Hello everyone!
Journiv is a self-hosted private journaling application that puts you in complete control of your personal reflections. Built with privacy and simplicity at its core, Journiv offers comprehensive journaling capabilities including mood tracking, prompt-based journaling, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search. All while keeping your data on your own infrastructure.
Journiv v0.1.0-beta.11 is out with
- Day One Import - Own your data forever and import them from Day One
- Location and Weather - Attach location and weather to your entries
- Tags Management - Complete Tag management with tag based filtering and tag analytics
- Auto Save - Never lose your entry in draft mode
- Media de-duplication: Attach same media to multiple entries/journal without consuming more space.
- Journiv Plus: Gives supporters additional features as a thank you for supporting the development of Journiv. Thanks to Kavita developer majora2007 for providing some guidance on this.
- and many more features and bug fixes.
The Journey Ahead
Journiv is in active development, with a fully functional backend, a web frontend, and mobile apps launching soon. It is self-hosted, and designed to be your companion for decades.
Journiv is being built because our memories deserve to be ours, forever.
Learn More
- Spin up Journiv
- Watch other demo videos
- Want to just try a demo? https://demo.almostadatacenter.com/ (Thanks to JasonFieldz for hosting a demo instance): username: [email protected] password: Demo1234


Is Journiv still having issues with export? I couldn’t get it to work (tried following all the stuff I could find about the export issues and folder permissions) - so I gave up. A shame because I like the app.
Can you clarify the export issue you are seeing or please report it on github? The export/import has been working well. I am guessing you might have tried it out with quickstart docker compose or Synology NAS guide from mariaus hosting which does not have complete docker compose i.e. it is missing celery-workers container which are needed to create import/export jobs and run them async. Couple of users tripped on this so I will be improving the error message to specifically say they need to run complete stack right not the error message is very cryptic low level detail which is hard for anyone to understand what went wrong.
Thanks. I took another look at your documentation and decided to re-install everything. You’re right, I’d used the simple “test” compose script from your site. After a little trial and error, I got everything working properly with this:
services: redis: image: redis:7-alpine container_name: journiv-redis restart: unless-stopped volumes: - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/redis-data:/data command: redis-server --appendonly yes journiv: image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest container_name: journiv ports: - "8111:8000" environment: - SECRET_KEY=XXX - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0 - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0 - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0 volumes: - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - redis celery-worker: image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest container_name: journiv-celery-worker entrypoint: [] command: ["celery", "-A", "app.core.celery_app", "worker", "--loglevel=info"] environment: - SECRET_KEY=XXX - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0 - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0 - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0 volumes: - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data restart: unless-stopped depends_on: - redis - journivExports are working!