# One Year: Daily Journal

> Mood Diary & Memory Garden

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6740510762](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6740510762)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6740510762`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Wind Down Studio, LLC
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (468 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-20
- **First published:** 2025-01-15
- **Size:** 66 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/one-year-daily-journal/id6740510762)
- **Website:** [https://oneyear.garden](https://oneyear.garden/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://oneyear.garden/terms-privacy](https://oneyear.garden/terms-privacy)

## Description

One Year Daily Journal is a private, ad-free diary that grows into a garden of 365 hand-drawn plants. Write a memory each day (with an optional image) and watch your garden evolve over the year. The experience is light, visual, and easy to keep up with.

- Private by default and stored on your device or iCloud; no accounts, no feeds, no tracking.
- 365 hand-drawn plants (no AI) that grow as you write; revisit any day and watch the garden blossom.
- Widgets for home and lock screen; garden view or simple progress dots; works across devices.

## Rankings

- #75,259 — Overall

## Review summary

Reviewers praise the app’s clean, minimal design and its daily journaling concept, especially the home-screen widget. The strongest positives are the widget and the simple UX that motivates writing. Common downsides center on pricing: subscription paywalls for widgets and frequent price changes, with some feeling lifetime pricing too high. Other recurring issues include lack of dark mode/customization, occasional widget reliability/purchase restoration problems, and requests for features like editing past entries or memory digests.

### Pros

- Home-screen widget is a standout feature that motivates daily journaling.
- Simple, clean, minimal design that’s visually appealing.
- Effective at encouraging regular writing and reflection.
- One-time lifetime access pricing provides good perceived value.

### Cons

- Widget and core features are locked behind a subscription/paywall.
- Pricing feels unstable with frequent changes and is perceived as too high.
- Lack of dark mode and limited color customization.
- Widget reliability issues and problems with restoring purchases.
- Requests for features like editing past entries and automatic memory digests.

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