Dayleaf started as an iPhone app, and for a year the most common question in our inbox was some version of "when can my partner / my sister / my other phone have it?" As of this week the answer is: now. Dayleaf is on Google Play, free to start, and it is the same journal, not a lite version.
📅 The same journal
Everything the calendar-journal idea rests on made the trip: entries that live right inside the month, week and day views; stickers you stamp on dates; daily, weekly and monthly goals with a reflection space; photos, videos and voice notes on any entry; a timeline you can search; and the fourteen hand-crafted themes, each with a light and a dark face. Every planner keeps its own icon, font and text size. All eleven languages came along too.
📱 Built for Android, not ported to it
Some things had to be rebuilt the Android way rather than copied. The Home Screen widgets are native: a Today widget with your streak and goals you can tick off on the spot, and Sticker Stamp widgets that stamp one sticker on today with a single tap. The daily reminder uses Android's own notification channel, so it respects your Do Not Disturb settings. Photos come in through Android's photo picker, which means Dayleaf never asks for access to your whole gallery.
One thing is deliberately absent: there is no Wear OS app yet. The Apple Watch app took a release of its own to get right, and we would rather do the same on the wrist than ship something half-finished.
☁️ A backup that crosses the fence
This is the part we are proudest of. On Android, Settings → Google Drive backs up your whole journal, photos and audio included, to a hidden app folder in your own Google Drive. The next iPhone update (2.3.0, in TestFlight now) adds the same Google Drive backup on iOS, and the two read each other's files. Back up on an Android phone, restore on an iPhone, or the other way round: every entry, sticker, photo and voice note arrives intact. Switching phones, or living in a mixed household, stops being a reason to keep two journals.
It is a manual backup rather than live sync, on purpose. Your journal stays in your own Drive, we never see it, and there is no account to create. iCloud backup on iOS works exactly the same way, and both stay free.
📥 Switching from Day One
The Day One importer is on Android from day one. Export your journal as JSON, pick the ZIP (or the unzipped folder) in Settings → Import, and entries, photos, videos and audio come across, even for a decade-sized archive. Free, forever.
💛 Pro, priced the same
Dayleaf Pro unlocks all fourteen themes, custom stickers, unlimited planners, per-planner fonts and icons, up to ten attachments per entry and voice notes. On Google Play it is the same deal as on the App Store: own it forever with one purchase, or subscribe monthly or yearly if you prefer. Everything you already use stays free, and backups, import and your journal itself are never behind the paywall.
What's next
The iPhone, iPad and Mac update with Google Drive backup is close. After that, the two apps move in lockstep: every feature ships to both, in the same release, from the same design. If you find something on Android that does not feel like Dayleaf yet, the feedback board in Settings → Support goes straight to the developer.
