Best journal app ever. Hands down. Unfortunately, it crashes consistently on my iPad. All the time….its too rich and complex to use this app on my phone. Is there a fix on the way? Last update says it addresses iPad crashes but that’s not the case here.
I’ve been using Recollect for a little bit now and I love it. It’s actually helped me stay consistent with journaling. There are a few bugs but the developers are always working hard to update and improve. The prompts are great and just the design is crisp and pretty. It’s simple yet so many features you discover as you continue to journal. Love this!!
This is way better than previous journal apps I’ve tried for so many reasons! It’s like having a conversation with a friend: the app helps prompt you with unique questions about things you’d never have thought to record. I only wish my grandfather had a journal like this. You have to try it to get what I mean, but the app makes journaling way more fun and simple. Which means I’m way more likely to keep up with it! Thanks for helping me secure these thoughts and memories before they are gone forever!
Sorry but this app needs a lot of work still.
Ive tried evernote, go journal, diarium, dayone, etc.
Dayone works great but their fees are crazy. Not ever going to pay anyone a subscription!
This one had promise. Until it crashed on my M1. Also, yes it prompts you but it was never like other journals, i.e. easy to use. its weird.
Try Go Journal. They have it easy to use and single onetime (small) fee. Sticking with them. Uninstalling this.
Nothing personal, I’m sure you worked hard on this project but by very principle I would never use an AI journal.
Seems wrong on every level.
Nothing feels right about cozying up to your Journal to share your deepest thoughts with an AI bot.
I don’t know why people can’t see this. They think everything about technology is the greatest. But there is a dark side to it. And when the consciousness of the society and those creating the tech is not high enough technology can be a very dangerous game.
Few are willing to talk about this. The hive mind mentality of much of humanity, just follows in blind trust to what their tech gods and other so-called leaders put into their minds, without questioning.
I doubt this review will even get posted in this time of censorship of anything that deviates from the conditioned norm — but let’s see and if so, will anyone agree with me …?
I am giving you 3 stars not on the merits of your work, but on principle. And that 3 should really be a 1. I just wanted to make a statement that will likely fall on mostly deaf ears. After all you are a human being, and deserve to be treated with decency and respect.
Developer Response
Yes we worked very hard on this project. It uses AI to recommend photos without duplicates and to identify the names of people you are writing about. And it transcribes audio to text.
It doesn’t integrate with a chat bot like you’re accusing and I would really appreciate if you moved your feedback to social media instead of doing something that harms our livelihood Love the interface. Audio video etc attachments and multiple journals. The prompts are useful and I love how you can organize your entries by the people in them
If the app worked as intended it would easily be 5 stars. But as of right now, I lost 90% of an entry, entries appear blank when loaded from the timeline, I can’t turn off the auto suggested entries, and more. I tried to reach out to the developers but the Help option in settings is disabled. At one point I went to their website (before it got this bad) and found a Patreon I think it was. It promised that you could pay $1 and get access to a discounted lifetime purchase. I did this and got a vague email in response. I tried replying to this email to contact them, but it’s gone unanswered. I ended up purchasing a 1 year subscription because I couldn’t find the promised lifetime purchase. So now I have a 1 year sub instead of a one-time purchase, bugs keep mounting up, and the dev seems to be unreachable, despite issuing updates here and there.
I’m frustrated because this app could be great, but the bugs and lack of support or contact info brings the whole thing down quick.
Developer Response
I’m truly so sorry. Please email me at
sayhellobryan@icloud.com
I’ll get the support button fixed. Truly sorry.This app is so close to perfect! I’m a list maker and, I have to have things organized. I love that I can make several journals to organize my thoughts, store memories, create goals etc. I love the fact that I can easily attach people/places/tags to each entry which makes it so much easier when I’m trying to find entries related to specific things. Recollect seems fairly new and there’s some minor kinks to work out, but I can’t wait to grow with this app. ❤️
Developer Response
Thank you so much! This definitely helps keep us motivated. Yes we are new and working on smoothing out the experience. Please let us know any specific bugs you’d like us to prioritize
support@recollectdiaryapp.comGreat app, I have been using it over a month now, it’s great. One problem tho it’s buggy. Idk why. Every time i open the app and try to add something it starts bugging. It would kinda save my progress. However, i would just have to close the app and open it again for it to work. Which could be pretty annoying. Overall it’s a great way to save them memories.
Developer Response
Thanks so much for your feedback. We’re working on cleaning up that bugginess. Please let us know if anything specific you are struggling with and we’ll get to fixing your issues
support@recollectdiaryapp.comI’m normally terrible at keeping a journal, but so far have really loved recollect. It has made it easy and convenient to write about not just the big life events that have occurred over the last few months, but recording fun little interactions / stories from the day.
I especially have loved importing my photos and being able to write down the context / stories behind the pictures!
Try it out for yourself, it really is an amazing app!
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