What are the best alternatives to Day One?
HerFound lists 4 alternatives to Day One: DailyBean, Journey, Rosebud and Zinnia. DailyBean, Rosebud and Zinnia have a free version. Journey and Rosebud say outright that they do not sell personal data. Each fact comes from the app's own pages, last checked Nov 13, 2026.
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Day One and its alternatives compared
- Day One
- Free version
- Yes
- Paid plan
- $49.99/year
- Sells your data?
- No
- Data used for ads?
- —
- Account
- Optional
- Data kept
- —
- Platforms
- iOS, Android
- DailyBean
- Free version
- Yes
- Paid plan
- —
- Sells your data?
- —
- Data used for ads?
- Yes
- Account
- Not needed
- Data kept
- On your device
- Platforms
- iOS, Android
- Journey
- Free version
- —
- Paid plan
- $6.99/month or $49.99/year
- Sells your data?
- No
- Data used for ads?
- —
- Account
- Optional
- Data kept
- —
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, Web
- Rosebud
- Free version
- Yes
- Paid plan
- $12.99/month
- Sells your data?
- No
- Data used for ads?
- Yes
- Account
- —
- Data kept
- Company servers
- Platforms
- iOS, Android, Web
- Zinnia
- Free version
- Yes
- Paid plan
- $34.99/year
- Sells your data?
- —
- Data used for ads?
- Yes
- Account
- Required
- Data kept
- —
- Platforms
- iOS
| App | Free version | Paid plan | Sells your data? | Data used for ads? | Account | Data kept | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day One | Yes | $49.99/year | No | — | Optional | — | iOS, Android |
| DailyBean | Yes | — | — | Yes | Not needed | On your device | iOS, Android |
| Journey | — | $6.99/month or $49.99/year | No | — | Optional | — | iOS, Android, Web |
| Rosebud | Yes | $12.99/month | No | Yes | — | Company servers | iOS, Android, Web |
| Zinnia | Yes | $34.99/year | — | Yes | Required | — | iOS |
Sources: each app's own privacy policy, help pages and US App Store listing. Open an app to read the exact passage and the date we checked it. “—” means we have not sourced that fact yet. This is what each company states, not an audit of what it does.
The 4 alternatives
DailyBean
A no-writing journal and mood tracker: log your whole day in a few taps.
Journey
A journal and diary app: mood tracking, a chat companion and sync across all your devices.
Rosebud
An AI journal app: guided reflection that asks follow-up questions and spots patterns in your entries.
Zinnia
A digital planner and journal: templates, stickers, trackers and handwriting tools
Day One head to head
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Common questions
DailyBean, Rosebud and Zinnia have a free version.
Journey and Rosebud say they do not sell personal data. This is what each company states in its own policy, not an audit.
DailyBean and Journey can be used without creating an account, according to their own pages.
DailyBean, Journey and Rosebud are on Android. Zinnia is not.