Kartka Journal
Michal Milczarski Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Kartka Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by Michal Milczarski. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 14, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 9 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 14
- 2026 · v1.50
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About Kartka Journal
Kartka is a journal that looks like paper and behaves like a notebook: one page per day, text, photos, handwriting. No account, no ads, no subscription. WRITE THE WAY YOU WANT Text with a title and paragraphs, photos between sentences, a mood with one tap. On iPad and on an unfolded iPhone Duo every day has a second, handwritten page: pen, eraser, colours, photo stickers. On iPhone you read it just as it was written. YOUR PAPER Blank, dots, lines, grid or isometric dots; for handwriting also margin lines, graph paper, Cornell, music staves, calligraphy, a day planner and letter paper. Themes: Paper, Verdant, Sepia, Indigo, Mono, Cerulean, Phosphor. Three typefaces. DAY BY DAY Calendar, a timeline with a photo gallery, Lists with Yesterday · Today · Tomorrow planning and ready-made templates. A daily reflection question, reminders, widgets, Shortcuts and Siri, Focus filters. A time capsule – a letter from your future self. YOURS AND YOURS ONLY Face ID, iCloud sync with end-to-end encryption – the key lives only on your devices. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics. FULL VERSION – ONE-TIME 7 days free, then one purchase for good: unlimited journals, search, tags, moods, a PDF or EPUB book from your entries, statistics and insights, On This Day and memories, voice notes, the Memoir, your own list templates and day notes, premium themes and papers. The free version keeps three journals, handwriting, four papers, five themes and everything you have written – forever.
What’s new
Version 1.50 · Updated September 14, 2026
Kartka 1.5 is the biggest update since launch – and the first version for iPad. WRITE BY HAND Every day has a second, handwritten page: pen, eraser, widths from 0.5 pt, colours, as many pages as you need. Add photos as stickers – above or below the ink – with originals going to iCloud and a light copy staying in the app. Writes on iPad and on an unfolded iPhone Duo; on every iPhone the page is there to read, in the gallery and in your book too. Handwriting is free in three journals. NEW PAPERS Isometric dots for entries and handwriting; for handwriting also lines with a margin, graph paper, Cornell notes, music paper, calligraphy, a day planner (each page is a day with a date field) and letter paper. Switch paper with one tap from the entry header. Part of the full version. YOUR BOOK AS PDF OR EPUB Same cover, same entries, two formats: PDF for print, EPUB for Books, Kindle and Kobo. A cover colour when the photo covers only part of it, title and author pick their own contrast, handwritten pages can be left out. Full version. LISTS THAT PLAN YOUR DAYS Yesterday · Today · Tomorrow at the top of Lists. Move what’s unfinished with one tap, add a day note, save any list as your own template – ready-made templates work on all three days. ON IPAD AND IPHONE DUO One app: tab bar at the edge on wide screens, rotation, a “stand” mode for an unfolded phone with a hardware keyboard. ALSO The Mono theme – white, black in dark mode, free. A floating tab bar and frosted glass in your theme’s colour on the newest systems – the paper stays matte. Reminders tell you when the system blocks them. Alignment and stability fixes.
App privacy
The developer, Michal Milczarski, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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