Daily Haloha and Longwalks Alternatives
Daily Haloha and Longwalks both paired one daily question with other people's anonymous answers. If that is the specific thing you miss, look for the combination — a single shared prompt, optional anonymous sharing, and no profiles or follower counts — rather than a general journaling app.
What people actually miss
Searches for these apps are unusually specific. People are not looking for a journal. They are looking for a mechanism: one question, everyone answers it, you read the answers, nobody has a profile.
That combination is rare. Plenty of apps do prompts. Plenty do community. Very few do a single shared daily question with anonymous answers and no social graph, which is why the alternatives question keeps coming back.
Daily Haloha
Daily Haloha offered one daily question and a wall of anonymous answers, with no followers or profiles. It was well liked and it closed.
Its founder has spoken about it no longer being sustainable to run. That is the honest version, and it is worth stating plainly rather than implying it failed for lack of interest: people wanted it. Wanting something is not the same as it being able to pay for itself, and a free app with real moderation costs is a hard thing to keep alive.
Longwalks
Longwalks built around a daily question too, with more emphasis on answering alongside people you knew, and with a more conversational shape.
The recurring note from former users is not about the interface. It is that seeing other people's answers made them write. That is the part worth carrying forward, and the part a purely private journal cannot reproduce.
What to look for in an alternative
If this is the experience you want, judge candidates on four things:
One question, shared. Everyone answering the same prompt on the same day, not a personal prompt library. The shared part is what makes other answers comparable.
Anonymous by default. Pseudonym at most. The moment answers attach to a persistent identity, people write for the identity.
No follower counts, likes or rankings. Any visible score turns honesty into performance eventually.
Private is a real option. If sharing is mandatory, it is a social network with a prompt, not a reflection tool.
Most general journaling apps fail the first test, and most social apps fail the third.
Where Daily Capsule fits
Daily Capsule may suit people who want that specific combination: one question a day, private by default, optional anonymous sharing, and a Collective with no profiles, followers or likes.
It differs from Daily Haloha in one deliberate way. Reading the Collective is reciprocal — you see other answers once you have shared your own — because a feed you can consume without contributing tends to replace the practice rather than support it.
It is a small app, built by two people in Switzerland, and it is early. If what you want is a large, established community on day one, it is not that yet.