Logseq Reviews

I love this app but the mobile app is a mystifying missed opportunity. I honestly can’t tell if it’s broken or if I’m just missing something obvious, but half the buttons don’t work (as intended) and the other half are borderline useless except for in specific narrow circumstances that do not align with how I want to use Logseq. I do not have these problems on the desktop version and I feel like it has to do with the design intent. Desktop this app is flexible and open ended to fit with several workflows, but the mobile app is more tailored towards a few different use cases, and is not easily customized afaik

The UI is glitchy. Editing more than a single line of text is difficult because the cursor is always one or two lines away from where my inserts and deletes actually happen. A whole paragraph may be truncated by sliding underneath an adjacent block of text. Database corruption error messages are increasingly common. Six months is a long time for an application to be without an update yet still be version zero. I prefer to use this product over proprietary apps, but the cost of that is apparently the risk that you'll need to migrate in frustration.

this app on desktop is pretty great. But the mobile app is frustrating to use. It's slow and janky overall but my two biggest complaints are:

1. Anytime you open Logseq , you have to wait about 10 seconds for it to finish syncing before you can use Logseq . Otherwise anything you type while Logseq is syncing will either get lost or it will overwrite something else you had written previously. This includes typing in the search box. If you're searching when the sink finishes, the search pain closes and loses what you were searching for. It's extremely annoying.

2. You can't drag to select text anymore without Logseq thinking you are trying to indent or unindent a block. So trying to turn some text into a link for example is an absurd experience.

Sync sometimes likes to duplicate a ton of text in entries, forcing me to manually delete all the extra duplicates (and I pay monthly for this “service”). Half the time tapping on the text to make edits doesn’t bring up the editor bar (for indents, etc.). Highlighting bulleted lists only allows selection for a single bullet (tap and drag selection doesn’t seem to span a list of bullets), making deleting duplicated data from the previous sync issues a stupidly tedious chore. Sometimes when I write things in parentheses it likes to insert an extra one at the beginning, just to be particularly unhelpful. I want to like Logseq but the poor usability and lack of polish is really disappointing. So many UX bugs and Logseq hasn’t been updated in almost exactly 1 year.

I really wanted to love this app, but the learning curve is brutal. The interface feels unintuitive, especially on mobile, and basic actions like navigating between pages or editing blocks are clunky and inconsistent. Even after watching tutorials, I still find myself getting lost or stuck. I get that it’s powerful for some, but the user experience needs serious refinement before it can be considered accessible to the average user. Grateful that it’s free and works pretty well on my MacBook.

Have reported this multiple times to the devs for months. When you change it from NOW / LATER to TODO / DOING the change does not persist and switched back every time. This affects my ability to actually use my notes / this app as intended. Also: please add a non-iCloud sync option so we can preserve privacy, which is one of the main selling points of this app in the first place.

Edit in response to developer: I’ve found it very reliable to reproduce. I change the setting to TODO / DOING, close Logseq , reopen it, and it’s switched back, even within specific notes. This has happened the past several TestFlight versions (and now the release) and I’ve reported it several times.

Editing on the mobile app is a pain. It is difficult to select things without activating other functionality.

Additionally there is a somewhat recent bug or behavior change that means tapping enter does not create a new block, but adds a line to the existing block. I have to then use the desktop app to fix formatting.

Your app looks promising. When I went to install it as directed in the root of the iCloud directory or I could’ve used my phone directory, I had to delete Logseq afterwards because of an invalid folder location and could not easily reselect the location of the install. Once I reinstalled Logseq and chose the created folder from the first install with the icon - then everything worked fine. This should be a one step process

Seeing this, but the folder LogseqData is 100% there, using the most recent version on the ipad. The folder is there but empty

The directory file:///private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile%20Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/LogseqData/ has been renamed or deleted, the editor will be disabled for this graph, you can unlink the graph.

What shall I do? I can delete the cache and start over, same story

I love this app so far! It’s one of the best note taking apps I’ve used, and I’ve felt so much more confident of jotting everything down while still being able to find anything I want afterwards.

The desktop app is great (some bugs but overall great). Currently I’m seeing that the iPhone app is quite buggy and borderline unusable. The bullet points don’t appear when I’m using Logseq . When I do tabs or return lines it’s hard to tell if I’m just in the same block or if I’ve created a new one with the lack of bullets. Out of fear of improperly formatting I avoid using Logseq often except for reviewing my notes I’ve already made on my computer for work.

Absolutely love this app. But with a linux computer and an iPhone, there seems to be no way for me to sync between devices. Why not allow other cloud providers?

Was going to rate it 4 stars - there are a few places where the mobile app could see improvements (notably: toggle collapse button disappearing on iPhone 13 Mini, a few issues navigating between blocks) - BUT this app is such an amazing, paradigm-shifting app that it warrants a full five.

Taking the feature-set of Roam, fine-tuning it in a few places, and offering it for FREE is astounding. Having access to such a powerful outliner both on mobile and desktop (which excels with its custom plug-ins and themes) has changed the way I think about thinking (ie metacognition).

As someone with crippling ADHD, it’s not hyperbole to say that using this app had been instrumental in helping me understand my brain, learn more efficiently, and live more intentionally.

Thank you this app dev team!

this app is a fantastic took, it’s like Roam Research but much better (notice Logseq store rating). this app’s desktop app is still new so I wasn’t expecting the ipad app to be fluid and smooth but it is, I haven’t encountered any bugs on iOS at all. For anyone considering trying this app - try it! it’s *actually* free. You can sync notes with icloud, onedrive, or dropbox easily and access on a computer.
The system embraces sequential notetaking which may seem messy at first but when you start linking notes you’ll find that this folderless structure might actually be better for you. Folders get cluttered, in this app finding things feels more natural and faster than searching through folders, you find things through references and relationships. Worth a try, this app is a game changer

I have been using this app for nearly a year, and it has transformed how I take notes. It has literally become my second brain. Now I can take all that with me on my phone! Yes, it is still a beta app and there are some rough spots, but development is moving quickly and I expect this to continue to improve over the next few months.

• Great to see the iOS version of this app, especially on the iPad where I do most of my reading.
• Started using this app last week.
• this app is a unique way of curating and processing thoughts, reading, and reflections.
• The iOS version doesn't allow for plugins but it mirrors the desktop version.
• Definitely subscribing or donating to this app. Thank you, guys, for your hard work.

The ability to zoom in and out while surfing your graph is amazing, nothing else comes close

I had some trouble on mobile figuring out where the touch targets are, like entering text on a blank journal - tapping empty space didn't bring up the editor, i had to enable bullet points and then click, maybe i just haven't read the manual and it's a modal editor, not sure, I have sympathy for the developers trying to pack so many features into the mobile app

mobius / syncthing is doing well enough for me and i'm grateful for the local first nature of this app. i would probably pay $20 just for the mobile app but not a fan of subscriptions.

thanks again

The core features are there, and work great. The supporter features (namely, sync) are a little fussy and imo not usable currently. I'm continuing my supporter contribution because I want to see this app become a viable competitor to Logseq with the funny purple stone logo, but for now I'm not relying on the Sync feature to not lose my data, stop working, log me out randomly, or just be generally transparent (e.g. I always have to be careful not to close Logseq after typing but before sync finishes, *or else*).

Has replaced the drafts app for me. Free and great with iCloud sync and ADP enabled. Handled a conflict pretty well. Would pay anyway on open collective. Not as advanced as Obsidian but better for personal use.

I uploaded an image from my desktop but it doesn’t render on mobile. I made sure that the image was downloaded. Thanks for fixing block embed rendering.

I’ve tried a great many TODO, PKM & Note apps over 15 or so years. I’ve had some that worked for me for a long time, but having notes, tasks and habits separate also wore me down over time and would eventually look for something else.

THIS solution is what Ive needed. The integration of the daily journey into a PKM and todo app is fantastic. The shift in paradigm to everything being entered into your daily journal as an entry point is unexpectedly effective.

I am very happy with Logseq and will gladly pay for it once they get a service model in place for sync.

I write my notes in a hierarchy manner, same when I am on pen and paper. It understands how I think. And in a way does the thinking for me by connecting notes and graphing them.

While others may turn to obsidian, it is just strictly markdown and I can’t / to do commands like notion. To me this app is the best of both worlds.

I wish there was a east solution to sync across devices with a this app account , it’s currently in beta.

this app is free and I hope it continues to be. I am so glad this is a open source project. Thank you for making this wonderful app.