Since Apple hasn't brought their beautiful Journal app to macOS yet, I decided to create a native macOS version that captures the same elegant simplicity and thoughtful features. This app lets you document your thoughts, track emotions, and reflect on your days - all with a clean, native macOS interface.
- Clean, distraction-free writing experience
- Beautiful, native macOS design
- Track your emotions with an intuitive Emotion Orb
- Insightful writing statistics
- Organized by months
- Supports system appearance
- Fast and lightweight
- macOS 13.0 or later
- Xcode 15.0 or later
- Clone the repository
- Open
Journal for macOS.xcodeprojin Xcode - Build and run
- SwiftUI for the UI
- UserDefaults for local storage
- SwiftUI Introspect for native controls
- RichTextKit for text formatting
- Sparkle for automatic updates
- Orb for intuitive emotion tracking
MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome! Feel free to check the issues page.
Ali Nasser
Made with ❤️ for the Mac