Hello everyone!
TL;DR:
Journiv is a a beautiful, self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights. The mission is simple: your memories should always stay yours. Own them, don’t rent them.
Journiv 0.1.0-beta.4 is now live on GitHub and fully Docker-hostable.
Start owning your thoughts and memories forever and keep them completely private.
The Story Behind Journiv
I got into self-hosting last year and while exploring options journaling solution, I realized there wasn’t a truly modern, self-hosted equivalent to Day One or Apple Journal. Most alternatives were either general note apps or old abandoned projects.
I wanted something focused on journaling with:
- “On This Day” memories
- Prompt-based journaling
- A clean, minimal, distraction-free writing experience
So… I built my own: Journiv, a beautiful (at least I am trying to make it so), self-hosted, privacy-first journaling app with mood tracking, daily prompts, and meaningful insights.
Get Involved
Give Journiv a try, share your feedback and report issues. It means a lot at this stage.


Hi,
Based on the screenshots and your description, it looks nice and it certainly is an app many people would like to use. I also like that it is both an app and a selfhosted web-thingy (making it available anywhere while being fully private)
As the admin of the !journaling@sh.itjust.works community, as someone who has been journaling for almost 50 years now, and as someone that was also heavy into digital journaling (I have probably used most digital tools one can imagine, and was also a DO user since it was first introduced years before it became sub-based) that have quit using digital journaling years ago out of privacy concerns, I would love to try your app and give you some feedback if I can, and to share my experience using it with our little journaling community.
Alas, I’m also not that much of a geek and, reading the Docker guide, I did not even manage to understand how I was supposed to install the ‘Docker Compose’ and/or the ‘Docker Desktop’ parts of the install process. So, well, I’m kinda stuck at what most people would consider a rather early stage ;)
Would you happen to know any noob-friendly intro and an install guide for that Docker thingy, beside its official doc? Or is there another way to install it?
Yes definitely. This is a very good feedback. Its surprising how being a developer and self hosted enthusiast who is neck deep on hosting everything of my own I completely forgot that there will be people who will like to use this and not know about docker and all the stuff (very common thing in self hosted community).
I would love to guide you through installing and using the application and your experienced feedback would definitely be very helpful in improving the app.
Are you on discord? Then you can join Journiv’s community discord server https://discord.com/invite/CuEJ8qft46 if you aren’t then just send me a message here.
Thx, I just joined the Discord.
Awesome!