I love this app. I’m caught in that weird space where I love technology, but I also love the tactile feel of journaling. Finding Zinnia has been awesome for bridging that gap and letting me journal on my iPad. For an iPad journaling app, I don’t think anything compares to Zinnia. Penbook is what I used for a long time, but eventually I ditched it for this one. The customization options and control you have just can’t be beat for that Art/Junk Journal feel.

That said, I feel it’s lacking for iPhone. Perhaps part of that is the loss of the Apple Pencil, but I can’t find any templates or ready to use planners optimized for iPhone, which means very small fonts and lots of zooming and panning. If there was even just one or two ready to use type planners for iPhone it would be a huge improvement in my opinion. I’m not going to get deep into one of my art or project books on my phone, I do that on my tablet.

Having a nice, customizable planner for my phone though—especially if it could sync to my calendar like Penbook can—that would be huge and I’d use that all the time! For iPad, if you’re looking for a great journaling app, this is it. If you’re only planning to, or only able to use your phone, unfortunately I’d say Zinnia has a little ways to go. Penbook has their “Little Everywhere and When” book specially for use on your phone. If Zinnia added something similar, they’d win. Hands down.

Thanks you so much for the kind words! We are working on improving the usability on iPhone, and hope you enjoy the coming improvements!

This app is seriously the only complete digital planning/journal app on the market. I’ve used several, including the paid versions of the most popular ones. There is always a significant issue with one of the features. I love GoodNotes and they have made fixes to issues that used to drive me crazy, like the crashes and lagging; however, their handwriting algorithm is awful. The worst one of all the digital writing apps I’ve used. I have an iPad Pro, 2nd gen pencil, and a paperlike screen protector. Another app I found has a really good algorithm for the pencil, but the rest of it is not very good, without the ability to use even system fonts. I wanted an app that allowed me to make planners and notebooks, use PDFs that I make/purchase, insert graphics, notes, etc., and be able to utilize both type and handwriting (and not have it look completely different than what I write on paper). This app has it all! Then, in addition to your own graphics, there are a ton of templates and layouts built in. Some graphics have actual text lines built in, so you just touch and type, no need to drag typed text around and it is much faster when creating long to-do lists or grocery lists than handwriting it all out. I could literally go on forever, but you’re wasting time reading this. Just get it. I haven’t opened another writing app since I subscribed to this one.

Thank you so much for the kind words! We are glad that you are enjoying the app.

I appreciate all the updates, new features that steadily roll out, I also love the how to videos. I’m a little confused on the different subscriptions..in the App Store could you improve the description of the the different subscriptions? I already subscribe to the premium then saw a scrapbooking option, so I trialed it to see what it was but I noticed no difference and it showed up like I had two of the subscriptions to the same so I cancelled the additional trial. I tried emailing through app but it froze/ spinning gathering logs, hopefully you will see this here. This app is best for iPad, but I do use on my phone at times too. It’s just everything is smaller though you can zoom in. I have one book that is just recipes so it’s nice to be able to look up the ingredients when I’m in the grocery store, or referring to recipes to notes I took in other journals when I don’t have my iPad with me. Hands down best app for scrap booking, recipe books, journaling. I’m not a planner type person I just use my reg calendar but trialed them and they are fun to create and personalize. Really great app, and I don’t think I could live with the app now. I tried all other kinds of note taking etc. the only feature I could ask for is audio recording but the creative features makes this app superior to all the rest. For anyone who read this far…watch the vid…they give really creative ideas!

Hi! Oh goodness, so sorry that was confusing! Can you please email zinnia@pixiteapps.com, we want to get you up and running asap. So glad you love Zinnia – we want to get everything fixed for you asap :)