Joyster: Daily Symptom Tracker Reviews

I download A LOT of mental health/journal apps to try and find ones that I feel I can stick to because I am very inconsistent and easily overwhelmed due to my anxiety/OCD on top of my ADHD. I keep coming back to Joyster every few months because I want it so BADLY, but the price makes it a non-starter. I know developers need to make money to keep building an app but I just think that it can be a little unfair/discouraging how there are so many wonderful apps out there for mental health, mindfulness, journaling, and mood tracking and the vast majority of them require a subscription that starts at minimum $4.99/month.

Joyster is subscription only and offers a 7 day trial, which is fine, so I signed up for it. Later in the day (6 hours later) got an Apple wallet notification for the yearly subscription charge. So… the 7 day trial isn’t a trial? It’s just 7 days out of the subscription you forced me to buy to even get into Joyster . Wonderful. Now I have to wait for the change to process through to get a refund. Plus I was lucky I used an Apple Card so I was notified of the purchase later in the day. Had I used a normal credit card I would have never caught that. Don’t waste your time!

I’m sad that Joyster has got bad reviews because it costs money. People should realise that all good apps will cost money. I’m very happy to pay a mere 25c a day to have really helpful, quick easy recording platform to track what I eat and what I do and my symptoms. I have a chronic illness and having this has been so helpful to start seeing patterns in my health. Thank you!

I can log influences on my moods down to individual people I interact with or foods I eat. I like that I can start to identify trends in my moods and influences from my days.

This looks like a terrific app. However, no where does it mention cost. Most apps will have a notation “in app purchases”. You download Joyster , only to start the registration process & find out it is subscription only. It’s nice that there’s a 7 day trial period, but I wouldn’t have even downloaded if I had known there was payment required. There needs to be transparency about the cost & then can advertise 7 day free trial.

It looks like an amazing app, I understand that you can do a free week trail. Here the thing, your app is geared towards mental health and a symptom of some mental illness is memory loss or forgetfulness. So, it would be very easy & worrisome for some of us to do the trail and us forget that it’s going to charge us in the upcoming days. But it does look wonderfully made.

Joyster forces you to subscribe with a free 7 day trial. There is no option to skip this screen or try a non-subscription version of Joyster . This is someone am vehemently against. Why post an app as free in Joyster Store then force users to pay. This is predatory and honestly disgusting. Please avoid and if possible, never support apps and developers who do this.

Helps me track daily mental and physical ailments to look back on. Easy to get started. Would recommend!

This feels made for cell phones. I would like to at least see a landscape mode to make it more comfortable to use on my iPad.

After a week of using Joyster it forces you to pay and subscribe to keep journaling. Honestly I would have never downloaded if I knew this. The insights aren’t even that good to be honest.

Could be a great app, I’ll never know. I want to explore what an app can do before I subscribe, even with a free trial.

Plz contact me to get Joyster working.

WARNING - Joyster is not really free to try as you can’t use without approving an App Store subscription payment agreement…

Upon opening, Joyster states that you can try it free for 7 days. I was then greeted with an a App Store pop up requesting my thumbprint stating that I would be charged $36.99 after the 7 day trial, so I backed out and will delete after I submit this review.

I’m willing to try an app if there’s no possibility that I‘ll be charged but I don’t trust any app that wants to automatically charge me if I don’t/can’t cancel successfully.

I mostly use free apps and am willing to deal with ads in return, if an app is really good and is likely to last years, I’ll pay a few bucks - ONCE! However, I very rarely purchase apps now because I’ve been burned by apps that stop updating soon after purchase and therefore become useless and eventually impossible to use on iOS.

I’m against subscriptions for the most part as they seem like a waste of money. A subscription is more understandable if you are providing constant updates with new tools and/or services that I can’t find elsewhere and it requires a developers continued dedication but too many devs just want me to pay a subscription for a Ronco i.e. “set it and forget it” nothing app. If an app isn’t providing an active service and/or being recreated every month - why should I have to buy it every month?!

No matter what Joyster is, 7 days is not a long enough trial, especially if it’s a tracking app!

I’m more likely to try an app that allows a limited version for free, I’ll then try the subscription portion if the limited version is really good and they allow access in exchange for watching ads. I’ll pay for an app, even if it’s not required, if I like the free version and really want to support the developer. However, I’ll only pay a subscription fee if the limited version is amazing, I want to support the developer and the paid version is something I absolutely need.

I would have never downloaded Joyster had the developer provided an honest and upfront warning that Joyster can’t be used without agreeing to be automatically charge $36.99 in 7 days.

In conclusion, I have no idea if Joyster is any good as I will never try it as long as a payment agreement is required before opening - I’m uninstalling now.

If they are going to do that they should go ahead and charge for app download too. No free version at all... love apps that have free versions... so I don’t waste my money!

I like how quick and easy making an entry is- less than 30 seconds, as advertised. The graphics are also appealing. I wish I could type bullet points to highlight anything important about that day or to note what thoughts or events were influence my mood on any given day.