Your journal. Your Apple devices.

Joys & Woes

Joys & Woes

Keep what felt good. Let go of what did not.

A call from Mum. A quiet walk together. A difficult conversation you needed to write out. Make room for both sides of life, on iPhone, iPad and Mac — without an account, ads or the pressure of a streak.

iPhone

A little space for your day, wherever you are.

iOS 18 or later

iPad

More room for your words, photos and memories.

iPadOS 18 or later

Mac

A native app with resizable windows and keyboard shortcuts.

macOS 15 or later

One personal journal for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free, with no subscription.

A calmer kind of journal

Some moments deserve to stay. Others need somewhere to go.

Save the small things you might otherwise forget. Give difficult feelings their own place. Add a lesson if it helps, then burn a woe when you are ready to move on. There is no daily target to meet.

Keep your joys

Write a few words or tell the whole story. Add tags, photos, videos or audio. Later, Memories brings you back to good moments you have saved.

Release your woes

Keep difficult moments in a separate pile. Hold to burn an entry when you are ready. Burning is permanent: there is no in-app undo or trash.

Choose where your journal lives

Keep it only on this device, or choose private iCloud sync on each device to share entries and attachments across iPhone, iPad and Mac using the same Apple Account.

Make yourself at home

Use the camera and photo picker on iPhone and iPad. On Mac, add files or drag them into an entry, resize your window and adjust the text size. Export a copy whenever you need one.

Inside the app

A small ritual, made for real life.

Today screen in Joys & Woes with buttons for adding a joy or a woe
Start with what happened today.
Burning a difficult journal entry in Joys & Woes
Let go with a deliberate, irreversible ritual.
Memories screen showing past joyful entries in Joys & Woes
Return to the good moments later.

Room to reflect

A bigger canvas for the same personal journal.

Write at your desk, browse your joys on iPad, or catch a moment on your phone. With iCloud selected on each device, your entries can travel with you. Appearance, reminders and App Lock stay personal to each device.

Joys & Woes on Mac, with a sidebar and two columns of joyful journal entries
The native Mac app: your joys, with room for the details.
Joys & Woes Today screen in landscape on iPad
On iPad, the journal adapts to a wider view.

Privacy

Your journal is personal. It stays that way.

No developer account, advertising, tracking or analytics SDK. Your journal stays on your device, with optional sync through your private iCloud database. The developer cannot read that database. App Lock protects the app interface; exported files need their own safe home.

Read the Privacy Policy