• DesktopAnnouncement
  • Journey Desktop 2024: Sneak Peek of New Desktop App for Windows, Mac & Linux

Dear Journey patron,

We heard you. We understand you need a better desktop app for Journey, and we are excited to share our plans for its future.

The current Windows, Mac Classic, and Linux apps are in maintenance mode due to outdated technology that makes it unsustainable to continue their development. These older versions also lack important features that many of you have requested, such as Apple sign-in and Journey Cloud Sync. To address these limitations and provide a more seamless, modern experience, we are introducing a new desktop app: "Journey Desktop 2024." This new app will replace the existing Windows, Mac Classic, and Linux apps to offer improved functionality and a better overall user experience.

What to Expect:

Journey Desktop 2024 is designed to meet the evolving needs of our users and will come with a host of exciting new features:

  • A new colored theme UI
  • Journey Cloud Sync
  • Email and Apple login
  • End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)
  • Shared web links and journals
  • Print to PDF
  • Export to DOCX and EPUB formats
  • Odyssey AI
  • Smart photo organization
  • Elastic search
  • Support self-host

We are committed to delivering a superior journaling experience with Journey Desktop 2024. We plan to release the alpha version by early August 2024, and we can't wait for you to try it out and share your feedback.

Thank you for your continued support and trust in Journey.

Warm regards,
The Journey Team

admin stickied the discussion .

Oh, this is excellent news! I had actually started looking for a new journaling platform when I found out the desktop app had been abandoned, because this is such an important feature for me. Looking forward to it!

  • John replied to this.

    the1germ Thanks for your support! We will not abandon the desktop app. The delay was due to our efforts to find the best possible way to implement cross-platform capability. We hope you can give it a try when the app is ready!

      Thank you, Journey! I can't wait to install it on my computer.

        Sounds great!!
        It still works offline right? I ask because I've seen other software become online-only in recent years.

        • John replied to this.
          7 days later

          great news! thanks! i look forward to the new desktop app.

          Dear Journey users, we are excited to share some screenshots of Journey Desktop and its current progress with you. Stay tuned for more announcements from us.

          12 days later

          Great! I can't wait for the desktop app!

          7 days later

          The desktop app is scheduled to be released this week. Please look out for the announcement here!

          7 days later

          I tried desktop 2024 on mac and it runs smoothly and feels better than catalyst version. it doesn't support self-hosted drivers at present, while it can sync data from google drive.

          However, i hope there's option for us to tune the UI font.
          it looks too small on both catalyst version and desktop 2024. from settings - general - appearance, we can only tune font for diary entries, not the UI font, right?

          • John replied to this.

            gangzhou01 Thanks for using the desktop app!

            Self-hosting is currently in the test phase. It will be rolled out as soon as we are ready.

            It will be possible to change the UI font, likely in the subsequent app update. Should you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

            Hi This looks great, have installed the first version and that has updated to the new version today. It's in a windows 11 machine, I have a sync drive and a google drive. The google drive is my primary one because the sync drive is full and i am not yet committing to further payments.
            BUT although my google drive entries downloaded, any entries i make using this new desktop version don't sync to google drive. The google drive also says 'Last sync: never' even though my existing entries downloaded

            • John replied to this.

              CJE Can you restart the app and try again? Does it still show "never"?

              John removed the tags .