Diariste · Your Private Diary
Julien Pasquet Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touchMacApple Watch
Diariste · Your Private Diary is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Julien Pasquet. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 30, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 91 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 30
- 2026 · v4.6.9
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About Diariste · Your Private Diary
Diariste is your private journal, designed to help you truly write, day after day. A caring community since 2010, with more than 85,000 members. A brand new app The app has been completely rebuilt. It opens in an instant, pages glide under your finger, and your whole journal fits in your pocket. Your memories on your home screen The Memories widget brings back an entry you wrote on this day in a past year. The Live journal widget draws the sky of your day and lets you add a note in one tap. Your journal on your wrist Diariste is also on Apple Watch. Add a note to your live journal in a second: dictate it or record a voice note, without reaching for your phone. Your day's dial fills up as the hours go by, and today's memory is one turn of the crown away. (Live journal is a Premium feature.) Meet Lumi Lumi is your caring writing companion. When the words won't come, you talk to Lumi. He listens without ever judging, and can turn your conversation into an entry you keep in your journal. Write your way Text, photos, audio, videos, mood of the day, keywords, fonts and colors. And if you don't feel like typing, voice dictation turns your voice into text you can read over and edit. A journal for every chapter of your life Create as many journals as you like: daily life, pregnancy, travel, reading, gratitude, childhood memories... each with its own atmosphere. Look back on your year Statistics, calendar, moods over the months: Diariste turns your entries into a gentle overview of how you've grown. Never judgmental, always to help you understand yourself better. Coming from another app? Import your journal from Day One, Daylio, Journey or a Markdown file. Your whole history comes with you. Your privacy first Your entries are private by default. Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID, turn on two-factor authentication, and see at a glance which devices are signed in to your account. With a legacy contact, you choose who will receive your journal when you're gone. Easy on the eyes at night Dark mode rests your eyes when you write late, and discreet mode keeps your journal away from prying eyes. A real community Discover, share and connect with other journal writers, anonymously or not, and take on the monthly writing challenges. And one day, a real book Whenever you like, turn a year of entries into a beautiful printed and bound book. Something to keep, to give, to pass on. Diariste is free. Go Premium for unlimited writing, multimedia, multiple journals, Lumi and time capsules. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 4.6.9 · Updated October 30, 2026
What's new in 4.6.9: • Seasonal opening: during the holidays, the app opens in the colors of the season, with snow at Christmas, fireworks at New Year and bats at Halloween (following your seasonal icon setting) • Siri: to write in Diariste with Siri, your iPhone now needs to be unlocked • Memories widget: your entry stays hidden on the Lock Screen and in StandBy • Messages: images from other sites no longer load on their own • Small fixes and improvements
App privacy
The developer, Julien Pasquet, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Other User Content
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality, Other Purposes
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