# The Language of Letting Go — user reviews > 169 indexed App Store user reviews of The Language of Letting Go by Stanton Publication Services Inc, rated 4.95/5 from 6,368 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-language-of-letting-go/id427039076/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-language-of-letting-go/id427039076.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,128 · 4★ 182 · 3★ 29 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of The Language of Letting Go? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for recovery and self-care - 🙏 Inspirational and uplifting content - 📱 Convenient to have on mobile device - 🕰️ Useful daily readings - 💬 Relatable and applicable to life **Cons** - 🙏 Too God/religion-focused for some - 📖 Lack of note-taking/highlighting features - 🔍 Limited search and navigation options - 🕰️ Slow transitions between screens **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes or freezes reported - Compatibility issues with newer devices **Most requested features** - Add ability to take notes or highlight passages - Improve search functionality and navigation - Provide a night mode or dark theme option ## Newest reviews (19 of 169) ### 5/5 — Inspirational *2024-09-22, version 3.0.1* This app is nothing short of amazing! Each day is something new that applies to my life as a recovering alcoholic. I send it to approx 100 people every morning! I send it to everyone who might need a great way to start their day. It’s great for alcoholics but also people who may be struggling with various aspects of life that is happens to be life ing on the daily. ### 5/5 — Life changing *2024-09-21, version 3.0.1* Melody’s writing has changed my life. This book is insightful, gentle, and deeply spiritual. You will be blessed by reading it daily! ### 5/5 — Something to practice in my daily activities *2024-09-21, version 3.0.1* Something to practice in my daily activities ### 5/5 — Resourceful ! *2024-09-20, version 3.0.1* This app allows me to gain perspective and get my head screwed on for the coming day! ### 5/5 — Perfect way to start the day! *2024-09-20* These daily lessons have become such an important part of my day. I’m not exaggerating when I say that they have been tremendously helpful as I navigate my way through a divorce after 35 years of marriage. So timely, so insightful, like they are direct messages from my higher power. I really love this app and will use it daily for the rest of my days. ### 5/5 — Incredible Life Changing App *2024-09-20, version 3.0.1* These messages make a huge difference to my life. They always seem to come at just the right time to allow some release, surrender or acceptance. Thank you so much. ### 5/5 — Life savior *2024-09-20, version 3.0.1* For me it is morning fuel for whole day!!! ### 5/5 — Fantastic way to start the day *2024-09-19, version 3.0.1* I love beginning my morning with a reading from this book. It’s such a beautiful reminder that if I keep taking her wisdom into my heart, I’ll stay on track. It’s simple, really. Thank you for this fabulous book. ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2024-09-19, version 3.0.1* I read each entry daily and then I read them multiple times a day! Excellent !! ### 5/5 — Grateful *2024-09-19* So glad to have this great book on my phone now. I have been reading the Language of Lettering Go for over 20 years and it is always applicable and encouraging as it provides a base line of healthy thinking. Wether I read it daily or just once a month it seems to speak right to life in the moment. ### 5/5 — Inspirational *2024-09-19, version 3.0.1* I enjoy this devotional. It is practical and inspiring. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — My favorite book! *2024-09-19, version 3.0.1* It matters what we let in to our minds, this book is a daily dose of healing thoughts that carve a path in your brain to make the best choices for a healthy, happy life ♥️ ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2024-09-19, version 3.0.1* Love starting my day with readings from this book. ### 5/5 — A beautiful practice *2024-09-19* I went through a period of extreme grief (my sister died and my marriage died and my mother died and I got a divorce and moved twice- during the pandemic) and thinking to myself, “There’s an app for everything” I went in search of apps to help me heal. Several years later I still begin each morning by reading a passage from this, and then spending a few brief moments with a gratitude journal. These passages gently provide growth, perspective, peace, love, calm, and joy. Each writing is valuable- but linked together they are life changing. And only take a quick moment to read. ### 5/5 — Daily reading, no highlights *2024-06-30* Great info, excerpts from both Beatty books. No ability to highlight or make notes. Wish I had purchased kindle version instead. There’s just a very basic favorite feature for the days reading. ### 5/5 — Help *2024-04-25, version 3.0.0* I think this app is amazing. I look forward every morning to reading it. It is the first thing I do when I wake up and I go back to it also during the day. There is also much help and truth in the daily readings. I will read and re read them always ### 5/5 — Keeps me grounded *2024-04-17, version 3.0.0* It seems like this app knows me too well and helps me recover from codependency. Thank you ### 5/5 — Loving this App *2024-02-24* This app has changed the way I start each day. With the reflections, to my own internal processes and how I challenge my ego. It was absolutely the best $6.99 I have spent in 2024, hands down. I love it and it is the first thing I open every morning when I am blessed to take my first breath. ### 5/5 — Great content *2024-02-14, version 3.0.0* Great content, and a really easy app to use. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible interface *2017-04-24, version 2.2.3* I love the book and was delighted to find an app to go with it, it this is dreadful. It is so slow every time you open it. Most of the reviews are from 5 years ago which is when, I imagine, the developers last looked at it. Do not buy this app, buy the book. A complete waste of money ### 2/5 — Just ok *2023-11-04* It’s nice to have the book on my phone as a quick referral but that’s all it is. There’s the basic ability to bookmark a passage or to share it with a friend but nothing else. A place for a few notes wound be good. Not worth $7. Also, could someone please just rewrite this with gender neutral pronouns (or no pronouns, “gods will” rather than “His will”) for higher power/god. Truly, it’s 2023 & everyone deserves language that doesn’t trip them up & that they don’t have to translate in their heads in order to make it resonate. Recovery is challenging enough. ### 2/5 — Just ok *2023-11-01* It’s nice to have the book on my phone as a quick referral but that’s all it is. There’s the basic ability to bookmark a passage or to share it with a friend but nothing else. A place for a few notes wound be good. Not worth $7. Also, could someone please just rewrite this with gender neutral pronouns (or no pronouns, “gods will” rather than “His will”) for higher power/god. Truly, it’s 2023 & everyone deserves language that doesn’t trip them up & that they don’t have to translate in their heads in order to make it resonate. Recovery is challenging enough. ### 2/5 — PLEASE MAKE A NIGHTMODE *2021-01-05, version 2.2.7* This DESPERATELY NEEDS a night mode. Dozens of my friends got the app, but unfortunately had to deleted it. They can’t read the app at night, the blinding white pages are the antithesis of calming. It is really a shame for such a great book. ### 3/5 — This might be good for some people but… *2025-01-06* Unfortunately I do not believe in a monotheistic god. Nowhere in the description did it mention that this app is so god based. I have tried to replace god with higher power whenever I read it but it doesn’t work. Because the language is of monotheism. Just thought I’d put it out there. I feel it should’ve been clearer in the description. ### 4/5 — Wish there was a journal *2023-06-14, version 3.0.0* I like this app and use it daily. However, it would get 5 stars and be so helpful if there was a journal or place to write a comment about the daily reflection!! That helps me to apply the daily reflection to my life. ### 4/5 — No share link but great *2021-12-01, version 2.2.8* I really like the app, I just wish it gave you a share link instead of just sharing the entire text. ### 4/5 — Eliminate animation/transition (option) *2018-08-02* Love having this on my mobile so I can read anytime/anywhere. That being said, can we get rid of the animation that appears upon opening (the slow fade in/fade out appearance). The slow transitions are annoying, especially if I have to leave the app and return, as it doesn’t stay active in the background for any period of time at all. The display settings don’t appear to be updated for the new larger iOS devices either and instead appear magnified. ### 4/5 — Helpful and straightforward *2018-06-20, version 2.2.4* Simple and straightforward daily reader. Search function and favorites are a nice way to get to what you need that day. The UI needs an update really badly. ### 4/5 — To the point! *2017-08-10, version 2.2.3* I really enjoy how direct these devotionals are, it says exactly what I need to hear, without saying too much! Only thing I find a little annoying is how every time you go to a different slide, it uses the "fade" effect... super minor detail but that's probably the one thing I would change. Great material! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Help Yourself *2025-01-23* Highly recommended! I have read this book off and on for years. I share this resource with others frequently because everyone will deal with the complexity of life and not know at times what to do or how to cope. This app is practical wisdom for life. The concepts help me be a better person, heal from hurt, and spread love in healthy ways by focusing on the only person you can change, yourself. It should be integrated into our public schools or educational institutions. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-01-12, version 3.0.1* I am ten years in Coda and ACA. I really enjoy the clarity I receive from the powerful and on point messages that are so helpful to me. ### 5/5 — GET THIS BOOK *2025-01-08, version 3.0.1* Fantastic daily read & reflection ### 5/5 — Fabulous Devotional!! *2025-01-07, version 3.0.1* I have read this devotional every day for 8 years. It was been a huge part of my journey healing from codependency ### 5/5 — The language of Letting Go *2024-10-30* This book has been life-changing for me! My poor book is so beat up, tattered, underlined highlighted earmarked you name it. I’m going into the third year of reading every page daily. I am committed to reading it first thing in the morning as part of my prayer and meditation routine. It speaks to me and allows me to hear God‘s voice so clearly during my meditation. I am truly thankful! ### 5/5 — Language of letting go *2024-10-15, version 3.0.1* I have enjoyed your sayings for many years! The are very useful! I am going on 40 yr s TO YOUR SITE! and refer many AA PEOPLE to do likewise! ### 5/5 — Healing Words *2024-10-02, version 3.0.1* Every recovery program should make this text required reading. We all need peace and this app lays a out the path. ### 5/5 — Life Saver! *2024-09-24* I received my first copy of “The Language of Letting Go” in 1992 on the anniversary of my 1st year of sobriety. I didn’t really get what I was reading when I began, and saw mostly other people and their behavior in it. The 2nd time through I began seeing myself. After growing up in a home with a WWII war veteran who became alcoholic and (years later, i understood) had PTSD, and a French war bride mother who had her own PTSD and an ever growing depression, TLoLG became my teacher (along with AA & later DAA) for living life and dealing with family, relationships, work associates, and all my friends and other members in the programs. I worked with teenagers in a locked facility for 20 years and have sent many home with copies of this guide for life, (I’ve also bought and have given multiple copies to sponsee’s I’ve worked and work with) and I also made copies of some of the readings I thought most poignant, that they could relate to and find help in, and would tape them inside the copy of books in the library I kept for the kids to read. Many of those kids loved the readings, they would become topics for group and our individual conversations. Truly a life saver and full life giver! ### 5/5 — Daily help *2024-09-23, version 3.0.1* I use this almost every day. It helps me to guide my thinking to more helpful paths. Improved thoughts reduce stress. ### 5/5 — Exceptional *2024-09-23* This book changed my life forever in a phenomenal way. I am so grateful for opening the pages of this book. It has never let me down and every time I read it, it’s like the first time I’ve ever read it. I learn something from it over and over again. I will never be able to express how much it means to me and my life in mere words. --- *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 2026-06-10.*