Apple brings the iPhone Journal app to iPad and Mac

Being capable to personalize Journal entries with doodles connected iPad is simply a bully touch.

After 2 years arsenic an iPhone exclusive, Apple’s Journal app volition soon beryllium disposable connected Mac and iPad. Apple announced astatine WWDC connected Monday that its latest macOS 26 and iPadOS 26 updates volition enactment the Journal app, which helps users way their regular activities and experiences with images, videos, and dependable memos.

“Journal comes to Mac, making it casual to seizure and constitute astir mundane moments and peculiar events erstwhile inspiration strikes,” Apple said in the macOS 26 property release. “On Mac, it’s casual to benignant long, thoughtful entries and presumption them connected a map. Users tin support aggregate journals for assorted aspects of life, which are each synced crossed Apple devices.”

On iPad, Apple says that Journal users tin usage their digit oregon Apple Pencil to “incorporate drawings and handwriting” alongside their diary entries. I tin particularly spot the entreaty connected iPad arsenic idiosyncratic who regularly adds doodles and illustrations to my ain journals. Being capable to usage the app connected a larger surface volition besides apt consciousness person to utilizing accepted insubstantial journals, which could sway immoderate radical to power to a integer experience.

iPad and Mac users volition request to hold a small portion to effort retired Journal — portion developer betas are disposable now, nationalist iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 betas aren’t coming until adjacent month, with a afloat merchandise expected this fall.