Apple Now Offering 'Day One 2' for Free in 'Apple Store' App

Thursday March 24, 2016 11:11 AM PDT by Joe Rossignol
Following the launch of iPhone SE and 9.7" iPad Pro orders, Day-One-2Apple has begun offering popular journal app Day One 2 for free through the Apple Store app for a limited time.

To take advantage of the promotion, open the Apple Store app, scroll down, and tap on the Day One 2 banner. Read the terms and conditions, tap on the green "download now for free" banner, sign in to your Apple ID account, and tap on "Redeem" in the top-right corner. The app will then begin downloading automatically.

Day One 2, normally $4.99 on the App Store, allows you to create a journal your life, ranging from once-in-a-lifetime events to everyday moments. The app features a timeline for browsing through past photos and notes, while you can also record the location, weather, time, and date of your life experiences.

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Day One 2 is available on the App Store [Direct Link] for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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scottfreeman
50 months ago
You must use the "Apple Store" app to find the promotion - not search in the App Store.
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thisisdallas
50 months ago

I do not see nay such promotion anywhere. Can you provide a screenshot?

$4.99 price still listed for me. 12:15PM Central time

same thing here at east coast


It's in the APPLE Store App, not the APP Store. Just open the Apple Store app and scroll on the featured page until you see the little banner.


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Benjamin Frost
50 months ago

I haven't read the terms and conditions, but isn't Apple very much in the debate of pro-privacy right now? Would seem weird for them to fight the FBI to keep phone's locked, while selling your journal data...


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Nozuka
50 months ago
download and delete. as usual.

if i ever need it, it will still be free.
Rating: 6 Votes
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Benjamin Frost
50 months ago
Be careful.

Many reviews in the UK are saying that you give up possession to all your content if you use this app.
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okboy
50 months ago
I do not see nay such promotion anywhere. Can you provide a screenshot?
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dylanlive
50 months ago

Be careful.

Many reviews in the UK are saying that you give up possession to all your content if you use this app.


I haven't read the terms and conditions, but isn't Apple very much in the debate of pro-privacy right now? Would seem weird for them to fight the FBI to keep phone's locked, while selling your journal data...
Rating: 4 Votes
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Trik
50 months ago

How is this better than just keeping a journal as a word processor document? If you want to share with friends you can keep it in a free Dropbox account or similar. With pictures in the document or on the side as separate items. All free. I just keep a journal as a Pages document (actually a new document whenever the last one seems too long) accessible on my iMac and all my iOS devices. Pictures in my pictures folder, and the ones I want to share on Dropbox. (I don't share my journal. Nobody would want to read it. But it would be easy to share if I wanted to.)


Yes, you can use pliers to take off a nut, but it's better with a wrench. It's just a specialized tool is all. What makes it better? It's designed for journaling. It can be sorted by day, with a calendar view. It can be sorted by location, by photos. You can have multiple journals with those same features but for different topics. I can hit a button on my watch and it creates an entry in my journal.

That's a lot of goodness for less than the cost of an extra value meal.

Or ... free.
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Trik
50 months ago

The app is not by Apple. According to their web site ('http://dayoneapp.com/sync/') your data is stored by the maker of the app on AWS (Amazon) cloud servers, so it's not in Apple's hands. Just like you are subject to Facebook's (and not Apple's) privacy policies when you use the Facebook app. I have no idea how trustworthy this company is, but I'd be very hesitant to store private journal entries in any cloud unless I can use true end-to-end encryption (which is not the case for Day One from what I can see).


Get it free now, then wait for the 2.1 release which will provide Private-key Encryption:

Private-key Encryption
In 2016, we will develop and provide full private-key encryption on the server in our 2.1 release for iOS and Mac apps by May 2016. Our encryption features will utilize the user’s private key to encrypt all entries before they reach the server. In short, the server will have no access to the user’s unencrypted data. Neither iCloud ('https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303') nor Dropbox ('https://www.dropbox.com/help/28') currently provide this level of security, thus making Day One Sync even more secure than these other sync/backup methods.
Rating: 4 Votes
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macduke
50 months ago
Day One 2? Now that's a name that just rolls right off the tongue. If they can't even put in the effort to give it a decent name then why should I use it, lol.
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