# Dabble Me

> Private journal you keep by replying to email prompts

Dabble Me is a private journal run over email: the service sends a prompt asking how your day went, and your reply is saved as that day's entry. The same emails resurface entries you wrote in past years. The free plan sends a prompt every other Sunday, and the PRO plan adds a custom schedule, photos, search, a web editor and a connector for AI assistants. It launched in 2014, is still run by its original developer, and its code is public on GitHub under the MIT license.

- **Category:** Journaling Apps
- **Made by:** Dabble Dev LLC (since 2014)
- **Website:** https://dabble.me
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 6, 2026

## Pricing

Dabble Me has a free plan. Paid plans start at $4 per month, or $40 per year.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free forever: an email prompt every other Sunday, journaling by email reply, reading entries online, past entries resurfaced in emails, and data export.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | An email prompt every other Sunday, entries written by email reply and read online, past entries resurfaced, and export at any time. |
| PRO | $4 per month, or $40 per year | Custom email schedule, web editor with rich text, up to 8 photos per entry, calendar view, search, tags, analytics and the AI connector. |

Read from https://dabble.me/#pricing on Oct 6, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dabble Me before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): PRO is listed at $4 a month or $40 a year, so paying yearly costs $8 less than twelve monthly payments, a saving of about 17%. Source: https://dabble.me/#pricing

## Key features

- **Journaling by email reply:** A prompt arrives in your inbox and your reply becomes that day's entry. Several replies on one day are added to the same entry, and a date in the subject line files it elsewhere.
- **Blasts from the past:** Each prompt email carries an entry you wrote on an earlier date, so old entries come back without you looking for them. This is part of the free plan.
- **Custom schedule:** PRO members choose the days and times prompts arrive, from daily to weekly. Free accounts get a prompt every other Sunday.
- **Photos, hashtags and search:** PRO adds up to 8 photos per entry, sent as email attachments or added on the web, plus a calendar view and search across entries and #hashtags.
- **Web editor and importers:** PRO members can write or edit an entry for any date on the website with rich text, and import journals from OhLife, Day One, Ahhlife and Trailmix.life.
- **AI connector over MCP:** A remote MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and other compatible clients search, list, analyze and add entries after you approve access. It needs PRO and a passkey or two-factor login.

## Good for

- People who would sooner reply to an email than open a journaling app
- Rereading old entries, which come back inside the prompt emails
- Journal keepers who want to query their entries from Claude or ChatGPT

## Worth knowing

- There is no mobile or desktop app: you write by replying to an email or in a web browser.
- Free accounts get a prompt only every other Sunday; daily prompts, photos, search, the calendar view and the web editor need PRO.
- Entries are not end-to-end encrypted: the privacy policy notes that email content passes through email providers in transit.
- Entries an AI assistant reads through the connector are sent to that assistant's provider for processing.

## Works with

Claude, ChatGPT, Spotify

**Tags:** Daily notes, Open source, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Penzu](https://toolgpa.com/tools/penzu): Private online journal for the browser, with iOS and Android apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dabble-me-vs-penzu)
- [750 Words](https://toolgpa.com/tools/750-words): Private daily writing site built around a 750-word goal. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/750-words-vs-dabble-me)
- [Journalistic](https://toolgpa.com/tools/journalistic): Micro journaling web app built around short bulleted entries. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dabble-me-vs-journalistic)
- [Day One](https://toolgpa.com/tools/day-one): Encrypted journal for text, photos, audio and video across devices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dabble-me-vs-day-one)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 6, 2026:

- https://dabble.me/#pricing
- https://dabble.me/support
- https://dabble.me/subscribe
- https://dabble.me/mcp-server
- https://dabble.me/privacy
- https://dabble.me/terms
- https://github.com/parterburn/dabble.me

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