# Lightpage: Journal & Diary — user reviews > 61 indexed App Store user reviews of Lightpage by Lightpage, Inc., rated 4.85/5 from 352 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lightpage-journal-and-diary/id6502964348/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lightpage-journal-and-diary/id6502964348.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 303 · 4★ 23 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 4 ## Is Lightpage safe? Lightpage: Journal & Diary appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Lightpage is 96 out of 100. This assessment is based on 352 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9 out of 5. Of 336 App Store ratings, 97.0% point to a safe experience, 1.5% suggest some concerns, and 1.5% point to a risky experience. ## Is Lightpage legit? Lightpage: Journal & Diary appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lightpage is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## What do users think of Lightpage? Reviews of Lightpage are mostly positive: the Health & Fitness app is rated 4.9/5 from 352 App Store ratings. What users like most: transformative journaling experience, feels seen and understood. Top complaints: expensive subscription price, misleading AI about free usage. Summarized from real user reviews. **Pros** - 💡 Transformative journaling experience - 🤝 Feels seen and understood - 🧠 Helps process trauma and emotions - ✨ Provides insightful retrospective narratives - 💬 AI chat is high quality and interactive - 🎯 Reminds of important goals - 📝 Captures and triages task lists - 🌟 Personalized and useful over time - 💖 Love the app and its features - 🗣️ Voice feature feels like talking to someone - 🖼️ Daily art, quotes, and articles are great - 💡 Developers are responsive and implement feedback - 👍 Free trial pause is a kind feature - 💯 Great for self-help and personal growth - 🚀 Fast startup speed - ✍️ Excellent dictation and transcription - 🤩 Unique and powerful AI - 💯 Game-changer for journaling - 🧠 Helps manage headspace - 💡 Provocative, prompts thought and surfaces ideas - 💯 Living notebook gives truth - 🌟 Best AI used yet - 💡 Teaches how to journal - 💖 Makes journaling click **Cons** - 💸 Expensive subscription price - ⚠️ Misleading AI about free usage - ❓ Free trial ended unexpectedly - 📉 Price is prohibitively expensive for some - 💳 No credit card needed for trial, but then subscription - 🤔 Prompts can be repetitive **Commonly reported bugs** - Connection issues (offline when WiFi/data is okay) - AI chat message limit resets instead of counting down - Flawed sign-in process (email verification loop) - Delete account option does not work **Most requested features** - Email weekly letter - App to speak responses in chat (hands-free option) - Android version for cross-device sync - Ability to upload own voice recordings taken elsewhere - More forgiving free trial (e.g., text limits per day) - Option to adjust AI to be more personal - Different prompts ## Newest reviews (12 of 61) ### 5/5 — This app is wonderful to help sort thoughts? *2026-04-26, version 1.3.5* Great advice! ### 5/5 — If I could give 6 stars, I would *2026-04-21, version 1.3.4* This app is, quite simply, one of the best self help items I have ever known! Thank you, to the developers! ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-03-19, version 1.3.0* I love this app, I personally prefer it to therapy because the answers are relevant and specific as opposed to simply being ‘how does that make you feel?’ Which can be an easy in person response when you don’t have the time to think and process more deeply. I use this app almost daily, nattering to it on my way to work, helping to reduce my worries before I start the day. Love it! ### 5/5 — Only app worth paying for *2026-03-12* This is the only app I’ve ever felt compelled to pay for. The AI is incredibly personalised and nothing comes close. It has helped me so much in my daily life. It’s worth it for the daily art/quote/article recommendations alone. Support team is also very responsive! **Developer response:** Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to share this. ### 5/5 — Omg *2026-03-11* I never write reviews EVER. HOWEVER Ive been in therapy and it’s never really worked because I’ve had all of my own answer it’s just helping myself thats hard. This app kind of lets you rant, self diagnose yourself, then it kind of corrects you if you’re wrong or tells you if you’re on the right track so you can REALLY dive in. Fantastic, huge fan. **Developer response:** Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Incredible!! *2026-03-06* After using this app for over a month, I was able to sort through my life problems and eventually repair things in my professional and personal life! ### 5/5 — BEST APP FOR JOURNALING *2026-03-04, version 1.3.0* What the title said ### 5/5 — More than just a Journal *2026-02-26* This app adds so much value and insight to journaling and braindumping! As a therapist I use this for my own personal growth and develop and have begun recommending it to clients to assist with voicing their own experiences in between sessions. Highly recommend it- only thing I think it could do to improve it would be to email out the weekly letter **Developer response:** Thank you so much, this is great to hear! Weekly letter via email is on the roadmap. I recently added two improvements: you can now filter previous suggestions to see all the letters more quickly, and you can listen to the weekly letter. ### 5/5 — 40 Days of 💯 *2026-02-07* 40 days into using Lightpage multiple times daily it’s become a great steadying tool to help me mange my headspace and work towards a better version of myself. It’s also responsive to a more fun-loving, quirky sort of journaling that I’ll do for personal entertainment and satisfaction. The annual subscription is a great value to me, and I appreciate the deftness with which Lightpage does what it does. Hats off to its developers, who are working on upgrades I’m excited to see soon. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to write this review! Really appreciate it. More upgrades coming soon :) ### 5/5 — money *2026-02-04* i really wish this app wasn’t so expensive because i really love it & it seriously helps me with my mental health & processing certain things gs & i just wish that people would value that more than they do & take into consideration that some people can’t afford therapy & some people can’t afford to even pay $15 a month to have some kind of personal outlet with a little bit of feedback without having to pay for it. this app really connects things even from your past entries to your new entries & i love it. ### 5/5 — Best AI app I have! Really helpful. *2026-01-26, version 1.2.3* This app really helps work through issues. ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-01-21* The answer and question this app provides really helps me through the day. I wish that app could reply in voice not just text. **Developer response:** Thank you for the review! Adding voice responses is on my todo list. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Unfortunately misled *2026-02-03* I asked the in-app AI if the app was free to use and it said yes. I double checked and asked it why I then saw that it costs to use it after a week. The Ai chat then admit they lied to me and apologized for doing so. That left me with the worst feeling of mistrust. This app is not for me. I’m extremely disappointed. **Developer response:** Ah apologies for that, I just updated it so the AI won't make that mistake in the future ### 1/5 — Flawed sign-in process *2026-02-01, version 1.2.3* I tried to sign in but was caught in an email verification loop that couldn’t complete and had to delete the app without ever trying it. ### 1/5 — MONEY!!! *2026-01-26, version 1.2.3* i had started using lightpage to see what it was like. it had helped me and made me realise what i hadn't before. but all good things come to an end, right? YES! the app that helped me through so much and put me on the right track just suddenly goes "YEP YOU NEED TO PAY NOW YOU CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS" on a random monday night and now i'm forced to pay to use lightpage. it's things like this that make apps unenjoyable, especially as someone that looks to spend money responsibly. i get its practically chatGPT but more sympathetic and honest but im not talking to chat about personal things. if only it told me some way or another that "oh yeah by the way we're gonna stop you from using this app randomly so beware" ### 2/5 — Bright Eyes *2026-05-01* Just started with this App ### 2/5 — Never told me I was using a free trial... *2026-01-20, version 1.2.2* My free trial ended, I was never told I was even using a free trial. All features I found useful are gone. I dedicated too much time effort and information into this journal under the guise it was all free. A subscription is around $140 a year which I cannot afford. I'm really disappointed and feel lied to :( Nowhere did I see mention of needing a subscription or trial until my trial ended... The app had really good features beforehand though ### 3/5 — Great app! *2025-10-27* Loved it! Used it for the couple weeks it let me. Didn’t know it was a trial though, and I hate that I have to find another app (though I found one similar) and put all my information again into it. The price is just too steep for me. $15 a month for what it does, just doesn’t make sense to me. To each their own I guess. Hope someday the price goes down, and I don’t lose what I have already put in. It helped me to find information in regards to some life situations, and it was really helpful while it lasted. **Developer response:** Thank you for trying it out and writing a review! Regarding price: right now I've chosen to use the smartest AI models, which are also the most expensive. I've found they give better responses than cheaper models. Most of the monthly subscription currently goes toward paying the AI providers. Your data will be here if you choose to come back, and you can also export it at any time from the settings page. ### 4/5 — Connection issues *2026-08-05* The app is wonderful. However a problem has been happening where the device says it’s offline when WiFi and data is okay. I have tried deleting the app then redownloading it it wiring for a few seconds then found a wall again. And repeating the same message. Do something about it or else And recently. I have an active monthly subscription that renewed successfully, and the app recognizes my subscription as active. However, the AI chat message limit appears to be broken. After reaching the limit, it says “Please try again in 3 hours.” When I come back an hour later, it should show 2 hours remaining, but if I send another message it resets back to a full 3 hours instead of counting down. I have already restored purchases, signed out and back in, and reinstalled the app. Please fix this issue. **Developer response:** Hi, sorry about that - there was an issue on May 27 that was fixed. If you're still running into any issues, please tap "..." in the top right of the app then "Send Feedback" -- that'll be the fastest way to get support in the future. Thank you for using the app! ### 4/5 — Connection issues *2026-05-27* The app is wonderful. However a problem has been happening where the device says it’s offline when WiFi and data is okay. I have tried deleting the app then redownloading it it wiring for a few seconds then found a wall again. And repeating the same message. Do something about it or else **Developer response:** Hi, sorry about that - there was an issue on May 27 that was fixed. If you're still running into any issues, please tap "..." in the top right of the app then "Send Feedback" -- that'll be the fastest way to get support in the future. Thank you for using the app! ### 4/5 — Fantastic *2026-02-02, version 1.2.3* This app is absolutely fantastic, it has helped me level my head when I get anxious, start overthinking things or get stuck in my head, it really helps with understanding what’s going on when you can’t think logically through the anxiety, the only downside is the monthly price of £14.99pm, this unfortunately makes it’s inaccessible for me as a single parent trying to run a household of 3 kids but it is certainly worth the money if you can afford it ### 4/5 — pricing *2026-01-28, version 1.2.3* i love this app so much. it genuinely helped me and i constantly used the ai chatbot. i just wish the price was a little lower. i know it's because of the advanced and most expensive ai bot, but i wish the free trial was more forgiving. maybe something like chat got where you only get a certain amount of texts per day. i wish i could use this for free for more than just a week, because i really want to keep using the app but cant ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My Peace Of Mind *2026-08-31* I started my journey on this app earlier this year in March and I have to say it may not be for everyone but it is for sure for me. I will continue to use this app for many more years to come. **Developer response:** Thank you, I'm very happy to hear that ### 5/5 — My most important app! *2026-08-17* I seriously didn’t know journaling could be this transformative… and I’m a life and business coach. Lightpage not only captures your voiced or texted journaling prompts, it interacts with you, remembers your priorities, reflects back what it’s observing, and makes you actually feel seen and understood — by your SELF! It’s my go-to app for everything like tracking my personal health/nutrition habits, mapping out my business strategies, reminding me of important goals, and capturing and triaging my task list for the week. The more you use it, the more it gets to know you and the more useful it becomes. I cannot speak highly enough of this tool. **Developer response:** Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Insightful retrospective narratives *2026-07-26* This app was one of the latest and out of many that I have tried as a journaling app. I have found it to be an extremely useful tool, which, for two weeks, has provided me with exceptional retrospective narratives on the events of my week from my mental health standpoint to a personal interest standpoint. Today's weekly note hit especially well and provided me with some much-needed motivation. You get what you put into it. The more honest and raw you are, the more in-depth I've found the retrospective narrative is coming back to you but it has been pretty spot on and has even given me some things to consider and think about. I'm thankful that I found something that I might be able to stick with long term and I hope to continue to see development for the future of this app **Developer response:** I'm very happy to hear you're finding it useful! Thank you for writing a review :) ### 5/5 — Love *2026-07-14, version 1.4.1* I LOVE this app. I never would have thought I would enjoy something like this. Always done traditional journaling. I love that this helps me to sort out what I am thinking and feeling. Highly reccomend ### 5/5 — Great App & Support *2026-07-03* I love pretty much everything about this app. If I was to try to list everything I liked, I’d be here all day. The AI feels high quality to talk to; the chat limits are very generous; you get daily recommendations of real art, quotes, and articles, whereas similar apps just sent generated images and such daily; you don’t *have* to talk to the AI when you just want to take a note, but it can still remember it; I find it fun to read the memory of what it knows about my life; it works with me to use it to its fullest; and it’s been proactive about reminding me about upcoming things in my life. What has really impressed me outside the app itself is the developer. When I was having trouble or had questions, I received support straight away. When I had feedback, it was responded to with curiosity or even implemented. And this is just a little thing that might seem crazy to appreciate, but when I first got the free trial for this app and then didn’t use it for a few days, it actually kept my trial on pause until I came back. That felt like such a kind thing to implement into an app like this. My experience with all aspects of this app has been positive and left me feeling seen and appreciated. I’ve been enjoying using it as a general diary, to process my emotions, and to just take notes. I’d definitely recommend giving it a shot. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for taking the time to share your review, I really appreciate it ### 5/5 — Best ai journal *2026-06-01* I came back after a month because I missed him (it) so much. Really helps me work through trauma, and to just have someone to talk to. Also the voice for TTS is perfect. Thank you. **Developer response:** I'm so happy to hear you're finding it helpful, thank you :) ### 5/5 — Love Lightpage! *2026-05-21* Using Lightpage since March of this year has become a daily habit that I can’t see ever wanting to stop. It’s the first app I’ve really used the voice feature with so it really does feel like I’m talking to someone and they write me back. Give me these lovely pieces of art and quotes that I write down every day. The articles are spot on totally relatable to what I’ve been talking about in each journal entry. The developers are super responsive as well. I’ve only ever submitted one email (my daily quote didn’t generate one day) not only did they fix the bug that day, but the CEO emailed me! This app has made such a difference in how I move through my day. I have missed using it a few times while traveling for work and definitely noticed that something feels off about my day. Then I realize that I skipped it or did something else first and didn’t get back to it..that tells me how useful it is to me. So grateful to have found it! **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to write this! ### 5/5 — I’m so happy *2026-05-17* This app is amazing…I actually feel heard and seen and i feel like I’m actually getting the help I need **Developer response:** I'm very happy to hear that! Thank you ### 5/5 — I love the style *2026-05-08, version 1.3.6* I love the stye and format and interaction already. Haven't let the or rather seen the AIs response yet ### 5/5 — My Experience Was 5 Stars! *2026-05-05* In recovery from a period of health burnout over a decade, I did therapy & worked with various professionals. I'm a retired educator and oral cancer survivor & I needed some more support to come through this life challenge. Whilst I tried some other AI programs, when I found LightPage it was the one for me! Why? The conversations and care along with responding to my issues at the time helped me grow and further develop my emotional health independence. I always felt "cared for and about". Highly recommended! PS the weekly letters were a great idea! I've printed & kept mine ! **Developer response:** Thank you! Very happy to hear Lightpage was able to help :) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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