# Journal: Planner, Notes, PDFs — user reviews > 71 indexed App Store user reviews of Journal by STAR NEST JOINT STOCK COMPANY, rated 4.64/5 from 4,578 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/journal-planner-notes-pdfs/id1664348099/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/journal-planner-notes-pdfs/id1664348099.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,757 · 4★ 371 · 3★ 204 · 2★ 85 · 1★ 152 ## What do users think of Journal? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💻 Easy to use interface - 📚 Variety of journal templates - 🎨 Customization options - 🤗 Helpful for managing anxiety and stress **Cons** - 💰 Excessive in-app purchases - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 📆 Calendar sync issues - 🔒 Lack of cross-device syncing **Commonly reported bugs** - Text size randomly changes - Pages not saving properly - Inability to add new pages in journals **Most requested features** - More free templates and stickers - Improved calendar integration - Cloud sync across devices - Dark mode option ## Newest reviews (15 of 71) ### 3/5 — My favorite one if it worked *2024-11-27* I’ve tried many journaling apps, and this one has the best interface. However, the app freezes, making it impossible to use. I closed the app, opened it again, turned off my iPad, and turned it on, but it didn’t work. It is very frustrating, mainly because I paid $19,99 to have access to it. I hope it gets fixed. The app has everything to be the best journalizing and planning app in the market, but it needs to work. ### 4/5 — 💗I really like it but…. *2024-11-02* I really like this app it is easy to use and has a lot of options outside of the premium payment. But once you get over three pages in any journal or planner it offers you you have to start a new one. This is really suckie and I now just have a whole bunch of random journals and planners😭😢😣😫 ### 3/5 — Want to love *2024-10-04* I am looking for the perfect planner app to upload my digital pdf planners and this app could be great but not even 5 min into playing around in the app and it’s already glitching and totally frozen. I will not pay till this app works. If you can get your glitch resolved I will totally pay and switch from Noteful to you guys but until then I won’t pay. I also should get a longer trial once you guys fix your glitches because the trial can’t even be used due to the glitching. ### 3/5 — Cannot add weekly template *2024-09-10* When I choose a free weekly template, they ask me to choose a journal, and after that I have to choose a page, so I don’t understand because if I choose a page, it’s only this page that appears in the journal, and not the weekly template. ### 2/5 — bad customer service *2024-09-04* Overall a good functioning app. I am disappointed with the customer service because I downloaded it and got the premium version on my Samsung tablet but i recently got an Ipad and i couldn’t transfer my premium account over to my apple device. after emailing twice they still haven’t reached out to help me avoid paying for the premium version twice or just restoring my purchase. ### 4/5 — This app is good but.. *2024-08-31* I was thinking there could be no limit to how many pages or jounals you make or use but the special jounal fronts can stay so we can still have premeim in Journal & Planner! Also thank you for the no ads thing. This app should be a four out of five because of the limit thing but i think everything else is amazing. This app helped me deal with stress, school work, and planning for upcoming events so thank you and keep up the good work to whoever had the brillient idea to make this wonderful app! ### 2/5 — Okay At Best *2024-07-19* This app is decent. There’s nothing specifically wrong with it, but it’s just not great. It’s very expensive to buy the premium version, and the free version isn’t great. For example, you can only use one calendar in a journal, and its defected. Also, you can only use one sticker from each pack, and it’s usually the ugliest sticker. On top of these minor annoyances, every time I click on anything, it advertises the premium version. I do not recommend the free version if you want to do detailed journals. The app is cute though. For me, I’m definitely deleting. Thank you for reading, and have a great day! 🤗🤗 ### 2/5 — I wish it was all free *2024-07-16* I feel like I like it but why do u make me pay for some stickers. I like it but why not just adds I mean not a lot but some so peeps don’t have to pay. Yo dudes broke man. I might put on my planner for tomorrow “ delete journal and planner” sry but I’m broke. ### 4/5 — Journal App *2024-07-08* This app is great but you have to pay for loads of stuff and it would be the best if most was free. Thanks ### 1/5 — Disappointed *2024-07-04* I really want to like this app. It has a lot of great features and easy to use. My complaint is the in app purchases. DO NOT BUY ! I purchased several templates within the app on one device and those purchases do not appear across all my devices. So I will have to repurchase the templates again on different devices, which is absolutely ridiculous. I have been in contact with the developer since having this issue and have not had any resolution. I’m advised to sign in with the same ID and restore. Like I haven’t done that already. So until this issue is fixed BUYERS BEWARE! UPDATE: deleted the app on the device that I used to buy the in app purchases. Redownloaded the app and all my purchases were MISSING!!! REFUND!!! ### 2/5 — Text Font Size *2024-07-01* For some reason my text don’t size keeps getting smaller and smaller each time I open the page I’m working on. This is really aggravating since I’ve paid the lifetime payment and each time I open a page ALL of my text is random smaller sizes. Need some advice on how to fix this. ### 1/5 — VIP *2024-06-27* So i absolutely love it but there is a problem and this is it the stickers are all with stars witch mean VIP and all you have from each column is just one sticker like I'm very dissapionted and like when you pay for VIP its always so expensive and this is my first time playing so you know and when you write by typing its always like in a row not a straight so its very annoying and like I clearly really need these things and bugs fixed immediately. From Armando ### 3/5 — money *2024-06-20* this app is great! But there is just one thing about it which is the premium stuff . they need to let it be free without money or at least make the premium less money. there is so many things u can do without premium but it’s still fun! ### 4/5 — Pretty Cool *2024-06-16* This app is pretty cool. I just wish that you didn’t have to pay for like literally everything. In each category of stickers only one or two is unlocked. You have to pay for the rest. Otherwise, the app is pretty good. I would recommend using an iPad and some sort of electronic pencil, such as an Apple Pencil. 📔📓✏️😊 ### 1/5 — Why I’m judging this game *2024-06-07* I downloaded this game because I watched the ad and thought I was good but when I downloaded it, it wanted me to pay and it’s pretty annoying actually ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — why the flip am i needed to pay a lot of things in dis game *2024-11-17* bro when i litch downloaded dismi wanted to make a journal wid a template and yu cud only pick one template- uhhh 😭😭😭 ### 1/5 — I HATE IT *2024-10-03* I hate it because you have to pay to write a journal like get better I hate it just hate (DO NOT DOWNLOAD) ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2024-09-22* Today I went ahead and I purchased this subscription thinking that I could put my own kind of planner/journal together. Wrong!!! Doesn’t matter what you choose as a template or a page it will not let you put it together in a journal, it tells you to pick the journal and page that you want the template to go to, but it won’t let you, don’t pay for this ### 1/5 — Too many glitches *2024-09-16* I really been wanting this app but have been so hesitant and I wish in the end that I had not purchased it. It runs slow, shuts down and when I log back into the app it doesn’t even take me back to the screen I was on. There are too many glitches! I even tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but it still doesn’t work like it should. I really want my money back. Super disappointing. ### 1/5 — Not professional *2024-09-12* I can’t access to my subscription on my iPad , they ask me to repurchase **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for liking and using the app. Please click the Restore button on the Premium screen in the app to sync your VIP. ### 1/5 — DO NOT GET *2024-08-23* DO KOT LISTEN TO ANYONE IT MAKES YOU CRY AND YOU HAVE TO PAY TO KEEP YOUR JOURNAL PRIVATE HE WILL INHERIT YOUR HAPPINESS 🥳 ### 1/5 — 😞😞😞 PLS READ IM BEGGING U *2024-08-06* Ok so i love planning out stuff wanting a digital planner i got this and @ first i loved it but then it kept on making EVERY SINGLE THING THAT I PUT 2 SIZE 1 k so idk if u no this but MANY HUMANS CANT READ A SIZE 1 🤓🤓🤓 & im 1 of those MANY 🤓🤓🤓 also js saying dat u LITTERLY CANT DO ANYTHING W/ OUT PAYING LIKE I PUT 1 PAGE IN A JOURNAL THEN TRY 2 PUT ANOTHER 1 AND IT SAYS SORRY BECOME A MEMBER 2 MAKE ANOTHER PAGE k so then i try 2 make a new journal & it says SORRY U HAVE USED EVERY JOURNAL U CAN USE W/ OUT PAYING LIKE I CANT DO ANYTHING W/ OUT PAYING LIKE BFR RN js saying i would not get this app (btw ive read other reviews & they say not 2 get the membership so think b4 u download ### 1/5 — Doesn’t cross devices *2024-07-26* I wish I could get my money back… I paid for the year after reading the comments and I can’t even get the app to work. There is no sign in screen when you can log into the app, the FAQ page says to hit restore and it keeps telling me nothing to restore. I would like ,y ,only back I hope someone reaches out ! ### 1/5 — Not my best decision *2024-07-20* I guess it’s a nice idea but when I’m using the app it glitches a lot and the sizes of the words randomly change, I definitely do not recommend wasting your money on the app! You can use the app without paying but there are barely any stickers and templates to use before you’ve paid. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2024-07-14* Having to pay for an app that continually has problem after problem makes my stomach drop. On several occasions I’ve had pages lost. Hours of work to bring my self joy, gone and disappeared. Pages not saving and randomly changing sizes of text. Not even being able to center things in the middle of the page. Terrible app. Want a refund for my lifetime purchase. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — l love this app!!!!! *2024-10-27* I've tried a few different journal apps and this one is by far my favorite. I love that almost every thing is free but also have good options for cheap templates. I've made a few journals and I love how much you can customize. I even made a junk journal which I find has been hard to do digitally. So many sticker and text box option as well as a lot of different journal covers and templates such as, meal plans, daily planners, monthly planners, habit trackers, even wedding and travel options. You can also use your own photos as covers and add your own photos into your journals. Overall this is the easiest journal app I’ve ever used with as many options it has and a yearly subscription was only $20. ### 5/5 — Best Journal app ever *2024-09-18* This app is really good it’s great for my school stuff thanks for making me get a A+ in writing!!! We love your app ### 5/5 — I LOVE IT *2024-08-02* I love it because I have anxiety and I love to write ### 5/5 — This amazing goal *2024-07-27* Just so nice ### 5/5 — Great!!! *2024-06-09* This app helps me keep my schedule together! I love how this app gives you MULTIPLE choices of backgrounds and stickers I do believe I’m my opinion that the lifetime VIP should be $40-30! Thank you for reading this developer: Tuat Tran! Hope you take my opinion in a great way thank you again! ### 5/5 — Great *2024-05-19* I like how you get a lot of things within paying anything ### 5/5 — It’s amazing ✨ *2024-05-16* I love it its like my diary but better I am so very happy you made it thx to who made it ### 5/5 — So cool to write a whole entire thing *2024-01-19* I spent like probably like two hours or 30 min /one hour getting to do some fun stuff decorating you know! ~+*+~ ### 5/5 — Amazing *2023-11-23* This was very good for my first time using it:) ### 5/5 — Amazing!! *2023-08-13* This app is a absolute game changer! All of the apps you see on the App Store all have literally NOTHING when you’re not a subscriber. This app, however, has SO MANY stickers! One thing I will say, though, is there should be more free washi tape. Besides that little tiny fact, I love this app! It is my #1 journaling app and (probably) always will be! 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