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Folio
A quiet daily journal — no streaks, no ads, fully offline
A quiet notebook for closing the day. Write daily journal entries, track moods and habits gently, and reflect on your month. Private, customizable, no pressure.
Hey everyone! I'm Atul, solo dev from India.
I've quit 6 journal apps in 2 years.
Not because journaling didn't help. It did. But every app turned it into a chore. Maintain your streak, upgrade to write more than 3 entries, rate your day on a scale of 1-10, sync to our cloud, share with the community. I started dreading opening the app. The thing that was supposed to help me wind down became another task on my list.
So I built Folio around a different philosophy: journaling should feel like opening a notebook, not logging into a system.
Here's what it does:
- Write a page a day (one sentence counts, no one's scoring you)
- Gentle mood and habit tracking, skip any day without guilt
- App-locked with fingerprint/PIN, fully offline, no account needed
- 5 color palettes and 6 paper textures to make it feel yours
- Monthly reflections that softly surface patterns you didn't notice
- Google Drive backup when you want it, never forced
No paywall on writing. Core journaling is completely free. Optional premium unlocks deeper reflection tools for people who want them.
Available now on Google Play and the App Store.
I'd love for you to try it tonight and tell me how it feels. And if you've tried journaling before and it started feeling like a chore, what was the moment you knew you were done? Real answers shape what I build next.
This sounds lovely for evening reflection, one thing I'd love is a simple streak counter that shows how many days in a row I've journaled, just a small visual nudge without any guilt trip if I miss a day.
Love how the mood tracking feels more like a gentle nudge than another metric to obsess over. The monthly reflection prompt caught me off guard in a good way.
the mood tracking feels really low-key, which i appreciated after bouncing off apps that made everything feel like a task. monthly recap view is a nice touch too.
The calm framing of the mood and habit tracking feels really considered - it nudges without nagging, which is such a hard balance to get right.
Honestly the mood tracking feels really low pressure, you just tap a little icon and move on. The monthly reflection view is the part I didn't know I needed.
About Folio on Product Hunt
“A quiet daily journal — no streaks, no ads, fully offline”
Folio was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #125 on the daily leaderboard. A quiet notebook for closing the day. Write daily journal entries, track moods and habits gently, and reflect on your month. Private, customizable, no pressure.
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Who hunted Folio?
Folio was hunted by Atul Chatuvedi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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