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Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary is #157 in Lifestyle Paid in United Kingdom and charting in 9 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary update history & changes
Last change · 15 events since 28 May 2010Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 14 events in the last 12 months
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary charting in a new countryRussia
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary charting in a new country in 2 chartsPhilippines · South Africa
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary entered the top 100Top Paid · Lifestyle · ZA
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Lifestyle · CA · Top Paid · Lifestyle · US
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary entered the top 100Top Paid · Lifestyle · AU
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary charting in a new countrySpain
- 🆕Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary first spotted by AppInsider#43 in Top Paid · Lifestyle · France
- 📈Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary charting in a new country in 3 chartsAustralia · Canada · Italy
- 🆕Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary on the App Store
App details
Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| LifestylePaid | #157 | |
| LifestylePaid | #109 | |
| LifestylePaid | #118 | |
| LifestylePaid | #122 | |
| LifestylePaid | #195 | |
| LifestylePaid | #184 | |
| LifestylePaid | #88 | |
| LifestylePaid | #167 | |
| LifestylePaid | #195 |
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (68% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “This app is so easy to use”
- Features & content: “Great tool for self reflection privately”
- Useful: “Otherwise it works great though, and looks great too”
- Crashes & bugs: “Getting a little glitchy which concerns me as much of my life I have on this”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Right after I purchased the app, it crashed”
- Updates: “App won’t open on my phone since update…all entries gone”
About Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary
Focused writing. Multiple photos per entry that you can move, resize, rotate - your words flow around them. A recent New York Magazine article cites research showing people experienced improvement in "physical and mental well-being. They were happier, less depressed and less anxious" after writing about emotional or stressful events for a few days.
Start writing more, today. Reliable storage, autosave, and passcode lock protect your words; share or read them on your computer with PDF, text, and email export. You can also create backups and save them to other apps such as Dropbox, Drive, and Evernote.
Your journal will never run out of pages, but you can manage different topics or years in separate journals with the notebooks add-on.
Take a break from social networks. Write comfortably knowing you can find anything you wrote with built-in search. Search results include relevant snippets of text so you can easily find the exact entry you’re looking for.
According to a Harvard Business School paper, taking 15 minutes to reflect on your work at end of the workday can boost job performance (the study's journaling group performed 22.8% better on a test than the control group that simply continued working).
Start keeping a journal or diary. Organize chapters for a novel. Jot down notes and ideas. You can always export what you’ve written for safekeeping.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
* "A great app - probably my favourite app on my new iPad actually. Thanks!" - Jennifer N. v1.1.3
* "This is a developer who cares about quality product and is willing to consider any feature and solve any problem." - rbart09 on v1.0.6
* "Be assured that even with zero changes, this app is a real winner and a bargain at that!" - DeborahJay on v1.0
* "This is an elegant app that makes journaling with the iPad a snap, pretty much any time anywhere." - chaletchic on v1.0.3
* "I love the ease of use and simplicity, it really promotes getting your ideas down quickly and efficiently." - Tim Thomas on v1.0.2
THINGS YOU CAN DO
* Distraction free writing in portrait or landscape mode
* Put photos where you want. The text wraps around them.
* No limit to the number of photos you can put on the page
* Pick a font and font size just like you do in iBooks
* Customize the text color of your journal
* Easy back-dating; tap to adjust the entry date as needed
* Resize and rotate photos. Tap for a fullscreen, zoomable version.
* Customize your journal's page color
* Crisp PDF export preserves layout and photo placement
* Export your entire journal as a plain text file
* Fast search that provides context around keywords
* Support for Dynamic Type means text is never too small to read
* Extended keyboard makes it easy to insert timestamps into your writing
* Turn word count on to see a total as you type
* Optimized scrolling; scroll back a whole year