Your journal,
for good.
Tomefold is a private journal and diary for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Bring in years of entries, write however it comes, and find every day just as it was.
The whole journal, at a glance.
Written at your own pace, found in a moment: every entry with its photos, its place, its day.
Photos and video
Neighbouring photos sit in a mosaic. When you add one, Tomefold suggests its date, time and place from the file's metadata.
Calendar and “On this day”
Relive what you wrote today a year ago, or ten. A random memory when you feel like wandering.
Places on a map
Entries and photos with a place appear on a world map: your trips, held still in time.
Easy to write in
Separate title and text, bold, lists, checklists. A daily prompt and eleven templates for when you don't know where to start.
Favorites and tags
Mark the entries you love, organise them with tags and find anything with full-text search.
A PDF book
The whole journal, one year or a single journal, as a book you can browse and print.
Quick writing
A shortcut opens a new entry at once (Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight), and an optional notification brings the day's prompt.
Statistics
How much you wrote, on which days, in which years. A yearly activity grid shows your habits.
No irreversible mistakes
Deleted entries stay in the Trash for 30 days. Automatic text backups.
Bring in years of journals.
Have you been writing in another app for years? Tomefold imports your entries with their photos, places and dates. It is a guided procedure and importing is always free.
- Day One
- Journey
- Daylio
- Diaro
- Evernote
- CSV
- Markdown
- Text
- HTML
Importing again duplicates nothing, and what you wrote in Tomefold is never overwritten by an older backup.
- Import from a ZIP or JSON file, even a very large one.
- Photos and videos are linked to their entries, without wasting space.
- Export everything in open formats (JSON and one Markdown file per entry) whenever you like: your data is not held hostage.
Dictate it, read a well-written page.
A dictation is full of mistakes. With one tap, Claude turns it into a journal page, fixing the form a lot and the content very little. Then you decide.
- Real fixes: misheard words, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs.
- Your voice: first person, gender, opinions and feelings. No poetic flourishes, no thoughts you never had.
- No detail lost: the name of the pizzeria, the time, the walk with the dog.
- A short title if the entry has none.
- Compare before applying, and you can undo it.
- Your instructions: tell Claude who you are, the names at home, how you like to write.
It works with your own Anthropic key: the text leaves only when you tap ✦, straight to Anthropic, without passing through us.
Private, like a real journal.
A journal is the last thing that belongs in a service that lives off your data. Tomefold is built the other way round.
No servers of ours
The app talks only to Apple (iCloud and the App Store). There is no Tomefold account and we collect nothing.
Data on your device
Your entries live on your device. Sync uses your own iCloud, with your own storage.
Face ID
Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID, and your device passcode.
Only if you ask
The only feature that sends text off your device is the Claude cleanup, only when you tap, with your consent.
Read the privacy policy → · What makes a journal app private? →
One purchase. No subscription.
Everything you need to keep a journal is free. Pro unlocks what takes effort: sync and Claude's company.
Free
- One journal, unlimited entries
- Photos, video, map, calendar, statistics
- Import from Day One and other apps
- Complete export, PDF book
- Receive a shared journal
- Face ID, Trash, backups
Tomefold Pro
once, forever
- Sync across your devices
- Unlimited journals and sharing with other people
- Claude cleanup (the cost of requests is on your Anthropic account)
- Family Sharing
Guides
Straight answers to the questions people ask before choosing a journal app.
Day One alternative
Looking for a Day One alternative for iPhone, iPad and Mac? What Tomefold does, what it does not, and who should stay with Day One.
Import your Day One journal
Step by step: export your Day One journals as JSON with media, import the ZIP into Tomefold, and keep your photos, places, tags and dates.
A private journal app
Where a private journal app keeps your entries, what it sends and where. How Tomefold handles privacy, iCloud sync, sharing and export, plainly.
Frequently asked questions
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone, iPad and Mac (iOS 18, iPadOS 18 or macOS 15 and later), with the same app: tabs on iPhone, three columns on iPad and Mac. There is no version for non-Apple devices.
What happens to my journals if I stop using it?
Export is free: a JSON file compatible with Day One and one Markdown file per entry, with your photos as normal files. You can open them with any editor.
Do I need an account to use Claude?
You need an API key from your own Anthropic account, which stays in your device's Keychain. Requests cost a few cents per entry, paid by you to Anthropic: there is no hidden cost in the app.
Can I use it without iCloud?
Yes. Without sync your journals stay on the device. Remember to export them now and then: the app also makes automatic text backups.
Why is it called Tomefold in English and Giorni in Italian?
It is the same app. “Giorni” is Italian for “days”, which is what a journal is made of; “Tomefold” is the English name, a tome (a big book) folded into one app. The app shows the name that matches your language.