Acorn Journals’ Features

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Secure, Simple, and Smarter Journaling

Acorn Journals is a beautifully designed digital journal created for people who want to write without distraction, reflect more deeply, and grow over time. Whether you're capturing daily thoughts or recording dreams, Acorn provides a private space where you can build a consistent journaling habit, with or without the help of AI.

Core Features

Everything you need to start journaling in the free plan

Acorn’s Free Plan includes powerful tools that help you write consistently and keep your thoughts private.

Regular Journal
A clean, elegant space to write your thoughts, goals, reflections, or anything on your mind.

AI Journaling Support
Receive gentle AI prompts that assist you as you write, whether you're unsure how to begin or need help putting your thoughts into words.

Mood Tracking
Log your mood or let our AI detect your mood based on your entry and track emotional and mood patterns over time.

Encrypted Journals
Acorn respects your privacy. Your entries are always encrypted.

One Journal Entry Per Day
A gentle limit to support mindful and intentional journaling.

Premium Features

Understand yourself better with smart and contextual insights.

Unlimited journal entries, smart insights, and access to all our journal types such as nutrition journals, dream journals, fitness journals, and more.

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Unlock Deeper Insights with Acorn Premium

Premium Account Features

Acorn Premium is designed for journalers who want to go beyond writing and begin understanding their thoughts, patterns, and personal growth over time. With advanced AI features, you’ll gain insights that help you reflect more deeply and stay meaningfully connected to your life.

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Tone Analysis of Journal Entries

Gain a deeper understanding of your emotional world. Acorn’s sophisticated AI features help analyze the tone of your journal entries and reveals the feelings and patterns that shape your days, weeks, and months. See which emotions and moods appear most often, explore how your mood changes over time, and view simple visual summaries that help you reflect with more clarity.

Overall Tone

See the emotion or mood that has appeared most often in your recent writing. Acorn highlights the feeling that stands out in your entries and gives you a simple snapshot of your emotional landscape over time.

Dominant Moods

Explore the moods and emotions that come through most clearly in your journal entries. Acorn’s AI identifies your top emotional highlights and shows how often each mood or emotion appears in your writing.

Emotional Trends

Follow how your emotions shift over time. This section gives you a clear view of how different moods rise and fall throughout your journaling journey.

Emotional Profile

See a visual summary of your emotional and mood patterns across the last 7 days, 30 days, and 1 year. With our intelligent AI sentiment analysis feature, each emotion is presented as part of your overall emotional distribution, giving you a calm and intuitive way to understand what shaped your year.

Emotion Journey Over Time

Our intelligent AI insights tool, helps you track how your emotions change from one moment to the next. This view shows the movement and intensity of different feelings throughout your journaling period, helping you notice patterns, shifts, and meaningful turning points.

Emotional Distribution

Discover a detailed breakdown of the emotions that appear in your writing. Acorn Journals’ sophisticated AI analysis shows the percentage of each feeling across your entries, from the moods that show up most often to the quieter emotions that appear less frequently.

Daily Emotional Breakdown

Acorn’s AI graphs visualize how your emotional state changes from day to day. The Overall Emotion Level line shows your combined emotional tone, while additional lines highlight the strength of your positive and negative emotions. This view makes it easy to understand how your mood shifts throughout daily life and how certain feelings grow or soften over time.

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Recurring Topics & Themes

Discover the themes that appear most often in your writing. Acorn studies your journal entries and uses its AI summary tools to highlight the subjects you return to again and again. These patterns reveal what is taking up space in your mind and help you understand where your attention, energy, and emotions have been focused. It is a thoughtful way to step back, observe your life from above, and reflect with clarity.

Top Categories

See the main topics that appear in your journal. Acorn’s AI features organizes your writing into clear categories such as work, health, travel, emotions, and social life. This gives you a simple view of what you think about most often and where your daily experiences tend to gather.

Key Insights

Explore the most important patterns discovered in your writing. Acorn highlights meaningful themes such as possible recurring stressors, potential sources of joy, areas of growth, and shifts in overall potential well being. These insights help you connect the dots between your thoughts, habits, and experiences.

Recurring Topics Analysis

View a detailed AI generated summary of the themes that shaped your journaling period. Acorn identifies your most consistent topics and provides a clear narrative that describes the focus of your writing. This summary reflects how you potentially navigate work, relationships, health, travel, and emotional well being, offering a deeper understanding of your life patterns.

Topic and Insight Summary

See the overall number of topics discovered and the insights created from your entries. This section shows how many journal posts were analyzed and how many meaningful observations Acorn’s sophisticated AI features uncovered during a selected time period.

Summary Overview

This section gives you a written reflection of your journaling journey. It highlights potential important life events, possible emotional themes, personal challenges, and meaningful progress. The AI assisted summary is designed to feel like a thoughtful letter written just for you, capturing what stood out most during your journaling period.

Activity Breakdown

See how many posts were analyzed, how many words you wrote, and how many potential themes were identified. This gives you a clear sense of your writing activity and your engagement over time.

Smart Journal Summaries

See the story your written journals tell. Acorn Journals’ AI summary feature creates clear and thoughtful summaries of your journal entries so you can step back and understand the bigger picture of your year, month, or week. Discover meaningful moments, important themes, and the patterns that shape your life. Each summary is written to help you reflect with clarity and insight.

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Key Points

Explore potential important moments and reflections from your journal. Acorn highlights meaningful takeaways such as personal growth, emotional processing, or consistent habits. These points help you remember what mattered most throughout your writing period.

Themes Identified

See the topics that appeared most often in your entries. These themes reveal some of the subjects that shaped your reflections and potentially provide a deeper understanding of your daily life, your thoughts, and your emotional focus.

Writing Patterns

Understand your writing sytle and patterns. Acorn Journals’ AI shows your average words per entry, your estimated reading time, and your journaling consistency. This view helps you understand your writing habits and the rhythm of your journaling practice.

Emotional Journey

See the overall sentiment of your reflections. Acorn Journals’ sophisticated AI features analyze your writing style and emotional language to reveal the tone and emotion that appears most often in your entries. It gives you a simple look at how your thoughts and feelings potentially shaped a specific time period.

Variety of Journal Types

Acorn offers a journal for every part of your life. Choose from daily reflections, wellness journals, goal focused journals, dream logs, spiritual practice, and relationship reflections. Each journal type gives you a simple private space to explore your thoughts and experiences with more intention.

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