# Tesseract - Emotional Journal — user reviews

> 95 indexed App Store user reviews of Tesseract by Goateraction, rated 4.50/5 from 109 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tesseract-emotional-journal/id6599853294/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tesseract-emotional-journal/id6599853294.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 86 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 8

## What do users think of Tesseract?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎨 Stunning, gorgeous UI/UX design
- ✨ Smooth, silky animations and interactions
- 📱 Lightweight app (only 6MB)
- 💭 Intuitive and simple to use
- 🎯 Focused, single-purpose functionality
- 📝 Beautiful text and image composition
- ⚡ Responsive and stable performance
- 🎭 Visually inspiring for journaling

**Cons**

- 💰 Aggressive monetization strategy
- 🔒 Data loss issues after updates
- 🐛 Edit button crashes the app
- 📸 Photos disappear when editing entries
- 🔄 Sync issues between devices
- ⌨️ Bluetooth keyboard Enter key not working
- 📋 Text truncation with long content
- 🔐 Paywalling previously free features
- ⚙️ App performance degradation over time
- 🖼️ Sidebar covers entries by default

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Data deletion after app updates
- Journal entries disappearing after switching apps
- Edit button causing app crashes
- Photos disappearing when adding new ones
- Photos disappearing after editing entries
- iCloud sync not working between iPhone and iPad
- Bluetooth keyboard Enter key not functioning
- App freezing and lagging
- Text alignment issues in display view
- Paragraph spacing issues in display view
- Premium features not working after subscription
- App crashes on edit button press

**Most requested features**

- Customizable theme colors and backgrounds
- Additional font options (especially for Chinese)
- PDF export functionality
- iCloud sync support
- Auto-save functionality
- Photo position/placement control
- Galaxy map/note clustering visualization
- Auto-scroll features
- Pin/favorite entries functionality
- Search functionality
- Weather integration
- Image filters
- macOS version
- Customizable line spacing
- Live photo support
- Adjustable text size for long entries

## Newest reviews (17 of 95)

### 4/5 — 搞一个终身VIP吧

*2026-08-05*

最大的缺点就是没终身VIP这个选项

### 4/5 — 优化性能

*2026-07-02*

打开背景，很卡，优化玻璃渲染区域

### 4/5 — 很喜欢 希望多加一些功能

*2026-06-30*

希望1.把之前的标题加粗加大改回来，新版本标题内容都是一个格式 没有区分度了 我刚充钱买了咋就这样 2.加上单篇日记导出功能，同时反应主题背景 2.无边记联动只能导入照片，希望其他的歌曲、地点也能联动

### 4/5 — a mistake

*2026-04-11*

If there are too many words, you will not see the full content.

### 3/5 — Keyboard Vibration Latency Needs Urgent Fix

*2026-03-30*

整体操作逻辑很棒，特别是开屏过程中的振动细节，但是有一个很严重的体验感瑕疵就是输入过程中键盘的振动有延迟，并且迟迟未修复

While the UI logic and boot-up haptics are excellent, there is a significant UX issue: input latency with the keyboard vibration. This lag persists and hasn't been addressed in recent updates.

**Developer response:** 感谢您的反馈！能否详细告诉我们键盘振动延迟的具体情况？谢谢

### 4/5 — Ai 일기연동하는방법

*2026-03-26*

애플 일기랑 연동해서 ai일기 주제 추천어떻게 하나요?

**Developer response:** 테서랙트를 사용해주셔서 감사합니다! 
일기 쓰기 화면에서 우측 상단의 일기 제안 버튼을 눌러 애플에서 제공하는 일기 제안 기능을 사용하실 수 있습니다 😊

### 5/5 — 非常喜欢这个app！

*2026-02-09*

但是我有几个问题想问一下开发者。第一，我创造了很多folder，但是不知道每一个folder里可以放多少篇日记。第二，folder的表面颜色能不能修改，因为点开app之后会直接呈现不同的folder，都是黑色的不太好看，如果能自己随意修改就好了。第三，主题顺序里面的内容是否能再增多一些。谢谢！

**Developer response:** 谢谢！每个folder里的日记数量是没有限制的。我们会认真检讨您提出的建议并加以完善

### 5/5 — Awesome app!

*2026-01-20*

I do wish the sidebar didn’t open by default, because it covers over some of my entries. Otherwise, one of the coolest apps on the store!

### 3/5 — 请关注app耗电量的问题

*2026-01-19*

App的耗电量太过于高，在电池完好的iPhone17pro上运行tesseract，进行写作，39分钟消耗了10%的电量，这并非是偶然现象，而是多次使用得出的结论。在相同的工作状况下，tesseract的耗电量甚至远高于流媒体视频app播放高清视频的耗电量，这使得这个app不像来自于地球的app，当前地球的电池能量密度不足以支撑这个app的运行，请为来自于地球的使用者改善能耗问题，谢谢。

**Developer response:** 感谢您详细的反馈！我们会认真检讨您提出的问题

### 2/5 — Past journal lost

*2026-01-14*

I like this the UI design, it could be a good journal app, however have faced two times my journal gets lost. The first time happens in the beginning of 2025, I suddenly found out that all my 2024 journals disappears. Very frustrating.
The second happened just now, I wrote something in the morning and switched to some other app. In the evening I found what I wrote gone. 
I have to make a decision to move to other options this time. If it keeps lost my journals it is not usable.

### 5/5 — Maybe one of the best App Store apps ever

*2026-01-13*

This app is so, so cool. It’s my new note taking app!

### 5/5 — Mac연동

*2026-01-04*

넘 좋은데 맥이랑 연동되면 좋겠습니당ㅠㅠ

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요! Tesseract 사용해주셔서 감사드립니다.
Mac 전용 버전으로 제공할 수 있을지 검토해보겠습니다. 감사합니다! 🙂

### 5/5 — wow 근사한 앱!

*2025-12-17*

오랫만에 가치있는 앱

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요. Tesseract를 사용해주셔서 감사드립니다.
피드백 감사드립니다! 더 좋은 사용자 경험을 제공하기 위해 업데이트 하겠습니다.

### 5/5 — 지속적인 업데이트 부탁드려요!

*2025-12-17*

이런 기깔나는 디자인 정말 너무 멋집니다. 새해부터 본격적으로 일기 써보기전에 12월동안 열심히 써봅니다. 다양한 기능, 보안기능 잘 만들어주세요!!

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요. Tesseract를 사용해주셔서 감사드립니다.
테서랙트에 아름다운 추억 많이 기록되길 바랍니다.
기능과 디자인은 업데이트를 통해 계속 개선될 예정입니다. 감사합니다!

### 5/5 — 정말 좋아요! + 건의사항

*2025-11-18*

디자인은 지금까지 본 앱 중 최고네요! 다른 앱에서 볼 수 없었던 쿨한 기능들이 많아서 좋은 글들과 확언 등을 모아놓고 필요할 때마다 골라서 읽는 용으로 쓰고 있어요. 

1. ‘공간‘ 으로 세팅했을 때 사진과 글이 나오는 속도가 싱크가 되면 좋겠어요. 
예를 들어 본문은 15줄 정도에 사진이 7장이라면 2줄당 사진 하나 지나가는 식으로요. 지금은 15줄 다 내릴 동안 사진 두장밖에 안보이고 나머지 사진은 본문 다 끝난 다음에 나옵니다. 

2. 글을 골라서 읽을 때 아이패드 키보드에서 스페이스바 또는 애로우 키로 글을 쭉쭉 내려 볼 수 있으면 좋겠어요. 

멋진 앱 감사드리고 더욱 번창하시길 바랍니다!

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요. Tesseract를 사용해주셔서 감사합니다. 
전달해주신 글과 이미지 위치, 키보드 키로 글 스크롤 기능에 대한 부분을 검토하겠습니다. 
소중한 피드백 전달해주셔서 감사드립니다. 😄

### 5/5 — 良心软件

*2025-10-16*

非常喜欢这个软件 让我能存档我的记忆

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for using Tesseract! We're thrilled to hear that you're enjoying the app and finding it valuable for preserving your precious memories. Thank you!

### 5/5 — insanely cool interface

*2025-10-13*

I can’t wait to fill up the journal and be able to swipe backwards. I want to get back into my poetry writing habit and this might be the perfect place to do it!

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind words! 
We're thrilled that you find the interface cool and that Tesseract is inspiring you to reconnect with your poetry writing.
We hope Tesseract becomes a meaningful space for you and your creative journey.
Happy writing, and may the words flow freely!

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 数据丢失

*2026-04-22*

升级后数据全部删除

### 1/5 — Bug一堆

*2026-01-17*

能不能修复一下你的iCloud同步不了的问题啊，很早就开始用了，从一开始可以免费上传十张照片，到后面十张必须订阅收费才可以。现在连垂直分布也要收费了？吃相太难看了吧？基本的功能能不能搞收费啊？而且我是订阅年收费的，不小心删掉app后没办法同步iCloud记录了？我明明有存褚到iCloud的。

### 1/5 — 火了就收费了

*2025-08-27*

收费之后打不开以前的笔记了

**Developer response:** All your previous notes are free to view and edit - no payment required.
If they won't open, try:

Restarting the app
Checking iCloud sync status

Sorry for the inconvenience.

### 1/5 — Sadly it’s not a good journal

*2025-07-23*

With the latest update they have paywalled previously unlocked features.
Vertical list which is the only way to use it on the iPhone.
And even picking your own fonts is behind premium unlocks.
This app looks good but because of the devs ethics I don’t trust my memories with this developer. 
It pains me to be this brutally honest about this.

**Developer response:** Hello!
Thank you so much for using Tesseract.
We’ve adjusted the Lifetime pricing based on your valuable feedback.
We truly appreciate your interest and suggestions, and we’ll continue to improve the app to provide a better experience. 😃

### 1/5 — Great design poor pricing

*2025-06-13*

I love novelties, but I don’t enjoy being taken for a ride. The app is getting a 1 star because they introduced a subscription for people who already purchased it and an outrageous new lifetime option for 26$.
Now you see this is not a great way to start as a new developer/ publisher.
All the good will and fanbase this app has built is gone me included.

**Developer response:** Hi,
Thank you for using Tesseract.
We’re truly sorry for the inconvenience and completely understand your frustration.
We’ll work on improving our pricing policy. Thank you!

### 1/5 — 갑자기 저장해둔 메모가 다 사라졌어요

*2025-05-28*

갑자기 저장해둔 메모가 다 사라졌어요

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요! 
불편을 드려 죄송합니다. 혹시 현재 동일한 상황일까요? 
앱을 지운 후 다시 설치, 최신 업데이트 설치하여 확인 부탁드립니다.
Tesseract를 사용해주셔서 감사드립니다!

### 1/5 — iPhone 14 pro, version 18.3, premium subscription, version 37 keep the issue

*2025-05-22*

The issue is I can’t edit the old journals! Every time I press the pen like button, Tesseract will shutdown!!!
Fix it!!! It really stopped my journals!!!

**Developer response:** Hello!
Thank you for using Tesseract!
We have resolved the issue with the edit button. Please update to the latest version to check it out.
You can now edit using the button at the top right. Thank you!

### 1/5 — Stop updating

*2025-03-17*

Please - the new features are not very good, they look very amateur and the pricing is excessive for what little there is. 

This app was nice, simple and useful, and a beautiful homage to the film Interstellar. You slowly you’re ruining it with useless features and diluting the experience. 

You’re killing the app by trying to make a buck. Please reconsider.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your honest feedback.
We understand that the recent updates may not have met your expectations, and we truly appreciate you sharing your thoughts.

We’ll take a closer look to make sure the app stays true to its simple and meaningful experience.

Thank you so much for using Tesseract.

### 1/5 — 寫好的日記全部不見了

*2025-01-14, version 14*

連續寫了3天日記，結果今天打開發現日記內容連同照片全部都不見了...不知道該怎麼補回

### 2/5 — 越更新越不好用

*2026-01-22*

为了赚钱故意把之前版本简单好用的功能改掉，强迫用户去开会员，甚至竖排版都要会员才能用😅理解不了开发者在想什么，什么用户能接受竖屏打开app而药横着手机才能写作啊；如果你的会员能给文本加入音乐、视频背景，丰富不同感官层面的感受让原本80分的软件提升到95分的体验，做到锦上添花那用户自然愿意购买，反观你们现在在做的事，故意将原本80分的软件做差成60分，然后用户需要花钱才能使用这软件原本80分的功能，作为这个软件的早期用户我对你们开发者真的是失望透顶

**Developer response:** 我们会努力提供更好的服务，感谢您的反馈

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 앱 너무 잘쓰고 있어요!! 혹시

*2026-08-07*

혹시 태그 기능도 추가하실 계획이 있으실까요!? 있으면 넘 유용할거 같은데ㅠ

### 5/5 — pro

*2026-07-23*

88的永久会员去哪里了

**Developer response:** 你好！
感谢你使用 Tesseract！
我们已确认该问题，并将很快发布更新。请稍作等待，谢谢！😅

### 5/5 — Avis

*2026-07-23*

Avis

### 5/5 — Applications

*2026-07-06*

Je trouve cette application incroyable esthétique est j’aime beaucoup l’utiliser car sa fait longtemps que je l’es mais j’adore je recommande

### 5/5 — Интересно

*2026-07-04*

Весьма интересное приложение, стараешься абстрагироваться от внешнего мира иипогрузиться в воспоминария

### 5/5 — favorite app

*2026-06-02*

i love interstellar and this app is amazing. i love you can purchase lifetime access, i dont pay for subscriptions and i bought the lifetime. it updates regularly too! perfect app and i don’t ever stuck to apps because of my adhd

### 5/5 — 너무 아름다운 앱이에요 다만

*2026-06-01*

1년 넘게 잘 사용하고 있어요 이런 아름다운 앱을 개발해 주신 개발자님께 감사합니다 다만 최근 업데이트가 된 건지, 업로드를 하면 제목이 예를 들어 ‘테서렉트...’ 이렇게 표기됩니다 기존에는 깔끔하게 ‘테서렉트’ 제목만 표기됐는데 다른 문제점이 있는지 알고 싶어요

### 5/5 — 지난 개선점 제안 긍정적으로 검토 후 적용하신 점 감사합니다.

*2026-05-25*

그러나 최근 업데이트 이후 본문과 제목의 경계가 사라지는 부분이 생겼습니다. 혹시 의도된 사항이라면 상관 없으나, 제목 구분까지는 있었으면 좋겠습니다. 줄 간격 좁아진 부분은 너무 좋습니다. 항상 감사합니다.

**Developer response:** 안녕하세요! 꾸준히 사용해 주셔서 감사합니다.
전달해주신 두 가지 피드백을 검토해 보았고, 적용 가능한 부분을 확인했습니다.
해당 기능은 다음 버전에 반영해 업데이트로 배포될 예정입니다.
감사합니다! 😄

### 5/5 — A gift for fans of Interstellar

*2026-05-18*

The romance written in the black hole, from the idea to the design, is 5 stars.

### 5/5 — 逆天更新

*2026-04-07*

更新了以后我重新下载了一下，然后就遇到了这些问题
1.iCloud 同步的时候出现很多重复的笔记。
2.日记排列也改了，时间线靠前的日记在表面，想看近期写的东西得翻半天。
3.书签功能经常卡展示，有些日记会跳出排列，挡住后面的日记。
一个日记会员卖60多，优化还这么烂，真不应该吧

**Developer response:** 很抱歉给您带来不便。日记排列问题已在最新版本中修复。iCloud同步方面经过了大量优化调整，可能会出现暂时的重复情况，还请您谅解

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