Print your Apple Journal as a book.

Journal Printer is the missing print button for Apple’s Journal app. It doesn’t replace Journal; it turns the entries and photos you already have there into a printed, bound book, delivered to your door. An app for Mac and iPhone, in development, Mac first with iPhone to follow. Leave your email and you’ll hear when yours is ready.

One email when the version you asked for is ready. No newsletter, and your address isn’t shared.

Sample front cover: a navy book with the title A Sample Year, its date range, and the author’s name. — The cover and two pages of a made-up sample journal, exactly as the app lays them out for print.

Sample left-hand page: a dated journal entry with a photo under its title, followed by the entry’s text. — The cover and two pages of a made-up sample journal, exactly as the app lays them out for print.

How it works

Export from Journal. Apple’s Journal app can export all your entries and photos to a folder, on Mac and on iPhone. Journal Printer shows you how, then you point it at that folder.
Preview every page. Journal Printer lays out your entries, photos, places and workouts as a book, and shows you each page exactly as it will print. Pick a date range, a title, and softcover or hardcover.
Order. Pay with Apple Pay. Your book is printed and shipped to you.

Your journal stays on your device

A journal is about the most private thing you own. The app reads your export and builds the whole book on your own Mac or iPhone. Your entries and photos are never uploaded for processing. The only thing that leaves your device is the finished print file, and only when you place an order, so the printer can print it.

Planned pricing

Book length	Softcover	Hardcover
50 pages or fewer	$19.99	$24.99
100 pages	$24.99	$29.99
200 pages	$34.99	$39.99
384 pages	$53.39	$58.39

$19.99 covers the first 50 pages, then $0.10 for each additional page. Hardcover is $5 more. The app is free; you pay only for books. Shipping is extra, from $5.69 within the US. Prices may change before launch.

Details

The book: 5.5 × 8.5 inches, printed in full colour, softcover or hardcover, up to 384 pages per volume. Longer journals are split into volumes.
What’s included: Your text with its formatting, photos, maps of the places you visited, and workout routes, each under the entry it belongs to, with a contents page by month.
What you need: Apple’s Journal app, on a Mac or an iPhone. The Mac app comes first; the iPhone app follows it.