Yewmark vs Dayora

Looking for a Dayora alternative?

Dayora went down in early May 2026, with the AI features no longer functioning. If you used it and are looking for somewhere to land, Yewmark is a working alternative in the same shape of careful, AI-assisted journaling.

This page is for people who arrived from a search like “Dayora alternative”, “Dayora AI not working”, or “what happened to Dayora.” The short version: Dayora stopped working reliably and the people who depended on it for daily journaling needed somewhere to go. Yewmark is one option.

We’re not affiliated with Dayora. This isn’t a takedown either — Dayora was a serious attempt and many users got real value out of it. What follows is practical guidance for finding your footing again.

What Yewmark offers in the same shape

AI-assisted journaling without the hustle. Per-entry digest (recap / insight / next step) on demand. A chat companion with four configurable voices. Optional daily and weekly summary emails. None of it is prescriptive — the AI runs when you ask it to.

A blank-page write surface. No template, no daily question, no enforced ritual. (Why: /blog/friction-free-writing.)

Voice journaling.Available on the Steady plan and up. Transcribed in the cloud with automatic failover across multiple providers. We don’t store the audio — just the transcript you can edit before saving.

Mood and energy tags. Post-write affordances, not the centerpiece. The Mood view in the sidebar lays out tags over time as a quiet heatmap.

Full export and one-click deletion. JSON or Markdown export. Delete-account with a 7-day grace window for changing your mind. First-class features, not buried in support tickets.

What’s different

No streaks.Yewmark deliberately doesn’t track consecutive days. The longest streak in the world isn’t a quality signal. (Why: /blog/why-slow.)

Web-first, not mobile-app-first. Yewmark runs in any modern browser, with installable PWA support. There’s no native iOS or Android app and there may never be. The laptop-tab is where it shines.

Pricing is gentler. Lite is free with 3 AI calls/day, no card required. Steady is $3/month for 30 calls/day. Deep is $10/month for 100 calls/day on a deeper-tier model. Studio is $25/month for effectively unlimited.

Plain-spoken privacy posture.The privacy page spells out where your data lives (the Netherlands, under EU data law), what kinds of providers our AI traffic flows through, and what we will and won’t do with your data. No marketing language; the specifics are spelled out.

How to bring your Dayora entries

If you exported your data from Dayora before things stopped working, write to [email protected] with the export file attached and we’ll run a one-off migration into your Yewmark account. Most Dayora exports are JSON or text and import cleanly with a little transformation; we’d rather do that work for you than ask you to fiddle with formats.

If you don’t have an export — the AI being broken doesn’t necessarily mean the export endpoint stopped working too. It’s worth one last attempt before you give up on the data. Email us if you need help figuring out what’s recoverable.

A note on continuity

One reason people are nervous after a journaling app fails is the reasonable worry that the new one might also fail. We can’t guarantee Yewmark will be here in five years — nobody honestly can. What we can do is be clear about the design choices that make graceful exit possible.

Full export of every entry as JSON or Markdown, available any time from Settings. No subscription required to export.
No proprietary file formats. Your entries are plain text with mood/energy tags and timestamps. Portable to anything.
Single-operator project. The infrastructure is small enough that the operator can keep it running personally if the user base shrinks — no VC clock forcing a shutdown if growth isn’t exponential.

The least-worst version of trusting another journaling app is to keep your export current. Yewmark makes that easy on purpose.

Begin a Yewmark journal.

The Lite plan is free. No card. Open a page and write a sentence.

Begin writing