# Audio Diary: a smarter journal — user reviews > 159 indexed App Store user reviews of Audio Diary by Soliloquy Apps Limited, rated 4.90/5 from 310 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audio-diary-a-smarter-journal/id6444500487/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/audio-diary-a-smarter-journal/id6444500487.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 291 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Audio Diary? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 💡 Helpful AI analysis and feedback - 🚀 Consistent high-quality performance - 👍 Seamless audio recording and transcription - 💡 Customizable AI voices and tones - 👍 Effective for self-reflection and goal-setting - 👍 Intuitive and organized interface - 💡 Integrates well with other tools and services **Cons** - 🔒 Concerns about data security and privacy - 💰 Premium subscription may be too expensive for some - 🐛 Occasional technical issues or bugs - 🔍 Limited customization options for the AI feedback **Commonly reported bugs** - Recording button not working as expected - Occasional screen freezes or crashes - Syncing issues between devices **Most requested features** - Import and sync audio files from other sources - More diverse AI voice options - Integration with task management or productivity apps - Expanded free trial or freemium version ## Newest reviews (19 of 159) ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-04-17, version 4.4.12* This is an excellent app. It’s exactly what I needed to remember what all I did in the day and to help categorize many different topics and thoughts. I rarely, rarely ever buy an app. I’ve only had it for eight days and it’s worth every penny!! ### 5/5 — BEST INTUITIVE AUDIO DIARY! *2026-04-12, version 4.4.12* I absolutely love this app. It has become a part of my daily life. It has allowed me to gain better insight into my life and even my dreams. I cannot recommend it enough. Life changing in the most beautiful way. ### 4/5 — Das Tagebuch, das auf mich eingeht. *2026-02-12* Diese App ist genau das, was ich gesucht habe. Sie nimmt meine Einträge nicht nur auf und speichert sie für später, wie es bei den meisten Tagebuch-Apps der Fall ist. Stattdessen geht sie genau auf die Einträge ein, erkennt Herausforderungen und Probleme und macht Vorschläge, wie ich dafür sorgen könnte, dass es mir in der jeweiligen Situation besser geht. Zudem helfen mir die Zitate und Sprichwörter häufig dabei, anders über Situationen zu denken, die ich erlebt habe, sie aus einem anderen Blickwinkel zu betrachten. Daher sehe ich die App als einen digitalen Coach, was durch die gesprochenen Einträge noch verstärkt wird. Vielen Dank an die Entwickler, auch dafür, dass AudioDiary so barrierefrei gestaltet ist. Ich nutze VoiceOver und kann die App ohne Probleme nutzen. Aufgrund all dieser Aspekte habe ich mir nach langer Nutzung der kostenlosen Version gestern die Premium-Version geholt und bin sehr zufrieden. Bin mal gespannt, was noch alles kommt! Update: Bei den letzten Versionen von AudioDiary habe ich gemerkt, dass die Barrierefreiheit der App langsam nachlässt. Zwar kann ich noch ohne Probleme Tagebucheinträge erstellen und auch auswerten, jedoch wird es schwer, sobald man nach einem bestimmten Datum oder nach einem bestimmten Ziel suchen möchte. Hier springt der Fokus von VoiceOver häufig wieder an den Anfang zurück, sodass man mit der Suche wieder von vorne beginnen kann. Noch schlimmer wird es, wenn man in den Einstellungen etwas ändern möchte. Hier springt der Fokus unkontrolliert und ich kann eigentlich nur eine Einstellung finden, die ich brauche, wenn ich die neue Bildschirmerkennung von VoiceOver aktiviere, aber selbst dann wird es knifflig. Bitte unbedingt nachbessern! Gerne helfe ich auch beim Testen! ### 5/5 — Far exceeded my expectations *2026-02-02, version 4.3.45* had everything I was looking for and then some. I did not even consider other apps after this. I do wish they’d change the app logo tho ### 5/5 — Great self reflective habit! *2026-01-29, version 4.3.45* Really enjoy this app, the synthesis, playback, and categorization of my thoughts has been very helpful. Looking forward to continuing to use ### 5/5 — Journal bestie *2026-01-26, version 4.3.45* This app has kept me going and kept me sane! It really brings me so much ease every time i use it ### 5/5 — Positive Support *2026-01-15, version 4.3.37* This has become a positive support for me. When I state what may be going on for me; the AudioDiary will give positive reinforcement for the things that I have expressed. This is one of the most positive ways for me to see my processes. This helps me see my thoughts more positively. ### 5/5 — Surprisingly good. *2026-01-01* The quality of my input varies from poor to very good but the AI feedback is consistently high standard. I am surprised by how much the AI input improves the quality of my journaling and aids my problem solving. I am trying to develop daily systems that make my AuDHD life more productive and fulfilling. After 6 months I am making considerable progress. In the past I have used One Note for my journaling. In the future I hope to meld the two together. Who knows, maybe there is a book waiting to be written. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! I hope you make great use of Audio Diary. If there's anything you need at all, please don't hesitate to get in touch at help@audiodiary.ai All the best, Dara :)) ### 5/5 — Great for self reflecting! *2025-12-31, version 4.3.13* I love that at the end of each entry the entry is analyzed and I am given feedback. It almost makes me feel like I am talking to an actual person and is nice to read the feedback. AudioDiary is something I look forward to at the end of each day. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2025-12-09, version 4.3.37* Honestly such a good app. I wasn’t expecting much due to the small number of reviews but this app is great! I truly wish more people knew about it. The prompts are brilliant - especially the ability to change the tone of the analysis eg. Super critical or friend. And I’m on the free version! There are no ad pop ups. Truly truly great. Looking forward to using it more and more. I downloaded it a year ago, but only truly started to appreciate it now. I’m excited to explore it further. Great creation. Excited to see where it goes next. ### 5/5 — Grounding *2025-11-30, version 4.3.37* I am getting incredible value from using Audio Diary. The summary of what I write/speak helps me stay grounded in what’s important to me and to recognize and appreciate myself more. Thank you to the team for all you do for us! ### 5/5 — My Life Raft for my ADHD brain *2025-11-25, version 4.3.37* This app has been my life raft in a sea of overwhelming thoughts, ideas, feelings, schedules, and so much more. I can brain dump all of the things running around in my head, and in no particular order, and the app will put it all together in a cohesive thread. Then it will read it to me, give me simple goals, and ask me questions to help me make the most of my ramblings. This has been especially helpful since I have been out on medical leave, as ADHD brains do not do well without some structure to the day. I love that I can make fun entries with pictures to keep memories of visits with my grandkids that get stored in the cloud. You can track goals, moods, thoughts, feelings, ideas, and more! Definitely gotta try this app out-it’s a game changer and easy to use! ### 5/5 — My ADHD Brain Best Friend *2025-11-25, version 4.3.37* The best for the ADHD brain. Have felt like I’ve lost the ability to actually sit down and journal, haven’t done it since I was a child, but this allows me to do it, and I love the way it synthesizes your entries and the goals that it comes up with and the accountability it provides with the reminders. It’s just great. ### 5/5 — Sweet as a nut *2025-11-22, version 4.3.37* Loving it. It maps well with my CBT :) ### 5/5 — Didn’t want to love it - but I do! *2025-10-28, version 4.3.13* I didn’t want to love this because I’m just a person who hates journaling. But this app makes it so easy and the responses and questions they ask you are so insightful and thoughtful. ### 5/5 — Love the goals and feedback *2025-10-16, version 4.3.13* Wow! I have only done a months of journal entries and I find the feedback and goals the AI give me from my entries are great! I also appreciate the extra questions which make me think in another direction. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-10-14, version 4.3.13* I have been journaling more lately in the evenings and I was trying to use speech to text and it wasn’t working for me because of misspellings and mispronounced words. I decided to look for an AI assisted app that would put my words into text with minimal mistakes and I found this. I do a lot of my thinking on my half hour morning drive to work and that is the best time to get it all out you can say so much more vocally than typing. I have anxiety and being able to do this has greatly decreased it. Great app can use some improvements like a longer time limit for those times where I want to just go on a tangent. I love the analysis and the goal setting, I will continue to use this app to the fullest, I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Grateful newcomer! *2025-10-02, version 4.3.13* This app is been an absolute gift! I picked this up a couple of days ago with the idea of using it to take notes and record myself talking about my past and present for the book I’m writing. I had no idea that it is far more than a note taker! The level of detail the responses offer is phenomenal, and I feel so good to finally have solid feedback and direction in the way of goal setting and creating. Thank you! 💜🙌🏼💜 ### 5/5 — Just What I needed *2025-09-12, version 4.3.13* Oh my goodness I love this app and just started using it a couple of days ago. I love that it gives me prompts and then gives me an interpretation composed of positive feedback which is just what I need sometimes. I have always written in journals and had even begin hoarding them. So I while I like writing in journals, I’m excited to have a new method for journaling my daily thoughts and feelings. Thank you so much for this app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — AI isn’t the answer *2026-07-01, version 4.4.22* The folks supporting this app are truly helpful when I’ve needed tech support. I know they have tried. And they have told me they can’t control the AI output. The technology behind this service is nascent and is unable to learn how to say my name correctly every time. One day it will say my name correctly and I have no way of telling it “yes! This pronunciation was correct, keep doing so.” The next day it will say my name incorrectly. In the update a few days ago I noticed the app glitches now during the different voices that read the analysis. Sometimes it will read an entire analysis that is completely different from the text on screen. One voice will say my name correctly, say “Friend” and then the next voice, say “Business Guru”, will say it incorrectly. It’s very difficult to be frustrated with something I know can’t even be categorized as stupid because it is just software. It’s a software I pay only $25 per year for. And for the first year it NEVER said my name incorrectly. In the last several weeks it has struggled so much. I also notice it gives inappropriate “advice” now. Like “drink 48 ounces of water before bed”. Or improper feedback based on my input. I would say something like I want to lose weight from 300lbs to 200lbs. It would then congratulate me on my goal of weighing 300lbs. I also said that I want to forget some things and its analysis says that it’s proud of me for refusing to forget some things. I don’t know what is going on. I’d gladly pay more for all these issues to be fixed. I just want it to go back to working like it did before. I’d pay more because this app is cheaper than therapy multiple times a week. I used to recommend this app widely but won’t be doing that anymore. ### 1/5 — Expensive *2025-06-04* If you don’t pay for it it’s literally pointless **Developer response:** Hi there, really sorry to hear it's too expensive for you. We offer a generous free plan which we have lots of users on and we still bear the cost of transcription and storing for free plan users. Please check out our 5 star reviews to see people on the free plan who are enjoying the app. Also, if it's too expensive in your region, that might be a mistake. We want pricing to be fair everywhere so please contact us at help@audiodiary.ai and we'll see what we can do. ### 1/5 — Glad I didn’t buy *2025-04-03, version 4.1.25* I am having trouble writing and typing due to cancer treatment. I was journalling before but now can’t. I tried this once. Now some “nothing” has decided they should set goals for me and set reminders. Is this for real. Artificial —yes. Any intelligence. No. If I want feedback I go to a therapist. Junk ### 1/5 — Tries to force ideas *2024-12-03, version 4.0.20* I don’t like ideas being forced onto me. It’s very bad form. At first it was good but then little by little it started to control my thoughts. Beware of AI. ### 1/5 — Buggy *2024-07-19* About 60–90 seconds after I open my favorite app, the screen turns white. Sometimes Audio Diary just loads in perpetuity. Usually I close and re-open Audio Diary to try again, but either one of these problems keep on occurring. **Developer response:** Hey David, really glad Audio Diary is your favorite app! Audio Diary needs the internet for it to work because we use AI features to analyze and transcribe your day. If this is not related to your internet connection, please reach out to use on help@audiodiary.ai and we will get to the bottom of the issue. Please also consider revising your review if the problem has gone away :) ### 1/5 — Glitch? *2024-05-22, version 3.7.13* How do I know if it's recording? Maybe this is a bug for me but the record button appears slightly grayed out and there are no other changes when I try to record. I cannot press redo or end session either. ### 3/5 — No full access with trial *2025-05-18, version 4.1.44* I decided to upgrade to the premium because I was loving being able to record all my ruminations and sort through them as well as get validation and suggestions for goals. However, I still can’t add a gratitude journal. It would be nice to have some tech support chat or someone to email regarding questions about the app. ### 3/5 — Not amazing but not terrible! *2024-11-20, version 3.10.7* This is a personal review, It may work for you but personally it’s not my favorite. I didn’t pay for premium so if you are planning to, this may not be useful for you! Cons It seems you have to pay for Ai analysis after using it for a bit. The Ai didn’t really give me solutions to my problems, mostly just saying “It’s good you’re seeing where the problem lies.” However I didn’t download the app to know that, I want to know how to fix it! Not very personal (to be expected from Ai) Pros Does give you reminds and daily goals Allows for both a speech and Text option which is great for me when I sometimes don’t have the patience to type I haven’t been using it for long but these are then main good things and bad things I’ve taken from it. This is my own experience and it may be different from yours ^^ ### 3/5 — Sehr ausbaufähig *2024-04-18* Anfangs war ich begeistert, musste dann aber feststellen, dass Tagebucheinträge von der AI nicht sehr differenziert zusammengefasst werden. Viele wichtige Aussagen werden einfach komplett ignoriert und man hat das Gefühl, das bestimmte Thematiken als nicht problemwürdig eingestuft werden. **Developer response:** Hallo Frieda, vielen Dank für deine Bewertung. Wir haben das Problem jetzt behoben. Die KI ist jetzt viel besser darin, deinen Tag zu verstehen, und ist auch viel intelligenter und schneller geworden. Bitte überlege, deine Bewertung zu aktualisieren, wenn du eine Verbesserung bemerkst :) Danke ### 3/5 — import audio files?? *2024-03-10* this app is great, but one feature that i was looking for specifically is the ability to import my own audio files as a submission… i’ve been keeping my own little audio diary in my voice memos app and i’m looking for a place to organize them all, so i was hoping to be able to upload my own audio files rather than only being able to record in-app. otherwise it’s a good app!! **Developer response:** Hi Haleigh, unfortunately since we need to transcribe and analyze the files, and this costs us money to do, it's just not feasible to allow importing as we'd need to limit it anyway and it'd also be a very complex feature importing different formats and being able to tell which dates they were made, etc. We did consider imports but decided the best user experience is to keep the entries as being made fully inside Audio Diary ecosystem. Having said this, we provide an extremely comprehensive export function, which you could perhaps add your voice memo files there if you want to save them with your Audio Diary recordings? Thanks a lot and hope you understand our rationale! Please consider updating your rating if the app has continued to serve you well as we are an indie team and every rating is super important to us at the moment. Thanks again :) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best Buy *2026-08-10, version 4.4.24* So simple and easy to use. Love to journal with my phone in the car. ### 5/5 — So far so good *2026-07-10, version 4.4.23* I enjoy recording my day, how you can upload pictures and especially the AI insight afterwards. I started with the therapist voice but recently tried all of them. I think life coach is my favorite but they are all good. As for the super critical one though… it gives you a warning beforehand how blunt it is and it won’t be good for everyone but I feel like it was the only voice that was critical. It’s not for me but I would love some of that critique added to the other models so there is a better mix. I like the look out for this because you did this but more understanding. For example I spoke about how today was an espionage nice day because I was so social at work. After battling with depression that was such a win for me. The super critical mood told me that the fact that I got derailed from work and spent most of my day yapping meant I still seek external validation and me unblocking my family member is me going back on my boundaries under the guise of familial connection. Obviously I knew it would be super critical but I would like the other voices to add in some of these more critical insights for a healthier balanced voice. ### 5/5 — Great Reflection *2026-07-05, version 4.4.22* I love this little app. I’ve been using it for quite a long time and I’ve recommended it to quite a few people. I appreciate that it has different perspectives and sometimes I want the voice that is the most stern or the strongest feedback and other times I do want it to sound like a friend or a counselor. I also appreciate that in addition to reflecting back what I’ve shared, and how it connects to things I’ve shared in the past year, I really like that it helps propose goals for me. Often, I don’t know what to do or how to act on what I’ve Journal and that can be really helpful. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-06-25, version 4.4.22* Thank you for you and all you do in this program the opportunity to release let go and receiving step forward and breathing be part of this conscious stream and beauty and every moment thank you thank you thank you ### 5/5 — This is amazing and changed my life *2026-06-05, version 4.3.13* I've been using this app for a few years now, and it has genuinely been a game changer for me. It's helped me explore my thoughts, reflect on my experiences, and gain a better understanding of myself and my life. What I love most is how simple it is to use. There are no unnecessary complications or distractions—just a straightforward way to capture your thoughts whenever they come to you. Despite its simplicity, it's incredibly effective and has become a valuable part of my personal growth journey. Looking back on old entries and seeing how far I've come has been really powerful. If you're looking for an easy way to journal, reflect, and track your growth over time, I would highly recommend giving it a try. ### 5/5 — 5***** *2026-05-26, version 4.4.16* This is the first diary voice up that I’ve keep across and is honestly really brilliant Emma glad I found it because it’s easier than my voice diary instead of writing time because it all Ulyses a lot of times. I find it hard to text so definitely and the else I like about it as you’re writing your diary voice your diary it’s true things and I actually tell you when you need help or what you should do and things like sick goals is brilliant. I give out like 25 stars 20 Star five stars that’s great thank you. ### 5/5 — Easy and gives tips *2026-05-24* It’s great at listening. The tips they give based on what you say are useful. The feature to follow up on action items is handy. I have never faced problems. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for leaving the time to write such a great review! Really appreciate it and so glad it's thought-provoking for you. If you need anything at all don't hesitate to reach out to us in-app. Thanks again, Dara ### 5/5 — Best support *2026-04-26* I love this safe place, where I can express myself and not be judged. I love set goals and see my progress. It helps me to be organized in life ### 5/5 — Summary are Fantastic *2026-04-26, version 4.4.12* I love how it takes what my journal said and restate it into almost 90% accuracy and has such insight to disclose goals that are pretty close time ### 5/5 — Love the audio journal *2026-04-23, version 4.4.12* I love the way the audio diary helps me to not only journal but to also make the connections from past sessions. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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