Notebooks
A guided walkthrough of how Notebooks let you group and control visibility of your journal entries and stories.
The World’s Most Full Featured Journaling App
Journaling Evolved.
Full journaling, free. Not a trial.
Unlimited entries, moods and tags, notebooks, goals, sleep, and AI that reads your journal back to you. No entry cap, no trial clock, no paywall on the part you came for.
iPhone: coming soon. Developed as a web-first app, so it works well on all modern browsers.
- No entry cap
- No trial clock
- No ads
- Private by default
The page
A page that looks like one.
On the web, start writing from the Write Cafe and the page opens over a photograph: a lake at first light, a chalkboard, a compass on an old map. Nothing between you and the words but one save bar.
Write
Write it down. Tag how it felt.
A fast, quiet editor with no entry cap. Mark your mood, tag entries however you think, and search everything you have ever written from the top of your journal.
Moods
Read it back, with how it felt.
Open an entry on the web and it sits over a photograph too, with its mood and tags underneath. Private by default: an entry is yours alone until you choose to share it.
Notebooks
A notebook for each part of your life.
Morning pages, work, the garden, a year, a person. Keep them apart, or let them run together in one timeline.
Reflect
AI that reads your journal back to you.
Daily, weekly and monthly reflections find the topics and patterns in what you wrote. Ask JQ, the built-in companion, about anything in your journal.
Track
Goals and sleep in the same place.
Set goals and check in against them. Log how you slept, night by night, and see it next to what you wrote.
For your Family: Cornerstone Display
See how it works →Turn an old tablet or a spare TV into the family’s kitchen screen. Nothing to buy, and free to start.
Sleep stories
A calm bedtime mode with narrated stories and a sleep timer. Read in your own voice with Plus.
Routines
Each person’s day at a glance, checked off right on the screen, with streaks and points.
One shared calendar
Everyone’s Google Calendars on one screen, color-coded, as an agenda or a week.
What’s for dinner
Plan the week’s dinners together. Tonight’s meal sits front and center.
Shared shopping list
Everyone adds from their phone. Tap things off on the way out.
Chores that earn
Post a chore worth points. Kids see what they can earn, and the credit lands when it’s done.
Ask JQWith Plus
“What’s for dinner?” “Add milk to the list.” JQ answers, and acts, from what’s on the wall.
Family intercomWith Plus
Send a spoken message to a screen in another room, with quiet hours respected.
Bedroom screensWith Plus
A personal screen for a kid’s room: their reminders, quiet hours, locked with a PIN.
Home upkeep
Furnace filter, dryer vent, deep cleans: what the house needs, shown by how overdue it is.
Night
The same page, after dark.
Dark mode on the web keeps the scene and turns the text soft white, so a late entry does not mean a bright screen.
See it move
Short walkthroughs, narrated.
A minute or two each, hands-free. Scroll sideways for more.
Your journal stays yours
The most private thing you write deserves more than a promise.
Private by default
Every entry is yours alone until you choose to share one, as a single link.
Locked at the database
Row-level security means the database itself only lets you read your entries, not just the app.
A lock on the app
Open the app with a PIN, Face ID or your fingerprint.
No ads
We never sell your data, and the app has no third-party trackers or ad SDKs.
Leave with everything
Delete your account and everything in it from Settings, whenever you want.
The details are in plain words in our privacy policy.
Made by Sandon Jurowski, who also built HabitForge, and by Point Seven Studio.
Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. Entries, moods, tags, notebooks, search, goals, sleep and AI reflection are free in full, with no entry limit and no trial clock. Paid plans exist for other HiveJournal tools, not for your journal.
- Is there an iPhone app?
- It is coming soon. Until then, HiveJournal works in Safari on your iPhone, and you can add it to your home screen.
- Can I use it on my phone and my computer?
- Yes. It is one account: write on Android or on the web at hivejournal.com and your journal is the same in both.
The journal is complete on its own. When you want more, the same account opens stories, audio, rehearsal and connection tools. Explore everything HiveJournal makes