# Thankful: Gratitude Journal — user reviews > 82 indexed App Store user reviews of Thankful by Eddy Street Productions, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 144 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/thankful-gratitude-journal/id604953874/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/thankful-gratitude-journal/id604953874.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 110 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Thankful? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface - 🎯 Effective daily reminder notifications - 💭 Helps improve mood and mental health - ✨ Encourages mindfulness and gratitude practice - 📊 Easy to track and review past entries - 🎨 Customizable colors, fonts, and reminder settings - 💬 Inspirational quotes and prompts - 📸 Photo attachment capability - 🔄 Ability to add entries retroactively - 🖨️ Export functionality for printing entries - ⚡ Lightweight and clutter-free design - 🙏 Supportive for mental health and anxiety management **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent app crashes - 🐛 Date saving issues and incorrect date display - 📸 Photos linked to camera roll instead of stored in app - 💾 Data loss when reinstalling app - 🔔 Reminder notifications not working reliably - 🌐 Limited language support despite claims - 📱 Lack of multi-device synchronization - ⚙️ Default text not auto-clearing in input field - 💰 Ads persist in paid version - 🎯 Religious/Christian-focused content not inclusive **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on iOS 13 and after updates - Date changes after completing journal entry - Photos disappear when deleted from camera roll - Reminders stop working after updates - App crashes on startup preventing data access - Entries disappear or fail to save - Incorrect date sequencing (multiple same days) - Photos moved error requiring re-attachment - Support button returns error message **Most requested features** - Multi-device cloud synchronization - Calendar or day-view to see entries per date - Mood tracking alongside gratitude entries - Data backup and restore functionality - Scrollable feed of all thankful notes - Combined feed with inspirational quotes - More inclusive non-religious content options - Better language localization options - Automatic clearing of default placeholder text ## Newest reviews (16 of 82) ### 3/5 — Intéressant mais seulement en anglais *2023-01-01, version 3.3.0* L’application est intéressante mais contrairement à la description, elle n’est disponible qu’en anglais. ### 4/5 — Crashing *2019-09-20* Since updating to iOS 13 the app keeps crashing. I’d uninstall and reinstall it but I don’t want to lose all my entries. Please fix this 😫😫😫😫😫 **Developer response:** All should be great now! - - - - - - - - - - - Previous Response: We are currently investigating this issue and will be working on a fix as soon as possible. We are sorry this is happening. Thank you for the feedback! Please report any issues to support@eddystreetproductions.com, and we can help. We are #thankful for you! ### 5/5 — The best! *2019-09-11, version 3.2.8* I love this app. ### 5/5 — Gratitude in action *2019-08-23* Being reminded of what I’m grateful for is the most helpful daily tool I use to maintain a consciousness of positivity in a world of chaos. ### 5/5 — Helpful Tool to remind & record *2019-03-08* Our natural tendency is to be ungrateful or at least forgetful of how fortunate we are. This tool reminds me every day to be proactively looking at my life to see the incredible amount of blessings that God has richly bestowed on me and those I love. ### 5/5 — Gratitude is my attitude *2019-02-09, version 3.2.8* Love this app. It’s simple to use and a great gratitude journal. I like the fact you can set a daily reminder just in case you forget. There’s also plenty of space to list all of your gratitudes, plus if you’ve forgotten to add something you can go back in and add it. ### 5/5 — Easy Peary Gratitude *2019-01-16* I love this app. Love that it reminds me to share my gratitude and that I can add photos. It’s designed well. Daily gratitude is so important in so many ways to me that this app simplifies the process. Have shared with others and highly recommend. Thanks for creating! ### 3/5 — Still buggy... *2018-12-07* The date saving issue hasn’t been fixed from my last review, and I’ve also discovered that the photos don’t get saved to the entry in the app, but rather are linked to your camera roll, so if you delete a photo off your camera roll, it gets deleted from your Thankful entry too, which is very disappointing. I like this app, but a lack of attention to detail is starting to show up... ### 5/5 — Awesome for the Last 90 Days Challenge! *2018-10-08* I've been using this for my Last 90 Days Challenge from Rachel Hollis and it's been AWESOME! Love seeing those numbers add up. ### 5/5 — Whoever created has a beautiful soul *2018-09-09* Thank you for this app it is amazing and has been helping me through a really tough spot in my life. I’ve made many realizations about myself and will definitely be recommending this app to others! Thank you so much. ❤️ It has improved my mood a lot and I think a suggestion I have that would improve the app even more is to rate your mood each day you use the app because it’d be cool to see it move and what’s going on around that time! GREAT APP 👍 **Developer response:** Thank you for your kind feedback and suggestion! You truly are a genius of words. It is fantastic to hear that you are using thankful to help yourself realize the gifts you have and to help improve your mood. Congratulations to you! You are doing the work, and we are just happy to help be part of your work! We like the idea of saving the mood of the day and will definitely add it to our list of future enhancements to thankful. We are #thankful for you! ### 5/5 — Thankful *2018-06-10, version 3.2.5* Wonderful ### 4/5 — Restoring past entries? *2018-01-17* I really enjoyed this app and used it basically daily for a while! It is very practical and inspiring! Just one issue is when I reinstalled the app I lost all my prior entries and became discouraged to start using it again...is there a way to restore past entries? Thank you for the positive change this app is bringing!! ### 5/5 — Amazing App! *2018-01-01* It's perfect. You write what you are thankful for and not only do you feel more positive and grateful, but this app will compliment you and every reason you are thankful for. It's so simple, nice, and elegant. It has tremendously helped me improve my life. Not only that, but it has positive inspirations and quotes among other features. It's the best gratitude journal I've ever used. "Simplicity is the key to excellence," and this app fully conforms to that. And another reason why it's a 5 star app is because I have rarely been asked to rate this app. Many other apps like this are always asking you to rate if you like their app, however this one does not. I'm not bombarded with ads, I'm not bombarded being asked to rate. This app is the ideal gratitude journal app that made me actively want to rate it the 5+ stars it deserves. **Developer response:** YOU are amazing! Thank you so much for the positive and grateful review! Thankful might eventually ask for a review (this does help us spread the word about thankful), but we made the setting extremely low so it does not bother people too much. Also, if you decline to review, we will respect that wish and only ask once. If anyone wants to review the app, we truly appreciate it (and there is a link in Settings to go directly to the page to rate it)! We love hearing from you, and will make improvements based on your comments, so please keep the feedback coming! Send feedback to support@eddystreetproductions.com. Thank you, again, for such a positive review! We are #thankful for you! ### 5/5 — I use it daily *2017-11-13, version 3.2.2* Appealing in appearance Easy to learn Nice features, e.g., if I miss a day, I can go back and insert a "page" E.g. You can export everything as a table in email E.g. Can tweak preferences - font, font size, color, reminder times and tones Finally, it's good for me psychologically and spiritually I'm trying to appreciate MORE . . . and WHINE LESS 😁 ### 4/5 — Lovely app, needs some updates *2017-10-01* I love the simplicity of this app and how much it boosts my mood to reflect what I am grateful for. It could use a few updates though. I would like to be able to scroll through all my thankful notes. The dates and calendar seem to be off. It would be nice to have a single feed with what I'm thankful for an inspirational quotes. Also, I am an atheist and the purchases or themes seem to be geared towards Christians. It would be awesome to make it more inclusive of other faiths and the non-religious. **Developer response:** Thank you for using thankful to boost your mood! We definitely want to be inclusive and we are thankful for your feedback! We also sincerely appreciate your wonderful review for thankful. We absolutely listen to your feedback and will use it to make improvements in future versions of thankful! For the issues you mention about the calendar and scrolling through your notes, will you please send the details about what you are seeing and e-mail it to support@eddystreetproductions.com? Will you please also help us spread the word about thankful and help us create a more thankful world? Two suggestions: 1. From thankful's settings page, go to "SHARE THE THANKFUL LOVE" and "E-mail Friends About Thankful" and send this mail to your friends. 2. Rate Thankful again with the current version. We are #thankful for you! support@eddystreetproductions.com ### 5/5 — THE BEST!!! *2017-09-26, version 3.2.1* Really helps you put things into perspective. Focus on the positive. Clean simple and easy to use layout. Perfect! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Frustrating app *2022-01-10* I have used this app every day for several years & previously enjoyed the simplicity of it. However, over the past year, the app changes the date after I have completed my journaling, and it will not allow me to revert to the proper date! Sometimes, it shows 3 “Saturdays” in a row, or pulls up journaling I’ve done months ago! So frustrating! I’m going to find a better app that is more reliable. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to send us feedback. We're sorry that you are experiencing the problem you describe, and we hope to have a fix for the issue in our next update. While we work on fixing the issue, you should be able to edit the date of your journal entry once it is saved. Also, if the list jumps to entries from months ago, refreshing the list (pull-down to refresh), it should display your most recent journal entries. Again, we're sorry for the inconvenience and we hope to provide a better experience for you soon! We are #thankful for you! If you have any further feedback or questions or comments, please let us know at support@eddystreetproductions.com. ### 1/5 — Pictures moved *2020-12-12, version 3.3.0* Have used this app for a few years and now says sorry pictures have been moved and asked to re attach the picture. Whole purpose for me is to look back and see the pictures and memories. :( ### 1/5 — Awkward wast of time *2020-01-08, version 3.3.0* Not thankful for this poorly done app It loses what I wrote ### 1/5 — 🙁 *2016-10-03, version 2.9.3* App doesn't work for many features...waste of time. Deleted....👎 ### 1/5 — UN-THANKFUL. *2015-12-21, version 2.9.3* Stopped working. No tech support. ### 1/5 — Stopped working *2015-10-10, version 2.9.3* I really liked this app a lot but like a month ago I updated it and it hasn't worked since. Please fix it. ### 1/5 — App won’t work anymore! :-( *2015-09-27, version 2.9* I used to use this daily and I haven’t been able to get in for at least a week. It crashes every time I try to open it. Is there any way at all to get my thankful list?? This app was awesome until it just stopped working. So disappointed. ### 2/5 — Photos *2022-09-28* Every image is gone. Response to devs: Thank you for responding and explaining! I know it did it once many years ago when I had deleted a picture in my Photo Album myself 😅 but I knew I hadn't deleted the pictures that were gone in the app this time. I'm adding back a star for the quick response and because other than that, the app is good. I'll add back more once there's a fix for the photo issue. ☺️ **Developer response:** Dear Biyxtren, We apologize for a decision we made long ago to store a link to pictures instead of saving the pictures within our app. We didn’t realize the link to pictures would change with an iPhone upgrade or replacement. We are working as fast as we can to correct this particular decision (and problem), and are fairly close to releasing an update. We encourage you to seek a refund through Apple Support, and hope you’ll be willing to try Thankful again after our next update, which will store the photos in the app (and will in addition sync across all Apple devices). Again, we are very sorry about the current photos feature. Your photos are safely in your Photo Library, however, so your photos are safe. Thankful (version 3.3.0 and earlier) only stored a link to your photos. If you have any further comments or suggestions, please contact support@eddystreetproductions.com. ### 2/5 — Ok *2017-06-04, version 3.1.0* I like the app, but the fact that I have to erase the default message every time I want to type something out makes it unrealistic to use every day. Currently 2 stars but if that is resolved I would rate 4-5. ### 2/5 — Not Thankful For Ads *2015-11-27, version 2.9.3* The paid version should not have ads. They are distracting and detract from the purpose if the app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — 2090 days of gratitude. *2026-05-03* I’ve loved this app for years. Gentle reminder to look for the good. The new updates look inviting. Sadly, the app keeps crashing….. please fix soon!! **Developer response:** Hello, Mamsie9. Thank you for your feedback and for reaching out via support@eddystreetproductions.com. I wanted to follow up and let you know that a new version of Thankful is now available in the App Store. This update includes a fix for the crashing issue you experienced. When you have a moment, please update the app and let me know if everything is working smoothly again. Your entries are safe, and things should return to normal once you’re on the latest version. Thank you again for your patience and for sharing Thankful with others. It truly means a lot. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Supportive *2025-04-21* I like that the app reminds you to focus on what you’re grateful for. It also gives you a place to take the time and write it down. This is a good thing for me to be doing right now; so I highly recommend this to anyone who realizes that Gratitude is a huge key to having a better life. ### 5/5 — Fantastic app, always a good reminder. *2024-01-28* As a friend of the Goade’s, this app truly is amazing! It’s incredibly simple and full of fun secrets, cannot recommend it enough! ### 5/5 — AMAZING 🤩⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *2020-06-30, version 3.3.0* I Love this app so mush It Helps me think and remember the good things in life and helps me be happier all around ### 5/5 — Super helpful *2020-04-08* I like how it reminds you each day to record what you’re grateful for. Super helpful in improving my attitude and mental health ### 5/5 — Great App *2020-03-13, version 3.3.0* Does exactly what it should ### 5/5 — Helps me cope with depression/anxiety *2020-03-08* This app has been amazing. It prompts me everyday at 10pm to recall what I’m thankful for. Sometime I’m annoyed at getting my kids in bed etc. when 10pm comes I actually stop when I am notified. I love that I can mark my favorite moments for review . This app is so easy and clutter free. Not a bunch of work- simply put in what your thankful for and that’s it. I’m so thankful for this app. It forces me to find something to be thankful for. At first I would write things like I’m thankful for the sun etc. after being consistent I started taking the time to reflect and answer honestly. With depression and anxiety it’s really important that I control my emotions. This app allows me to reflect and smile over the past. I’m so blessed by this app. Get it!! ### 5/5 — I am thankful *2020-02-24* I am thankful for the thankful app it reminds me to be mindful of all the good things I do have in my life when the negativity is overwhelming. ### 5/5 — Appreciate it *2020-02-07, version 3.3.0* Very good app that reminds me to be appreciative of all the good things in my daily life. ### 5/5 — Really Love This App *2019-09-20* Great tool to keep track of the positives and things I’m thankful for each day. Big stress reliever. Would love to see multi-device sync (unless it’s there and I’m doing something wrong). --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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