8 Best Journal Apps to improve your Mental Health in 2022

Kashfa Mehmood
2 min readSep 8, 2022

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Journaling simply means writing down your thoughts, feelings and emotions to be more clear about them. It is yoga for the mind. Journaling has proven to have a positive effect on mental health.

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Here are some of the best apps to help you start with journaling to boost your health and well-being.

1. Fabulous

Start your journey of building healthy habits and join a community with other members to motivate yourself to be a better version of yourself. Fabulous is available for iOS and Android.

2. Zinnia

A creative way to keep a digital journal and daily planner with a variety of stickers, templates, trackers and more.

Zinnia is only available for iOS.

3. Penzu

Penzu is a free journal and diary which lets you keep your notes safe and secure. It is available for both iOS and Android and it also lets you sync to the web.

4. Daylio

Daylio lets you pick your mood and keeps a record of your daily activities. It lets you view the entire year in pixels. Each pixel is colour based on different moods so you can have an overview of how you've felt throughout the year.

It is available for iOS and Android.

5. Gratitude

Reflect on the little blessings of life by keeping a journal and practising gratitude and affirmations. This app will send you reminders with prompts to help you build a habit of journaling. Gratitude app can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices.

6. Journey

Journey will give you a step-by-step guide to journaling and help you track your achievements too. Privacy and security is the top priority of this app. Journey is available on a large number of platforms including mobile, desktop and web.

7. Stoic

Stoic is a self-care journal. It helps you track your mood and will give you insights on how to feel better and be more productive in life.

Stoic is available for iOS and Android.

8. Day One

Day One is an award-winning app which has all the best features but is incredibly simple and easy to use. It offers you unlimited text entries and lets you choose from different journals for every aspect of life.

This app is only available for iOS devices.

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