Gratitude Journal (new) Reviews

I used to love GratitudeJournalnew. Now focusing on trying to get it to work distracts so much from my gratitude entry that I deleted GratitudeJournalnew . I wasn’t finding myself happier using it, only frustrated. 1) GratitudeJournalnew says I can limit its access to certain photos OR albums on my phone. So I set up an album for use with GratitudeJournalnew . But when you tap to add a photo to your journal entry, whether you select photo or album, it takes you to the camera.
2) There is not an identifiable “enter” button to save entries do you play Russian roulette and use the back button. Some functions save when you do this, some don’t. I don’t want to retype for the third time an entry I was really inspired about the first time.
3) The updates in GratitudeJournalnew, like many to be fair, are biased in favor of less privacy, more sharing and fewer obvious buttons on the screen with a function on them. Maybe it makes for a pretty screen but I want sublime ease of use the moment I open GratitudeJournalnew . I don’t want to read instructions, I don’t want to practice, that is not where I want to spend the previous hours of my life. Make it simple, easy and obvious or I’m moving on. Also, I do not want to share the entirety of my private reflections with the world via Facebook nor the advertisers who gather conglomerate data from Google. Count me out.

I used to love GratitudeJournalnew. I’m sorry to say goodbye. I’m grateful there are other options available. Peace, out.

GratitudeJournalnew is very buggy. If I notice a typo while writing, I am unable to click on the portion of a sentence where the typo occurred to fix it - I would need to delete and re-enter the entire entry because GratitudeJournalnew does not allow you to jump to different parts of the text. I also have issues lately with GratitudeJournalnew automatically filling the previous day’s entry into the text box every time I try to create a new entry. And to make matters worse, the in-app support link does not seem to be working as it would not allow me to create an account to get support despite attempting to do so with multiple browsers and on multiple devices. I have used GratitudeJournalnew for years and put up with a variety of different bugs throughout. There are so many other ways to keep a gratitude journal, and I don’t think GratitudeJournalnew is a convenient or user-friendly one for me anymore.

I purchased this journal because I saw it on a show that said it was highly rated. I have so many bugs with it, that my patient after 3 weeks is over.
It keeps changing dates on my input. That happened right away so I triple checked every day I selected and when I go back in GratitudeJournalnew on another day the date is not what I selected, it’s changed to a day in the next week. This happens more than not.
It also is difficult to spell correct, doesn’t always work. Can’t select all and get whole list, only one item at a time, which makes it time consuming to move when the date changes. Cursor issues. For such a simple app, there are too many things wrong with it.
I can use a spreadsheet easier, which is what I will do.
I hate to give a bad review so much, especially for a gratitude journal, but the number of bugs got the best of me.

Such a nice way to stay in touch with my attitude of gratitude, by bringing my focus back to the reality of just how VERY blessed I am each day. Creating the habit of pulling up my Gratitude Journal will make my commitment to stick with journaling so much easier. GratitudeJournalnew has inspired and helped me to practice self love in other forms as well. Shifting my perspective snd continuing to focus on the good helps me to slowly become conscious and aware more often as to how I may, hopefully share the positivity and joy with others-instead of losing sight of all the beauty in my life, getting pulled into negative thought patterns. I choose the Light. ⭐️ Thank you Carla 🙏🏼

I really do I love the concept, I love how you can schedule a Reminder and the design. I think it’s so smart that it goes straight into a “list mode” to write down what you are grateful for.

The problem is once you start using GratitudeJournalnew , I’ve found several bugs and issues that I’m sure the developers can easily fix.

The first one is how when you get a notification or reminder and you tap on it GratitudeJournalnew opens but freezes. So you have to manually close GratitudeJournalnew and open it again

Second is when you are writing down a list of things you are grateful for you press enter to add another bullet point but it does nothing so you do it again and it does nothing well in fact it is doing what’s supposed to do but the screen doesn’t scroll down with it so you have repeated bullet points that you have to manually enter. Can throw you off your train of thought tremendously.

Third the passcode seems to lag when you enter each digit. Annoying because it’s not as fast. Face ID implementation would be great I’m shocked it doesn’t even have Touch ID. Lots of free apps do.

There are other smaller ones but these are the main ones. I hope the dev can read this and get these fixed until then unfortunately it’s a 1 star app.

This is the first journal app I have used that I have truly loved. It’s great to be able to put photos in the entries and the quotes after I’ve submitted my entry are all speaking to me, I swear! I appreciate that I can put a reminder for me to document my appreciation of the day because this year has been so difficult with mourning two important people in my life, I needed a way to stop the cycle of depression. This has been life changing for me in the few weeks I’ve used it. I do have one suggestion and that is I’d love to be able to go back and make edits or correct a word or sentence after I have logged it for the day!

I was a longtime user of the original Gratitude app and switched over to this one since the old one was being discontinued. After following the instructions to port over my several-years worth of entries, it did not work and I lost everything (they said they were deleted all the old stuff as if Dec 2017).

I’ve tried to make entries into the current app. Even though I receive emails from the developer to my email address, when I use the forgot my password prompt, I receive a link to resent my pw but it says it does not recognize me. When I try to login through Facebook it says I logged on from there orecioslyand would I like to try again—to no avail as it still does not recognize my credentials.

I repeatedly receive the “Oops something went wrong. Sorry something went wrong please try again”. But there is no where to go for additional help.

I wanted to love GratitudeJournalnew as I did the original and I do feel the developer is making her best effort but there are too many hoops to jump through and it is not seamless and simple as it should be. After many failed attempts at getting this to work I am moving to another app.

Thank you for being transparent and creating an app to help others get out of the rabbit hole. To users: Download it and give it a try. I have faith the developers will fix the issues in GratitudeJournalnew .

To the developers: some suggestions. I have iphone 8plus. App software is up to date.

Software improvement suggestions:
Ability to change to correct date once entry has been made if accidentally entered on the wrong date. I had to delete the whole entry and redo completely. First rewrite.
Fix the edit/delete feature with a warning sign that reads” are you sure you want to delete?” I accidentally deleted and had to rewrite it all. Second rewrite.

Ability to accept pictures from internet sites that are already saved in camera roll. Took too many steps on my part to have to screen shot the photo instead for GratitudeJournalnew to register the picture in my camera roll.

Thank you im grateful for GratitudeJournalnew , hope it will continue.

Peace.

After a near death experience, Gratitude journaling quickly became a daily habit for me. I downloaded GratitudeJournalnew and have had it for close to 5 years now. Its truly a priceless asset to me (and, its still free...). I love the PDF export feature, quick answers to any questions I’ve had, and the easy-to-use interface. After you use it for a while you’ll increasingly begin to appreciate ALL the little things in life. And there are more than you even realize starting out.

Try to not repeat the same thing twice. It’s a great gratitude-stretching exercise. LoL

Thank you Carla!!

I love this journal, I like the fact that it has emojis that can relate to your daily mood and you can also insert pictures.
But I’m getting very frustrated of writing long, meaningful journal entries for GratitudeJournalnew to collapse and not save anything. This needs to be fixed. My app is updated so that’s not the issue.

I have been using GratitudeJournalnew for over two months now it is simple and easy to just jot down few things you are grateful for. One thing I like with GratitudeJournalnew is it’s simplicity you don’t have any excuse to procrastinate , just fire it up at the end of your day list your 5 things that you are grateful for and boom you are good to go. GratitudeJournalnew also gives a good treat in form of some refreshing quotes. Honestly I would say slowly but surely GratitudeJournalnew is helping me build the attitude of gratitude which is the key ingredient for a happy life!

One of the main reasons I got GratitudeJournalnew (paying) was the emojis. They can only be used when a photo is used. I contacted the developer a couple of times & was assured she was working on it. Then I was told I probably didn’t realize she was a single Mom. I’m not sure how not following thru on a promise is related ? Now an update to emojis BUT not w/out a photo. Guess she’s busy on one of her many spams about her other projects. Real bummer as I was an early adapter!

Thank You for your canned response once again
so which is it are you "working on it" or are you blowing it off
I was unaware I was purchasing into a voting for product situation!

I very sorry about miss quoting you

“I'm working on it! Perhaps you're unaware that I'm a full time mom doing this in my "spare" time... :)”
You were the one bringing your personal life into it!

I Still patiently waiting for what you advertised while being spammed about how you want reviews and how you will teach others to make apps and with all your other pet projects

I've been using GratitudeJournalnew. for a few years now. I start my day with it and it never fails to get me off on the right track. I highly recommend you give it a try. You won't be disappointed. If you haven't developed the habit of starting your day with gratitude for all the blessings you have in life, you're missing out. The other side benefit is that it opens the door for more blessings to come in. Don't believe me? Test it oout for 30 days and prove it to yourself.

I have used GratitudeJournalnew for approximately one year and it definitely is a great experience. I love the great quotes and kind words. I like journaling with a positive twist. Each day every human has something to be grateful for. It’s important to observe and reflect on the small beautiful things in our life. If we think about the past or the future we lose on the most important part the now!!! Very grateful for GratitudeJournalnew and highly recommend!

I typed something for twenty minutes without the ability to move my cursor backwards, which is itself a huge pain.

I can only write content in a billeted or numbered list, I cannot do a mixed page where I write something, then use a list, then something else and use another list. I cannot do nested lists.

And the best part, I typed 20+ minutes and turned off the screen because I had to walk a bit. When I got back to GratitudeJournalnew , all the content was gone. So GratitudeJournalnew doesn’t save anything. How much more useless can it get? I’m deleting it immediately.

I’m using GratitudeJournalnew to record my gratitudes and bits of wisdom to give to my 7 month old granddaughter when she is older. When I’m having a bad day, I scroll through the pages and life’s burdens life from my shoulders. Please keep GratitudeJournalnew around for the next 20 years.

It would be appreciated if users could edit text without erasing the entire line! Thanks!

I got GratitudeJournalnew with good intentions to do it every day. I somehow stopped for a really long stretch. This time I allowed notifications and it’s not just the reminder to write, she gets your thinking going with a thoughtful question or motivational quote... I truly grateful for her...she’s the first person to get me writing again in almost ten years. Anyway if you’re on the fence there’s nothing to lose and much to gain

Why can’t I write a gratitude journal without sharing my email address with the developer? GratitudeJournalnew won’t even let you get through the first journal entry until you “sign up”. For what? My journal is for me, I don’t want to share it, sync it, etc. (my phone is already backed up). If you skip signing up when you install, the only “function” GratitudeJournalnew performs from that point on is nagging you to sign up - there is nothing you can do.

Also don’t understand why a gratitude journal needs my location. Huh?

I would be grateful if it was an app that respected my privacy, but unfortunately, it isn’t.

I switched from the old app to the updated one with no difficulty. I had been using the old one for a couple of years. GratitudeJournalnew keeps me focused every day on the happenings in life that keep me grateful for my daily experiences. I usually include a picture and have had no storage issues. Do it—-express your gratitude. Connect to the Law of Attraction. Have a glorious life. This is a piece of the plan.

I have been enjoying GratitudeJournalnew I purchased, but a couple things- the settings are in white type on a white screen so I am unable to enter my birthday or see the other options very well.
I am also unable to move the cursor to edit bullet points without deleting the entire thing.
Besides these things I have liked using it this week.
I feel that for an app which charges money, these issues should be resolved.

The Gratitude app is super user friendly! It is basically a digital gratitude notebook or journal. The design is simple and attractive. The free version has been perfect for me; but I am looking forward to all the features coming soon.