Willow Journal
Rhys Bowles Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Willow Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Rhys Bowles. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated June 23, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 34 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Jun 23
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Willow Journal
Willow Journal is a cosy little home for your thoughts. Organise everything into colourful folders, fill them with notes, checklists and photos, and decorate your pages with stickers — all wrapped in a soft, hand-drawn, storybook style that gently shifts between day and night. Everything stays private on your device. No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking. Folders for everything • Colour-coded folders you can reorder with a drag • Give each folder a cute icon, your own photo, or its own scenic background Notes, your way • Write freely with paragraphs, bullet points and checklists • Checklist notes you can tick off right from the list — no need to open them • Add photos as polaroids, then move, resize and rotate them • Decorate with stamps & stickers, or import your own Gentle reminders • Schedule a one-time date, or repeat daily, weekly or monthly • Get a notification that opens straight to the right note • Auto-reset checklists on a schedule — perfect for weekly chores or shopping lists Made to feel calm • Soft, painterly backgrounds: sky, meadow, forest, cherry blossom, swamp, cosy kitchen and more • Light & dark themes that follow your phone • Friendly, rounded design throughout Private by design • All your notes, photos and stickers are stored only on your device • No data is collected, ever Plant your ideas in Willow Journal and watch them grow.
App privacy
The developer, Rhys Bowles, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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