# Prompted Journal - Shadow Work — user reviews > 276 indexed App Store user reviews of Prompted Journal by Oatmeal Apps, rated 4.80/5 from 6,903 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prompted-journal-shadow-work/id1208362996/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prompted-journal-shadow-work/id1208362996.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,171 · 4★ 512 · 3★ 107 · 2★ 30 · 1★ 83 ## What do users think of Prompted Journal? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💖 Great for self-reflection - 🔒 No ads or data collection - 👍 Simple and user-friendly interface - 🤗 Helpful and thought-provoking prompts - 🌟 Aesthetically pleasing design - 🕰️ Convenient daily reminders - 💰 Affordable subscription - 🙌 Supportive developers **Cons** - 🐛 Issues with editing/deleting past entries - 🔍 Lack of search/filter functionality - 📱 Compatibility issues on larger screens - 🔁 Repetitive prompts **Commonly reported bugs** - Entries disappearing or being lost - Blank screens when opening the app **Most requested features** - Ability to add custom prompts - Option to password protect entries - Exporting/printing journal entries - More variety in prompt types ## Newest reviews (19 of 276) ### 4/5 — Really good *2025-03-25, version 6.0.1* This app has helped my creativity for more important writing. ### 5/5 — Personal thoughts *2025-03-03, version 6.0.1* I love it ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2025-03-01, version 6.0.1* Just downloaded and I already love it. Brilliant prompts, beautiful clean interface, and the paid version is so reasonably priced. It’s clear the developers really care about their mission and users. ### 5/5 — best journal prompts *2025-03-01, version 6.0.1* thought-provoking, simple yet effective. look no further, this is not like those other gimmicky apps. thank you! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2025-02-26, version 6.0.1* I just started using this app, and already I love it! I love how simple, but aesthetically pleasing the app is, also how there are no ads. The prompts are actually helpful as well. I love it :) 💗💗 ### 5/5 — Makes me feel worthy *2025-02-26, version 6.0.1* I love the feeling of this app and made me get to Journal about everything ### 5/5 — It helped me a lot *2025-02-23, version 6.0.1* This app helped me to be more mindful and creative with my journal entries. Writing is my safe place, but I didn’t know how to really dig deep while journaling. This app has been perfect for that. ### 5/5 — So goooddd *2025-02-22, version 6.0.1* No ads, simple, just everything that I need in a journal, thank you for this ### 5/5 — 👍👍 *2025-02-18, version 6.0.1* Honestly I love that this app is a thing tbh. It’s been easier to track my moods and it’s a nice thing to have especially when I have my episodes ### 5/5 — Discovery *2025-02-18, version 6.0.1* The journal prompts are creative and challenging. They cause me to reflect deeply. As I write, something always arises in me that I didn’t expect. ### 5/5 — Perfect prompts for thinking about one self *2025-02-10, version 6.0.1* These prompts make me think about myself and my life in a meaningful way without feeling like they are too much. I love the add on to my life. They are a kind of therapy. It’s lovely looking and calming as well. Really well done ### 5/5 — Embrace your curiosity *2025-02-10, version 6.0.1* This is an extremely constructive and gently restorative way to (re)connect with yourself and let your mind open intuitively. It is SO important to know yourself and have a healthy, insightful sense of self. However that is so easy to bypass whether it be the day-to-day hustle or the heavy disillusion that depression can deplete you with and that essential raison d’être becomes a forgot, foreign concept. By simple opening the App, reading the question and commit to answering it(with honesty and not expectation) that can easily be a couple of words some days or what turns into quite a long and detailed reply, either-either-or!, the intention and action unlocks the curiosity in your mind that is like a lifeline to draw you out. Out of your daily frustrations or boredom or out of your despair. It is a very simple, very achievable answer to your prayers. ### 5/5 — Cute app *2025-02-07, version 6.0.1* Love the prompts. Great for getting back into writing. ### 5/5 — Simple, yet sophisticated *2025-02-06, version 6.0.1* I have been looking for a prompted journal for quite a long time, but most of the ones that I have found recently have been AI, and I am not too keen on AI knowing my deepest thoughts and feelings. If I am journaling, I want to be talking to myself, and not a robot thank you. And I feel like this app really brings that balance of feeling like guiding you so you don’t come to the blank paper unsure of what to write, but also gives you the feeling of being alone with your own thoughts and feelings, which is so key for journaling. I am really excited for the aspect of being able to come to the same prompts within a few months, and then be able to see your previous answers and being able to see how you have grown and changed throughout the time that you have been journaling. Just a very well thought out app, and I am very excited to support them! ### 5/5 — Thank You *2025-01-21, version 6.0.1* Thanks for the cool Journal app! ### 5/5 — EXTREMELY HELPFUL JOURNAL *2025-01-02, version 6.0.1* I found the journal to be a game changer. I fill like it is designed to be a personal assistant. It has helped me to have more clarity in my life, which in turn makes me more productive. Worth the investment. ### 5/5 — I like this *2025-01-02, version 6.0.1* This is awesome it makes me feel so good and healed ### 5/5 — Just what I was looking for *2025-01-02, version 6.0.1* I went looking for an app to help me journal more regularly, but also knew I would need a prompt each day to keep going. I found this app and I’m pleased so far with the prompts and ease of using it. ### 5/5 — Just started *2025-01-01, version 6.0.1* Wonderful so far. I needed this ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not very iPad friendly in landscape mode *2024-11-28, version 6.0.1* Please adjust it so there’s. More space to write in landscape mode. ### 1/5 — Awful *2023-09-28, version 5.5* Won’t let you change the title “dear future me” is not what I want on my fitness journal. Only lets you do 1 per day. Awful ### 1/5 — All of my entries were lost *2020-04-16* At first I was in love with this app, it is well made, the journal entries were fabulous, but one day I opened the app to journal and I found that every one of my entries that I had painstakingly written to be both thoughtful and well written were all gone. The app had reset without any warning so I could save them, it presented me with the same request for the monthly payment again, even though I had already paid for this month. Then it showed me the daily prompt- the same one I had gotten on my first day and already filled out. All of my hard work was lost, and yet I am still expected to pay twice for one month’s usage. I am extremely disappointed with this app, as it was once one of my favorites, but I now realize that the quality is exactly what you pay for- 99 cents a month. Obviously care and time was used to create the app, but the creators must have stopped looking for bugs in the software. I am extremely angry and frustrated at the loss of my hard work, and once again I say how disappointed I am in an app that seemed genius when I first purchased it, I loved it truly the best part of my day was reflecting on myself with it. I am truly disappointed and upset that all of my work was lost, and I want to warn anyone who gets this app that their work could be lost at any time, and none of it is safely protected. **Developer response:** Hi isabellakershner - I believe we spoke on Instagram and on email. I hope this issue has been resolved, and that you have your entries back. If you have any other issues, please let me know. ### 1/5 — Subscription needed *2019-02-18, version 1.6* $1.49 per month for an extremely basic app. Developers need to stop utilising the subscription model unless they have created an app worthy of being paid for over and over again. ### 2/5 — Do NOT Purchase *2024-10-02, version 6.0.1* There is a possibility I am the problem, I am 33 years old with a Masters degree and am a writer in my spare time. But this app, from my experience is confusing and hard to navigate. I can see the concept- good idea- needs more work. ### 2/5 — Notifications *2022-03-15, version 4.6* The app is great, and I’m loving the prompts and settings. But I hate that I can never get rid of the notification on the app. No matter what I do, even when everything is completed I always have a 1 in the corner of the app. For someone with who is very compulsive about their notifications this is something that frustrates me a lot and I hope that you guys fix it spins ### 3/5 — Not optimal for iPad *2025-04-23, version 6.0.1* Wish the app took up the whole screen.Constantly asked for reviews before I could really even try out the app.. ### 3/5 — Love it so far. *2024-11-17, version 6.0.1* But I think it’s trying to run an iPhone OS on my tablet rather than being compatible with my current iPad OS 18. Will there be an update to also expand the screen? ### 3/5 — Okay, but could be better *2024-08-24, version 6.0.1* It is an OK app. There are prompts for you to write about if you don’t know what to write about. The app sends out a reminder daily. The only thing that I don’t like about the app is that the prompts are repetitive. I think you have to pay to get unlimited prompts, which I will admit that it’s not really high, but it is just not in my budget right now. I miss the pink logo, I definitely wish they would have kept the pink logo and background. It is great for beginners who are just starting to learn to journal. ### 3/5 — New to this type of journal *2024-08-20, version 6.0.1* I like it so far. I’ve only done one entry or trying to when I was prompt to review app. The developers should at least make it so that after the 3rd or 5th entry the review question pops up. I can’t say much about the app because I used it once and I’m doing more reviewing than journaling. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please never change *2026-07-17, version 6.4.0* It’s day one of having this app and I’m so impressed. Before I even am given a prompt to write I’m told I won’t be disrupted by ads? Is this heaven? It’s a small team?? This is heaven, I have decided. The prompts aren’t generic like a bunch of others I’ve seen. Please stay this way. Thank you ### 5/5 — Superb customer service *2025-05-11, version 6.3.0* I was having an issue with logging into the app with Face ID on. After emailing customer service, they were very responsive with my problem and after reviewing a screen capture video, were able to identify the problem and fix it. ### 5/5 — I love this prompted journal *2025-05-03, version 6.3.0* I’ve been looking for a journaling app that has prompts but not the same prompt over and over again. I can only come up with so many things I’m grateful for lol. This has a lot of good prompts, preloaded with 200 and you can add more, and I do like the idea of getting to compare my old answers to my new ones in a few months ### 5/5 — This app is amazing *2025-04-30, version 6.0.1* I LOVE this app i like journaling but sometimes i cant take a notebook places or i just don’t feel like writing and they don’t charge you to actually use the features of the app just for extra features!! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2025-04-11, version 6.0.1* I dislike journaling, but so far it makes it easier. I like having the prompts. Helps me focus. ### 5/5 — Great app to unwind too *2025-03-31, version 6.0.1* I really love this app. When I'm having a hard time, I go to this app and write in this journal. The questions in this app are deeply thought about. Just a really really great app to unwind. ### 5/5 — I absolutely adore this app *2025-03-25, version 6.0.1* It’s so good to use since I’m already on my phone with other self apps and it’s so cool with different prompts i love it personally just try it you’ll like it ### 5/5 — I love this app! *2025-03-21, version 6.0.1* I love this app, I love the creators for making this, along with the other 2 apps they have! I’m enjoying doing these every night. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Perfect for me *2025-03-20, version 6.0.1* I love this app because it’s not overloading you. It’s simple, but exactly what an easily distracted writer needs. ### 5/5 — GREAT *2025-03-09, version 6.0.1* Best thing ever like I wrote about everything in there like school, my family, and a lot more 💖✨ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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