# Good Things gratitude journal — user reviews > 229 indexed App Store user reviews of Good Things gratitude journal by Oatmeal Apps, rated 4.90/5 from 1,665 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/good-things-gratitude-journal/id1212999482/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/good-things-gratitude-journal/id1212999482.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,526 · 4★ 105 · 3★ 22 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of Good Things gratitude journal? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Honest, caring, and safe app - 👍 Simple, easy to use, and effective - 👍 Helps build a positive mindset - 👍 Attractive and clean design - 👍 Affordable subscription option - 👍 No ads or distractions - 👍 Ability to share entries with others - 👍 Helpful for mental health and depression - 👍 Consistent daily practice and reminders **Cons** - 🐛 Syncing issues between devices - 🐛 Notification badge bugs - 🔍 Lack of customization options (e.g. fonts, colors) **Commonly reported bugs** - Syncing issues between iPhone and iPad - Persistent notification badge bugs **Most requested features** - Ability to add custom daily prompts - Option to view entries in a condensed list format - Streak tracking or progress visualization ## Newest reviews (17 of 229) ### 5/5 — Great little app *2024-09-25, version 6.1.1* Simple, easy little app that’s well designed and makes practicing gratitude easy. ### 5/5 — Awesome Mindfulness App *2024-09-21, version 6.1.1* I really love this app and what it is trying to do. It keeps you positive. No matter how bad your day is you always have something to be happy about for. It just reminds me life is still beautiful no matter what. And it’s free and no ads Thank you developer!!!! ### 5/5 — Herzlichste Empfehlung! *2024-09-09, version 6.1.1* Ich benutze die App schon seit fast drei Jahren und mittlerweile gehört es zu meiner Abendroutine meinen Eintrag zu verfassen. Man revuepassiert nochmal den Tag und bemerkt so, dass tatsächlich die kleinen Dinge im Leben das Gute sind. In jedem Tag findet man auch mindestens eine gute Sache, die sich lohnt aufzuschreiben, um sie in Erinnerung zu behalten. Ich mag die PDF Funktion daher sehr gerne. Das Design ist süß gestaltet und die Funktionen sind auch bei der kostenlosen Version ausreichend. ### 5/5 — Lovely, attractive, simple app to stick to your intentions *2024-08-29, version 6.1.1* I have no complaints, this has helped me stay consistent with my 3 good things and saving it as a odd is very easy. Highly recommend ### 5/5 — Grateful for it! *2024-08-28, version 6.1.1* I’m grateful for this app and wish there were more like it, with respect for data privacy and genuinely good intentions to improve your life! ### 5/5 — thank YOU *2024-08-25, version 6.1.1* as someone who gets frustrated with complicated mindfulness apps with lots of reminders and goals and frilla like that, this was a refreshing breath of simplicity. i have loved learning to have a more positive attitude and today i’m grateful for this app and the people who keep it going! ### 5/5 — Strong recommendation *2024-08-22, version 6.1.1* I’ve been using this app every day for the last couple of months and it is a powerful edition to add gratitude into my life ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-08-21, version 6.1.1* This has become part of my daily ritual to support my gratitude practice. Easy to use and has improved my ability to notice the good! ### 5/5 — I loveeee *2024-08-21, version 6.1.1* I love this app so much. It truly helps your daily mood when you start to reflect about things you’re grateful for everyday ### 5/5 — I am grateful for this grateful app *2024-08-18, version 6.1.1* Gratefully great ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2024-08-16, version 6.1.1* Clean, simple, easy to use. Great UI, everything it needs to be and absolutely no bloat. Really helps to focus on things throughout the day to be grateful for which is such a powerful mindset to cultivate. This is how indie apps should be. Perfection. ### 5/5 — Everything you need and nothing more. *2024-08-13, version 6.1.1* I love this app. You open it, type down your three good things and close it. A lot of apps like this are completely overloaded, but this one is really on point. You get a lot of nice functions (reminders, pdf-export, …) and that’s it. Just perfect! More over there is nearly no advertising for the “Premium”-Version. You can use free version without any annoying restrictions and if you want some cool but not essential extra features you can pay a little amount. Since the last update there is even a more modern design. Thank you for making this app and please keep it like this. It’s close to perfect! I love it! ### 5/5 — Great easy app to get you in a better mindset *2024-08-08, version 6.1.1* Gratitude I know is key to a positive mind and distressing from the day. This app make it easy to recall 3 positive things to be grateful about from your day. You can do it at night to review the day or the next morning to review the previous. Either way it helps ### 5/5 — Achievable and guilt-free gratitude goals *2024-08-06, version 6.1.1* I’d tried to keep a gratitude journal before, but it was always intimidating to try and think of everything I was grateful for. The 3 good things app not only made that goal of being grateful every day a lot more bite-sized, but it also incorporated the idea of thinking of how those good things make me feel. When I write my entry before going to bed, I am reminded of the good things that happened and bring back those feelings too. It’s okay if I miss a day, and it doesn’t send me guilt-trip reminders when I forget. ### 5/5 — Grateful for this app *2024-08-06, version 6.1.1* Thank you so much for this app. It’s helped me reflect and see ‘where the life is’ in each day - and also over the past year that I’ve used it. This - along with prayer- has helped me discern when making decisions about work. It’s helped me end each day on a thankful note and see more and more of the good things which happen. I appreciate its privacy and simplicity. The ‘I felt…’ prompt is really helpful. The lack of advertising is also much appreciated. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Simple but perfect *2024-08-06, version 6.1.1* This app is perfect for what you’d want it for - daily reminders to build consistency in your gratitude journaling. Outside of the reminder push notifications, the app is completely non-invasive (no ads, no unnecessary push notifications or permissions). I’ve been trying to gratitude journal consistently and never made it over a week until I found this app. Bonus points for the cute minimalist visuals and pleasing color scheme. Please never change this free version! ### 5/5 — A small step that makes a big difference *2024-08-04, version 6.1.1* I really enjoy the concept of looking for and recording the good things in my day. Sometimes these are big events but, more often, it’s an opportunity to realise and acknowledge the little moments that are golden, that make such a positive impact on my life. As humans, we are often quick to whinge and rant about the negatives. This app helps us look for the good stuff in our world. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2020-11-04, version 3.2* Love the idea but the app doesn’t register when I write anything. It only has to list 3 things and yet I’ve only been able to write my 3 things against no.1, it doesn’t recognise my return key or “done” button. This review probably won’t make sense if you’ve not tried the app but basically, don’t waste your 99p, it doesn’t work. Their listbury app does work, is much more useful and you can remind yourself on there to be grateful for 3 things and then just write it in a journal! ### 2/5 — Ineffective *2023-05-10, version 5.11* In the US the days do not line up. It’s a simple app that would be okay if the days were in sync with my phone. Might as well use my default notes app. ### 3/5 — Frustrated *2026-03-31, version 6.3.2* This app used to be great. Now it’s super glitchy. It’s difficult to share via Text now and it’s even started missing words and cutting off responses. We’ve subscribed to ~ 4 years but are about to cancel. ### 3/5 — UI Suggestion- Please change Memories layout *2023-12-27, version 5.11* After using this app in conjunction with Prompted Journal (PJ)- can you please make an update where the layout of Three Good Things (3GT) resembles Prompted Journal- in terms of Memories/past entries? On PJ, when I go to “Entries”, my entries are displayed as a condensed list. I have to click on an entry to open it. On 3GT, when I go to Old Memories- it’s not condensed and instead I’m met with a long, visible display of all of my entries. Why? Can you guys change this, or at least give the option that we can choose if we want our entries to be visible and open when we go back to our Memories, or not? I prefer seeing a list of journal entry dates (like in PJ), that I can click on and open. Seeing everything on display is a bit of visual overload, doesn’t look or feel organized, and I don’t need to see every single thing I’ve written down up front. Please fix, thanks. ### 3/5 — Good but… *2023-06-10, version 5.11* I love the concept and it’s ease of use but I really dislike some of the quotes as some of them are somewhat in your face/distracting or not helpful/out of touch. Please create an option to “hide” the quotes. Thanks. ### 3/5 — Simple easy app that fosters a positive attitude *2021-05-05, version 4.1* I have always struggled to maintain a positive mood. I’d read that it can help to practice identifying three things each day to be grateful for, so decided to see if there was an app that could help. There are lots, but this one sounded appealing because it was simple and free. I’m not looking for bells and whistles! I’ve been using it about 10 days and really like it. I aim to fill out my three things every night before going to bed. If I’m forgetting, I get a prompt on my phone. Interface is very simple and I’ve been doing it. I think it is actually helping me so I’m very happy. I definitely recommend this app ### 3/5 — Help Me Fully Enjoy Your App.. *2020-01-11, version 2.10* I just started a new journey and came across this app, it seemed simple and a great way to just start my thoughts. However I’m having a bit of a challenge understanding, when I make an entry how come I can’t just move ahead to my second of third thought. Along with it doesn’t let me enter my thoughts at any given time out side of the reminder time I set.. I want to keep using it but I’d live the developers feedback and help... ### 4/5 — Positive End of day wrap up *2026-05-20, version 6.3.2* Excellent way to end the day, re-editing it to create a positive narrative ### 4/5 — Syncing *2025-01-13, version 6.2.0* Just downloaded this app and it looks as if it’s almost exactly what I need. Lost a star however as it doesn’t seem to sync the entries from iPhone to iPad. I find it easier to write to my iPad as it’s larger but my phone is good when out and about. Is it meant to sync? If so, how? ### 4/5 — Updated Review: Amazing App *2024-07-05, version 6.0.2* Update: Developers responded extremely fast and corrected the bug! Another reason this app is amazing! I have used the free version of this app for a couple of years and even got my girlfriend to use it now. However, the new update broke the notification badges and now it constantly shows either 1 or 3 on the notification with no way to clear it. I have clicked every clickable thing in app and still no luck. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Honest review *2025-10-13, version 6.2.0* I just want to say thank you to the amazing creators of this app. In a world that treats people like consumers, you actually care about us as humans. You’ve built a calm and safe space away from all the noise — and I’m so grateful for that. I found this app by pure coincidence, and I can’t describe how happy I am that I did. I really hope it reaches more people and helps them connect with themselves and appreciate the blessings around them. I just wish that as it grows, it never loses its light or its beautiful meaning. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-07-22, version 6.2.0* I struggle with anxiety mainly due to work and keeping up with the responsibilities at home, I get in my head and catastrophes a lot so I wanted somewhere to write good things about my day to offset the negativity in my head. I’m more of a pen to paper kind of person but this is perfect as it reminds you just before bed. I’ve been using it this week and so far I feel lighter and less negative. Instead I now actively look for good things throughout my day that I could note to write about later, and I’m starting to notice so many good things. It’s simple and doesn’t over complicate with habit tracking or anything fancy. It feels personal and I LOVE that you can share your daily entries! I often share with my husband and we talk through it together. Thank you for making this app!! ### 5/5 — A major mood booster *2025-07-15, version 6.2.0* Love this app! It makes me smile when I look back at the happy moments I’ve had before, and instantly reminds me of being grateful for all the good things that happened in my life. Thank you, devs! ### 5/5 — Adoro *2025-01-22, version 6.2.0* Simples e objetivo para o propósito. Mas sinto falta das frases de inspiração diárias ### 5/5 — Terrific app *2024-10-10, version 6.1.1* Had tried some other gratitude apps but like this the best. Straightforward yet reflective. Provides a daily reflection which I find uniformly quite good and also assists you to print a summary PDF of your daily writings. ### 5/5 — Simple and beautifully effective! *2024-10-08, version 6.1.1* I’ve been using this app on and off for a year and a half, and I can really see the positive difference in my mental state when I do use it. It’s a really nice simple interface that’s not invasive, so it’s become a nice, calming part of my evening routine. Appreciate what you do Oatmeal team, thankyou! ### 5/5 — So accessible and easy to complete *2024-10-05, version 6.1.1* This has been fantastic I love the daily quotes and it’s so easy to remember to do as I’ve struggled with all our journals I’ve now been doing this for 2 years I wouldn’t use another app so simple and calm Thankyou ### 5/5 — Happy I downloaded! *2024-10-04, version 6.1.1* Been using it every night for the last 2 weeks instead of scrolling on Instagram. Easy to use and simple. Great! ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2024-10-01, version 6.1.1* I love this app, most of features are free so you can use it easily without constantly being told you have to pay. It also had a really nice presentation and is very simple which I love. Thank you so much to the people who made this! ### 5/5 — 3 good things *2024-09-27, version 6.1.1* I love this app and recommend to my clients --- *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 2026-09-03.*