LOVE this app & the security
I cannot think of an app that I love more than this one. First, the ability to customize affirmations, mantras, spiritual practice reminders, etc. is a game changer. I’m working on breaking the habit using my phone to escape and now when I have the urge to distract myself, I go to this app and listen to my affirmation about staying in the present moment. That alone is gold. On top of how much I love it for myself, my little kiddo loves creating her own affirmations. She doesn’t yet use devices, but I am happy to have her use my phone in this way. She absolutely lights up hearing her own voice remind her of thinks like “I am safe” and “I think I can.” It’s way more effective than me alone saying it to her. And particularly as a parent, I’m super concerned about security and voice recordings. I reached out to the company to ask about their security practices, and they got back to me in less than 24 hours letting me know the recordings are only stored locally on your device. Awesome stuff all around - highly recommend this app!!
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Awesome, but what happened?
This app has everything I could want in an affirmation software, but then it just stopped growing. They only maintain it as is.
I think I’m not alone in saying that when we pay a monthly subscription we expect that means the app is giving us regular updates on the product, otherwise let’s go back to the old model and let me buy a finished software for a one time fee.
This app is a super easy and awesome way to record affirmations and positive encouragement to yourself. They play your recordings to positive uplifting music and you can come up with your own affirmations or use those of experts they provide!
The only downside is they charge a monthly fee to access more than just a few of your recordings, which I think is unfair because they seem to have stopped updating their app or adding fresh content since 2020. The experts are all the same ones from 2019 and the music is the same too. There have definitely been improvements to the world of self help since then and there are other people we’d love to hear affirmations from.
Either this app should update and get fresh contact or stop charging a monthly fee and let us buy our recordings outright.
Otherwise I’m going to be like Taylor Swift and start recording my own versions of my affirmations that I can own.
I think I’m not alone in saying that when we pay a monthly subscription we expect that means the app is giving us regular updates on the product, otherwise let’s go back to the old model and let me buy a finished software for a one time fee.
This app is a super easy and awesome way to record affirmations and positive encouragement to yourself. They play your recordings to positive uplifting music and you can come up with your own affirmations or use those of experts they provide!
The only downside is they charge a monthly fee to access more than just a few of your recordings, which I think is unfair because they seem to have stopped updating their app or adding fresh content since 2020. The experts are all the same ones from 2019 and the music is the same too. There have definitely been improvements to the world of self help since then and there are other people we’d love to hear affirmations from.
Either this app should update and get fresh contact or stop charging a monthly fee and let us buy our recordings outright.
Otherwise I’m going to be like Taylor Swift and start recording my own versions of my affirmations that I can own.
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Disappointing unless you pay
The affirmations in this app that aren't “locked” are wonderful, but seriously, the people using this app are likely struggling with their mental health and shouldn’t be expected to shell out $100 to be able to record more than three affirmations. I understand that everybody needs to make a profit somewhere in life, but let’s not take financial advantage of the already struggling mental health community. If I could afford to pay for full functionality in this app,I would because I believe it would be very beneficial to me by helping me build self-confidence and regain self-love. Oh well. Sorry, ThinkUp, but I can’t support an app that operates under the guise of improving mental health when it is only truly accessible to the shrinking group of people that can afford to pay for it.
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UNRELIABLE. DO NOT USE!!!
I have a yearly premium account with recorded affirmations. I re-downloaded the app after resetting my phone, logged in and my recorded affirmations were gone. I’m deeply upset and disappointed by this.
very basic for the price
This app let me down quite a bit from the reviews I have heard. Yes you can record and play back your affirmations, but that’s about it.
The app interface is extremely dated and is light years behind it’s competition such as headspace and mind.
It’s not very pleasing to use and feels quite messy. The affirmation categories are hard to use and the overall experience is not the best.
Especially for the price, I feel as though you do not get what you pay for. The only reason I would consider purchasing it is because of the fact that it is the only app on the market to contain it’s very specific, yet basic features.
As soon as any competition comes and does it better I will definitely be willing to move on.
The app interface is extremely dated and is light years behind it’s competition such as headspace and mind.
It’s not very pleasing to use and feels quite messy. The affirmation categories are hard to use and the overall experience is not the best.
Especially for the price, I feel as though you do not get what you pay for. The only reason I would consider purchasing it is because of the fact that it is the only app on the market to contain it’s very specific, yet basic features.
As soon as any competition comes and does it better I will definitely be willing to move on.
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Response from developer
Hello, we're very sorry to hear that :-(. We work very hard on building ThinkUp and really do all we can to provide the most comprehensive app to our community.
I’m back at it again
I really liked this app when I first used it. I think it was in 2018.I recommended it to all my friends and family. I thought it was great! And I’m in a sales business, so I told a lot of my sales friends about this affirmation app!! I used it for a while and I really did see improvement in things that I thought I would never be able to get over. For example, one of my affirmations was about my energy level. I guess saying that I was full of energy, helped me to be full of energy. Anyway, I think Covid hit and I stopped using it. Sadly, when I got back to using it, the price seems to have changed and my original affirmations disappeared or were restricted, because I didn’t supposedly have premium. However, I could’ve sworn I paid for life membership premium. The only thing that I would’ve liked is to be able to find my subscription in the app. That’s the problem now I’m getting an error message when I go to even look at the premium deal. I really don’t want to delete the app off my phone and re-download it, the App Store says it doesn’t have any updates for me. I’m afraid to lose my affirmations permanently. Please help!
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Response from developer
Hello and thank you for the detailed feedback! We will gladly help you restore your purchase. Please open the Premium screen and tap Restore My Purchase, it will most probably resolve the problem. Please reach out to our customer service on info@thinkup.me and we will help!
Look Elsewhere
I subscribed to ThinkUp in hopes of enhancing my personal meditation practice. Unfortunately, I have found over the past couple of months that instead of supporting my practice, this app has instead detracted from the benefits of meditation.
In spite of having selected “external music,” I have to turn off the included music on every category of affirmations every time I open the app. If I have 3 categories I want to listen to that day, I have to turn off the music 3 separate times. If I mediate in the morning and again at night, I have to repeat the process all over again. If I forget, the included music plays over the top of my chosen external music.
Also, the timer feature hasn’t ever worked for me. Whether I choose 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 loops, 20 loops, or endless loop, my affirmations turn off after 2 minutes. This is QUITE frustrating, as I have to come out of my meditative state to restart the affirmations. I’ve tried everything to get around this and nothing I’ve tried has worked.
I have also tried emailing the “Help” address twice and nothing has happened. If you’re just starting a meditation practice, just know that frustration with the app isn’t a great place to start and you might want to look elsewhere.
In spite of having selected “external music,” I have to turn off the included music on every category of affirmations every time I open the app. If I have 3 categories I want to listen to that day, I have to turn off the music 3 separate times. If I mediate in the morning and again at night, I have to repeat the process all over again. If I forget, the included music plays over the top of my chosen external music.
Also, the timer feature hasn’t ever worked for me. Whether I choose 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 loops, 20 loops, or endless loop, my affirmations turn off after 2 minutes. This is QUITE frustrating, as I have to come out of my meditative state to restart the affirmations. I’ve tried everything to get around this and nothing I’ve tried has worked.
I have also tried emailing the “Help” address twice and nothing has happened. If you’re just starting a meditation practice, just know that frustration with the app isn’t a great place to start and you might want to look elsewhere.
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Great app for affirmation!
I have started using this app since beginning of December and it’s boosting my confidence!
I love think up!
I purchased "Think Up" about 3 or 4 years ago. I love it. There's nothing more powerful than the world we create with our words. A lot of times we create destruction because our imaginations are in a constant negative cycle! I gave it 1/5 stars because I gifted this app to my mom whose fighting cancer. I accidentally bought the app twice instead of once for my mom. I emailed the company and they assured me that they would send me a voucher to reimburse me for my unfortunate mistake. I still haven't received it. & that's unfortunate because the app is genius & vital but clearly the owners of this app are unprofessional and money hungry. So in all I was out of 150 bucks. I would sure love my refund for the accidental purchase!
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Awesome Concept But Missing Crucial Options!
I’m big into subconscious retraining & was so happy to find this app to dive even deeper & record super specific affirmations to listen to while I sleep! (I have premium) However it’s missing crucial, very basic features that make me less and less keen on using this app. For ex, not being able to select more than one playlist to loop/ play on repeat during long sleep sessions, but also not being able to re-organize affirmations within playlists - extremelyyy frustrating when you have a large amount of affirmations & you can only re-organize by searching forever through the “all affirmations” playlist ! So there’s really no easy way to create an uber customized sleep playlist combining various affirmations without having it super disorganized, because even if you try adding from your different playlists to keep them somewhat organized by category… it will put it in the order that you originally recorded, not the order in which you added..?! Pleaseee fix these obvious flaws & keep your dedicated users!
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