How private, are your private journals?

This is a very nice app on the face of it, and it became very popular. Then the developer suddenly removed iCloud and Dropbox syncing options from the latest version of the app, and instead swiched to only offering their own sync service, which is currently free for the moment. The developer is paying to host their sync service on AWS (Amazon). Who do you think is eventually going to have to pay for it, at a premium?

Now, is encryption actually implemented, locally, or on the deveroper’s sync server? Nope.

Some of the developer’s staff currently have access to all sync’d journals. That also means that sync’d, unencrypted journal data is subject to all legal discovery processes, incliuding divorce and child custody proceedings, etc.

Can you, as a user, still easily directly access your sync’d journal files, now on the developer’s rented AWS server, in order to delete them, if you feel so inclined for any reason? What do you think?

For some reason, these changes, and other issues, angered many long-time users. In response, the developer finially proposed eventually enabling some form of encryption, perhaps later this year.

This is a very, very nice application. On the face of it.

Time Squire-in-Training about Day One