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by Mollyyzoe

Stoic has the potential, and in many ways is, a great app. It arguably has one of the best set ups I've seen for a journaling app, and really allows for productivity. It is designed not only to let you plan and record your days, but also to inspire.

However, that's where the problem lies. During the morning prompts, a quote or bit of philosophy is shown from a specific set of beliefs. With the free version that set of beliefs is Catholicism, and there is no way to change that or turn off the quotes without paying for premium. I don't understand why Catholicism would be the default, unless the creators are Catholic and are using this app as a way to proselytize to people. Especially because there are neutral options as well that could be the default, and could appease anyone. At least let us turn off having to see the quotes either way.

For me at least, the app is essentially unusable being that I don't want to be bombarded with scripture everyday. So unless they change the morning inspiration to a philosophy that isn't built upon the r@p3 of young boys, I can't continue using this app.

by Jay2DaNaay

I'm not really sure how I feel about this app. While it does ask you questions/give you prompts to get you talking about things, sometimes the questions are weird. I had one this morning, somewhere along the lines of "what are you then, a mere body? a ration being." And I'm staring at my screen like how do I even answer this if I don't understand the question? There's other ones that are similar and because I don't understand what it's asking me to write, sometimes I'll just put "lol" so I can move to the next page. Then when you're done with your questions it will ask if you feel better and mostly my answer has been no because the questions it gave me were weird. You can pick what questions you'd like to be asked everyday but none of them really jump out to me as something I'd want to answer daily besides the one sentence summary of your day but even that is whatever. I do like that it tracks your mood, would be cool to have another tracker for what is causing your mood instead of the sad to happy face scale. The quotes are cool too. I've been using the app for about 2 weeks now and I feel like maybe twice out of the 14 days, it's actually asked me something relevant. More often than not, I'm using the blank page entries instead but I could just write those in my actual journal. Perhaps this app isn't for me, but it seems to work for people.

by EmilySC93

I was introduced to this platform, in the hopes of improving self-refelection. I think the intital reaction was excitement, because I had not considered such a concept. However, I will say, over time, I've come to realization that the effort is heavily dependent on personal determination and organization. I dont utilize it perfectly to a T, but it does provide clarity at moments when i can sit with myself. There is not an extensive array of prompts and exercises for the standard version, so I cannot speak upon what a premium, or paid version would further provide. That is an idividual decision for one to make. Overall, I do enjoy the platform and have recommended it to others. I only wish to utilize it more effectively.

And while I understand the platform's resoning for not storing personal data or connecting something to a certain idvidual, I have found a slight displeasure in realizing the computer version I have and the mobile phone app version I have are NOT synchronized or connected in any way. That may be a personal misunderstanding, but ideally, I would like both version I have to be connected in some way. Would still encourage others to explore the app themselves, worth it.