An Almost Perfect Experience! I'd gladly pay $5 a month for premium (much higher than the actual cost), if I only had a way to access my journals some place other than my phone. Without a Mac or iPhone, however, I'm out of luck. Please, please finish development of a Windows desktop version, or at least a Chrome extension. Until then, I'll keep using Journey.
I'm obsessed. I have always been a constant journal keeper and have mostly preferred handwritten books but this app has changed everything for me. I love having multiple journals, some photo-based, and tags as well to keep things organized across time and topics. The synchronization across devices would be better if it werent somewhat delayed, but it's still awesome!! Pricing is great too. Can't recommend highly enough!
So first off, let me give a positive review. I've been using this app for three-four years now, and I'm a fan. This is my journal, and I love it. With that said, it's been glitching a lot lately. The font changes when I'm typing (and when I change the font back, it ignores me) and now my autocorrect isn't working properly and words are stacking on top of each other. Kind of cumbersome really. App is good tho otherwise, just would love to have those bugs fixed :)
I was trying out the app and started an entry with just a title. Checked on my phone if it would show up and it did. Went back to my computer and wrote the entry; a couple paragraphs. Went back to my phone, opened the app and it said it was "synced" but the note still had only the title. Shortly after the text disappeared from the computer and returned back to the title only. Safe data sync is a must for this type of app. It's clearly not present or implemented very poorly.
I like plenty of the features in the app, but like others have stated, it's really annoying when words double up while typing. I also wish there were more font options. When I try to alter font size under settings, it doesn't actually change. I'd also like the option to toggle entry previews so I could just choose to view the titles of my journal entries to reduce visual noise.
The app so far is pretty great! I've only had it a little over a week so take me with a grain of salt. I have only one complaint thus far and that is when I retype a misspelled word, it auto corrects the word by doubling what I type. for example if I retype "stareotypical" as stereotypical, I would get "stereotypicalereotypical". confusing to relay so I apologize, granted it is twice as frustrating.
First off, I don't usually write reviews so writing one should tell you I'm passionate about these thoughts. If you have an android don't even bother downloading the app on your phone. Save yourself the heartache and literally hours of frustration. It takes up to much space on my phone, export does not work (after over a year of journal entries), it keeps crashing and android doesn't even have the capabilities of switching from app to browser support even with a paid subscription. They also don't offer publishing for android users. This app is just not ready for android users.
Had to downgrade my review. After getting a new phone, I realized my journal had stopped synching with the back up some time ago. I have no idea why. When I requested help from support (just to see if there was any work around), they informed me that they only "support" premium members. Really disappointed to lose several years of journaling.
I'm really surprised by the generous reviews here. Did somehow download an old version on my Chromebook? After pulling the trigger on the full year subscription in order to use my journal between my iOS and Android devices, I was disappointed to see that the Android app appears to be comically rudimentary and bare-bones compared to the excellent iOS version. Where are the text formatting features? An even bigger problem is not being able to edit journal entries between iOS and Android. I've gathered that this is an issue they're working on, but I'm kind of surprised that they would bother putting out such a flawed version of a paid app.
This app has the potential to be amazing. It is heavily designed for apple users. A couple things in my opinion that would get it to 5 stars is if you had the ability to log onto the desktop version and journal from their. Typing up my narratives from my phone is a bit cumbersome. Also, after I bought the membership is when I found out there is no capability to print books for the android users without using a 3rd party process.
