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Daylio: cost, fit and limits
Daylio is a mood-tracking diary app made by Habitics s.r.o. that logs moods and activities in a few taps, with optional notes, charts and habit goals, and keeps entries on the device rather than on vendor servers.
What to know first
Daylio is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. The free app logs moods and activities with notes, photos and voice memos, and offers stats, charts, goals, habits, reminders, PIN or Face ID lock and PDF or CSV export. A testimonial mentions premium features, but no premium plan or price is published on the pages we read, and the pages name no AI feature.
Daylio at a glance
| Maker | Habitics s.r.o., Not stated on the vendor pages |
|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes |
| Entry price | Free to download (App Store and Google Play) |
| API access | No |
| Category | Best AI Journaling Apps in 2026, rank 9 of 12 |
| Website | daylio.net |
Who Daylio is best for
People who hate long writing
Mood and activity entries take a few taps, with a note optional, so the habit survives busy days when a paragraph of diary text would not get written at all.
Self-trackers who like charts
Stats, charts and correlations plus a Year in Pixels view show patterns across a year of entries, for people who care more about trends than about prose.
Privacy-minded users
The policy says the app does not collect user-generated content, and entries stay on the device unless a backup is enabled by the user in settings.
Daylio plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free app | Free to download | Mood and activity entries, notes, photos, voice memos, stats and charts, goals and habits, reminders, PIN or Face ID lock, PDF or CSV export. |
| Premium | Not published on the pages opened | A testimonial refers to premium features; no feature list, plan name or price is shown on the homepage or the privacy policy. |
| Cloud backup | Uses your own storage | Optional backup goes to the user's Google Drive or iCloud; the pages state no separate backup fee and no Daylio-run cloud service. |
Checked November 2026.
What Daylio does
- Mood and activity logging
- Pick a mood and the activities of the day, then add a note if you like. The whole entry can take seconds, which is the design goal of the app.
- Year in Pixels
- A one-chart view of the whole year, colored by mood, that lets a user spot rough months and good stretches without reading a single written entry.
- Stats and correlations
- Charts and correlations built from entries show which activities go with which moods, a rule-based reading of the data that the pages do not label as AI.
- Goals, habits and achievements
- Targets and streaks for habits sit in the same app as the mood log, so a person can see whether a habit tracks with better days over time.
- Lock and export
- PIN, fingerprint or Face ID lock protects the diary, and PDF or CSV export plus backup to Google Drive or iCloud gives a way to keep a copy outside the phone.
How Daylio handles your data
Daylio's privacy policy says the app does not collect any user-generated content. Entries are stored only on the device, with optional backups to the user's own Google Drive or iCloud account. Analytics data is kept 2 months and Crashlytics data 90 days. Retention of journal content is not stated, since the vendor does not hold it. No certifications are stated, and the policy names no legal entity, so the company name Habitics s.r.o. comes from the homepage copyright line. The vendor's AI training position was not stated.
Where Daylio falls short in practice
- Premium is a blank. A testimonial mentions premium features, yet no plan name, price or feature list is published on the pages we read, so the paid tier cannot be evaluated or compared.
- Device-bound entries. Entries stay on the phone unless a backup is turned on, so a lost or broken phone without a backup loses the journal, and nothing on the pages describes automatic recovery.
- Short-form by design. The app centers on tapped moods and brief notes, which gives long-form writers less room than a diary app and offers no AI reply to what they write.
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Daylio: common questions
Does Daylio use AI?
The pages we read mention no AI feature. The app's stats, charts and correlations come from the moods and activities you enter, not from a model reading your text. For AI feedback on written entries, look at Rosebud or Reflection, which describe those features on their own pages.
Where does Daylio store my entries?
Entries are stored only on the device, per the privacy policy. Optional backups go to your own Google Drive or iCloud account. The policy says the app does not collect any user-generated content, so the vendor does not hold a copy of the diary on its servers.
Is Daylio free?
The app is free to download from the App Store and Google Play. A testimonial mentions premium features, but the pages we read publish no premium plan or price, so check the in-app screen before assuming which features are locked behind a payment.
Can I export my Daylio data?
Yes. The homepage lists PDF or CSV export, and cloud backup to Google Drive or iCloud. The pages do not describe the CSV columns or whether photos and voice memos come along with the export, so test it with a few entries first.
Who makes Daylio?
The homepage copyright names Habitics s.r.o. The privacy policy names no legal entity and no country appears on the pages we read, so the company's home country is not stated and we do not guess one from the name of the legal form.