Install it and sign in
Dayspring runs on the web, on your Mac, and on iPhone and iPad. Signing in is Apple or Google — there's no password to invent.
Where it runs
On the web. Open the site in any modern browser and sign in. Nothing to install. You can also add it to your home screen or dock, and it will keep working when you go offline.
On your Mac. Download the app and drag it to Applications. The first time you open it, macOS may say it was downloaded from the internet — that’s the normal prompt for a newly installed app. Open it and it won’t ask again. The Mac app keeps itself up to date quietly in the background.
On iPhone and iPad. Through the App Store.
Your writing is the same everywhere. Write a paragraph on your phone on the bus and it’s on your Mac when you sit down.
Signing in
There are two buttons: Continue with Apple and Continue with Google. That’s the whole thing. There’s no password to choose, no email to verify, no confirmation link to hunt for in a spam folder.
You can connect both to the same account. Settings → About → your sign-in methods will offer to link the other one.
Do link both if you have both. This is worth two minutes now, because of what’s below.
A word about Hide My Email
If you sign in with Apple, Apple offers to hide your real address behind a
relay address that looks something like x7k2p9@privaterelay.appleid.com.
That’s fine — Dayspring works exactly the same either way.
But it does mean the identity Apple hands us is different from your Google one. So if you sign in with Apple one day and Google the next, without having linked them, you get two separate accounts — and the second one looks alarmingly empty.
Your writing isn’t gone. It’s in the other account. Sign out, sign back in the way you did the first time, and it’s all there. Then link the two so it can’t happen again.
If you’re already stuck in that situation, we can merge them for you.
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Write your first entry, or bring an existing journal across.