# Embrace: BDSM Couple's Journal — user reviews > 72 indexed App Store user reviews of Embrace by Obedience B.V., rated 4.80/5 from 456 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/embrace-bdsm-couples-journal/id6463719414/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/embrace-bdsm-couples-journal/id6463719414.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 401 · 4★ 46 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Embrace? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and effective - 🔒 Safe place to express emotions - 💡 Great for communication and connection - 🚀 Intuitive and elegant - 👍 Helpful prompts and reminders - 💡 Integrates with Obedience app **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches - 💡 Lack of auto-save for drafts - 💡 Limited free features **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent syncing between Obedience and Embrace apps - Notifications of incomplete assignments despite completing them **Most requested features** - Save/favorite prompts for later use - Personalize relationship types for better questions - Ability to see when partner has read an entry - Folders to organize different types of journal entries - Visualization of mood tracking over time ## Newest reviews (14 of 72) ### 4/5 — D/S communication board *2025-03-31* This app has been a huge help for my Dom and I when it comes to expressing freely and communicating about how each other is doing. It has been a tool in keeping us on tract with each other’s needs and misunderstandings. 5 stars and highly recommended for anyone who has Journalling in their contract and wants to maintain expectations and consistency. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 If you have any suggestions on how we can make the app even better, let us know via the in-app feedback area! :) ### 5/5 — Communication *2024-11-24* I have a heard time communicating verbally sometime, how I’m feeling. I love that I can write out how I’m feeling and it helps my Dom get a better sense of where I’m at if I’m struggling. I love the prompts too, some of them are super fun and others make you think and feel but it’s good. I love being able to share my feels when I can’t verbally. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — Handy form of communication *2024-11-22, version 1.6.13* This program helps me communicate better, organize my thoughts, and track my mood ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-11-17* Love it so far! Just wish I could do more than one a day without premium **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — Awesome *2024-11-12, version 1.6.13* This app is awesome for me and my partner ### 5/5 — Incredible *2024-10-30, version 1.6.13* The perfect journaling App for daily communication. I highly recommend it for anyone no matter the dynamic - long distance or local. Combine it with Obedience and enjoy the experience. ### 5/5 — Love Embrace *2024-10-16, version 1.6.11* Helps bring Myself and My partner closer with these daily prompts. ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-10-11, version 1.6.11* Love this app and its simple, yet effective use! ### 5/5 — Awesome for Communication! *2024-10-01* This app is tied to the Obedience app (which I also love) and in this app your sub or dom can assign you “prompts” to answer! The prompts are VERY HELPFUL! They allow you to ask more in depth questions and help you get to know your partner a lot better! As well as just being able to make journal entries whenever you want (if you pay for the app) to help in communication and connection! 💕 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — A “Must Have” for any Dynamic *2024-09-29* This app quickly became both of ours favorite addition to our relationship. The fact that it integrates with the Obedience app makes it even more fun to use and keep up with. There are a large variety of different prompts in different categories you can enable or disable. You can assign prompts to your partner with deadlines. If you also use Obedience you can set a specific reward or reward amount for every journal entry and another reward for every journal assignment. You don’t have to use the prompts to write. You don’t have to share everything you write with your partner either. Our only critique (and word of caution) is that the app doesn’t auto save drafts. If you work on a journal entry for too long, and leave it open in the background with what you’ve written so far, there is a chance that it will be lost when you come back to it. We’ve both had that happen to us and it’s a really frustrating experience. If the developers add an auto save drafts feature, this app would be perfect from my perspective. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 We'll look into implementing an auto-save feature in a future release :) ### 5/5 — Perfect for safe communication *2024-09-29, version 1.6.10* The app is easy to navigate and perfect for safe communication with a partner who has a hard time communicating big feelings in a non reactive way. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2024-09-29* I love this app! I can either write via one of the prompts or I can write whatever is on my mind. My Dom can see everything which I also really love because a lot of times I will right down my feelings and things I would like to express but can't and he read it and then we can have a chat about it. Highly recommend this app for any dynamic! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-09-27* Guided journaling is exactly what I needed, thank you 💖 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — Tracking Writing *2024-09-26* Me and my mommy domme love the idea of assigning a new subject and then having me complete it within a certain amount of time. She likes that she gets to know more about me and I wind up learning more about myself also. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Frustrating to use *2024-09-23, version 1.6.8* This is suppose to flow from the obedience app. It’s not. I can not see my submissive partner or my Dom however they see me I am unable to see journaling. One day it’s there the next day it isn’t. I have written to the feedback asking for help and received a response. Waiting for an update We paid for year subscription for both the obedience and embrace app for 3 users about 2 weeks ago. I am so disgusted. ### 1/5 — Frustrating to use *2024-09-19* This is suppose to flow from the obedience app. It’s not. I can not see my submissive partner or my Dom however they see me I am unable to see journaling. One day it’s there the next day it isn’t. I have written to the feedback asking for help and received a response. Waiting for an update We paid for year subscription for both the obedience and embrace app for 3 users about 2 weeks ago. I am do disgusted. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear you've experienced issues with the app! I'm not sure we've received your feedback, did you submit it through Embrace? Please submit your question through the Embrace app, or send us a message at info@theembraceapp.com, and we'll try to help! ### 1/5 — Promising potential, lousy community and support *2024-08-30, version 1.6.3* The app is a great concept, but poor execution and a confusing user interface make it a no go. The Discord is badly organized and poorly managed, and other methods of receiving support are painfully inadequate. ### 1/5 — Downloaded but deleted *2023-11-17* We downloaded it because we subscribe to other obdience app and shouldn’t have to pay twice so deleted unfortunate because it has potential **Developer response:** Sorry to hear you were disappointed with Embrace! Embrace is a separate app from Obedience requiring separate servers, development and services which is why I also need to charge for premium features to keep it running. You are welcome to keep using the free version if you don't want to pay for extra features! I will consider adding a package deal for users who already have premium for Obedience at some point. ### 3/5 — Flaws and alls *2024-10-07, version 1.6.11* There can still be improvements but it’s a nice topic prompt tool. ### 3/5 — I think it’s a decent app to have for free. *2024-05-22* If you are looking for some thing that can be done once a day for you and partners and not needing anything to start out with I would recommend this one as it does a very straight forward process of how it work. **Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! If you have any suggestions on how we could make the app better, let us know at info@theembraceapp.com :) ### 4/5 — Communication *2026-06-16* It is a great communication tool to keep in touch throughout the day without having to be in “real time”. Each person can communicate with the other and when each is able, check in throughout the day, the communication is there. It works great for us and is also a great place to have the rules listed, along with other information. **Developer response:** Thank you, love that it's found such a natural place in your daily routine! 🖤 ### 4/5 — A couple of needed fixes *2026-04-30* I’m enjoying this app! I have noticed a few editing functionality issues. When highlighting a section to correct, it doesn’t allow the user to select more than one word at a time (the blue dots at the beginning and end of the highlight disappear when trying to grab them to expand the highlight.) When highlighting larger sections of text, there is a “select all” option but not a “select” option. So unless you’re deleting the entire entry, it’s impossible to edit smaller sections. (This is related to the first issue.) Finally, the cursor doesn’t allow itself to be placed anywhere within the document unless you ‘hold and drag’ it. It would be more efficient if the cursor could just be moved to an area by a single tap - as it works on other texting or writing platforms. Is there a way to fix these things? **Developer response:** Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it. These are really helpful details! We'll pass them along to our team to look into. 🖤 ### 4/5 — Langage *2026-01-27* When are you going to translate it in French ? **Developer response:** Thanks for the review! French is on our radar and we’ll keep it in mind for future updates! ### 4/5 — Enjoying the Embrace *2025-09-14, version 1.7.12* Been enjoying the app with My sub, but there are some quirks that prevents Me to rate it higher. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-08-17, version 1.8.13* This is an awesome communication tool for me & my dominant/husband. It’s helped us greatly & I plan on continuing to use it. ### 5/5 — A great contribution *2026-06-02* This app has been great for my sub and I to use for dynamic-specific journaling, to keep these entries organized in one place and track trends over time. We don't use the prompts very much, we just utilize it as a journal. It has become a valuable part of our practice of timely transparency, as we don't live together. **Developer response:** Thank you so much, really glad it's become such a meaningful part of your dynamic! 🖤 ### 5/5 — Simple and Effective *2026-03-12* The app is very to use and serves its purpose well. There are a few enhancements that would make it even better but for the price, the current format is worth it. **Developer response:** Thanks for the review! Appreciate the support! ### 5/5 — Staying Connected To One Another *2025-10-12, version 1.7.13* Love this app, it creates a safe place to write your feelings down. Allows you and your partner to feel and express emotions without being afraid of judgement ### 5/5 — Great for communication! *2025-09-12, version 1.7.12* Great prompts! ### 5/5 — Love *2025-09-11, version 1.7.12* I love this app bc it shows how much my bf how much I love him and care for him and he see everything that goes on it my crazy head lol. So it makes out relationship stronger. So I think whoever made this app. ### 5/5 — Greatly assists our connection *2025-08-06* Our relationship is super long distance. So using Embrace, we can share thoughts and ideas, learn so much more about each other with more detail than just regular texting and chatting. It can also be used as part of setting regular tasks so as a Dom I can pick up on my Sub’s thoughts, feelings, experiences and needs. It’s a valuable tool to keep us connected and allow our relationship to succeed across the thousands of miles distance. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — A savior in my relationship *2025-06-18* I have been in a long distance relationship now for almost 2 years and I just wanna say that the embrace app has made communicating with my fiancé amazing and easy and it’s made us communicate a lot more than I think we would have. I pretty much use it every day and I’m able to express different emotions. Sometimes those that are not easy to say directly to him, but with the embrace we’re able to be mindful of each other. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 ### 5/5 — Fantastic journaling app, but have a few suggestions *2025-04-14* I love this app and love how it’s made by the same devs who made the Obedience app. The prompts are fantastic and great for when you feel like you can’t write anything. I do wish you could do two things: - Save/favorite prompts for later: Sometimes I’ll see a great prompt but already have another entry topic in mind, and then I’ll never see that prompt again. - Personalize relationship type(s) for better relationship questions: my Dominant and I aren’t married but are in a romantic relationship, but I’ve seen quite a few marriage questions. I get that some D/s dynamics are between married couples or couples who live together, but quite a few romantic D/s dynamics aren’t. I have had to spend time scrolling through prompts to find relationship questions that are relevant, which is wasted time. Other than this, I love this app. I recommend it to all my subby friends and it helps me feel connected to my Dominant partner when we are apart. I also bought the paid version (worth it) because I wanted to support the devs. Keep up the great work! **Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review and support, we really appreciate it! 😄🙏 We've made note of your feature requests and will look into implementing these in a future release! ### 5/5 — Has helped me write more *2025-03-28, version 1.7.6* Great app has brought back my joy for writing! I love the prompt questions and I love that I can just free write. --- *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 2026-09-11.*