Permission — Private Journal
JONATHAN BILES Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Permission — Private Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by JONATHAN BILES. Rated 4.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 4.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 3 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Oct 14
- 2026 · v1.8.0
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About Permission — Private Journal
Permission is a quiet, private place to come home to yourself. Each day, Permission offers you one gentle prompt — a small invitation to notice, soften, and grow. Then you choose how to answer it: write it in words, speak it aloud, or draw it by hand. However it wants to come out, it has a home here. Permission was created for women doing the tender work of reconnecting with themselves — but it's for anyone who wants a calm, judgment-free space to reflect. WHAT MAKES IT FEEL SAFE • A fresh, encouraging prompt every day to guide your reflection • Three ways to journal — type it, record your voice, or draw it freehand • Protected by a passcode you set, plus Face ID / Touch ID • Completely private: everything stays on your phone • No account, no sign-up, no email required • Works fully offline — nothing is ever uploaded • Export a copy of any entry whenever you want it YOUR WORDS NEVER LEAVE YOUR PHONE Permission collects nothing. There are no accounts and no servers — your entries and your passcode live only on your device. Not even we can see them. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. Free, and yours.
What’s new
Version 1.8.0 · Updated October 14, 2026
Now made for iPad and the iPhone Duo. Permission fills the whole screen on iPad, upright or sideways, and on the iPhone Duo, open or closed. Turn it sideways and it spreads into two columns: your journal beside today's invitation, and a bigger page to draw on, with the drawing tools in a side column. Held upright on iPhone, Permission looks just as it did. Everything still stays on your device.
App privacy
The developer, JONATHAN BILES, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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