Many applications that offer user-friendly interface and various functions are designed to help people write diary easily and express their feelings at any time without having to access the diary.
In this article, we will review the most popular applications available for blogging and for Android and iPhone users:
1- Journalistic app :
Journalistic is a journal app, there is a special page for each day, when you are jotting down, you can add tags, such as: (#) for specific things and (@) to indicate people (mention), these tags are for your convenience. Access these mentions and people at any time, or see stats on how often you talk about something or someone.
In addition, this application provides space to add what you have learned, different ideas and things that you like, and you can highlight each sentence you add with two clicks.
The Journalist is available on the web on your computer and is free for Android users on Google Play with an in-app subscription.
2- Thera app:
Thera is a journaling app that helps you improve your mental health by writing down everything that happens in your day and offers four sections to help you reflect on your current situation:
- Mood Diary: In this section you can add your feelings at any time of the day. You can tap the emoji that expresses your mood and you can add notes if you want to express your feelings in more detail.
- Wish History: In this section you can add your wishes. You can add ten things and categorize them as current or long-term goals.
- Anxiety Diary: This section is designed to express your fears and you will find tips and advice to help you overcome these feelings.
- Gratitude Blog: Anytime you feel grateful for something, whether it be to yourself or someone else, you can write down your feelings in this section.
In addition to these sections, Thera offers exercises to help you better manage your thoughts and inspirational daily quotes to keep you motivated.
Thera is available for free for iPhone users on the App Store and for Android users on the Google Play Store with an in-app subscription.
3- Talk to Myself app :
Talk to Myself is a chat app where you can talk to each other, and it's also a diary app but with instant messaging.
To use it, just launch the app, send yourself a message and the date and time will appear. You can even edit or retype the message after it's been sent to correct misspellings or add more information. You can also add a colorful background to your message to make it stand out.
Talk to Myself allows you to tag your posts by adding hashtags. If you later send a message and choose to include the message in one of the tags, all available tags will be displayed.
The chat app also allows you to upload photos but not videos, and if you upload multiple photos, you can add one as the main photo of the day.
Talk to Myself is available for free for iPhone users on the App Store and for Android users on the Google Play Store.
4- Goodnight Journal app:
Goodnight Journal allows you to write notes in private or public journals for other users to see. When you add a post, it can be set for private or public viewing, and you write a post the same way you write a social media post.
If you are only using it for private recording, you can create a private microlog and a public microlog and add posts to each microlog separately.
With this app, you can see the latest posts added by other users and comment or like them.
The Goodnight Journal app is available for free on the App Store for iPhone users and on the Google Play Store for Android users.
5- ZenJournal app:
ZenJournal is a journaling app that helps improve mental health. It has a simple, easy-to-use interface that allows you to jot down all your thoughts each day on one large page, which means you don't have to switch between multiple pages to read them.
With ZenJournal, you can highlight text at any time for easy searching. In terms of privacy, this app allows you to hide all previous entries so that no one can read your diary.
The ZenJournal app is available for free on the App Store for iPhone users and on the Google Play Store for Android users with an in-app subscription.