Sincerely - Off My Chest Reviews

Hi!
If you are lonely, need help or want to help others then Sincerely is the sweetest. It is really intimate and personal without sharing any info. I adore your app but there are a few things I would like to mention. When I message people and I am in the chat, I get the banner notification, but their message does not show up. I either have to exit the chat or completely exit Sincerely and then re-enter the chat/app for it to refresh. It is a little annoying. I would also say that in the friends inbox, I think that whatever you message them should be the last message that shows for that user. Then it is easier to remember which conversation is which. I also think that whoever you chatted with last should move to the top of the inbox. Kind of like text or really any other messaging app. It makes it less confusing. I love your app and have never written a review as I didn’t care that much. But I would love to continue using Sincerely and would enjoy it more if you changed these things.

I have had Sincerely for only a few days, but I've really enjoyed it so far! I’ve only met nice people on Sincerely as of now. It’s cool that you can add people so that you can talk to them more later. It feels nice to be able to talk about anything thats been on my mind, relate to other people, or even give others some advice. You can learn more about yourself by writing your thoughts down.

One complaint I have is that the interactions can get extremely annoying. It’s fine when they pop up on your screen the first time, but it comes up every time I switch between the “Daily” and “Inbox” pages. It always has the red dot on my inbox and no matter how many times I check on the interaction it doesn't go away or stop. Still, it’s not a very big deal and it doesn’t affect my time on Sincerely much.

The refresh time is also confusing. The default is 8pm, but I set it to 12am. That didn’t change anything and it still refreshes at 8. It also says that you can write one letter every 24 hours unless you share Sincerely with a friend. I’ve tried waiting the 24 hours, but when I came to Sincerely an hour after the refresh, it had just restarted the timer and didn’t give me another chance to write a letter until the 8pm refresh. I don’t have enough friends to share Sincerely with!!

I love everything about Sincerely. I’ve had it for two days and everything about it is so satisfying and I love it. You receive vents anonymously so you don’t know who the person is and you can respond anonymously so they don’t know who you are. you can also send out vents to people anonymously so they don’t know who you are too. I’m not gonna waste the entire time explaining this amazing thing. I can definitely see that Sincerely is going to improve my mental health through the future. I have only but one complaint, and that is that you can only respond to people’s vents every 24 hours. I can kind of see why they made it like that so maybe people aren’t worrying about it all the time and so people don’t get their mental health affected by others problems but at the same I would spend my entire day, helping people, or just trying to make someone feel even a little bit better!! I love responding to these people with their problems and things cause it truly makes me feel like a better person and like I’m doing something good for not only myself but for others. And I even learn something from my own advice. So I think that you should be able to respond to people 24 seven or at least every two hours.

I just started using it and I think it’s a helpful way to connect to others and vent. Overall I love Sincerely and will continue using it. Sadly it does have some minor things that could be fixed. It would be nice if there was a directory space so we could get to certain features on Sincerely but there’s not really one so as a beginner it’s kind of annoying going from the main page to your old letters. It would be nicer if it was more organized. All in one page you have our responses, our letters, and read letters. It would be much more helpful if they were all separated but also easy to get to (ex. Swiping to the next page) I also think it would be cool to have a feature where we can see the matter written while also being able to respond to it. Also since sensitive subjects could are talked about here, it would be helpful to have the help crisis number somewhere in Sincerely . I think these are the main improvements that could be done to make Sincerely easier to navigate and enjoy.

Thanks for creating a wonderful app and I strongly recommend for everyone to be a part of it :))

I’ve only been writing back to people for 2 days, and it’s already one of my favorite apps. I love how personable people get, and i love reading, and relating, to others issues. It makes me feel like i’m really able to help out a strangers day, which makes me feel happy :) My only “complaint” is that I can not write more than 4 letters, I hope one day enough people use Sincerely so that I can write until my heart is content (never). The team behind this concept deserve an award of some kind because i can totally see this helping out a lot of people. Especially for teenagers, confiding in a stranger their age without bias, can surprisingly result in some of the wisest advice. You should absolutely download Sincerely. Even if you aren’t good with giving advice, it’s still nice to relate to others stories. Or, if you need advice, then I strongly suggest downloading as everyone is so nice to each other and supportive. Someone out there who cares about you! -🐸💜 (look for the frog!)

i absolutely love Sincerely. being able to write my problems and thoughts down and getting responses back doesn’t only help me sort through them but it also is comforting to know that someone else took the time to write back. i absolutely love it so much and i’m gonna be using it forever. also, being able to respond to more people’s letters is so amazing. i’ve been here since the very beginning and having all these updates has been great!!!

i have an idea though. i think it would be really cool if you could like go to a place that connected you with an anonymous random person and was just able to text back and forth. you could just ask about each others days, get some immediate advice, or just talk to someone if you really need it. like before you enter a chat you could choose if you want to get advice, give advice, or just chat and get matched with someone based on that. it could connect you with other people who also want to chat, but keep everything completely anonymous on both ends. getting immediate feedback or advice would be really helpful to some people. being able to hop on and ask a question would provide that.

overall i think it’s an amazing app and i only see it improving and getting more popular!! i absolutely love it and hope to see it keep on growing!

I absolutely love Sincerely and I feel that it’s a great way to get your emotions out and help others who may need it. The one thing i do dislike though is that people can leave reactions to your letters instead of actually responding.

Some people may need genuine guidance/advice and it’s zero help whatsoever by dropping a heart emoji or something else in response to their letter. I know there is an option to skip letters, but far too many people ignore this just so they can keep leveling up and get ‘promoted’ for responding to others letters. This is no fault to the developers themselves, but I feel like you should either make people respond, or skip the letters entirely.

I asked for guidance on a personal topic previously and got one written response.. and 7 emoji responses. I was so frustrated because I asked a question, hoping for actual written responses. It felt so discouraging to open up about something bothering me, just to have no one actually assist me aside from one person.

I really enjoy Sincerely! I love being able to help others and getting help from others. I just have a few things you could add there small things that would make it better (imo)! So first, I was doing the question of the day and didn’t know what to put for a tag so adding a tag for the question of the day would be cool so it’s easy for people doing it to pick that as a tag and to not sit there and think for a bit to see what fits it best. The second thing is making the option for putting a trigger warning a bit bigger/in a different spot so people don’t accidentally click the send button and put a letter out there without a trigger warning. Just saying this again I really enjoy Sincerely those were just a couple of things that would make it a bit better but I’m not complaining about it I really enjoy the flow of Sincerely !

I got Sincerely back in like February after I saw an ad on it and let me tell you, I really do not have any regrets on downloading it. You get to help people, and people around the world can help you too. I have met so many amazing friends my age on there and it is so comforting knowing that an app can make you find such amazing people. Sincerely changed my life in the best way possible. When I had no one there for me, I had the amazing people on Sincerely from all over the place to help me out of the dark hole I was in. The only thing I don’t like is that you have to wait until you can write another letter 😞 WHAT IF I’M REALLY HAPPY AND WANNA SAY MORE. Also, you have to wait until a person replies to text them again. I wish you could like double text the person yk because what if I forgot to add something or made a mistake😭 But other than that I LOVE ITTTT YOU SHOULD FOR SURE GET IT!!!

Sincerely is such a cute idea. I love feeling like I get to be supportive to others, and it’s so nice hearing back from people. First off I’d just like to say to the developers that I tried to send feedback from Sincerely , but it seems like the email might be incorrect because the message was undeliverable. Second I wish was that notifications could be customized. I want to just be able to receive my daily reminder that I have new letters. It’s been too many notifications in my opinion to get alerted for every response. So I’d love to be able to customize which notifications I want. At this point I’ll just have to turn off notifications.
But overall I’m loving Sincerely so much. It’s been a really fun part of my morning to respond to new letters, and then in the evening I love seeing what others have said back to me!

I thoughly enjoy being able to anonymous confess my thoughts and to help other out. I wasn't sure if I was going to like this or not, but it's really fun. I love to hear people talk about what they love because you can tell they really have a passion for what they write. When people write about their problems, you can truely feel their pain, fear, and/or confusion. Sometimes it's scary to read what others write, but you know in the end one word or even one reaction and mean the world to that person. Being told how
much a stranger loves you and hopes you're safe and cared for is the sweetest thing you can every imagine. If you are truly anonymous in your writing you can show others how much a stranger can care. It's these little thing that can define your life, bit just starting them is the hard part.

I love the concept of Sincerely and it definitely is a good way to receive advice without anyone knowing ur business and to be able to help others on there problems too.

Some suggestions though is to be able to respond to more letters and receive more letters, I hate only being able to write back to 1-2 people at a time once a day. And I feel like doing that, you’d have more activity on your app.

Also it would be kind of cool to have side chats with that anonymous person but to somehow still keep each other anonymous, because sometimes I receive letters and it’s like telling a story and then leaving a cliffhanger at the end and sometimes I want to ask questions but I can’t receive an actual answer except “thank you.”.

I am so happy I found Sincerely!!! I really needed it to be here to vent to express my feelings without be judged!! Thank u to the developer of Sincerely to make it available for ppl like me to vent or express ourselves. To feel something other then pain! I’ve read letters and wrote many of my own and the ppl on here have good advice.!the ppl on this website are my best friends from across the world. For once in 47 yr I feel like I’m a part of someone else’s life. I feel gratitude towards the ppl that I get to interact by reading their letters like they read mine!!!! These ppl on here meaning everyone that uses Sincerely is my breath to fresh air my friends from all over the world, I’m very thankful that you are here like I am. I’ve been sad and felt alone now I feel like I matter in this lifetime

I was quite hesitant to join this because it can be hard opening up sometimes, but the amount of overwhelming love and support through Sincerely is unreal. I’ve only posted two questions but both times someone shared advice or let me know that they understood me and I wasn’t alone in my feelings and I cried. To just be heard, especially by a stranger, when it can be so hard opening up to even those who are closest to you, is an unreal and emotional and amazing thing. Even if you think it’s silly, even if you think you don’t need to talk about anything going on in your life, and especially if you don’t know how to sort through the thoughts in your head, download Sincerely. It is such a comfort.

As I said in the title Sincerely is literally so good for people who want to hide their identity but still vent and throw their feelings out there. It’s even better when people respond so you can see how they feel or what they’d do if they were in your shoes. These are people who have either experienced or is learning what you went or are going through!!! When you share a story, not only are you helping yourself but helping others read it, your teaching and preparing others. But as I’ve said theirs one small bug and I’m not sure if it’s just mine, but whenever I tap to reply to a comment my chat box doesn’t open up so I’m not able to respond to other people!! Please fix this bug ASAP!! Your app is literally so good and with that fixed I can only see it improving!!!!

I like Sincerely other than the fact you’re making it to where you have to buy this stuff we already were able to do on here. Like I like drawing on my notes which was free and then you have to pay like monthly or yearly for it for something that was originally free. And you could add music but now it costs money. And you could also share Sincerely to write another letter which I loved but now I don’t see that option. I get you’re trying to make money but you should’ve added aomethtjng new that costed money or something so we didn’t have to get something we already had. It’s crappy and also the robot thing hasn’t been replying to my messages when I type soemthijg to it it will type for a while but I’ll wait for a while and it won’t send the reply so I close Sincerely and open it again and it will do the same thing or say I’m out of messages it’s such crap.

I honestly can say I am on Sincerely a lot, definitely not everyday, I’ll even go weeks without being on here, but I just love all the updates currently. But the ONLY problem is that, I for one only have time to write late during the night, I find my time expendable at most when it’s like 2-3 AM, so when I write how I felt the day before and how my week is, I won’t be able to write till the next night. Cause mine updates around 8-9 pm. And I write a letter at 1am. Now it’s 9 pm same day and I really want to write how I’ve been since I’m sleeping early… so I just kinda wish you can write like two a day, or something like that. Sincerely other then that is amazing, and I like how secure it is. Hope Sincerely continues to thrive <33

I honestly love Sincerely. It lets you put in your age so you can get people around your age, which is especially comforting as a young teen. I can write all i want without having to worry about someone near me finding it because it’s completely anonymous. You have the option to respond to a message given to you, or you can send them a hug. This is extremely useful for me since I have a really hard time thinking of ways to respond to people, but a simple acknowledgment that a message has been read is so much better then being completely ignored. I 100% recommend that you get Sincerely, especially if there’s things you want to get off your chest.

I love Sincerely it’s nice and simple to use but there is one thing that bothers me and it only popped up today or it irritated me more today. When you are on the daily or go to the calendar and see what you did on the specific date more specificity today when I went onto the daily thing I clicked on a persons message that I had responded too and I couldn’t see what I wrote and when I went onto friends to see if they were there that I could add they weren’t and I can’t friend them now and I’m sad bc I would really truly like to but I can’t and I’m also sad that I can’t see what I’ve responded to what I’ve said to anyone on any day especially today bc now I want to friend them and see what I said to them but now I can’t. Anyways bye

Sincerely is very good and helped me get through my uncles passing. The chat thingy is very helpful and is even helping me with expressing my feelings with others but the only thing that’s horrible about Sincerely is the new update, Now keep in mind Sincerely is pretty good. So basically the new update includes you having to pay for drawings on the back of your letters,songs on your letters and limited chatting time with the chat. Now the chatting this is completely reasonable but like the drawing and songs thing is semi reasonable but not really because those things help me display my feelings like drawing them out or putting music describing my feelings i just wish they could’ve put a limit on how many letters you can use the music and drawing thing a day.

This is one of the few apps that I’ve actually stayed consistent with for a few months now and I absolutely love it. I encouraged all my friends to get it and they adore Sincerely too— I promise it’s a good use of storage!!

The anonymity is perfect for being able to vent and give advice without the stress of a chat room or identity to keep up. I’ve been able to give and have gotten so much good feedback and advice on Sincerely— and it even sorts your letters into your age group so you’re talking to people around your age!

Everyone has been so sweet and supportive, this app has really built an incredibly kind community and I adore Sincerely. Highly recommend if you’re thinking of getting, do it!!

this app is a truly amazing app. It’s like having a 24/7 penpal to give you words of encouragement. You can write a letter venting about your day, you can write a letter about stress you’ve been under, how your weekend went, the mood you’re in, and another member will respond. Most of the time I get several responses! Someone may respond with advice, how they can relate, or even a few words of encouragement. You can respond to other people’s letters and give them support, too. It’s an extremely comforting, uplifting group full of people who are there for you. You can anonymously pour your heart out here and receive lots of reassuring words. this app also has a Discord server where members can connect and chat even more, in many different ways. FIVE STARS!

This is such a great app, but one thing I don’t like is that you can’t delete the letters that you have made from your letter history or whatever it’s called but that does not deserve four stars. It is a very good app and you can respond to people’s letters and sometimes I’ll message you back, but I feel like it makes me feel happy when I respond to people that I know that you’re going through a hard time and I’m just trying to help it makes me feel happy when they respond say that I helped them get through some stuff and overall this is just the best mental health venting app ever and that is why it is a five stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

i really love Sincerely. it’s a great way to get advice, express your feelings, vent, anything. i was expecting like, comments on the post that multiple people could see. instead it sends your letter to different people, and they can respond. it creates a DM and only you two see that. which is honestly pretty cool, i like it.

my complaint however, the messages. they are not organized AT ALL. you cant go to one persons dm’s and see all messages, only from that specific post. it also doesn’t show notifications when someone messages you back. you have to scroll through and find the DM that the conversation was happening in. it doesn’t show a notification even then though. if this was fixed, i would give 5 stars

i use Sincerely ALL THE TIME!! i even have a 70 day streak and i’ve responded to over 100 letters. i would love to make a suggestion, though. sometimes i’ll write a letter, but later realize that the wording might have been bad or there was information i shouldn’t have included. but there isn’t a way to delete it! so i think there should be a way to delete letters.
for example, if letters are deleted, then the people who may have read it are given a different letter, similar to when you swap out a letter for a different one. if someone replies to a later deleted letter, then they aren’t able to look back at the letter that they responded to.
this is just a suggestion! <3

I came across Sincerely last year and I wrote entry after entry, enjoying my feedback and also maintaining a solid streak. I had many amazing interactions with others. However, they started charging for features that were once free. I enjoyed using music to set the tone for scenes and memories I was writing about and now it’s so bland. You have to sign up for a subscription to use said features. It wouldn’t have been bad if I was a new user but it felt like a slap in the face to have been a free feature and now you couldn’t use it without paying. Bad call. I still find it a good place to write when I have stories I want to share but recently..I can’t write. I’m not sure what’s wrong with Sincerely but it keeps refreshing the time I have to wait to write a new entry. (This is a feature you can override by PAYING but you’re allowed one entry every 24 hours) it’s been 3 full days and the timer will go to 1 hour, then reset and go back to 20 something hours. Every. Single. Day. It keeps dropping and resting and I can’t write anything. Is this a bug or a cash grab to make you pay? I’ll never know. I don’t want to delete Sincerely because it’s been great using but I’m slowly hating Sincerely now. The developers got greedy.

I personally think that maybe the age separation should be brought back, im personally not one to write reviews often but i think that would help a lot. I think with how Sincerely is structured now its directed more towards adults where as when i first started using it, it was directed at like 13+ and while yes people can very easily lie about their age i personally feel a bit more uncomfortable as a teen writing and having adults see it and give sometimes weird or off putting advice especially with certain things and that has deterred me from using it but back when the age separation was a thing most of the time the advice was normal and actually really useful to me other than the occasional rude stuff that is found anywhere, i also know from a few of my friends who used it that they stopped using it because of that change. I personally just think that would be a good change and i don't really have any other issues with Sincerely .

I am in love with Sincerely I’ve had it for close to two weeks now and it’s one of my favorite apps I’ve downloaded. You get to connect with people and see that your not alone in the things you go through. You type in a journal entry type of thing and other people read them and give advice, tell you your not alone, just be there really. You also get to do this for other people and it makes me feel great that I get to help people some way. It’s also totally anonymous so if your feeling something that you don’t really want to share with others or don’t know how to share it you can type it all out on here and get some help with the things your feeling.❤️