How much does Day One cost?

Day One publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $34.99/year for Day One Premium Annual. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Day One have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers one journal, up to 25 photo entries, basic sync. Paying starts at $3.99/month for Day One Premium.

What is the difference between Free and Day One Premium on Day One?

Day One Premium costs $3.99/month against Free, and adds unlimited journals and photos, end-to-end encryption, on this day and audio transcription.

Is the Day One Premium Annual plan on Day One worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is same as monthly premium at a lower effective rate. It costs $34.99/year against $3.99/month for Day One Premium. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which productivity tools can I use without paying?

4 of the 8 productivity tools listed alongside Day One have a free tier: Bluemail, Mealime, Canary Mail, Bring!.

Does Day One charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Day One prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Day One against before paying?

The closest productivity tools in this directory are Bluemail, Mealime, HEY, Streaks. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Day One covering price, platforms and features.

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Day One pricing

Day One publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 1 September 2026, Day One pricing is free across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Free tier plus subscription
Tiers: 3
Free tier: Yes

Day One plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Day One pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	3	Entry tier
Day One Premium	$3.99/month	3	+$3.99/month, 3 more features
Day One Premium Annual	$34.99/year	1	+$31/year, 1 more feature

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers one journal, up to 25 photo entries, basic sync.

Day One Premium

$3.99/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Unlimited journals and photos
End-to-end encryption
On This Day and audio transcription

Day One Premium Annual

$34.99/year

Over Day One Premium, this tier adds:

Same as monthly Premium at a lower effective rate

Where Day One stops being free

Free, Free

One journal
Up to 25 photo entries
Basic sync

Day One Premium, $3.99/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited journals and photos
End-to-end encryption
On This Day and audio transcription

What the product covers

The full Day One feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Multiple journals
Rich entries
End-to-end encryption
On This Day
Cross-platform sync
PDF and Day One export

People bring Day One in for someone wanting a private daily journal with photos that syncs between phone and laptop, a person keeping a travel journal that auto-attaches location and weather to each entry, someone who wants encrypted entries kept separate from an unencrypted general journal, a user who wants automated daily writing prompts and on this day nostalgia review. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Day One are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Productivity

Too few productivity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Day One entry price against other Productivity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Day One (this page)	Free	Free tier plus subscription	-
Bluemail	Free	quote	-	vs Day One
Mealime	Free, then $5.99/month	Freemium subscription	-	vs Day One
HEY	$99/year	Per user per month	-	vs Day One
Streaks	$5.99/one-time	One-time purchase	-	vs Day One
Canary Mail	Free	Per user per year, or one-time purchase	-	vs Day One
Bring!	Free	Free, with an optional paid Premium tier for extras	-	vs Day One

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Day One badges page.

Before you pay for Day One

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $34.99/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Day One runs on ios, android, macos, web, and is published by Automattic Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Day One review, and the rest of the category is under best productivity tools.

Day One pricing on the vendor's own site

Day One pricing questions

How much does Day One cost?: Day One publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $34.99/year for Day One Premium Annual. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Day One have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers one journal, up to 25 photo entries, basic sync. Paying starts at $3.99/month for Day One Premium.
What is the difference between Free and Day One Premium on Day One?: Day One Premium costs $3.99/month against Free, and adds unlimited journals and photos, end-to-end encryption, on this day and audio transcription.
Is the Day One Premium Annual plan on Day One worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is same as monthly premium at a lower effective rate. It costs $34.99/year against $3.99/month for Day One Premium. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which productivity tools can I use without paying?: 4 of the 8 productivity tools listed alongside Day One have a free tier: Bluemail, Mealime, Canary Mail, Bring!.
What am I actually paying for with Day One?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for someone wanting a private daily journal with photos that syncs between phone and laptop, a person keeping a travel journal that auto-attaches location and weather to each entry, someone who wants encrypted entries kept separate from an unencrypted general journal.
Does Day One charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Day One prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Day One against before paying?: The closest productivity tools in this directory are Bluemail, Mealime, HEY, Streaks. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Day One covering price, platforms and features.