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About General Journal

General Journal brings your diary, expenses, photos, and companion conversations together in one daily timeline. Capture everyday life • Write rich-text diary entries with moods and photos. • Record income and expenses manually or turn a sentence into entries with AI assistance. • Review suggested entries before saving them. • Scan receipts and Taiwan e-invoice QR codes to help with bookkeeping. • Find past entries with search and tags. Keep your finances in view • Manage accounts, transfers, credit card payments, and shared expenses. • Record spending in different currencies. • Review income, expenses, and category summaries. Make room for reflection • Talk with your in-app companion about your day. • Request a companion response to a saved entry. • Create and edit memory cards from selected records and conversations. • Personalize your experience with appearance and companion settings. Your records and your choices • No app account is required for core journaling and bookkeeping. • Core records and photos are stored on your device. • Optional AI features send the content and context needed for processing to an online service. • Receipt recognition uses on-device OCR; relevant text is sent for AI parsing. • Export local backups, or choose available cloud backup options. Cloud backup transfers your backup to the cloud service you select. • App lock helps protect access to your records. Free to use with ads. Optional purchases and subscriptions provide additional benefits; see the in-app plan details for current features and limits. Before updating or changing devices, export a current backup and keep it somewhere safe. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s new

Version 2.2.0 · Updated October 31, 2026

A refreshed General Journal for your everyday records. • Redesigned navigation brings Timeline, Bookkeeping, Companion, and My pages together. • Updated diary editing, photo handling, and memory card creation. • Improved quick-entry review, receipt entry, and shared-expense workflows. • Refined companion conversations, settings, and backup/restore screens. • Updated Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese interfaces. Before updating, please export a current backup from Settings and keep it somewhere safe. Update the existing app without uninstalling it.

App privacy

The developer, Zhegang Xu, reported these privacy practices to Apple.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

  • Identifiers: Device ID

Data Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Location: Coarse Location
  • Identifiers: Device ID
  • Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
  • Purchases: Purchase History
  • Financial Info: Other Financial Info
  • User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content

Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, App Functionality

Data Not Linked to You

The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:

  • Diagnostics: Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data, Crash Data

Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics

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