# Echo Journal: AI Voice Diary — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Echo Journal by Bits, Bytes and Such Inc., rated 4.85/5 from 26 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/echo-journal-ai-voice-diary/id6480133432/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/echo-journal-ai-voice-diary/id6480133432.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 24 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of Echo Journal? **Pros** - 🗣️ Voice-to-text journaling for busy individuals - 🗓️ Detailed monthly and yearly summaries with insights - 📸 Ability to add photos to entries - 🔍 Powerful search functionality to find past entries - 💪 Helps with personal growth and positive intelligence - 🧠 Transcribes speech accurately and seamlessly - 🕰️ Pause and continue recordings to never lose a thought - 🤖 AI-powered journaling with deep insights ## Newest reviews (17 of 28) ### 5/5 — Robust and Fantastic *2025-05-11* This app does exactly what it promises to do. The interface is clean and easy. Voice journals are stored by date and every week the app uses AI to analyze and give a nice summary of high , low, areas that stood out. It’s really fun to go through these ‘reflections’. The transcription is very accurate - it works with accent and different pronunciations. I have been using it daily and I appreciate the long trial period. I am definitely planning to purchase it. ### 5/5 — Great for Self-Improvement *2025-05-10* Helps me track my mood and thoughts. Really looking forward to seeing my growth through the upcoming summaries. ### 5/5 — A Lifeline for My Mental Health *2024-09-22* This app has become a lifeline for my mental health. As someone who finds writing therapeutic but often lacks the time, the voice journaling feature has been wonderful. It's convenient to be able to speak my thoughts out loud, and the app captures them exactly, which helps me process my day and manage my scattered thoughts. I love the freedom to pause and resume recordings as my thoughts flow. AND I can add photos to enrich the entries, making each journal entry more vivid and memorable. I am anticipating the first yearly summary to reflect my personal growth and the evolution of my mental wellness over time. The developers have made an app that is not just a tool, but a companion on my journey to better mental health. Thank you ### 5/5 — Simple and Effective! *2024-09-16* Just what I needed, a simple app to record daily thoughts. The voice feature works great. ### 5/5 — Top-Notch Journaling Experience *2024-09-13* The best journaling app I've tried! Voice journaling makes it easy to capture my thoughts, and the yearly summaries provide a detailed look at my challenges and friendships. ### 5/5 — Love this Innovative Journaling App! *2024-09-10* This app is innovative, capturing my words as I speak them. It’s perfect for busy days when typing is too much. ### 5/5 — Best way to journal- LOVE IT!! *2024-09-06* I love how I can talk and the app writes everything down. I can be walking around and journaling at the same time, its brilliant. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2024-09-05, version 1.1* So amazing. Love this app and it really helps with journaling. I love that you can include photos in the entry. ### 5/5 — Time Saver *2024-09-05* Great app. Saves me so much time. Especially when I’m driving and especially when I have something in my head that I want to get down on paper. This is especially good for people that feel like their brain is moving at 200% like me. I feel like sometimes by the time I write down the first part of what I’m thinking the rest is either gone or not as high quality as the first part. This app solves all of that for me. ### 5/5 — Great for Self-Improvement *2024-09-03* Helps me track my mood and thoughts. Really looking forward to seeing my growth through the upcoming summaries. ### 5/5 — Seamless Journaling for Busy Bees *2024-08-19* A game-changer for busy individuals! The voice journaling is seamless, and the wellness insights have helped me track my positive intelligence and personal development. ### 5/5 — AI Summaries Paint a Clear Year *2024-08-19* This app is a lifesaver!! I never have time to write but now I can just talk. The AI summaries are amazing too, gives me a clear picture of my year. ### 5/5 — Exceeds All Expectations! *2024-08-16* This journaling app has exceeded all my expectations. The voice-to-text feature is perfect for someone like me who is always on the go and doesn't have time to write things down. The AI does an excellent job of transcribing my speech accurately. But what really sets this app apart are the summaries. Every month and year, I get a comprehensive overview of my journal entries that includes my highs and lows, challenges, friendships, and even my romances. These summaries are not just a list; they provide deep insights into my life, showing me my personal growth, the impact of my habits, and the lessons I've learned. The ability to pause and continue recordings is a lifesaver, ensuring I never lose a thought. Adding photos makes my entries richer and more memorable. The search function is another fantastic feature, allowing me to quickly find specific entries. This app has significantly improved my positive intelligence and overall wellness. It's a must-have for anyone serious about personal growth and wellness living. ### 5/5 — Absolute Game-Changer for Journaling! *2024-08-13* I've tried numerous journaling apps, but this one stands out. The AI-powered voice journaling feature is an absolute game-changer for me. I don't always have the time or energy to sit down and type out my thoughts, but with this app, I can just speak and it accurately transcribes everything. The monthly and yearly summaries are incredibly detailed and insightful. They don't just list my entries; they categorize them into positives and negatives, wins and losses, and even highlight my challenges and friendships. This level of detail has given me a new perspective on my life, allowing me to see patterns and trends I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. The search functionality is also very handy, letting me quickly find past entries. I've added photos to my entries, which makes revisiting them even more meaningful. This app has truly become an essential part of my wellness living routine. Highly recommended! ### 5/5 — Voice Journaling Saves the Day *2024-08-08* Love this journaling app! The voice feature is a lifesaver for someone like me who never has time to write. I can just talk about my day and it captures everything perfectly. The search functionality is also great for finding past entries quickly. Looking forward to seeing the detailed summaries soon! ### 5/5 — Voice-to-text is fantastic! *2024-08-07, version 1.0* Fantastic app for keeping a journal. I love the voice-to-text feature, it's so quick. And the yearly summaries are really detailed, showing me all my ups and downs. ### 5/5 — The only AI, voice based journaling app that works *2024-07-24* I feel like I really can connect to it, share my thoughts and actually reflect on my life afterwards with the summaries it provides. Super cool. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — A journaling app you can’t trust *2026-01-23* I started using Echo Journal in late summer during a genuinely difficult period of my life, and at first it was incredibly helpful. I don’t enjoy writing, and the voice transcription, reflections, and ability to look back on entries made this feel like something I could actually stick with. For a while, it mattered. Unfortunately, reliability is everything in a journaling app—and Echo failed at the most basic level. From early on, the app frequently wouldn’t start recording. I often had to force close and reopen it multiple times (sometimes up to ten) before it would actually capture audio. Annoying, but manageable. What isn’t manageable is losing data. A few weeks ago, all of my entries disappeared. I later learned you’re apparently expected to export your data constantly. I assumed—reasonably—that an account-based, paid app would retain user data. As a result, I lost everything from September through January, which for me were the most important and meaningful months. After a full week of reaching out to support, I received no response. At that point, cancelling my subscription and leaving this review felt like the only remaining option. If you’re considering a journaling app, be aware that you are placing a lot of trust in how your data is handled. Echo did not earn that trust for me. I’ve since switched to Untold—it’s free and significantly more reliable. This is disappointing more than anything else. When a journaling app works, it can really matter. When it doesn’t, the cost is much higher than just money. ### 5/5 — So far so good *2026-04-18* I just started using this and I’m not very good at remembering to do it every day but I hope to get better at that because it really is very easy to just click on the icon and talk about your day and then save it. It takes a fraction of the time to “write” about your entire day - so there’s no excuse to not do it every day. ### 5/5 — Simple and Effective! *2026-02-09* Just what I needed, a simple app to record daily thoughts. The voice feature works great. ### 5/5 — Love!!! *2025-12-29* I have been looking for an easy journaling app and I finally found one that matches the energy I am looking for. ### 5/5 — Very good app *2025-12-25, version 1.20* This helps me taking notes off my s ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2025-11-25* This app is pure innovation future for journals this really helped like no other ai journal apps i have tried helped me create my thoughts and very user friendly and well secured your information. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Easiest way to reflect *2025-11-25* This app makes journaling effortless; just talk and it captures everything. The transcriptions are accurate, easy to search and review after. It has really become a valuable part of my daily routine. ### 5/5 — Great app *2025-11-18* This app changed my life! Highly recommend ### 5/5 — Easy to Journal *2025-11-04, version 1.20* Excellent app to journal. Simple to use. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Absolute Game-Changer for Journaling! *2025-07-08* I've tried numerous journaling apps, but this one stands out. The AI-powered voice journaling feature is an absolute game-changer for me. I don't always have the time or energy to sit down and type out my thoughts, but with this app, I can just speak and it accurately transcribes everything. The monthly and yearly summaries are incredibly detailed and insightful. They don't just list my entries; they categorize them into positives and negatives, wins and losses, and even highlight my challenges and friendships. This level of detail has given me a new perspective on my life, allowing me to see patterns and trends I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. The search functionality is also very handy, letting me quickly find past entries. I've added photos to my entries, which makes revisiting them even more meaningful. This app has truly become an essential part of my wellness living routine. Highly recommended! ## Most praised reviews (1 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The only AI, voice based journaling app that works *2025-06-25* I feel like I really can connect to it, share my thoughts and actually reflect on my life afterwards with the summaries it provides. Super cool. --- *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 2026-08-26.*