Parchment is a private daily journal that brings your writing, plans, calendar, and reminders together in one quiet place. It uses Apple's Reminders and the system calendar to bring your task and events together.
Open today and start writing immediately. Your calendar events and due or overdue reminders can appear above your journal entry, giving you the context of the day without switching apps. Capture notes, reflect on what happened, plan what comes next, or use Parchment as a simple daybook for work and life.
On iPad, Parchment also supports handwriting and drawing with Apple Pencil, so typed notes and handwritten thoughts can live together on the same day.
Parchment is built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync available through your private iCloud account. There is no Parchment account to create, no advertising, and no third-party analytics SDKs.
Features include:
- Daily journal entries organized by date
- Calendar events shown alongside your writing
- Due and overdue reminders in your daily view
- Reminder completion from inside the app
- Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing on iPad
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Widgets for a quick look at your agenda
- Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents support
- Spotlight indexing for finding past entries
- Export tools for keeping a copy of your writing
- Custom appearance, fonts, and themes
Parchment is for people who want a journal that understands the shape of their day. It gives you one place to write what happened, see what is coming up, and keep a private record over time.
NOT just another third party take on calendar and reminders
Downtown Sophisticate
The killer feature is that it integrates into, AND IS, your native Reminders and Calendar. Accessed from one place. It even gives a handy spot for personal notes to scribble for tracking things in your day. What it gets right: Time-sensitive reminders, daily to-do (agenda), and a place for miscellaneous mnemonic notes just for today’s scope. What it gets wrong: It’s mixing a flexible pop-up space for tracking projects or tasks that aren’t due today but have to be handled flexibly when you can get to them, some time this week or this month. It needs a digital sticky note TO-DO for all those “get to it later” items that need a reminder for the time period (upcoming week/month/quarter), but resist assignment to any particular day or time of day. And you DO NOT want to see them carried over in the same list of things that are assigned for today and today alone, if that makes sense.
Fantastic app & compliment to Reminders/Calendar
Dawn Asson
This app seemed like it was made for me. I live in Apple Calendar and Reminders and always wanted a way to have both show that wasn’t overwhelming. Showing reminders in the calendar app was nice but since it wasn’t ordered and it pushed timed and even all day events to the bottom, if I had a ton of reminders, it was too cluttered to read. The layout of All Day/no time alongside Timed is great. The widgets work nicely on phone & mac.I’m not using the Daily Note too often but it is a nice thing to have and as the developer noted in a video for the app, it’s great to update tomorrow’s Daily Note so you see it first thing the next morning.One bug I noticed was the medium widget on the iphone doesn’t say “x more” if not all the items can be displayed. It works fine on the small and large size widgets on iphone. Note, it also works on the medium sized Mac widget. So just an iphone problem.A feature I’d like would be maybe to be able to have all day Calendar events show up in the Timed section? I know it doesn’t make sense, but I have birthdays and a ton of reminders, and the birthday got buried on my phone and it wasn’t until I pulled up app on mac that I noticed it. Not a deal breaker but maybe some way to tweak that?
Awesome App & Highly Responsive Developer
Kiwi wants a nickel
I had trouble with iCloud syncing when I first downloaded the app. I sent logs to the developer from my system with possible causes to the problem and he responded about 4 hours later with a fix that was already uploaded and available for me to download. It’s a rare treat to see a dev this responsive to their users!The app is awesome and well worth the price. I downloaded this one over other productivity apps because of the native compatibility with Reminders & Calendar and because of the privacy. You don’t normally get privacy with other apps, but since this one only syncs with iCloud, the developer doesn’t get any of your personal data.
A Beautifully Simple Daily Planner
Butteř
I’ve been waiting for an app like this for a long time. It’s simple, elegant, and incredibly powerful without feeling overwhelming. Having my daily notes, calendar events, and reminders all in one clean, distraction-free interface makes planning my day feel effortless.I also appreciate that it’s a true native Apple app with iCloud sync, widgets, and excellent privacy. There are no unnecessary features or clutter—just a beautifully designed experience that helps you stay organised and focused.Sometimes the best productivity apps are the simplest, and Parchment proves exactly that. Highly recommended.
Bug fixes for the sync system and start up
Version 1.2.1
The developer, Chris Lawley, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Christopher Lawley
Size
144.3 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
