# AJournal - Planner & Journal

> Digital Calendar & Handwriting

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1594064594](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1594064594)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1594064594`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** WonderApps AB
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (5,294 ratings)
- **Version:** 10.13
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2021-12-16
- **Size:** 117 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ajournal-planner-journal/id1594064594)
- **Website:** [https://ajournal.pro/](https://ajournal.pro/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://ajournal.pro/policy.html](http://ajournal.pro/policy.html)

## Description

AJournal is your all-in-one planner and digital journal that blends the mindfulness of handwriting with powerful organization tools. Plan days, weeks, and months, set goals, and capture reflections — all in one place. Use Apple Pencil to create and customize daily planners, to-do lists, and journal pages, or start instantly with over 100 professionally designed templates to track habits, projects, and progress effortlessly.

AJournal supports handwriting, text, and images, with thousands of stickers to personalize your notes. It offers digital calendars with calendar integration, reminders, easy navigation by dates/weeks/months/projects, a powerful search, and the ability to export journals as PDFs, create backups, and sync via iCloud. Optional ATracker integration helps you monitor progress in real time, while features like split view and customizable backgrounds/themes enhance your planning experience.

## Rankings

- #25,002 — Overall

## Review summary

AJournal shines with strong calendar integration, deep customization, handwriting-style entry, and cross-device syncing, making planning feel like pen-and-paper in a digital scrapbook. Positive reviews praise templates, stickers, and affordable upgrades. However, repeated downsides across reviews include subscription gating for most features, occasional handwriting and reliability glitches, missing widgets and auto-page creation, and usability challenges. The app is loved for its concept and flexibility but has consistent concerns about cost, stability, and feature gaps.

### Pros

- Excellent calendar integration and syncing with iCloud/Reminders/Calendar across devices (and some reviews mention Siri integration).
- High customization: templates, pages, stickers, and the ability to import stickers (e.g., from Canva) and add pictures.
- Handwriting-focused experience that feels like pen-and-paper planning, with flexible decorating and handwriting search.
- Seamless blend of planning and journaling: usable pages and organization for work/home, plus easy cross‑linking with reminders.
- Free version available with a reasonably affordable upgrade for more features, offering strong perceived value.

### Cons

- Heavy reliance on subscription: many templates, stickers, backgrounds and advanced features are gated behind a paid plan.
- Writing/handwriting can be glitchy or unreliable (handwriting disappearing) and some users report not being able to write on tasks.
- Reliability issues: app instability, pages going blank, designs disappearing, or crashes that affect data and usability.
- Missing essential features: lack of widgets, no automatic daily page creation, inability to delete pages, and limited options for sharing calendars (e.g., family sharing).
- Usability concerns: not always intuitive or beginner-friendly, with a noticeable learning curve.

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