Anew
A daily positive-thinking journal for Mac. One prompt each morning, whether that's an affirmation, a visualization, a memory worth keeping or a note to your future self, answered in a calm, simple card. Twenty words and the day is done.
Part of the Mac suite. Free. For any Mac running macOS 15 or later. Updates install automatically.
What it does
- One prompt a day. More than a hundred warm, personal prompts that never repeat. Not feeling today's? Ask for another.
- Write freely when a prompt isn't the point. Morning pages, no prompt attached.
- A streak that forgives. Twenty words completes a day, late nights count until 3 AM, and the week view shows how many days you wrote, so one missed day doesn't undo a good month.
- A quiet archive. See every day you've written at a glance, scroll back through past entries, and get a monthly look-back at what you wrote a month and a year ago today.
- Reminders that know you already wrote. A daily nudge at a time you choose, an optional evening one, and neither fires on a day you've finished.
- Menu bar entry. Today's prompt one click from anywhere, sharing the same lock and the same journal.
Private by design
Your entries are encrypted and stay on your Mac. Nothing you write is ever uploaded, and there's no account. Touch ID unlocks the journal, and it locks again after five minutes away or when your Mac sleeps.
Install
- Download Anew and open the file.
- Drag Anew to Applications.
- On first launch, allow notifications if you want the daily reminder, and unlock with Touch ID.
Found a bug or want a prompt category that isn't there? Write to me.