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.8 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 while exploring options for 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 really wanted to keep my thoughts and memories of my young family for ourselves.

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. Journiv began as a deeply personal project, a way for me to capture memories, reflections, and the stories behind thousands of photos and videos of my fast-growing kids. What started as a tool for my own parenting journey has grown into something that fills a real gap in the self-hosting community.

If you’re curious, you can read the full story behind Journiv here: https://journiv.com/blog/the-story-behind-journiv

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