NoDiary — Minimalist Daily Journal for iOS

Q: Why only one entry per day?

One entry per day removes the pressure to keep up and makes the calendar view meaningful. A single sheep marks every day you wrote — easy to glance at, hard to game. The constraint turns journaling into a habit instead of a chore.

A small sheep
for every day
you wrote. — and gentle empty space for the days you didn't —

NoDiary gives you one entry per day. A single sheep marks every day you wrote — easy to glance at, hard to game. Photos, mood, calendar, streak. No subscription, no ads, no analytics. Free.

The empty cells are also a record.

Most diary apps quietly assume you will fail. They count streaks, push notifications, threaten broken chains. The product is the guilt. NoDiary doesn't do that. The empty cells aren't blame — they're just part of the picture.

Sunday in winter.
The week of the flu.
The four days your mother visited.

These are the days you didn't write — and a calendar full of sheep without them would be a fiction, not a record. NoDiary keeps them as soft outlines, not as red marks.

Skipping a day costs you nothing. The sheep are still there tomorrow.

— a recent month —

↖ the flu week, and that's fine

Five faces for five kinds of day.

Logging a mood takes one tap. The sheep are deliberately gentle — even on the heavy days, they're not judging you. They just sit with you.

happy

good

neutral

sad

angry

Small on the outside. Enough on the inside.

Seven things, all included. No subscription, no ads, and sync is never behind a paywall. One optional one-time purchase adds the full sheep flock and the sheep costumes — that is the only thing you can buy.

— one a day

One entry, one day

The single rule of NoDiary. It removes the pressure to keep up, and makes the calendar view actually mean something.

— mood

Five mood sheep

One tap per day. Five expressions cover most of what a day actually is. The sheep don't grade your moods.

— photos

Up to nine photos

Drag to reorder, tap to view. Your visual diary alongside the words. Stored locally with a tidy cache.

— calendar

Calendar view

The shape of the month at a glance. Every day you wrote has a sheep. Every day you didn't has empty space — and that's fine.

— icloud

iCloud sync

Through your private CloudKit container. Write on iPhone, read on iPad. Smart Kiitös never sees a word.

— import

Bring your old diary

Switching from Day One, a folder of text files, or a CSV? Import it and your calendar is full the day you arrive. Days you already wrote are never overwritten.

— stats

Monthly stats

Entries, characters, current streak, longest streak, most active day. Small numbers that don't try to optimize you.

The app, page by page.

Calendar, an open entry, a photo grid, search, and the monthly stats page. Designed for one-thumb use before sleep.

— Calendar —

— Diary —

— Photos —

— Search —

— Stats —

A diary should be yours.

Diary apps have a bad history of selling moods, harvesting photos, and locking export behind subscriptions. NoDiary is structurally unable to do any of those things.

The shortest privacy
policy we could honestly write.

Entries live in JSON on your device, with a photo cache. Optional sync goes through your iCloud — Smart Kiitös runs no server, holds no copy. There is no analytics SDK, no advertising framework, no crash reporter. The only data the app handles is what you write.

Read the full policy →

✓Local JSON storageEntries stay on the device. Works offline.
✓iCloud syncOptional. Through your private CloudKit container.
✓Export anytimeText or PDF. Bring your data with you.
—Smart Kiitös serverNone. Nothing for us to lose.
—Third-party analyticsZero SDKs of any kind.
—Ads and subscriptionsNone. One optional cosmetic unlock, nothing else.

Frequently asked, honestly answered.

What is NoDiary?

NoDiary is a free minimalist diary app for iPhone and iPad. You write one entry per day, log your mood with an animated sheep, and optionally attach up to nine photos. Your entries sync privately through iCloud and never touch a third-party server.

Why only one entry per day?

One entry per day removes the pressure to "keep up" and makes the calendar view meaningful. A single sheep marks every day you wrote — easy to glance at, hard to game. The constraint turns journaling into a habit instead of a chore.

How does NoDiary sync between devices?

Sync runs through Apple's iCloud using your private CloudKit database. Your entries and photos move directly between your devices via Apple's infrastructure. Smart Kiitös never sees, stores, or processes any of your content.

Can I bring my diary over from another app?

Yes. NoDiary imports from Day One (the Journal.json inside its export), a folder of .txt or .md files named by date, a CSV with a date and a text column, or a NoDiary export. You see how many entries were found and which years they span before anything is written, several entries from the same day are joined into one, and days you have already written are never overwritten. Text only for now — photos stay in the app you exported from.

Is NoDiary really free?

Yes. Writing, iCloud sync, photos, search, monthly stats, export and the Home Screen widget are all free, with no subscription and no ads. There is one optional one-time purchase that unlocks the full sheep flock and the sheep costumes. Nothing you write is ever behind a paywall.

Does NoDiary collect any data?

No. NoDiary contains zero third-party SDKs — no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising frameworks. The only data the app handles is the entries and photos you write, which stay on your device and in your private iCloud.

A small sheep
for every day
you wrote. — and gentle empty space for the days you didn't —

The empty cells are also a record.

Sunday in winter.
The week of the flu.
The four days your mother visited.