# Reflection: AI Journal & Coach — user reviews > 549 indexed App Store user reviews of Reflection by Journal Better Inc., rated 4.70/5 from 1,076 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reflection-ai-journal-and-coach/id1504547616/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/reflection-ai-journal-and-coach/id1504547616.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 888 · 4★ 122 · 3★ 45 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Reflection? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Smooth user experience - 💡 Helpful AI-powered prompts and insights - 🌟 Beautiful and clean interface - 📚 Useful journaling guides and categories - 🔍 Ability to review past entries **Cons** - 💰 Some features locked behind paywall - 🐛 Occasional technical issues (e.g. login, syncing) - 📱 Limited functionality on mobile devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Keyboard covering screen on smaller devices - Inability to delete or edit entries **Most requested features** - More customization options (fonts, themes, etc.) - Handwriting/Apple Pencil support - Improved web/desktop app experience ## Newest reviews (19 of 549) ### 4/5 — Great so far *2026-09-05, version 6.29.0* I usually use chat but I love the prompting options on this. ### 4/5 — Great feedback, Desktop needs help *2026-09-03, version 6.29.0* This app is the best response app I have used. Writing down what I am going through and having it respond with what I am feeling is mind blowing. It takes all my jumbled thoughts and emotions and types it out in plain English exactly what I am trying to explain… ### 4/5 — Helpful *2026-08-18, version 6.28.0* This app is very helpful and has tools to guide you. ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-08-11, version 6.27.0* Really good for a mostly free app! ### 5/5 — Amazing! Wow! *2026-08-10, version 6.27.0* This app is incredible. So far it’s better than my therapist. Gives wonderful feedback! It has layers and layers of feedback and insights it gains from your entries. I thought I was negative and it showed me my negativity is almost equally balanced with positivity. I repeat… it’s better than any therapist I’ve ever had!!! ### 5/5 — A cool journaling app *2026-08-10* I am relatively new to the app, but I love the interface and app is pretty intuitive. There is this coach feature that summarises your daily notes and the connection feature which looks pretty promising. It has been just 1 week of me using this app, it’s helping me to connect the dots. Thank you for the app! **Developer response:** so glad it's clicking for you already, thanks for taking the time to write this. connecting the dots is exactly what we hope reflection helps with, and there's more coming on the coach and connections soon. ### 5/5 — Ai feedback *2026-08-03, version 6.27.0* This is the best part of this app, to have actual analytic feedback allows for possibly needed insight. Maybe it catches something you didn’t, or offers perspective you didn’t think about. Very helpful for those of us with constant battles against tunnel vision ### 5/5 — Enjoying it so far *2026-07-30, version 6.27.0* Easy to use. Looking forward to seeing how it keeps up over time ### 5/5 — Amazing! Wow! *2026-07-29, version 6.27.0* This app is incredible. So far it’s better than my therapist. Gives wonderful feedback! ### 4/5 — Review *2026-07-27, version 6.26.0* Just beginning to explore the journal. ### 5/5 — Long time journaler *2026-07-27, version 6.26.0* Just getting started but intrigued by AI aspects and curious what I’ll learn. Interface seems intuitive ### 4/5 — Too early to give 5 *2026-07-24, version 6.26.0* I haven’t been using it for long but I like the format. ### 5/5 — Just what I needed *2026-07-21, version 6.26.0* This app is helping me in so many ways. It’s the perfect app for my digital journaling that I have been wanting to do, it’s my counselor and it’s going to be perfect for my new iPad and ipencil ### 5/5 — Outstanding Tool *2026-07-16, version 6.26.0* I have tried other mental health/self-help apps in the past and this one truly outshines them all. The summaries of what I’ve written, the coaching prompts, and the action items have really made a difference in helping me navigate a really tough period of my life (a loved one has Alzheimers). I highly recommend it. ### 5/5 — Good Guidance *2026-07-16, version 6.26.0* Love the thought in it and the AI summary ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-07-15, version 6.26.0* I’ve never journaled consistently because I feel like it’s a whole thing and I can never write as quickly as I want. If you’re trying to journal because you want it to strictly be a mindful exercise, the slowness of writing it out is great. For my purposes (noticing patterns and documenting highs and lows throughout me week), this is perfect. ### 5/5 — Pretty perfect *2026-07-14, version 6.26.0* I am a long time journaler. My first internet journal was Xanga, if any millennials remember. And I also had livejournal. Aside from the beautiful UI and being aesthetically pleasing to me, I love that I can essentially get insights on myself with the AI integration. It has been illuminating. Plus everything integrates seamlessly between Mac:iPhone:iPad. ### 5/5 — This is perfect *2026-07-13, version 6.26.0* This app gives me the motivation to journal on a regular basis ### 5/5 — A cool journaling app *2026-07-12* I am relatively new to the app, but I love the interface and app is pretty intuitive. There is this coach feature that summarises your daily notes and the connection feature which looks pretty promising. It has been just 1 week of me using this app, it’s helping me to connect the dots. Thank you for the app! **Developer response:** so glad it's clicking for you already, thanks for taking the time to write this. connecting the dots is exactly what we hope reflection helps with, and there's more coming on the coach and connections soon. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Horrifying Privacy Violation - NOT PRIVATE *2026-07-21, version 6.26.0* Do not trust this app with your personal thoughts. The App Store description explicitly promises that your entries are "encrypted and accessible only to you." This is a complete lie. I recently received an email from an actual human employee referencing highly sensitive, personal details I had written in my journal. I was under the impression I was writing in a secure, machine-only environment. Having staff read private entries without clear consent is an extreme invasion of privacy and a deceptive business practice. I have demanded a refund and the deletion of my data. Stay far away if you value your privacy. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2026-06-24, version 6.25.1* Worst app I ever used. Cost me my relationship. Called me a doormat. Forget this AI slop. ### 1/5 — It won’t open *2026-05-16, version 6.23.0* I’m afraid that all My entries are gone. I used this app to write my thoughts during a loved ones passing away. I tried opening the app now and it won’t open. Deleted and redownloaded, still won’t open. ### 1/5 — Not happy *2026-05-14, version 6.23.0* It lost my first entry. Poor internet connection was the excuse. I have excellent internet connectivity so that’s not true. I am going to try again but this is extremely disappointing! ### 1/5 — Fix the audio feature *2026-04-23, version 6.21.0* The audio journaling feature is literally the most important feature in this app for me, but it constantly crashes, ive lost at least a dozen recordings because of this, and when I try to recover them it's impossible. You also need to make it so if the phone sleeps, the recording continues. I'm cancelling my subscription if this is not fixed. ### 1/5 — Ruined the app with removing monthly and yearly reflection as they were *2026-02-22, version 6.18* Was using the app for 2+ years. In the last update developers fully removed the functionality of yearly and monthly reflection from which I was getting most of the value personally. ### 1/5 — Please stop with the AI nonsense *2025-12-17, version 6.16* I’ve used the app for several years, and I loved it back when it was just a regular, minimalist journaling app. Now, they’ve leaned fully into making this an AI centric app. It was very jarring to suddenly have AI slop rammed into my journal after writing many entries over the years. After turning all AI features off in the settings, things were fine for a bit, but now they’ve added buttons to the journaling page for various AI prompts with no way to dismiss/turn them off. That’s it for me - it is no longer the app I signed up for so I cancelled my subscription. ### 1/5 — Horrible interface *2025-10-28, version 6.12.0* The keyboard covers the screen on which I’m typing and doesnt auto scroll down. I have given this feedback to the dev twice and no response. Absolutely unacceptable. ### 1/5 — Can’t cancel subscription online *2025-07-24, version 6.09* Can’t cancel the subscription when I try online I think I was scammed ### 1/5 — Frustrated with App *2025-07-03, version 6.08* The app looks OK I tried to install it on my PC but apparently you have to have a Mac. There’s nothing available for the PC didn’t tell me when I got the app just told me to install it on the desktop. I guess that’s on me to review the app that I got now I’m just gonna constantly get harassed, but I didn’t install the desktop application and I’m not complete. Otherwise the application is fine. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2026-09-06, version 6.29.0* I am just starting out with journaling and it has never really been my thing, but having this on your phone and having it be so easy to use has been helpful in keeping up with it so far. Excited to see where this take me. ### 5/5 — Off to a great start *2026-09-02, version 6.28.0* I could see the value in the premium version but I need to be a bit more consistent before pulling the trigger ### 5/5 — Great so far *2026-08-28, version 6.28.0* Love it…was soooo frustrated with day one…this is exactly what I was looking for ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-26, version 6.28.0* Exactly what i was looking for ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2026-08-25, version 6.28.0* I am enjoying it. ### 5/5 — Amazing! Wow! *2026-08-25, version 6.28.0* This app is incredible. So far it’s better than my therapist. Gives wonderful feedback! It has layers and layers of feedback and insights it gains from your entries. I thought I was negative and it showed me my negativity is almost equally balanced with positivity. I repeat… it’s better than any therapist I’ve ever had!!! ### 5/5 — 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕕𝕠 *2026-08-20, version 6.28.0* 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕 ### 5/5 — Liking so far *2026-08-19, version 6.28.0* I haven’t been on journaling apps for too long and I wanted my journaling experience to have a “back and forth” kind of feel. The AI on this app seems to be helpful so far. I have the free version and looking to get premium soon. ### 5/5 — Nay *2026-08-17, version 6.28.0* Just started tonight and already can see what a great tool this will be ### 5/5 — A cool journaling app *2026-08-16* I am relatively new to the app, but I love the interface and app is pretty intuitive. There is this coach feature that summarises your daily notes and the connection feature which looks pretty promising. It has been just 1 week of me using this app, it’s helping me to connect the dots. Thank you for the app! **Developer response:** so glad it's clicking for you already, thanks for taking the time to write this. connecting the dots is exactly what we hope reflection helps with, and there's more coming on the coach and connections soon. --- *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 2026-09-10.*