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3 self-hosted Journey alternatives

Journey is a cross-platform journaling and diary service for creating and organizing personal entries. It supports text entries with photos, mood tags, location and timestamps, cloud sync and backup, search and export, and multi-device access for life‑logging.

Alternatives to Journey

Self-hosted travel tracker and trip planner with map-based logs, itineraries, sharing, and travel statistics; SvelteKit frontend and Django/PostGIS backend.

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3.6k stars243 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted private journaling app with mood tracking, prompt-based writing, media uploads, analytics, and powerful search for full data ownership.

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1.2k stars46 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Encrypted diary and journal web app with client-side encryption, markdown editor, file uploads, searchable entries, multi-user accounts and PWA support.

497 stars41 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

What replacing Journey actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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