PJ — Personal Journal

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A journal only works if it’s safe

By Jack McVickar · Lifestyle

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PJ - Personal Journal is a private journaling app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Entries can be dictated, with speech turned into text on the device, or typed, and they are encrypted on the device and synced only through the user's own iCloud. It suits people wanting a private place to write, including those keeping health notes for a relative or saving family stories.

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A journal only works if it’s safe. PJ is a private place to think out loud.

Talk or type. Tap record and just say what’s on your mind; PJ turns it into text right on your device. Or type, if that’s more you.

Private by design. • Every entry is encrypted on your device. • It syncs only through your own iCloud. No new account, no outside server. • PJ adds its own lock on top, with an optional passphrase for your whole journal. • No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing you write is ever sent to the developer.

For the moments that matter. • Five minutes to get a hard day out of your system. • A health notebook for someone you care for: good days, bad days, what the doctor said. • A parent’s or grandparent’s stories, saved in their own voice. • Ideas and plans, captured before they slip away.

Made for everyday use. • Start an entry from a photo or a moment. • Pin the entries that matter most. • Print or export an entry, or a whole stretch of days. • Recently Deleted, so nothing is lost by accident. • iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, kept in sync.

PJ was built by an independent developer who needed a journal no one else could read. Questions? support@pjjournal.com

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