Apple is working on a health journaling app

Apple will work on a health journaling application to better accompany you every day.

Apple is currently working on a diary app — a daily writing ritual, a self-encounter, and a few sheets of paper between a diary and a bullet journal — for the iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal. The app, codenamed Jurassic, is said to be in line with the Cupertino-based company’s ambition to enter the healthcare market, with internal documents linking logging to better mental health.

Apple is working on a health journaling app

This app can serve as a health tracker to analyze your typical day, where you go, who you interact with and when you deviate from your routine. The app might, for example, try to tell the difference between your co-workers and your friends with a feature called All Day People Detection. It might work by analyzing how close you are to other people, but it’s not yet known if they’ll need an iPhone and an app to do so.

All of this information that Apple might collect is nothing new, but the personalization feature that uses it can suggest relevant logging topics. For example, if you take your iPhone for a run, the app will ask you to write a few words about the walk. It is reported that all data can also be stored on the device, and these offers are automatically deleted after four weeks.

This is to better support you on a daily basis.

If the Cupertino company launched a journaling app, it would be in direct competition with Day One. The latter has been in the daily activity and mood tracking market for a decade and has over 200,000 premium subscribers, thanks in large part to Apple. Indeed, in 2014 the company received an Apple Design Award and was featured several times in the App Store. Paul Maine, its founder, told the WSJ that this help from Apple was greatly reduced about 3 years ago, leading him to believe that the giant is working on a similar application. Some time ago, Apple was already accused of

Apple hasn’t formalized anything about such a logging app yet, and if it did, it probably wouldn’t be until WWDC in June.