Alternatives to The Journal for all platforms with any license

RedNotebook

RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com Xfce
Auto-saving Calendar view Notetaking Add a feature

100 Like
MemPad

MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages.

Free Windows
Lightweight Notetaking Add a feature

15 Like
Journee

A simplified, RedNotebook-type journal/diary app. With a focus on minimal design and a distraction free writing environment. Makes a folder full of dated text files that...

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Electron based MarkDown support Minimalistic Notetaking Add a feature

8 Like
Diaro

Diaro is designed to record your activities, daily events, appointments, experiences, thoughts, secrets and ideas throughout the day and sync data across all your...

Freemium $ $ $ Web Android iPhone Android Tablet Kindle Fire
Sync with Dropbox Multiple languages Add a feature

25 Like
Penzu

Write in Private. Penzu is your own personal journal and online diary. Don't want to share everything with the world? Easily keep your personal thoughts...

Freemium $ $ $ Web Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad
No features added Add a feature

20 Like
Lifeograph

Lifeograph is an off-line and private journal and note taking application.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android
AES encryption Notetaking Works Offline Add a feature

16 Like
My Notes Keeper

Home Of My Notes Keeper - My Notes Keeper is the premier note/outliner application for Windows 9x/2000/XP/NT. It allows you to store all of your notes and information in...

Commercial Windows
Notetaking Works Offline Add a feature

15 Like
Azasu

Azasu is a gratitude journal that allows you write a sentence a day, reminding you to be thankful of everything you have.

Freemium Android iPhone
No features added Add a feature

2 Like
MacJournal

• MacJournal is now free on macOS but still paid on iPhone • MacJournal is the world's most popular journalist software for the Mac. MacJournal 6 adds a calendar...

Free Mac iPhone
Notetaking Voice Notes Add a feature

17 Like
Efficient Diary

Efficient Diary is an elegant, easy-to-use and powerful electronic diary software package. With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can...

Freemium Windows
Encrypted Notes Add a feature

6 Like
Plain Text Journal

Plain Text Journal is a personal journaling tool. It is intended to be used as a very simple, no-frills daily diary.
- Discontinued Latest commit e2bacf8 on 17 May 2011: https://github.com/maciakl/Plain-Text-Journal
Free Open Source Windows
No features added Add a feature

2 Like
Advanced diary

Advanced Diary software supports multiple diaries and multiple entries for a single day. This is a unique feature available only in Advanced Diary. No other diary...

Commercial Windows
Notetaking Portable Add a feature

2 Like
Writing Streak

A simple but powerful tool that helps writers to develop a daily writing habit, increase productivity, measure progress, achieve writing goals, and master the art of...

Free Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Chrome OS Android Tablet iPad
Choose schedule Distraction free writing Email reminder Habit tracker ... Set deadlines Writing timer Add a feature

1 Like
iDailyDiary

iDailyDiary provides a simple interface that immediately gets you started taking daily notes, creating a journal, putting your thoughts into writing and much more. ...

Freemium Windows
Notetaking Add a feature

6 Like
Smart Diary Suite

Diary and personal information manager (PIM) software for Windows to keep, manage and graph tasks, to-do lists, reminders, planner, schedule, contacts, medication and...
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 4.8.0, released in July 2013, can be still downloded from the official website.
Freemium Windows
Portable Add a feature

3 Like