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With its beautiful and thoughtful design, it lets you enjoy every memorable moment.\n \nWHAT IS MY DIARY?\n \nMy Diary is a free online diary with lock. You can use it to record daily journals, secret thoughts, journeys, mood trackers, and any private moments. It is a diary that supports adding photos, themes, diary background, mood, font effects, etc., making your private diary more vivid and safe. Committed to providing the most intimate diary-journal writing experience for users who want to keep a diary and care about their mental health.\n \nWith the My Diary app, you can:\nWrite diaries or record journeys anytime, anywhere\nWrite photo diaries. Add pictures or drawings to make your personal diary more vivid\nCustomize your journals with themes, moods, font effects, stickers\nUse it as a mood-tracker and get mood analysis\nSet a password to lock your diary and protect your memories\nJOURNALING FOR MENTAL HEALTH\nJournaling is a simple way to write down your thoughts and feelings to manage your mental health and control your emotions. Journaling has many benefits, including:\nClear fear and concerns\nManage anxiety and reduce stress\nExpressing your emotions. Journaling is really a good mental health tracker and mood tracker\nLearn from your experiences and make you happier\nGain control of your emotions etc\n \nREASONS FOR CHOOSING THIS JOURNALING APP\n \n1. Easy-to-use & Beautiful interface \n* It provides beautiful diary themes. Add enjoyment to every moment of daily journaling\n* Night dark theme. Makes it more comfortable when you keep a journal at night\n* Well-designed pages, let you start a journal or take notes easily\n* Providing journaling guides, Follow it step by step to complete the first diary.\n* Powerful rich text effect. It gives you the best experience whether you take journeys notes or write diaries.\n \n2. Safe and Private\n* My Diary, as a private diary app, protects your memories by setting an app passcode. You can turn on the diary lock to make your diary safe.\n* We recommend that you set a security question to avoid forgetting your password and being unable to visit your journal.\n \n3. Photo Diary, More Than Words \n* My Diary is a Photo diary. Add photos to make your private journals more memorable.\n* Check all journal photos in the Media View Mode\n* Add drawings to reflect your ideas and thoughts\n \n4. Decorate Your Diary \n* Enjoy the Diary illustrated themes. Whether it’s a travel journal, health journal, girl diary, or mood tracker diary, there will always be a theme you like (Some of them are Premium)\n* Choose backgrounds when writing journal entries, see how lovely private journals can be (Some of them are Premium)\n* Writing about your feelings helps the brain overcome upsets, clear fears and leaves you happier\n \n5. Mood Tracker \n* Some moods cannot be expressed in words, so you can choose mood diary symbols. Add your mood when you start writing diaries or take day notes\n* Track mood in the mood calendar\n* Check your mood trends in statistics\n* Be your free metal health tracker\n \n6. Categorize Your Daily Notes with Tags \n* Adding tags for your daily journals\n* The suggested categories include Travel notes, work notes, love diary, baby diary, daily motivations, pregnancy diary, etc\n* Easily check your entries by tags\n \nIn summary, It is really a good photo journaling app free for you, a lovely secret diary with lock and a great mood tracker & mental health tracker, which deserves to be installed. \n \nMy Diary is a free journaling app, most of the features are FREE. Additional features, including some backgrounds, themes, etc. are available with a My Diary Premium Membership.\n \nIf you have any questions or want feedback. Contact us:\nEmail: mydiary@betterapptech.com\nPrivacy Policy: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/privacy-policy/\nTerms of Use: http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/terms-of-service/\n------------------------------","facts":{"developer_id":1579321591,"developer_url":"https://www.betterapptech.com","first_released":"2021-08-10T07:00:00Z","support_url":"https://www.betterapptech.com/","privacy_url":"http://www.betterapptech.com/about-us/privacy-policy/","website_url":"https://www.betterapptech.com/","app_version":"3.3.4","release_notes":"My diary team focuses on providing a friendly and professional diary experience.\n- Easy-to-use & beautiful interface\n- Safe and private\n- Support photo, video, recordings, more than words\n- Beautify your diary with backgrounds, stickers, emoji and fonts\n- Categorize your diaries with tags","rating_current_version":4.74076,"rating_count_current_version":28314,"star_counts":[455,334,1006,2495,23997],"genres":["Lifestyle","Productivity"],"languages":["AR","NL","EN","FR","DE","HI","ID","IT","JA","KO","MS","PL","PT","RO","RU","ZH","ES","TE","TH","ZH","TR","VI"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["iphone","ipad","ipod"],"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-22T05:23:12.543Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-10-17T09:38:13.401Z","reviews_checked_at":"2026-10-16T03:11:51.803Z","summary_written_at":"2026-10-14T05:41:53.695Z","placed_at":"2026-10-14T01:34:26.931Z","scored_at":"2026-10-22T05:30:13.485Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"A diary and journal app with photo entries, drawings, mood tracking, themes and a password lock.","what_is":"My Diary is a Lifestyle app for writing diary and journal entries. 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