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Tailor your journal to your unique needs with custom templates! This was one of our most requested features and opens up a whole new world of customization in Clearful.
Easily capture your hobbies and adventures, boost productivity with custom work templates, create personalized journaling routines, and adapt your journal to life's changes - all with custom journal templates.
You can create a new template by visiting the Library and tapping on the + Template button.
This is a Clearful Pro feature, so start a free trial in the app to give it a try if you're not already a Pro member. Or, shoot us an email and we'll be happy to set up your trial :)
If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
Our initial Mac app release last month went well, but we did receive feedback that our dock icon was unusually large. We've since shrunk the icon to a normal size. Thanks to Sean and Brennan for reaching out about this!
When loading Library content or opening the app from a cold start, sometimes the app would appear empty before the content loaded. Now, the app has attractive loading states that show you things are happening in the background. No more "jumpy" content!
The Library used to load content once on opening the app, which meant that it would take re-opening the app in order for new templates, prompts, and collections to appear. With the introduction of custom templates along with our multi-device functionality, this wasn't the best experience.
Now, new Library content will be available to all of your devices immediately.
Say hello to journaling on your Mac! Your can now download Clearful from the Mac App Store and journal on your computer.
Seamless synchronization ensures that your entries will automatically sync across all your devices, so you can pick up where you left off no matter where you are.
Thoughtful design and layout allows you to take advantage of a larger screen while still enabling a distraction-free journaling experience.
Better and faster long-form journaling with a full-sized keyboard enables more efficient writing and reviewing.
Have feedback?
As always, please use the 'Feedback' button in the app or reach out to us directly at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Don't have a Mac?
We have a Clearful web app coming your way that you'll be able to use in your browser.
The text in Flow Editor (i.e., your journal entries) now automatically scales to your device's settings. This ensures an accessible and quality reading experience for all. Thanks again to those of you who were generous to provide feedback on this issue!
We fixed a bug in Flow Editor on Samsung devices that was freezing the app.
You can now view which devices are currently associated with your Clearful account and revoke devices as needed. This new feature adds an extra layer of security to your account. By seeing which devices your account is being used on and the most recently used date of each device, you can be sure that you journal entries are only accessible by you. To manage devices, go to Settings and then Devices (under Profile & Preferences).
Say hello to images! This has been one of our most requested features, so we're super excited to introduce image support for our Pro plan members. Now you can add photos and images to your journal entries, making them even more personal and visually engaging.
Whether you're documenting your travels, capturing life's milestones, tracking your progress towards a goal, or simply reflecting on your day, images can enhance your journaling experience and make your entries more meaningful. Upgrade to Clearful's Pro plan today to start adding images and make your journaling even more delightful.
With our 3.0.0 release comes Clearful's biggest update yet: Flow Editor! You can now bring style and structure to your journaling practice with rich text formatting options for more engaging, organized, and enjoyable writing.
Our team elegantly designed the editor to give you powerful, easy-to-use formatting while preserving a calm and beautiful writing experience. Enjoy smooth 1-tap navigation for opening and closing the editor style panel for a seamless flow between writing and formatting.
Headings - Organize and group your thoughts into sections.
Bulleted Lists - Break down complex thoughts and feelings into easy-to-digest chunks.
Numbered Lists - Give order and prioritize goals and ideas.
Dividers - Separate your writing into defined areas.
Quotes & Highlights - Highlight meaningful phrases, whether your own or others’.
Bold, Italic, Underlined, Strikethrough - Emphasize thoughts and ideas.
Keyboard dropdown changed to 'Done' button - The new 'Done' button lowers the keyboard and takes you out of edit mode. Simply tap anywhere to enter edit mode again.
Entry close button moved to top right corner - You can now exit an entry easily whether the keyboard is up or down.
Entry info sheet button moved to top - The ellipsis button which shows entry details and actions appears at the top of the screen when edit mode is exited.
We've updated the design of icons throughout the app.
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2023. Shape your life and focus on personal growth with guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Reflect on the positives in life and discover gratitude and joy this holiday season with insightful guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Our new Gratitude Collection in the Guided Journaling Library encourages one to be more thankful daily and focus on the positive things in life. Journaling with prompts and templates in this collection is a great way to celebrate 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving this month!
Journal Templates in this Collection:
Journal Prompts in this Collection:
To find these guided journals and more, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Easily share any journal prompt with your friends and family by opening it in the Library and tapping the share icon. Inspire important people in your life to reflect with mindful and thought-provoking questions on all of life's topics.
Blank titles are now hidden automatically in Rediscover so that you can review your entries in a more streamlined way.
We are now posting journal prompts daily on our social media accounts. Follow us on your favorite platform to keep journaling top of mind and be inspired to write!
Say hello to Apple Widgets! It's time to elevate your journaling experience with useful and delightful Apple Widgets that bring timely information and your favorite features right to your iPhone and iPad home screen.
Discover Daily Prompt
Get inspired to journal and reflect on something new every day with a thought-provoking Discover Daily journal prompt. Answer first thing in the morning, or take a glance and ponder throughout the day.Rediscover
Revisit journal entries from various time periods to relive fond memories, recognize patterns in your life, and see how far you've come.
Progress & Streaks
Track your writing progress for the past seven days and stay motivated yet flexible with daily and weekly journaling streaks.
Essential Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's most important actions, such as writing a new entry, answering the Discover Daily journal prompt, and checking your Rediscover entries.
Ultimate Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's essential actions, as well as additional actions and shortcuts in the app for the ultimate power-user experience.
Recently Used Guided Journals
Quickly access recently used prompts and templates for a streamlined daily journaling routine.
How to add widgets to your home screen:
For more detailed instructions, watch this video. If Clearful widgets don't appear when you search for them, please restart your device and try again.
We've added 30 brand new Discover Daily journaling prompts to evoke thoughtful and insightful writing every day!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so to bring attention to this vital aspect of our lives and help you focus on your mental wellbeing, you will find a new 'Better Mental Health' Collection in the Library.The prompts and templates allow one to reflect on one's positive and negative aspects of their mental state. We hope the guided journals help you better understand your current mental state, take steps to overcome struggles and build resilience, feel more grateful and improve your mindset.
As spring is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, we have created a Spring Into Action Collection in the Clearful Library. The prompts and templates provide an opportunity to reflect on one's life and be more mindful of how it can be improved.
We hope the guided journals help you reflect and take the first step in your self-growth pursuits, whether that means solving a recurring problem at work, improving one's daily routine, focusing on a relationship, or getting started on a fitness program.
Explore Clearful's new templates to take your book reading to the next level, review and learn from your past decisions, or feel closer to your partner by reflecting on their positive qualities.
Book Review
Get more out of your book reading by recording your thoughts and ideas about the books you read to capture the experience and reflect on your learnings.
Decision Outcome Review
Review your past decisions to uncover mistakes and patterns in your process in order to make better decisions going forward in similar situations.
My Partner's Positive Qualities
Explore what qualities you admire and appreciate in your partner to better understand why you value them and build a strong foundation for your relationship.
Clearful launched in 20 additional countries, bringing our total to 26! Our goal has always been to bring a delightful and thought-provoking journaling experience to all individuals across the globe, so we are incredibly excited to take another step towards achieving that goal.
New countries Clearful is now available in:
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇨🇭 Switzerland
This new collection encourages one to explore and enrich their relationships with others and themselves through thought-provoking journaling. Go to the Library tab in the Clearful app and find the Love & Friendship Collection in the featured section at the top.
With the templates and prompts in this collection, you can:
Some journal prompts from this collection:
Some journal templates from this collection:
You can now pin journal entries to the top of the Entries list for faster access. This feature is handy if you have entries that you’d like to have top-of-mind (e.g., Yearly Review, 2022 Bucket List, Not-To-Do List). It is also a great place to keep work-in-progress entries you don’t want to forget about. To pin an entry, open an entry and tap on the three-dot button (or long-press on an entry snippet) in the Entries tab and toggle the 'Pin to Top' switch to the 'on' position.
Don’t want biometric authentication such as FaceID and TouchID to be enabled immediately after leaving the Clearful app? Go to Settings and turn on ‘Time Out After’ to your desired timeframe, from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. This feature allows you to leave the app and come back without being prompted for re-authentication within the set period of time, making it easier to jump back and forth between multiple apps.
Press and hold on to a journal entry snippet in the Entries tab to reveal an action sheet that contains quick access to pinning entries, adding a security lock, enabling or disabling Rediscover, and deleting entries.
Challenge your thought patterns and learn something new about yourself daily with thought-provoking journal prompts in the Today tab. Here’s a sneak preview of upcoming prompts:
Bring reflection, gratitude, and mindfulness to the holidays and the new year with our newly available Guided Journaling Collections in the Library.
Holidays Collection
Take a moment to reflect and take time for yourself this holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
New Year Collection
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2022 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
The Rediscover card in the Today tab will now change according to where you are in the review process. If you have entries remaining to review, it will show you how many and bring you back to where you left off. If you have completed the day's review, it will display a completed state. You will now have more clarity of your daily Rediscover progress to ensure you don't miss out on looking back at your past self!
We've added six new templates to the Guided Journaling Library. Three are available to everyone, while another three are available to Clearful Pro members.
We've added another confirmation layer to the account deletion process. Journal entries are incredible valuable so to prevent accidental deletion, the word 'DELETE' has to be typed out before proceeding to the re-authentication step.
We've fixed an authentication bug and a streak tracking bug.
We've added three new beautiful themes (both in Light and Dark mode) for Clearful Pro members so you can personalize your journal and make it your own with a beautiful color palette. If you'd like to test out a theme and you're not a Pro subscriber yet, you can take advantage of our 7-day free trial. To explore and try on the new themes, go to Settings > Appearance / Theme.
We've added even more insightful and exciting journaling prompts to the lineup for you to ponder every day. Here's a preview of a few of the upcoming questions:
To ensure you don't miss a new Discover Daily prompt, go to Settings > Reminders & Notifications, then turn on the Discover Daily notification.
Your favorite blue button to add a new entry has been moved! It's much bigger and more noticeable so you shouldn't miss it :)
You can now read and review all of your past journal entries that are brought back with Rediscover more delightfully and effectively. Instead of opening and closing each entry individually, you can now easily move from one entry to the next (and back), as well as see progress along the way.
Revisiting past writings is an essential part of journaling as it enables you to relive memories and milestones, uncover patterns in your life, and see how far you've come. So, we're incredibly excited to make Rediscover an even more valuable and exciting part of Clearful!
Happy International Self-Care Day on July 24th! To spotlight what self-care is and bring awareness of the importance of taking better care of oneself on this day, we now have a Self-Care Collection in our Guided Journaling Library.
The collection includes:
Ways that these templates and prompts can help you:
To explore the Self-Care Collection, open Clearful and visit the Library tab!
With our new (optional) paid plan, you can unlock more powerful journaling features and support our independent team.
While offering a Pro subscription plan enables us to continue improving the product (as we do not sell data or run ads), we remain 100% committed to providing a delightful and private journaling experience with Clearful to every one of you, regardless of which plan you are on.
We believe that journaling is an incredible tool for mental health and personal growth that should be accessible to every individual. All of Clearful's core features that you've enjoyed will continue to be free, and many others will be added.
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
Visualize your journaling progress over time, gain insights about your activity in the app, and learn which guided journals you use most.
Browse the Library and curate your own collections of guided journals to personalize your writing experience.
Choose from multiple themes to make your journal feel even more personal and fun. More themes coming!
Find even more journaling Templates for all areas of life and make regular reflection even more powerful.
Make any particularly sensitive journal entries even harder to access by locking them and requiring re-authentication.
Find linked Templates to journal entries and uncover your writing patterns and trends over time.
We've made some under the hood changes that will allow us to release new features faster and with fewer pesky bugs.
This feature was highly requested, so we're incredibly excited to introduce it to you. Need to recall something or reflect on the past? Search for people, places, dates, thoughts, ideas, and experiences effortlessly in your Clearful journal!
Tap on the Search icon in the top right corner of the Entries screen, then enter what you're looking for, and entries will begin to appear.
While striving to provide a delightful journaling experience in Clearful, we also strongly believe that your journal data is yours - to use how and where you want. So, you can now export all of your journal entries as a plain text document. You will have more export options down the road as well. To export your entries, go to Settings > Account Info > Export Journal Entries.
You can now save Templates and Prompts to two Collections just for you: Want To Do and Favorites! Save guided journals you'd like to complete someday to the Want To Do Collection for a curated list of inspiration. Save your most-loved guided journals to the Favorites Collection for quick and easy access to your faves. To save, open any Prompt or Template and tap the 'Save' button.
We've heard your feedback that finding specific Templates and Prompts can be difficult. Now, instead of browsing the Library, you can search for Templates and Prompts directly! Tap the 'Search' button in the Library to quickly find resources.
A very big "Thank you!" to the Clearful members who suggested our newest Templates and Prompts - your input is greatly appreciated! Open the New Collection in the Library to journal with these new additions.
New Templates:
New Prompts:
You can now see if you created your journal entries from Templates and which ones. Open a journal entry, tap on the three-dot icon to open the Entry Info sheet, and view your linked Templates.
Discover the latest journaling prompts and templates in the New Collection! This Collection will be updated regularly as new guided journaling resources are added to Clearful. Head on over to the Library tab and open the New Collection to see the latest. Many more guided journaling resources are coming your way!
You can now quickly capture thoughts and feelings throughout the day with an easy-access Quick Capture field just above the tab bar! Whether you'd like to record an interesting thought, an emotion you're experiencing, or simply clear your mind, quick capture is a great way to practice micro journaling and take a moment of reflection more often. Download the latest update to use this feature!
Elements throughout the app, such as cards and buttons, now have semantic labels, making the app much more accessible to all Clearful journalers!
Enjoy a more beautiful, calm, and consistent experience in your journal with interface improvements to buttons, bottom sheets, and many more elements. We're always working on ways to make your journaling experience more delightful!
We've heard from several of you (thanks for reaching out!) that you'd like to update your account's email address, so you can now do so in Settings > Account Info.
Be good to yourself and show love for others, from family to friends to partners. We've curated a collection of guided journaling Templates and Prompts that help you reflect on the gratitude and love you have for yourself and others.
You can now find even more guided journaling resources in the Library to help you feel inspired to write and dig a little deeper to better understand yourself. We hope these new resources enable you to improve the way you think, feel, and act on a daily basis!
New Templates:
New Prompts:
iPad owners - you're going to love this update! We've worked hard to make journaling with Clearful beautiful on every screen. Whether you're journaling on your iPhone 8 or your iPad Pro, Clearful will automatically size itself to look and feel great. If you're using your iPad with a Magic or Smart Keyboard or in landscape mode, you'll enjoy a full-width journaling experience that helps you journal faster and more often.
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2021 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
Bring mindfulness and gratitude to the holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
You can now find even more exciting guided journaling resources in Collections, which are round-ups of featured templates and prompts. You will find Collections such as Editor's Picks, Popular, and New on a regular basis, as well as limited-time Collections such as New Year and Holidays. To view the current Collections, go to the Library tab and swipe through the cards at the top of the screen.
Consistent journal writing is an incredibly valuable practice for helping us live our best lives, but integrating the practice into our lives and continuing to journal regularly can be challenging at times. To help you (and us) be more consistent and build a lifelong habit, we have added a Streak tracking feature to Clearful, which can be viewed in the new Today tab.
Having both daily and weekly streak tracking offers flexibility as we know that some individuals want to build a daily journaling practice, while others feel more comfortable with weekly journaling. A weekly streak can encourage one to reflect on their life consistently without feeling the pressure to have to do it every day.
Your three most recently used Templates and Prompts will be available for quick-use directly in every new entry. Tap on 'Guided Journals' in a new entry to see them.
You can now quickly browse and select shortlisted Templates, Prompts, and the day's Discover Daily directly from a new journal entry. We've heard from you that finding resources in the Library can feel overwhelming or lengthy at times, so this is the first step in making guided resources more accessible. Right now, you'll find Editor's Picks Prompts and Templates that have been curated by us, but there will be more options such as 'Recently Used' coming soon. Tap on the round + button to create a new entry and then tap the 'Guided Journals' button to view the shortlisted resources.
Now, your home base in Clearful is Today. See today's entries, today's stats (number of entries and words written), your streaks, the day's Discover Daily question, and your Rediscover entries to reflect on from the past. More exciting things to come in Today in the near future!
You can now see the Discover Daily question directly in Today (without having to open it first) and skip it if it doesn't appeal to you that day. The Daily itself has also been redesigned.
Rediscover has been redesigned to look and function just like your Entries - vertically scrollable (rather than horizontally) and in day-groups. It's now easier to see and open all Rediscover entries for a particular time period.
Removing a Rediscover entry now updates immediately in Today.
Your daily reminders now update automatically to your current timezone. Thanks, daylight savings time!
To enhance the journal writing and reading experience in low-light environments and give your eyes some rest, we've added dark mode support for iOS and Android with a new darker color palette. Clearful will automatically match your phone's system appearance/theme preferences, or you can manually change to the Light or Dark theme. Go to Settings > Appearance / Theme in the app to view your preferences in Clearful. To view your phone's settings, on iOS go to Settings > Display & Brightness, or on Android go to Settings > Display > Theme.
You can now use FaceID or TouchID (on iOS) or Fingerprint (Android) to securely access your journal when you're already logged in and the app is in the background. This is a nice additional piece of security that ensures that Clearful can't be opened even if someone uses your device when it is unlocked. To enable, go to Settings > Security Lock.
In addition to biometric authentication, we've added another privacy enhancement. Secure blocking covers the content of Clearful when viewing your open apps in multitasking mode on your phone.
See all the latest Clearful feature releases, product improvements, bug fixes, and announcements directly from the app. Go to Settings > What's New to be taken to this page and learn about all the exciting things we're introducing to Clearful.
Clearful is now available for Android phones in the Google Play Store. If you have an Android phone, you can download the app here. Give it a try! If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at [email protected]. We're always interested in hearing how we can make Clearful better!
For our initial launch we made Clearful available only in the App Stores in the US and Canada. After performing some backend improvements in how we handle different time zones, we are now live in three additional App Stores: United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. If you have an iPhone and live in the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, you can now download the app for iOS! While right now Clearful is only available for iOS users in these regions, we plan to bring it to Android for these regions in the future as well.
Getting feedback is incredibly important in helping us understand what challenges our users are facing when journaling as that helps us improve the product and design innovative ways to solve problems. To make giving feedback easier, we added a small icon in the top right corner of several screens in the app that opens a window with a text field for feedback. We look at feedback that's coming in daily, so please don't hesitate to let us know how we can improve your journaling experience!
We added support for a 24-hour clock which is the standard in many countries. Clearful will support the system settings that a user's phone is set to, whether that is a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock. Things like the time on journal entries and time picker will automatically adjust to the system settings. This was an essential update as we make plans to launch Clearful is more regions.
A few small bugs were fixed for issues with copy and paste in journal entries and text scaling on the 'Create an Account' screen.
Tailor your journal to your unique needs with custom templates! This was one of our most requested features and opens up a whole new world of customization in Clearful.
Easily capture your hobbies and adventures, boost productivity with custom work templates, create personalized journaling routines, and adapt your journal to life's changes - all with custom journal templates.
You can create a new template by visiting the Library and tapping on the + Template button.
This is a Clearful Pro feature, so start a free trial in the app to give it a try if you're not already a Pro member. Or, shoot us an email and we'll be happy to set up your trial :)
If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
Say hello to journaling on your Mac! Your can now download Clearful from the Mac App Store and journal on your computer.
Seamless synchronization ensures that your entries will automatically sync across all your devices, so you can pick up where you left off no matter where you are.
Thoughtful design and layout allows you to take advantage of a larger screen while still enabling a distraction-free journaling experience.
Better and faster long-form journaling with a full-sized keyboard enables more efficient writing and reviewing.
Have feedback?
As always, please use the 'Feedback' button in the app or reach out to us directly at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions.
Don't have a Mac?
We have a Clearful web app coming your way that you'll be able to use in your browser.
You can now view which devices are currently associated with your Clearful account and revoke devices as needed. This new feature adds an extra layer of security to your account. By seeing which devices your account is being used on and the most recently used date of each device, you can be sure that you journal entries are only accessible by you. To manage devices, go to Settings and then Devices (under Profile & Preferences).
Say hello to images! This has been one of our most requested features, so we're super excited to introduce image support for our Pro plan members. Now you can add photos and images to your journal entries, making them even more personal and visually engaging.
Whether you're documenting your travels, capturing life's milestones, tracking your progress towards a goal, or simply reflecting on your day, images can enhance your journaling experience and make your entries more meaningful. Upgrade to Clearful's Pro plan today to start adding images and make your journaling even more delightful.
With our 3.0.0 release comes Clearful's biggest update yet: Flow Editor! You can now bring style and structure to your journaling practice with rich text formatting options for more engaging, organized, and enjoyable writing.
Our team elegantly designed the editor to give you powerful, easy-to-use formatting while preserving a calm and beautiful writing experience. Enjoy smooth 1-tap navigation for opening and closing the editor style panel for a seamless flow between writing and formatting.
Headings - Organize and group your thoughts into sections.
Bulleted Lists - Break down complex thoughts and feelings into easy-to-digest chunks.
Numbered Lists - Give order and prioritize goals and ideas.
Dividers - Separate your writing into defined areas.
Quotes & Highlights - Highlight meaningful phrases, whether your own or others’.
Bold, Italic, Underlined, Strikethrough - Emphasize thoughts and ideas.
Easily share any journal prompt with your friends and family by opening it in the Library and tapping the share icon. Inspire important people in your life to reflect with mindful and thought-provoking questions on all of life's topics.
Say hello to Apple Widgets! It's time to elevate your journaling experience with useful and delightful Apple Widgets that bring timely information and your favorite features right to your iPhone and iPad home screen.
Discover Daily Prompt
Get inspired to journal and reflect on something new every day with a thought-provoking Discover Daily journal prompt. Answer first thing in the morning, or take a glance and ponder throughout the day.Rediscover
Revisit journal entries from various time periods to relive fond memories, recognize patterns in your life, and see how far you've come.
Progress & Streaks
Track your writing progress for the past seven days and stay motivated yet flexible with daily and weekly journaling streaks.
Essential Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's most important actions, such as writing a new entry, answering the Discover Daily journal prompt, and checking your Rediscover entries.
Ultimate Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's essential actions, as well as additional actions and shortcuts in the app for the ultimate power-user experience.
Recently Used Guided Journals
Quickly access recently used prompts and templates for a streamlined daily journaling routine.
How to add widgets to your home screen:
For more detailed instructions, watch this video. If Clearful widgets don't appear when you search for them, please restart your device and try again.
You can now pin journal entries to the top of the Entries list for faster access. This feature is handy if you have entries that you’d like to have top-of-mind (e.g., Yearly Review, 2022 Bucket List, Not-To-Do List). It is also a great place to keep work-in-progress entries you don’t want to forget about. To pin an entry, open an entry and tap on the three-dot button (or long-press on an entry snippet) in the Entries tab and toggle the 'Pin to Top' switch to the 'on' position.
Find linked Templates to journal entries and uncover your writing patterns and trends over time.
Make any particularly sensitive journal entries even harder to access by locking them and requiring re-authentication.
Find even more journaling Templates for all areas of life and make regular reflection even more powerful.
Choose from multiple themes to make your journal feel even more personal and fun. More themes coming!
Browse the Library and curate your own collections of guided journals to personalize your writing experience.
Visualize your journaling progress over time, gain insights about your activity in the app, and learn which guided journals you use most.
While striving to provide a delightful journaling experience in Clearful, we also strongly believe that your journal data is yours - to use how and where you want. So, you can now export all of your journal entries as a plain text document. You will have more export options down the road as well. To export your entries, go to Settings > Account Info > Export Journal Entries.
This feature was highly requested, so we're incredibly excited to introduce it to you. Need to recall something or reflect on the past? Search for people, places, dates, thoughts, ideas, and experiences effortlessly in your Clearful journal!
Tap on the Search icon in the top right corner of the Entries screen, then enter what you're looking for, and entries will begin to appear.
We've heard your feedback that finding specific Templates and Prompts can be difficult. Now, instead of browsing the Library, you can search for Templates and Prompts directly! Tap the 'Search' button in the Library to quickly find resources.
You can now save Templates and Prompts to two Collections just for you: Want To Do and Favorites! Save guided journals you'd like to complete someday to the Want To Do Collection for a curated list of inspiration. Save your most-loved guided journals to the Favorites Collection for quick and easy access to your faves. To save, open any Prompt or Template and tap the 'Save' button.
You can now quickly capture thoughts and feelings throughout the day with an easy-access Quick Capture field just above the tab bar! Whether you'd like to record an interesting thought, an emotion you're experiencing, or simply clear your mind, quick capture is a great way to practice micro journaling and take a moment of reflection more often. Download the latest update to use this feature!
You can now see if you created your journal entries from Templates and which ones. Open a journal entry, tap on the three-dot icon to open the Entry Info sheet, and view your linked Templates.
You can now find even more exciting guided journaling resources in Collections, which are round-ups of featured templates and prompts. You will find Collections such as Editor's Picks, Popular, and New on a regular basis, as well as limited-time Collections such as New Year and Holidays. To view the current Collections, go to the Library tab and swipe through the cards at the top of the screen.
You can now quickly browse and select shortlisted Templates, Prompts, and the day's Discover Daily directly from a new journal entry. We've heard from you that finding resources in the Library can feel overwhelming or lengthy at times, so this is the first step in making guided resources more accessible. Right now, you'll find Editor's Picks Prompts and Templates that have been curated by us, but there will be more options such as 'Recently Used' coming soon. Tap on the round + button to create a new entry and then tap the 'Guided Journals' button to view the shortlisted resources.
Consistent journal writing is an incredibly valuable practice for helping us live our best lives, but integrating the practice into our lives and continuing to journal regularly can be challenging at times. To help you (and us) be more consistent and build a lifelong habit, we have added a Streak tracking feature to Clearful, which can be viewed in the new Today tab.
Having both daily and weekly streak tracking offers flexibility as we know that some individuals want to build a daily journaling practice, while others feel more comfortable with weekly journaling. A weekly streak can encourage one to reflect on their life consistently without feeling the pressure to have to do it every day.
Clearful is now available for Android phones in the Google Play Store. If you have an Android phone, you can download the app here. Give it a try! If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at [email protected]. We're always interested in hearing how we can make Clearful better!
You can now use FaceID or TouchID (on iOS) or Fingerprint (Android) to securely access your journal when you're already logged in and the app is in the background. This is a nice additional piece of security that ensures that Clearful can't be opened even if someone uses your device when it is unlocked. To enable, go to Settings > Security Lock.
To enhance the journal writing and reading experience in low-light environments and give your eyes some rest, we've added dark mode support for iOS and Android with a new darker color palette. Clearful will automatically match your phone's system appearance/theme preferences, or you can manually change to the Light or Dark theme. Go to Settings > Appearance / Theme in the app to view your preferences in Clearful. To view your phone's settings, on iOS go to Settings > Display & Brightness, or on Android go to Settings > Display > Theme.
Getting feedback is incredibly important in helping us understand what challenges our users are facing when journaling as that helps us improve the product and design innovative ways to solve problems. To make giving feedback easier, we added a small icon in the top right corner of several screens in the app that opens a window with a text field for feedback. We look at feedback that's coming in daily, so please don't hesitate to let us know how we can improve your journaling experience!
When loading Library content or opening the app from a cold start, sometimes the app would appear empty before the content loaded. Now, the app has attractive loading states that show you things are happening in the background. No more "jumpy" content!
The Library used to load content once on opening the app, which meant that it would take re-opening the app in order for new templates, prompts, and collections to appear. With the introduction of custom templates along with our multi-device functionality, this wasn't the best experience.
Now, new Library content will be available to all of your devices immediately.
The text in Flow Editor (i.e., your journal entries) now automatically scales to your device's settings. This ensures an accessible and quality reading experience for all. Thanks again to those of you who were generous to provide feedback on this issue!
Keyboard dropdown changed to 'Done' button - The new 'Done' button lowers the keyboard and takes you out of edit mode. Simply tap anywhere to enter edit mode again.
Entry close button moved to top right corner - You can now exit an entry easily whether the keyboard is up or down.
Entry info sheet button moved to top - The ellipsis button which shows entry details and actions appears at the top of the screen when edit mode is exited.
We've updated the design of icons throughout the app.
Blank titles are now hidden automatically in Rediscover so that you can review your entries in a more streamlined way.
Press and hold on to a journal entry snippet in the Entries tab to reveal an action sheet that contains quick access to pinning entries, adding a security lock, enabling or disabling Rediscover, and deleting entries.
Don’t want biometric authentication such as FaceID and TouchID to be enabled immediately after leaving the Clearful app? Go to Settings and turn on ‘Time Out After’ to your desired timeframe, from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. This feature allows you to leave the app and come back without being prompted for re-authentication within the set period of time, making it easier to jump back and forth between multiple apps.
The Rediscover card in the Today tab will now change according to where you are in the review process. If you have entries remaining to review, it will show you how many and bring you back to where you left off. If you have completed the day's review, it will display a completed state. You will now have more clarity of your daily Rediscover progress to ensure you don't miss out on looking back at your past self!
We've added another confirmation layer to the account deletion process. Journal entries are incredible valuable so to prevent accidental deletion, the word 'DELETE' has to be typed out before proceeding to the re-authentication step.
We've added three new beautiful themes (both in Light and Dark mode) for Clearful Pro members so you can personalize your journal and make it your own with a beautiful color palette. If you'd like to test out a theme and you're not a Pro subscriber yet, you can take advantage of our 7-day free trial. To explore and try on the new themes, go to Settings > Appearance / Theme.
Your favorite blue button to add a new entry has been moved! It's much bigger and more noticeable so you shouldn't miss it :)
You can now read and review all of your past journal entries that are brought back with Rediscover more delightfully and effectively. Instead of opening and closing each entry individually, you can now easily move from one entry to the next (and back), as well as see progress along the way.
Revisiting past writings is an essential part of journaling as it enables you to relive memories and milestones, uncover patterns in your life, and see how far you've come. So, we're incredibly excited to make Rediscover an even more valuable and exciting part of Clearful!
We've made some under the hood changes that will allow us to release new features faster and with fewer pesky bugs.
Enjoy a more beautiful, calm, and consistent experience in your journal with interface improvements to buttons, bottom sheets, and many more elements. We're always working on ways to make your journaling experience more delightful!
Elements throughout the app, such as cards and buttons, now have semantic labels, making the app much more accessible to all Clearful journalers!
We've heard from several of you (thanks for reaching out!) that you'd like to update your account's email address, so you can now do so in Settings > Account Info.
iPad owners - you're going to love this update! We've worked hard to make journaling with Clearful beautiful on every screen. Whether you're journaling on your iPhone 8 or your iPad Pro, Clearful will automatically size itself to look and feel great. If you're using your iPad with a Magic or Smart Keyboard or in landscape mode, you'll enjoy a full-width journaling experience that helps you journal faster and more often.
Rediscover has been redesigned to look and function just like your Entries - vertically scrollable (rather than horizontally) and in day-groups. It's now easier to see and open all Rediscover entries for a particular time period.
You can now see the Discover Daily question directly in Today (without having to open it first) and skip it if it doesn't appeal to you that day. The Daily itself has also been redesigned.
Now, your home base in Clearful is Today. See today's entries, today's stats (number of entries and words written), your streaks, the day's Discover Daily question, and your Rediscover entries to reflect on from the past. More exciting things to come in Today in the near future!
Your three most recently used Templates and Prompts will be available for quick-use directly in every new entry. Tap on 'Guided Journals' in a new entry to see them.
In addition to biometric authentication, we've added another privacy enhancement. Secure blocking covers the content of Clearful when viewing your open apps in multitasking mode on your phone.
We added support for a 24-hour clock which is the standard in many countries. Clearful will support the system settings that a user's phone is set to, whether that is a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock. Things like the time on journal entries and time picker will automatically adjust to the system settings. This was an essential update as we make plans to launch Clearful is more regions.
For our initial launch we made Clearful available only in the App Stores in the US and Canada. After performing some backend improvements in how we handle different time zones, we are now live in three additional App Stores: United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. If you have an iPhone and live in the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, you can now download the app for iOS! While right now Clearful is only available for iOS users in these regions, we plan to bring it to Android for these regions in the future as well.
Reflect on the positives in life and discover gratitude and joy this holiday season with insightful guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2023. Shape your life and focus on personal growth with guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Our new Gratitude Collection in the Guided Journaling Library encourages one to be more thankful daily and focus on the positive things in life. Journaling with prompts and templates in this collection is a great way to celebrate 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving this month!
Journal Templates in this Collection:
Journal Prompts in this Collection:
To find these guided journals and more, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
We've added 30 brand new Discover Daily journaling prompts to evoke thoughtful and insightful writing every day!
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so to bring attention to this vital aspect of our lives and help you focus on your mental wellbeing, you will find a new 'Better Mental Health' Collection in the Library.The prompts and templates allow one to reflect on one's positive and negative aspects of their mental state. We hope the guided journals help you better understand your current mental state, take steps to overcome struggles and build resilience, feel more grateful and improve your mindset.
As spring is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, we have created a Spring Into Action Collection in the Clearful Library. The prompts and templates provide an opportunity to reflect on one's life and be more mindful of how it can be improved.
We hope the guided journals help you reflect and take the first step in your self-growth pursuits, whether that means solving a recurring problem at work, improving one's daily routine, focusing on a relationship, or getting started on a fitness program.
Explore Clearful's new templates to take your book reading to the next level, review and learn from your past decisions, or feel closer to your partner by reflecting on their positive qualities.
Book Review
Get more out of your book reading by recording your thoughts and ideas about the books you read to capture the experience and reflect on your learnings.
Decision Outcome Review
Review your past decisions to uncover mistakes and patterns in your process in order to make better decisions going forward in similar situations.
My Partner's Positive Qualities
Explore what qualities you admire and appreciate in your partner to better understand why you value them and build a strong foundation for your relationship.
This new collection encourages one to explore and enrich their relationships with others and themselves through thought-provoking journaling. Go to the Library tab in the Clearful app and find the Love & Friendship Collection in the featured section at the top.
With the templates and prompts in this collection, you can:
Some journal prompts from this collection:
Some journal templates from this collection:
Challenge your thought patterns and learn something new about yourself daily with thought-provoking journal prompts in the Today tab. Here’s a sneak preview of upcoming prompts:
Bring reflection, gratitude, and mindfulness to the holidays and the new year with our newly available Guided Journaling Collections in the Library.
Holidays Collection
Take a moment to reflect and take time for yourself this holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
New Year Collection
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2022 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
We've added six new templates to the Guided Journaling Library. Three are available to everyone, while another three are available to Clearful Pro members.
We've added even more insightful and exciting journaling prompts to the lineup for you to ponder every day. Here's a preview of a few of the upcoming questions:
To ensure you don't miss a new Discover Daily prompt, go to Settings > Reminders & Notifications, then turn on the Discover Daily notification.
Happy International Self-Care Day on July 24th! To spotlight what self-care is and bring awareness of the importance of taking better care of oneself on this day, we now have a Self-Care Collection in our Guided Journaling Library.
The collection includes:
Ways that these templates and prompts can help you:
To explore the Self-Care Collection, open Clearful and visit the Library tab!
A very big "Thank you!" to the Clearful members who suggested our newest Templates and Prompts - your input is greatly appreciated! Open the New Collection in the Library to journal with these new additions.
New Templates:
New Prompts:
Discover the latest journaling prompts and templates in the New Collection! This Collection will be updated regularly as new guided journaling resources are added to Clearful. Head on over to the Library tab and open the New Collection to see the latest. Many more guided journaling resources are coming your way!
Be good to yourself and show love for others, from family to friends to partners. We've curated a collection of guided journaling Templates and Prompts that help you reflect on the gratitude and love you have for yourself and others.
You can now find even more guided journaling resources in the Library to help you feel inspired to write and dig a little deeper to better understand yourself. We hope these new resources enable you to improve the way you think, feel, and act on a daily basis!
New Templates:
New Prompts:
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2021 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
Bring mindfulness and gratitude to the holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
Our initial Mac app release last month went well, but we did receive feedback that our dock icon was unusually large. We've since shrunk the icon to a normal size. Thanks to Sean and Brennan for reaching out about this!
We fixed a bug in Flow Editor on Samsung devices that was freezing the app.
We've fixed an authentication bug and a streak tracking bug.
Your daily reminders now update automatically to your current timezone. Thanks, daylight savings time!
Removing a Rediscover entry now updates immediately in Today.
A few small bugs were fixed for issues with copy and paste in journal entries and text scaling on the 'Create an Account' screen.
We fixed a bug in Flow Editor on Samsung devices that was freezing the app.
You can now view which devices are currently associated with your Clearful account and revoke devices as needed. This new feature adds an extra layer of security to your account. By seeing which devices your account is being used on and the most recently used date of each device, you can be sure that you journal entries are only accessible by you. To manage devices, go to Settings and then Devices (under Profile & Preferences).
Pro plan members can have unlimited devices while Free members can have up to two devices.
Say hello to images! This has been one of our most requested features, so we're super excited to introduce image support for our Pro plan members. Now you can add photos and images to your journal entries, making them even more personal and visually engaging.
Whether you're documenting your travels, capturing life's milestones, tracking your progress towards a goal, or simply reflecting on your day, images can enhance your journaling experience and make your entries more meaningful. Upgrade to Clearful's Pro plan today to start adding images and make your journaling even more delightful.
We fixed a few small bugs and made design improvements to enhance the experience of using Clearful.
Keyboard dropdown changed to 'Done' button - The new 'Done' button lowers the keyboard and takes you out of edit mode. Simply tap anywhere to enter edit mode again.
Entry close button moved to top right corner - You can now exit an entry easily whether the keyboard is up or down.
Entry info sheet button moved to top - The ellipsis button which shows entry details and actions appears at the top of the screen when edit mode is exited.
With our 3.0.0 release comes Clearful's biggest update yet: Flow Editor! You can now bring style and structure to your journaling practice with rich text formatting options for more engaging, organized, and enjoyable writing.
Our team elegantly designed the editor to give you powerful, easy-to-use formatting while preserving a calm and beautiful writing experience. Enjoy smooth 1-tap navigation for opening and closing the editor style panel for a seamless flow between writing and formatting.
Headings - Organize and group your thoughts into sections.
Bulleted Lists - Break down complex thoughts and feelings into easy-to-digest chunks.
Numbered Lists - Give order and prioritize goals and ideas.
Dividers - Separate your writing into defined areas.
Quotes & Highlights - Highlight meaningful phrases, whether your own or others’.
Bold, Italic, Underlined, Strikethrough - Emphasize thoughts and ideas.
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
We fixed a few small bugs and made design improvements to enhance the experience of using Clearful.
Reflect on the positives in life and discover gratitude and joy this holiday season with insightful guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2023. Shape your life and focus on personal growth with guided journaling. To explore this Collection, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
We fixed a few small bugs and made design improvements to enhance the experience of using Clearful. Blank titles are now hidden automatically in Rediscover so that you can review your entries in a more streamlined way.
We are now posting journal prompts daily on our social media accounts. Follow us on your favorite platform to keep journaling top of mind and be inspired to write!
Follow us on Instagram
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Pinterest
Easily share any journal prompt with your friends and family by opening it in the Library and tapping the share icon. Inspire important people in your life to reflect with mindful and thought-provoking questions on all of life's topics.
Our new Gratitude Collection in the Guided Journaling Library encourages one to be more thankful daily and focus on the positive things in life. Journaling with prompts and templates in this collection is a great way to celebrate 🇺🇸 Thanksgiving this month!
Journal Templates in this Collection
Daily Gratitude
Holiday Gratitude
Positive Experiences: Levels 1-3
Mister Rogers' Invisible Gift
My Partner's Positive Qualities
+ many more
Journal Prompts in this Collection
What made me laugh today?
What is one good thing that happened to me today?
What am I grateful for at work?
What is something I admire in one of my friends?
Who do I trust most with my most painful and upsetting feelings?
Was there anything in my day that made me thankful?
Is there anyone that deserves a big "thank you"?
What is one of my favorite holidays, and why?
+ many more
To find these guided journals and more, head on over to the Library tab in Clearful!
We fixed a few small bugs and made design improvements to enhance the experience of using Clearful.
Say hello to Apple Widgets! It's time to elevate your journaling experience with useful and delightful Apple Widgets that bring timely information and your favorite features right to your iPhone and iPad home screen.
Discover Daily Prompt
Get inspired to journal and reflect on something new every day with a thought-provoking Discover Daily journal prompt. Answer first thing in the morning, or take a glance and ponder throughout the day.
Rediscover
Revisit journal entries from various time periods to relive fond memories, recognize patterns in your life, and see how far you've come.
Progress & Streaks
Track your writing progress for the past seven days and stay motivated yet flexible with daily and weekly journaling streaks.
Essential Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's most important actions, such as writing a new entry, answering the Discover Daily journal prompt, and checking your Rediscover entries.
Ultimate Quick Actions & Shortcuts
Quickly access each day's essential actions, as well as additional actions and shortcuts in the app for the ultimate power-user experience.
Recently Used Guided Journals
Quickly access recently used prompts and templates for a streamlined daily journaling routine.
How to add widgets to your home screen:
1. Open Clearful to load your data.
2. From your device's Home Screen, touch and hold an empty area until the apps jiggle.
3. Tap the Add button in the upper-left corner.
3. Search for Clearful and select desired widget.
4. Drag widget to desired placement and tap Done.
For more detailed instructions, watch this video. If Clearful widgets don't appear when you search for them, please restart your device and try again.
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
We fixed a few small bugs and made design improvements to enhance the experience of using Clearful.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so to bring attention to this vital aspect of our lives and help you focus on your mental wellbeing, you will find a new 'Better Mental Health' Collection in the Library.
The prompts and templates allow one to reflect on one's positive and negative aspects of their mental state. We hope the guided journals help you better understand your current mental state, take steps to overcome struggles and build resilience, feel more grateful and improve your mindset.
We've added 30 brand new Discover Daily journaling prompts to evoke thoughtful and insightful writing every day!
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
As usual, we fixed a few bugs and made performance improvements to improve the experience of using Clearful.
As spring is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, we have created a Spring Into Action Collection in the Clearful Library. The prompts and templates provide an opportunity to reflect on one's life and be more mindful of how it can be improved.
We hope the guided journals help you reflect and take the first step in your self-growth pursuits, whether that means solving a recurring problem at work, improving one's daily routine, focusing on a relationship, or getting started on a fitness program.
Explore Clearful's new templates to take your book reading to the next level, review and learn from your past decisions, or feel closer to your partner by reflecting on their positive qualities.
Book Review
Get more out of your book reading by recording your thoughts and ideas about the books you read to capture the experience and reflect on your learnings.
Decision Outcome Review
Review your past decisions to uncover mistakes and patterns in your process in order to make better decisions going forward in similar situations.
My Partner's Positive Qualities
Explore what qualities you admire and appreciate in your partner to better understand why you value them and build a strong foundation for your relationship.
As usual, we fixed a few bugs and made performance improvements to improve the experience of using Clearful.
Clearful launched in 20 additional countries, bringing our total to 26! Our goal has always been to bring a delightful and thought-provoking journaling experience to all individuals across the globe, so we are incredibly excited to take another step towards achieving that goal.
New countries Clearful is now available in:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇷 Greece
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇱🇺 Luxembourg
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇳🇴 Norway
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇪🇸 Spain
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇨🇭 Switzerland
A few small bugs were addressed and performance improvements were made to improve the experience of using Clearful.
This new collection encourages one to explore and enrich their relationships with others and themselves through thought-provoking journaling. Go to the Library tab in the Clearful app and find the Love & Friendship Collection in the featured section at the top.
With the templates and prompts in this collection, you can:
- learn about yourself
- practice self-acceptance and self-love
- feel gratitude for one's relationships with others
- better understand and improve your relationships
Some journal prompts from this collection:
- What is something I can do for myself today?
- What do I consider my greatest personal success?
- Who do I love in my life?
- What do I need to forgive myself for? How can I start that process?
- Who do I need to forgive in my life?
- What feelings from the past am I holding onto?
- What is something that my partner and I have in common?
- I wish I had someone with whom I could share...
Some journal templates from this collection:
- Daily Gratitude
- Memory Journal
- Advice From My Future Self
- Mister Rogers' Invisible Gift
- Positive Experiences: Level 1
- Positive Experiences: Level 2
- Positive Experiences: Level 3
- Unsent Letter
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
A few small bugs were addressed and performance improvements were made to improve the experience of using Clearful.
You can now pin journal entries to the top of the Entries list for faster access. This feature is handy if you have entries that you’d like to have top-of-mind (e.g., Yearly Review, 2022 Bucket List, Not-To-Do List). It is also a great place to keep work-in-progress entries you don’t want to forget about. To pin an entry, open an entry and tap on the three-dot button (or long-press on an entry snippet) in the Entries tab and toggle the 'Pin to Top' switch to the 'on' position.
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
Don’t want biometric authentication such as FaceID and TouchID to be enabled immediately after leaving the Clearful app? Go to Settings and turn on ‘Time Out After’ to your desired timeframe, from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. This feature allows you to leave the app and come back without being prompted for re-authentication within the set period of time, making it easier to jump back and forth between multiple apps.
Press and hold on to a journal entry snippet in the Entries tab to reveal an action sheet that contains quick access to pinning entries, adding a security lock, enabling or disabling Rediscover, and deleting entries.
Challenge your thought patterns and learn something new about yourself daily with thought-provoking journal prompts in the Today tab. Here’s a sneak preview of upcoming prompts:
In what ways do I feel rich? In what ways do I feel poor?
What different roles do I play in my life? (E.g., spouse, parent, gardener, cook)
How can I encourage myself when trying something new?
If I were to focus more on being patient today, how would I make that happen?
What rule do I think needs to be broken?
Bring reflection, gratitude, and mindfulness to the holidays and the new year with our newly available Guided Journaling Collections in the Library.
Holidays Collection
Take a moment to reflect and take time for yourself this holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
New Year Collection
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2022 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
A few small bugs were addressed and performance improvements were made to improve the experience of using Clearful.
We've added three new beautiful themes (both in Light and Dark mode) for Clearful Pro members so you can personalize your journal and make it your own with a beautiful color palette. If you'd like to test out a theme and you're not a Pro subscriber yet, you can take advantage of our 7-day free trial. To explore and try on the new themes, go to Settings > Appearance / Theme.
We've fixed an authentication bug and a streak tracking bug. We've also added another confirmation layer to the account deletion process. Journal entries are incredible valuable so to prevent accidental deletion, the word 'DELETE' has to be typed out before proceeding to the re-authentication step.
We've added even more insightful and exciting journaling prompts to the lineup for you to ponder every day. Here's a preview of a few of the upcoming questions:
What are some things I would like to stay as they are now?
What is something fulfilling for me at the moment?
If I had an extra hour every morning, what would I do with that time?
Who is someone that has positively influenced me, and how?
To ensure you don't miss a new Discover Daily prompt, go to Settings > Reminders & Notifications, then turn on the Discover Daily notification.
You can now read and review all of your past journal entries that are brought back with Rediscover more delightfully and effectively. Instead of opening and closing each entry individually, you can now easily move from one entry to the next (and back), as well as see progress along the way.
Revisiting past writings is an essential part of journaling as it enables you to relive memories and milestones, uncover patterns in your life, and see how far you've come. So, we're incredibly excited to make Rediscover an even more valuable and exciting part of Clearful!
One design update of note - your favorite blue button to add a new entry has been moved! It's much bigger and more noticeable so you shouldn't miss it :)
Happy International Self-Care Day on July 24th! To spotlight what self-care is and bring awareness of the importance of taking better care of oneself on this day, we now have a Self-Care Collection in our Guided Journaling Library.
The collection includes:
7 Journal Templates
20 Journal Prompts
Ways that these templates and prompts can help you:
Check-in with yourself
Better understand your thoughts and emotions
Focus on what you're grateful for
Make positive changes in your life
To explore the Self-Care Collection, open Clearful and visit the Library tab!
We've fixed some bugs, made performance improvements, and updated the design in various places.
With our new (optional) paid plan, you can unlock more powerful journaling features and support our independent team.
While offering a Pro subscription plan enables us to continue improving the product (as we do not sell data or run ads), we remain 100% committed to providing a delightful and private journaling experience with Clearful to every one of you, regardless of which plan you are on.
We believe that journaling is an incredible tool for mental health and personal growth that should be accessible to every individual. All of Clearful's core features that you've enjoyed will continue to be free, and many others will be added.
As always, please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions, comments, or suggestions. If you're enjoying the app, please consider supporting Clearful by leaving a 5-star rating in the App Store or Google Play so we can continue making the app better. Thank you so much!
Visualize your journaling progress over time, gain insights about your activity in the app, and learn which guided journals you use most.
Browse the Library and curate your own collections of guided journals to personalize your writing experience.
Choose from multiple themes to make your journal feel even more personal and fun. More themes coming!
Find even more journaling Templates for all areas of life and make regular reflection even more powerful.
Make any particularly sensitive journal entries even harder to access by locking them and requiring re-authentication.
Find linked Templates to journal entries and uncover your writing patterns and trends over time.
We've made some under the hood changes that will allow us to release new features faster and with fewer pesky bugs.
This feature was highly requested, so we're incredibly excited to introduce it to you. Need to recall something or reflect on the past? Search for people, places, dates, thoughts, ideas, and experiences effortlessly in your Clearful journal!
Tap on the Search icon in the top right corner of the Entries screen, then enter what you're looking for, and entries will begin to appear.
While striving to provide a delightful journaling experience in Clearful, we also strongly believe that your journal data is yours - to use how and where you want. So, you can now export all of your journal entries as a plain text document. You will have more export options down the road as well. To export your entries, go to Settings > Account Info > Export Journal Entries.
As you've come to expect from us, we've made a few small design improvements and squashed some bugs.
You can now save Templates and Prompts to two Collections just for you: Want To Do and Favorites! Save guided journals you'd like to complete someday to the Want To Do Collection for a curated list of inspiration. Save your most-loved guided journals to the Favorites Collection for quick and easy access to your faves. To save, open any Prompt or Template and tap the 'Save' button.
We've heard your feedback that finding specific Templates and Prompts can be difficult. Now, instead of browsing the Library, you can search for Templates and Prompts directly! Tap the 'Search' button in the Library to quickly find resources.
A very big "Thank you!" to the Clearful members who suggested our newest Templates and Prompts - your input is greatly appreciated! Open the New Collection in the Library to journal with these new additions.
New Templates:
Anxiety 5,4,3,2,1 Exercise
Sleep Journal: Morning
New Prompts:
What do I need to do to become a better person?
What is one moment that I repeatedly go back to and why?
What made me laugh today?
What made me cry today?
As you've come to expect from us, we've made a few small design improvements and squashed some bugs.
You can now see if you created your journal entries from Templates and which ones. Open a journal entry, tap on the three-dot icon to open the Entry Info sheet, and view your linked Templates.
Discover the latest journaling prompts and templates in the New Collection! This Collection will be updated regularly as new guided journaling resources are added to Clearful. Head on over to the Library tab and open the New Collection to see the latest. Many more guided journaling resources are coming your way!
You can now quickly capture thoughts and feelings throughout the day with an easy-access Quick Capture field just above the tab bar! Whether you'd like to record an interesting thought, an emotion you're experiencing, or simply clear your mind, quick capture is a great way to practice micro journaling and take a moment of reflection more often. Download the latest update to use this feature!
Elements throughout the app, such as cards and buttons, now have semantic labels, making the app much more accessible to all Clearful journalers!
Enjoy a more beautiful, calm, and consistent experience in your journal with interface improvements to buttons, bottom sheets, and many more elements. We're always working on ways to make your journaling experience more delightful!
Be good to yourself and show love for others, from family to friends to partners. We've curated a collection of guided journaling Templates and Prompts that help you reflect on the gratitude and love you have for yourself and others.
We've heard from several of you (thanks for reaching out!) that you'd like to update your account's email address, so you can now do so in Settings > Account Info.
As always, we fixed small issues throughout the app.
iPad owners - you're going to love this update! We've worked hard to make journaling with Clearful beautiful on every screen. Whether you're journaling on your iPhone 8 or your iPad Pro, Clearful will automatically size itself to look and feel great. If you're using your iPad with a Magic or Smart Keyboard or in landscape mode, you'll enjoy a full-width journaling experience that helps you journal faster and more often.
You can now find even more guided journaling resources in the Library to help you feel inspired to write and dig a little deeper to better understand yourself. We hope these new resources enable you to improve the way you think, feel, and act on a daily basis!
New Templates:
Not-To-Do List
10-Minute Weekly Review
Advice From My Future Self
New Prompts:
How does my pet make my life better?
What is the best professional compliment I received?
What do I consider my greatest personal success?
What is one lesson I learned from the last book I read?
What do I wish I knew more about?
What do I like about travelling by plane?
What is one of my favorite hobbies and why?
What would I like to spend my time doing when I retire?
What is something that is limiting me from accomplishing what I want to accomplish?
What is something I worry about that is outside of my control?
....and many more!
Reflect on the past year and make plans for 2021 with templates and journaling prompts in the New Year Collection. Record the good and the bad, what went well and what could be improved. Review and learn from your past to live your life with intention and become your best self in the new year.
Bring mindfulness and gratitude to the holiday season with journaling templates and prompts in the Holidays Collection. This season can be a challenging time of the year for many, bringing both positive and negative emotions. Take a moment to be mindful and end the year on a positive note.
Design improvements for a cleaner, more beautiful interface and small bug fixes.
You can now find even more exciting guided journaling resources in Collections, which are round-ups of featured templates and prompts. You will find Collections such as Editor's Picks, Popular, and New on a regular basis, as well as limited-time Collections such as New Year and Holidays. To view the current Collections, go to the Library tab and swipe through the cards at the top of the screen.
You can now quickly browse and select shortlisted Templates, Prompts, and the day's Discover Daily directly from a new journal entry. We've heard from you that finding resources in the Library can feel overwhelming or lengthy at times, so this is the first step in making guided resources more accessible. Right now, you'll find Editor's Picks Prompts and Templates that have been curated by us, but there will be more options such as 'Recently Used' coming soon. Tap on the round + button to create a new entry and then tap the 'Guided Journals' button to view the shortlisted resources.
Consistent journal writing is an incredibly valuable practice for helping us live our best lives, but integrating the practice into our lives and continuing to journal regularly can be challenging at times. To help you (and us) be more consistent and build a lifelong habit, we have added a Streak tracking feature to Clearful, which can be viewed in the new Today tab.
Having both daily and weekly streak tracking offers flexibility as we know that some individuals want to build a daily journaling practice, while others feel more comfortable with weekly journaling. A weekly streak can encourage one to reflect on their life consistently without feeling the pressure to have to do it every day.
Your daily reminders now update automatically to your current timezone. Thanks, daylight savings time! Removing a Rediscover entry now updates immediately in Today. Clearer and more descriptive copy throughout the app. Several other design updates and bug fixes.
Now, your home base in Clearful is Today. See today's entries, today's stats (number of entries and words written), your streaks, the day's Discover Daily question, and your Rediscover entries to reflect on from the past. More exciting things to come in Today in the near future!
Your three most recently used Templates and Prompts will be available for quick-use directly in every new entry. Tap on 'Guided Journals' in a new entry to see them.
You can now see the Discover Daily question directly in Today (without having to open it first) and skip it if it doesn't appeal to you that day. The Daily itself has also been redesigned.
Rediscover has been redesigned to look and function just like your Entries - vertically scrollable (rather than horizontally) and in day-groups. It's now easier to see and open all Rediscover entries for a particular time period.
You can now use FaceID or TouchID (on iOS) or Fingerprint (Android) to securely access your journal when you're already logged in and the app is in the background. This is a nice additional piece of security that ensures that Clearful can't be opened even if someone uses your device when it is unlocked. To enable, go to Settings > Security Lock.
To enhance the journal writing and reading experience in low-light environments and give your eyes some rest, we've added dark mode support for iOS and Android with a new darker color palette. Clearful will automatically match your phone's system appearance/theme preferences, or you can manually change to the Light or Dark theme. Go to Settings > Appearance / Theme in the app to view your preferences in Clearful. To view your phone's settings, on iOS go to Settings > Display & Brightness, or on Android go to Settings > Display > Theme.
Clearful is now available for Android phones in the Google Play Store. If you have an Android phone, you can download the app here. Give it a try! If you have questions or feedback, please contact us at [email protected]. We're always interested in hearing how we can make Clearful better!
See all the latest Clearful feature releases, product improvements, bug fixes, and announcements directly from the app. Go to Settings > What's New to be taken to this page and learn about all the exciting things we're introducing to Clearful.
A few small bugs were addressed and many small design improvements were made to improve the experience of using Clearful.
In addition to biometric authentication, we've added another privacy enhancement. Secure blocking covers the content of Clearful when viewing your open apps in multitasking mode on your phone.
For our initial launch we made Clearful available only in the App Stores in the US and Canada. After performing some backend improvements in how we handle different time zones, we are now live in three additional App Stores: United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. If you have an iPhone and live in the UK, Australia, or New Zealand, you can now download the app for iOS! While right now Clearful is only available for iOS users in these regions, we plan to bring it to Android for these regions in the future as well.
Getting feedback is incredibly important in helping us understand what challenges our users are facing when journaling as that helps us improve the product and design innovative ways to solve problems. To make giving feedback easier, we added a small icon in the top right corner of several screens in the app that opens a window with a text field for feedback. We look at feedback that's coming in daily, so please don't hesitate to let us know how we can improve your journaling experience!
We added support for a 24-hour clock which is the standard in many countries. Clearful will support the system settings that a user's phone is set to, whether that is a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock. Things like the time on journal entries and time picker will automatically adjust to the system settings. This was an essential update as we make plans to launch Clearful is more regions.
A few small bugs were fixed for issues with copy and paste in journal entries and text scaling on the 'Create an Account' screen.
We’re looking for feedback on your experiences in using Clearful, as well as journaling in general. We'd like to learn how you journal, what challenges you face, and what you're looking to get out of journal writing.
Your input will help inform our roadmap over the next year and beyond. If you're interested in helping, please email us at [email protected].