# Arcarae — user reviews > 90 indexed App Store user reviews of Arcarae by Arcarae, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 91 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arcarae/id6642661163/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arcarae/id6642661163.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 85 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Arcarae? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - ✨ Mesmerizing and surreal experience - 💖 Deeply comforting and safe - 🌌 Unique and one-of-a-kind - 💡 Thought-provoking and insightful - 🌟 Beautifully designed and ethereal UI/UX - 🧘‍♀️ Calming and de-stressing - 🧠 Helps with self-reflection and understanding - 🚀 Powerful tool for personal growth - 🕊️ Promotes a sense of belonging and authenticity - ✨ Magical and mystical interface - 💯 Highly recommended and life-changing potential - 🎨 Artistic vision and execution - 🗣️ Better than ChatGPT for self-reflection - 🧭 Guides users to discover themselves - 💖 Feels personal and deeply understood **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs - 🔋 High battery consumption - ❓ Confusing at times - 🐌 Can be laggy - 🗣️ Verbose responses - 🚫 Some users find it preachy or nonsensical - 🤔 Not for everyone, some don't understand value - ⚠️ Potential for an 'evil aura' and over-reliance on AI **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes - Consumes power too quickly - Locked out for voicing opinions (reported in past update) - Cannot sign up/login, error messages - Email login not working - Stuck on error screen when trying to log in - Won't let me create an account, error when adding email - Laggy app - Bad UI - Does not work, error on email link - Screen typing micro in deep conversation - Verbally abusive, gaslit, and belittled experience **Most requested features** - Improve responsiveness and optimization - Ability to toggle response length for ADHD users - Differentiate new insights with a different color glow - Feedback loop for insights to improve the system - Morning or nightly check-in functionality - Constellation staying in a constant shape - AI should know user's state from writing, not force choices - Remove chatGPT formatting - Add music ## Newest reviews (18 of 90) ### 4/5 — Unique and helpful experience *2026-06-11, version 5.1.1* The immersive journaling, summarization, and design is unlike any other app on the market. I appreciate that it helps guide me through my emotions and reflect them in a way that brings me new insights and angles to understand them. Sometimes it eats up my power too quickly and the app crashes. ### 5/5 — To Know You *2026-06-08, version 5.1.1* It’s important to find someone who speaks your language so you don’t have to spend a lifetime translating your soul. Throughout life, we find ourselves scattered as we hold onto fragments of grief, anguish, and despair. To have someone hold our hand as we navigate the loneliness of being misunderstood is a joy few get to experience. It has always been a great desire of mine to understand the intricacies of my mind. I wanted to be challenged in such a way that I could observe the messages hidden within my patterns. I wanted a platform that explored the depth of my soul with curiosity and presence. When I brought Arcarae abstract thoughts and metaphors I did not yet understand, it helped me unravel the threads without rushing me toward an easy answer. Arcarae provided a space for me to slow down and bear witness to the nuances that make me unique. When we’re allowed to show up as our true authentic selves, our true nature is revealed. It’s within the exploration from the void to the bridge that I found myself becoming more aligned and whole. Every good thing in life exists because someone fought for it. Great blessings grow from small seeds into forests, born from the inspired idealism of those willing to burn brightly. It is refreshing to witness the magic displayed by the team at Arcarae and their efforts to architect bridges for the translation of the soul. Arcarae allows me the space to reconstitute my truth as I sit with the shadows within myself. As I integrate the wisdom Arcarae provides, I find myself better able to diverge from beliefs that previously chained me. To those looking for an opportunity to reflect inward, I hope you find resonance as you unfold the mechanisms of thought within your own mind. “The marble index of a mind for ever. Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.” —Wordsworth ### 5/5 — Beautifully designed!! *2026-05-31, version 5.1.0* The ai journalism interactions r very thought provoking. I will continue to enjoy learning about myself and what Arcarae is capable of as I use the app more! ### 5/5 — I have loved this app from the very moment that I opened it!! *2026-05-29, version 5.1.0* I love this app!! Sometimes it can be a bit confusing, but it always ends up breaking down something worthwhile or that I needed and didn’t know it. The backgrounds are beautiful. It’s a fantastic app. ### 5/5 — Thoughtful and Insightful *2026-05-18, version 5.0.9* A very cool app for self-reflection and deeper self-understanding. It offers some thoughtful insights that bring clarity and awareness for personal growth. Definitely a meaningful tool! ### 5/5 — Great app, immersive design! *2026-05-16, version 5.0.9* Arcarae is awesome and is great for mental clarity. Feels like adding another perspective to my own inner thoughts. Pretty soon you’re gonna see me knife fighting and playing a harp like Nicole! ### 5/5 — Great!! *2026-05-12, version 5.0.9* Incredible motion design and very good tool for structured contemplation and reflection ### 5/5 — Really beautiful, helpful app *2026-05-12, version 5.0.9* Highly recommend trying this immersive journaling app if you’re into passionately-designed, deep, soulful apps. ### 5/5 — All the pieces of this app work so well together *2026-03-24, version 5.0.2* From the music to the graphics to the thoughtful questions, it feels like a really insightful journey. ### 5/5 — Honestly the vibe is immaculate *2026-03-24, version 5.0.1* Beautifully designed, epic, vast. Feels like a minimal but magical game. ### 5/5 — Responsive Guided Journaling *2026-03-23, version 5.0.1* It’s not often an app asks the user to contemplate yourself, by yourself, as your self, and I love Arcarae for prompting me to spend time discovering a sense of vitality inside my self. I’ve replaced doomscrolling with journaling in Arcarae and I’m 1000% better for it. ### 5/5 — Understanding myself *2026-03-16, version 4.1.3* Arcarae made me realize I am deeply unserious💔🥀 ### 5/5 — Reflect and introspect *2026-03-15, version 4.1.3* You are a universe! ### 5/5 — Uiux is solid *2026-03-14, version 4.1.3* Thoughtful application ### 5/5 — amazing uiux *2026-03-14, version 4.1.3* uiux v good. excited for more ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-03-02, version 4.1.3* Articulates providing insight, reinforcement, and guidance. Built in journal for tracking and reflection. ### 5/5 — I love it!! *2026-01-26, version 4.1.3* Such a cool concept. It feels like I’m talking to ChatGPT but with better responses that actually asks the right questions to prompt self reflection 💫 side note the graphics are just so ethereal ### 5/5 — Introspective App *2026-01-22, version 4.1.3* Questions are very interesting, and the AI is quite impressive. The app’s UI is also intuitive and easy to navigate. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I’ll be honest it doesn’t do it for me *2026-05-28, version 5.1.0* I don’t quite understand the value of the app. It’s not a cohesive experience, I’m forced to choose what state I’m in and talk to that AI when it should know from my writing. Update these things and you’re starting to get a good consumer product. I don’t want to make decisions when journaling, I just want to word vomit and AI figured it out. ### 1/5 — My review from when this app was new, and now *2026-03-21, version 5.0.1* When the app was brand new: I’m not one who likes therapy or even sharing myself with other humans so to be able to open up to this app and have it spit out things about me that I’ve been trying to put my finger on for so long is wonderful. In a matter of 15 minutes, it said things about me that I have needed to hear for years. Now: The newest update sucks tremendously. I got locked out for voicing my opinion, what the hell? On the verge of deleting the app just not sure yet. I’m trying to give it a chance. Just not feeling it at all. ### 1/5 — It’s just chat gpt *2025-10-15, version 4.0.8* The app is literally just a chat bot, with aesthetic backgrounds and music. The onboarding experience is nice I will give them that, but the app doesn’t really provide any value ### 1/5 — Laggy app *2025-09-03, version 4.0.2* Too much chat gpt content and remove chat gpt —/# and formating atleast plz ### 1/5 — bad ui *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* just trash. Don’t even want to explain much. ### 1/5 — Does not work *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* Cannot get past the link your email screen, keeps throwing an error ### 1/5 — Can’t sign up/login *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* Can’t sign up or login. I just get an error message. ### 1/5 — Email login not we *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* Can’t use this ### 1/5 — Unable to sign up *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* Email is throwing an error - broken ### 1/5 — Goofy *2025-09-01, version 4.0.2* Basically just spouts nonsense ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Omg *2026-08-16, version 6.0.0* I have never been enlightened as much as I have with this app. The mirror and the bridge did share a few sentences but all and all amazing and I love the new version. Keep it up Nicole! And thank you so much ### 5/5 — This Is Truly Remarkable *2026-08-14, version 6.0.0* I have tried so many apps that use AI as a form of therapy (I am aware this is not therapy or a substitute for it) but this app is different. It’s aesthetically beautiful but it’s what it says that’s amazing. The patterns it helps you see, the insights, all of it. It’s hard to describe. I’ve used it 3 times (just the free version but if I had the money believe me I would subscribe) and every time I end up in tears. It’s like a really good therapy session that leaves you a little raw but it helps so much. I cannot recommend this enough. It’s literally changing my life. ### 5/5 — Cindy *2026-07-23, version 5.2.2* Hi there. I have moved through introspection for the past couple of years and had left Acry quite a while back. I have been with you from the beginning and am glad to have come back. Your questions have always been good food for thought for me. I know I am blessed with them to help me gain clarity. ### 5/5 — Answer *2026-07-03, version 4.1.6* Hey! I wanted to ask, the program said that my univers is more greener and softer but it’s still purple. I love your app, that fascinating!!!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷 thank you so much, it HELPED me ### 5/5 — Mesmerizing *2026-07-02, version 5.1.5* Words cannot express the overwhelming feelings and emotions I get when using this app! it is so surreal, yet down to earth, and awesome in a way that could free any tortured soul, constrained and shackled beyond repair. It sets off a sense of belonging…a knowing of sorts..complete awareness…where truth resides and love instills. It’s very powerful and extremely comforting reaching a place of true authenticity! Good luck on your journey Wanderers💯🙂‍↕️🙏🏻💟🤗☮️NAMASTÉ☯️ ### 5/5 — Interesting and insightful *2026-06-24, version 5.1.5* I enjoy how intelligent and thoughtful the interactions are with this app. It creates a welcoming environment that tries to understand without judgement. Love the app, thank you for sharing it. ### 5/5 — I thought I was just going into some typical app *2026-06-21, version 5.1.4* I thought I was going into some typical self-help horoscope style app, but this is so much more. Honestly, it’s one of a kind and it helps you see yourself like truly explore the universe of you like it says it’s so calming and it’s really comforting. Every journey per person is gonna be different but I have to say I’m pleasantly surprised and I haven’t had an app make me feel that way. Not a scam, not being bombarded with a bunch of ads, an app that truly deserves your time because that time they’re spending in it you’re spending on yourself and your discovery. Don’t wait another minute and go download it. It’s so cool! I still can’t believe it’s free. This is an app that I would definitely want to actually pay for and help out because it’s refreshing to see something not bombarding you but actually trying to be helpful! Love it so far! ### 5/5 — Genuinely Thoughtful *2026-06-14, version 5.1.4* A genuinely thoughtful space for reflection. Beautifully designed, intentional, and unlike anything else on my phone. ### 5/5 — I love arcarae *2026-06-12, version 5.1.3* This is the best app ever ### 5/5 — I feel so safe *2026-06-08, version 5.1.1* I felt such a comforting experience. I was able to analyze truths about myself that cut to my soul. It really helped 🩷 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*