If you kept a record on LDSJournal years ago, JRNL is where it lives now — accounts were carried over when LDSJournal became JRNL, and that heritage has been kept with care. Many families in this community have years inside it.
What JRNL is for
JRNL lives on the web and on phones both: write from any browser, send entries in by email, keep separate books for separate threads of life. And its signature is the shelf copy — printed, bound volumes of your entries, made to be handed to someone. If writing from a desktop browser, or holding a printed book of your years, is the heart of what you want today, JRNL does those things — and UNA’s first release does not. Plainly.
What UNA is for
- The Sacred Vault — JRNL, like most services of its kind, keeps your words on its servers so it can serve them to any browser. That’s reasonable for what it offers. The Vault is the opposite covenant: temple experiences and blessings are never sent to UNA’s servers at all.
- Reflections drawn from your own words — look-backs that help you notice themes, growth, and quiet mercies, never written for you.
- A quiet iPhone-first practice — made for the phone that’s with you at the kitchen table, with no streaks or guilt mechanics.
No printed books in UNA’s first release; your Today data can be downloaded anytime for a portable copy, and it stays yours.
They meet in the middle
If JRNL holds your history, it keeps holding it — nothing about UNA asks you to move. Some will write the wide record there and keep the tender center here. If you keep only one, the question is the same one this whole site asks: where do the things you’d never post deserve to live?