Is Sojourner cheaper than Day One?

Free to start, with a single sustainable subscription for the things that cost us money (storage, transcription, scripture). No per-feature paywalls.

Does Sojourner work on iOS?

Yes — there's a Sojourner mobile app for iOS and Android, plus the web app.

What about end-to-end encryption?

Day One leans hard on E2EE; Sojourner currently encrypts in transit and at rest with provider-managed keys, with E2EE for sensitive journals on the roadmap. If E2EE is a hard requirement today, Day One is the safer pick.

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Sojourner vs Day One

Both are private journals. Sojourner is built around families and shared journals; Day One is built around the single-person feed. Here's how that shows up.

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Where Sojourner leans

Families

first

Per-child & shared journals

Trips

first-class

Map + timeline, not a tag

Auto-tag

your back catalogue

Years of entries, organised

Export

freely

Markdown + JSON, anytime

Three reasons people switch

A journal per person

Per-child, per-partner, per-trip — without the single-feed bottleneck.

Trips that feel like trips

Map and timeline per trip, not just a tag scattered through the feed.

Auto-tag the back catalogue

Years of entries, organised in an afternoon by Sojourner — not by you.

How they think about the same problem

Same goal — a private journal you'll keep for years. Two very different shapes.

Sojourner

Multiple journals, one app

Per-child journals, shared journals with your partner, trip journals — all under one roof, with on-this-day spanning across them.

Day One

One polished single-person feed

Beautifully designed single-author timeline. Multiple journals exist, but the centre of gravity is the personal feed.

When Sojourner is the better fit

If you're journalling for a family — multiple kids, a partner, the trips you take together — Sojourner's per-journal model and sharing flow are built for it. If you want the journal to actually pay you back through 'on this day' across multiple journals at once, Sojourner is built for that too.

When Day One might suit you better

If you're a single person writing a single feed and you want the most polished print-book product on the market right now, Day One is hard to beat. We're working on print, but it's not where Day One is yet.