Quill

A diary that stays yours.

Quill keeps what you write on this iPhone. No account, no sign-up, and no server of ours — so there is no company that could read your diary, and that includes us.

LOCK IT

A four-digit PIN and Face ID. Quill asks when it opens, and again after thirty seconds away. Forget the PIN and a recovery code lets you back in. The preview in the App Switcher is covered.

WRITE Bold, italic, bullets. Up to twenty photos in an entry. A mood, in words rather than stickers. Tags. Write up a day you missed, however far back. Your draft is saved while you type, so a crash or a flat battery takes nothing with it.

FIND IT AGAIN

Full-text search across every entry, on the device, in milliseconds. Filter by tag, mood, photos, favourites or a range of dates. A month calendar shows the days you wrote on. On this day brings back the same date from earlier years, and stays quiet when there is nothing to show.

BRING AN OLD DIARY OVER

Import from Day One, Apple Journal, a folder of Markdown, or plain text and CSV. You see how many entries and photos were found before anything is written. Import the same file twice and nothing is duplicated.

TAKE EVERYTHING OUT AGAIN

Export to PDF, to a book with a cover and contents by month, or to Markdown with your photos in a folder. With or without Pro, and after you stop using Quill.

BACKED UP TO YOUR OWN iCLOUD

Entries and photos travel through your private iCloud database. Not ours. Turn it off and Quill still works, entirely on the phone.

QUILL PRO

Twenty photos an entry, reading fonts and sizes, more notebooks, a home-screen widget, advanced search filters, and the place and weather noted with each entry.

Not a subscription. The lock, iCloud backup, import, export, search, memories from past years and the daily reminder are not behind Pro and never will be.

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