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Free Open Source End to End Encrypted Journal

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Mini Diary▲144
Simple and secure journal app
2019
2JP
JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app▲268
2019 · journalbook.co.uk
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Journal App▲332
A beautiful journal app for macOS
2023
4OJ
Online journal that encrypts entries with a cipher▲45
2015 · bitjournal.io
5AO
An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted)▲241
2022 · github.com
6IO
Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first▲136
Look, every journaling app out there wants you to organize things into folders and tags and templates. I just wanted to write something down every day. So I built this. One note per day. That's the whole deal. - Can't edit yesterday. What's done is done. Keeps you from fussing over old entries instead of writing today's. - Year view with dots showing which days you actually wrote. It's a streak chart. Works better than it should. - No signup required. Opens right up, stores everything locally in your browser. Optional cloud sync if you want it - E2E encrypted with AES-GCM, zero-knowledge,…
Mar 2026
7WO
Working on a Zero-Knowledge Daily Journaling App▲98
Decryption key derived from master password never leaves the browser. It's just a text editor so far, but a we have a few features planned: retrospective tooling, sentiment analysis, journaling modules, guidance and information inline, better habit formation & rewards UI.
2023 · jumblejournal.org
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Sol Journal▲131
A simple, open-source personal journaling platform
2019
9
Journify▲176
Audio journaling. Encrypted, easy-to-share voice recordings.
2020
10AF
A free private journaling app▲9
https://github.com/inoda/private_journal Built this to use myself, and I'm curious if anybody would be interested in using it. I'm also wondering if anybody has tips to make it more secure (I'm super super new to encryption and whatnot). The security is probably a bit overkill since chances are that nobody cares about what I'm journaling, but it is fun to implement from a code standpoint.
2019
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Writed▲12
Chat with your journal. Nothing leaves your browser
Jul 2026 · writed.app
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Journalistic▲176
A free micro journaling app with minimalistic design
2020
13ME
Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL▲468
I wanted to see how far I could go building a notes app using only what modern browsers already provide – no frameworks, no storage APIs, no build step. What it does: Single HTML file, no deps, 111 loc Notes live in the URL hash (shareable links!) Auto-compressed with CompressionStream Plain-text editor (contenteditable) History support Page title from first # heading Respects light/dark mode No storage, cookies, or tracking The entire app is the page source. https://textarea.my/
Dec 2025 · github.com
14WO
Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary▲99
2023 · writedown.app
15
WriteMore 2.0▲524
Build a daily writing habit
2024
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Microsoft Journal▲71
A delightful freeform notetaking experience by Microsoft
2022
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All-new Goodnight Journal▲81
Online journal meets community
2020
18
OwnJournal▲1
Encrypted journaling that lives in your own cloud storage
12d ago · ownjournal.app
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Telegram Voice Journaling Bot▲114
An open source voice journal - just press record 🎙
2018
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Gekri▲121
Privacy-focused online journal
2019
21
ZenJournal▲105
Fastest stress-free journal with chatting interface.
2018
22MO
Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface▲126
2021 · thezenjournal.com
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Punkt▲160
Private & secure one-sentence journaling
2020
24
Burner Note▲126
Send self destructing notes free, encrypted, open source
2021

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