# Journals you keep by email, side by side

Several services send you an email and keep your reply as a journal. This page sets three of them side by side: ohmylife, Dabble Me and Storied.

What is said of Dabble Me and Storied is quoted from their own pages as they stood on 13 November 2026, with a link to each. Prices and plans change, so theirs is the page to trust. ohmylife is not connected with either.

## ohmylife

- An email on the days and at the hour you choose, asking how your day went. Your reply becomes that day's page.
- A journal on the web as well: write or change any day, mark how it felt, and tag a day with a word to find it again.
- Photos kept with your days: up to ten a day, 10 MB each, 1 GB in all.
- The earlier versions of every day, each showing when it was written and by whom.
- Your own AI assistant reading your journal and writing in it for you, within what you allow.
- Everything you wrote as plain files, whenever you ask, and a copy by email once a year.

All of that is free: nothing is charged, and no card is asked for. [The pricing page](/pricing/) lists what is included.

## Dabble Me

From [dabble.me](https://dabble.me/):

- Its free plan is "$0 /forever", with "Email prompts every other Sunday" and "Reply by email to journal".
- Its paid plan, PRO, is "$4 /month or $40/year". In its words: "When you want daily prompts, photos, search, and other tools, you can upgrade to PRO for $4/month or $40/year."
- Both plans list "Export your data anytime".
- On AI assistants it says: "Optional AI connector for ChatGPT and Claude — you approve access, and nothing runs until you connect."

## Storied

From [storied.email](https://storied.email/):

- Its free plan is "Free forever.", with "Daily email prompts" and "30 days of journaling history".
- Its paid plan, Pro, is "$3.49 per month", or a "$70 one-time fee", with "Unlimited journaling history", "Write & edit entries directly on the web" and "Export your journal entries".

## What to look at before you choose

Whichever you pick, a journal is something you keep for years, so these are worth reading on each service's own page:

- How often the email comes on the plan you would use.
- How much of what you write is kept, and for how long.
- Whether you can take everything out again, and in what form.
- Who can read what you write, and what happens to it if the service closes.

For ohmylife, [the privacy page](/privacy/) answers the last two, and [How it works](/journal-by-email/) the rest.

## Questions people ask

### Is ohmylife connected with Dabble Me or Storied?

No. ohmylife is not connected with either. They are other services that work in a similar way: an email arrives, and your reply is kept.

### Are these the only journals kept by email?

No. These are two others; there are more. If you miss OhLife, which closed in 2014, see [An OhLife alternative](/ohlife-alternative/).

### What does ohmylife cost?

Nothing is charged, and no card is asked for. [The pricing page](/pricing/) lists what is included.

### Something on this page is out of date. Who do I tell?

Write to hello@ohmylife.app. The other services' own pages are the ones to trust on their prices and plans.

Last changed 13 November 2026.

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