A Google user
5 years ago
I've been using it for almost two years and its truly the best. Upgraded after a few months of use and its worth every penny. Super easy to use, past notes/photos are all easily accessible and I can upload or change themes quickly. Its wonderful to be able to see notes and pics you uploaded from a year or two ago so easily. You can literally see the trajectory of your work or personal life. Its awesome.
A Gannon
2 years ago
ETA: 7 years and I still love this app. It is lovely. I use it for daily journaling with text and photos, and I use the tags and text formatting features which all work as they should. Granted I am not a demanding user who wants tons of features, I just wanted something basic that WORKED. This does! I can also write/edit on my laptop, though that interface isn't as pleasant and sometimes the text formatting between the two is odd.
A Google user
6 years ago
I've used the app for a couple of years now, and it has evolved so much. The one feature I'd like to see in the near future from Journey is the ability to make a custom layout when attaching photos, just like magazines or something, where texts could wrap around the photos. Other than that, this app is a great contender to Day One, if not better.
A Google user
6 years ago
So far so good! Finally a journal that's easy to write in frequently, carry around, and keep private. I recommend buying the lifetime premium if you'll use it lots. Nighttime mode is always easy on the eyes and it's nice to attach several pictures. con: you can't have several journals. DEVELOPER SUGGESTION: Please allow us to select from more moods! ie between happy and indifferent. The feature's useless unless it can reflect how we feel. ALSO let us have a password on the desktop version!
Sarah Donahue
2 years ago
I can add photos, hashtags, & location. I love it! Hey Journey! You should add the option for music to each journal post in the app! It would be cool to integrate giphy to express how we're feeling in each blog post. I like that I have an unlimited amount of characters in each journal entry. It is great that I can add more than 1 photo to each entry as well. I love the new UI!! I love the new look! I've had this app since 2018 & it looks SOOO much better, now! Congrats on the upgrade!! ✨⚡
A Google user
5 years ago
I keep coming back to this app, and it keeps surprising me with just what I want and almost nothing I don't cluttering up the screen and functioning. Update: Almost four years on, and Journey has only gotten better. Streamlined, visually appealing UI, greatly improved cross-platform sync, and they have continued to honor the lifetime membership one-time IAP. Awesome job! Please, keep it up!
A Google user
6 years ago
I have returned to give you the updated review. The app is much better that so many features were added since I've reviewed this app in 2016. I applaud you on the changes you've made, and that you've added the audio feature that I've requested. It helps when I try to describe something. Now I have 2 requests that you might be considering. One is the title-bar. so that I can title the journal entry rather than putting the title in the page itself. And the other is considering the catagories so keep the journal entries more organized. :) Thank you for honoring my last request, and thank you for the hard work you've done. :)
A Google user
5 years ago
It's just as easy as using a social media app, and probably a better place to post things since it is a journal. Didn't give it the 5th star because it would be nice to load multiple pictures at once as well as more than just 4. Also, it will stop working at random times, especially if I've been inputting pictures in many consecutive entries. Update--(Increased rating from 4 to 5 stars) Thanks for adding the ability to attach multiple pictures at one time and increasing the number of pictures.
Mark Nath
1 year ago
I've been journaling for over 22 years. I have tried other apps and I found one I love which I won't name. But Journey seems to be superior to them all so I bought the premium version and will use this from now on. I still love to journal in paper journals but I will use Journey as well. Great app. Love it. Beautiful looking and many great features. It just keeps getting better and better. If I could only have one app...this would be the one. I love it that much.
Jen Graham
1 year ago
Do NOT subscribe to this app. The customer service is non-existent. I subscribed to this app in 2022 and quickly forgot about it. Fast forward 2 years and I had forgotten this app even exists until I was charged again for the subscription without notice. I immediately contacted customer service to cancel and get a refund but I can barely get through to anyone. Its been a completely unprofessional interraction and it seems they rely on you forgetting you subscribed so they can take your money.
Tyler Jones
1 year ago
I actually enjoy using this app. But there's a couple things that need to be brought up: the price of the premium version of the app and the amount of advertisement for it. I pay $60 at most for a polished videogame that a team of developers have spend tens of thousands of hours creating, and then there's this app with a function barely more advanced than Google keep that wants me to spend $40 each year that I have it? Even if it were a one time purchase that's ridiculously overpriced.
Kelly Ekwurzel (KellyEk)
1 year ago
Update: I have now been using this journaling app for about 4 years. And I still absolutely love it. Using this app I have journaled more in the last month than I have in the past 6 or 8 months. It helps me to get my thoughts down quickly and then go back and make grammatical changes when necessary. I find I put my thoughts down throughout the day instead of waiting until the end of the day to journal and keep my thoughts current. I started using the app about a year ago and I'm still loving it.
Olivia Olivia
1 year ago
I love using this app. It is simple to add entries. I read my words right off it in recording studio. Then, a year of not using this app, it did seem I lost my information, and it seemed at first all was lost. Then I wrote customer service, and they helped me know the entries were in the cloud. I was so happy today to find out I was wrong, silly me. I also like this app because you can put entries in on the phone on the go or at home on the computer.
Andrew Seiger
1 year ago
A bit of a miss. Looking for a journaling app, and this one seemed to be well liked, buy to have to pay a subscription fee to have even a single additional journal really killed it for me. I could understand having to pay a one time fee, maybe even 99 cents per, but not a freaking subscription fee. Nothing in the subscription made me want it anymore either. Also, the text editor was a bit garbage, causing words that I backspace into to duplicate, making writing the journal very difficult.
Jack
11 months ago
The app is great, but being constantly spammed with them begging me to pay for the premium version is very irritating. I have no interest in paying for a journaling app via a subscription model. If there was a one-time purchase I would do that, but I'm not paying $50 a year for something I can do for free with Google keep, just more tediously.
Shelby Rodriguez
10 months ago
Updating my review for 2024-- I still agree with my original thoughts and use this app daily!! Genuinely the best Journaling app I've ever used. It's easy to use and I've written in it almost every day for the past few years. I absolutely love this app and all of its features. I have the free version so I can't speak for the paid version but I'm sure it's even better. There are quite a few ads to upgrade but they're not overwhelming at all.
Bernadine Barnes
11 months ago
While I was within the 3-day trial, (a very short trial. I must say) I was offered a discounted one-year subscription for about half the cost of the regular subscription. I thought that was pretty good since the regular subscription was too expensive in my opinion. However, I was still charged for the full one-year subscription. I have tried to contact customer service, no response at all. So I'm paying twice for the same app. Update--I've been bounced from one "help" to another. No help yet.
A Google user
11 months ago
I've always been someone that journals, but have lost some through the years. This syncs up regularly and protects my entries from going missing. Also has really cool add-ons like location and mood tracker. Love it!!! Update: still loving it!! Been using this app since 2018, it's 2024 & I've just this year decided to pay for the advanced version. Works really well even if you don't want to pay for it though! Highly recommend!
David Sanders
10 months ago
Was a great app, but they've conveniently forgotten I paid for lifetime premium. This is the second time this app has forgotten it was paid for. This time, the instructions on how to "restore purchases" just takes me in a circle. I love the app otherwise, but I'm not going to pay monthly subs for something they previously agreed to sell for life on a onetime basis.
Tanza
10 months ago
I'm a Lifetime subscriber, just changed my rating from 5* to 1*. App support is not responding to my issue: I was overbilled for 2 years (should've been free on all platforms, yet was billed thru iTunes yrs 2 and 3 after paying for Lifetime.) Contacted support year 3, no response. This year had an email dialog with support, but when I requested a refund, they've ghosted me for the past 2 weeks. Hoping this might catch some attention - let's resolve this. Love the app, but resent the over billing