5 Minute Journal: Self-Care App Reviews

VERSION
3.6.38
SCORE
4.7
TOTAL RATINGS
14,174
PRICE
Free

5 Minute Journal: Self-Care App Description & Overview

What is 5 minute journal: self-care app? The Five Minute Journal uses proven principles of positive psychology to make you happier in 5 minutes a day with the guided gratitude journaling format

“There are plenty of benefits to journaling, whether you take time to write out your full thoughts or just spend a few minutes jotting down the things you're most grateful for every day or lessons you've learned. Five Minute Journal for the iPhone makes this process easy enough to do on the go.” — Lifehacker

BENEFITS OF PRACTICING GRATITUDE

Cultivating gratitude can positively impact all areas of your life—from personal growth and emotional intelligence to meaningful relationships and enhanced productivity. A lot of thought leaders practice gratitude (including Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Tim Ferris, and many others), as studies have found it improves health, has lasting positive effects on the brain, and is a key to mental wellbeing.

Practicing gratitude with the Five Minute Journal app brings you a more positive outlook on life and ability to notice wonderful things and capture the life-changing experiences. The key is consistency. With its thoughtful features and a structure to help you focus on what’s good, you will find The Five Minute Journal app to be a great way to start and end your day.

WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAYING

“Not only do I love the simplicity in the design, but the fact that it takes only a minute to update the entries means this is something I’ll actually use. This app really gets you thinking about the positive things right before you start your day.”

FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL APP FEATURES

– Beautiful, Intuitive Journaling Experience: The Five Minute Journal app has been designed to capture the physical Five Minute Journal experience. Getting around the app is a breeze and adding entries is easy with a guided flow for both your morning and evening entries.
– Easy Journal Entry Navigation: Quickly cycle through previous entries by scrolling your timeline or by tapping on a specific date in calendar view.
– Guided Journaling Flow & Prompts: A new guided process to help you get the most from your gratitude journal experience.
– Reminders: Set daily notifications to keep up with a rewarding journaling habit.
– Timeline View: Access previous journal entries and view short daily excerpts. Tapping an entry leads to a full day review.
– Daily Quotes & Weekly Challenges: Receive daily inspiring quotes and weekly challenges, and share them across social media.
– Passcode Protection: Keep all your journal entries private with secure passcode, Face ID or Touch ID protection.
– Dark Mode: Use your journal in either light or dark mode, which is especially great for late night journaling.
– Compatible With Any Device or platform: Use it on iPhone app, iPad app and Apple Watch companion app.
– Track your mindful minutes in the Apple Health app with our HealthKit integration
– Streaks: Track your personal progress and get insights on positive changes in your life.
– Backup/Export: Easily backup your entries and export your treasured memories and media to PDF, HTML, Dropbox, and more. You can select a date range or export all.

PREMIUM FEATURES

Five Minute Journal App offers an optional monthly or yearly subscriptions with free trials or lifetime license.

Here's what you get when you unlock the Premium:
– Photos and Video: Capture and view your magical moments with a daily photo or video. Attach media to any of your daily prompts.
– Personalized Practice: Create your own custom questions, tailored to your mood and goals.
– Space for Notes: Clear your thoughts and write freely in the new notes section.
– Mood tracker: Check in with yourself, express how you feel, and gain insights into how your emotions influence your days.
– Look Back Reminders: Get reminded of your memories with the “On this Day” feature.
– Timeline Photo View: See a photographic timeline view of all your daily photos.
– Widget: Add a thoughtful Five Minute Journal widget to your home screen.

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App Name 5 Minute Journal: Self-Care
Category Health & Fitness
Published
Updated 12 March 2024, Tuesday
File Size 89.69 MB

5 Minute Journal: Self-Care Comments & Reviews 2024

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No way to create your own prompts. I decided to try this app because I wanted to focus on gratitude. This one had high reviews but I'm still not sure why this app needs to be $4.99. Aside from being able to upload a photo, there are no options to update the prompts or write in your own. As a result, it becomes a glorified excel sheet to house your thoughts. I think it should give you the opportunity to either swap phrasing on the main questions presented or give you the option to add one or two more personalized statements to track. For example, if you are in a relationship, you could you add something like: Were you your best self as a partner today? That way, whatever is also important to you gets tracked. Otherwise, I am enjoying the app.

I use it daily. I’ve used this app for several years first thing in the morning and part of my bedtime routine. I find it easy to use, though some days I wish for more than 3 spaces to list my gratitudes for that particular day. I love the simplicity of the list and find myself expanding my writing of a gratitude with more detail and have never run out of space to more fully account something important to me. I experienced a weird glitch that required me to sign in for the first time since I began using this app 3 years ago and panicked when I accidentally created new account and didn’t see my list of entries and photos. Once I figured out my actual sign all is back to normal.A friend who also uses the app had the same sign in request that day. The developer responded to my concern in a timely manner. Thank you for an app that simply and powerfully keeps my gratitude practice alive.

A great app backed by a great customer support and development team!. This is a such a wonderful app and worth every penny! Not only is the app a convenient way to input and review your journal entries, but their team is there to support you in case a problem arises. I recently reached out to their support team because I lost my entries after updating the app, but it ended up being user error (aka my fault). Patricia was friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. She say my issue all the way through to a happy resolution. Because I thought I lost my data, I created a new account and started fresh. After finding out my issue was due to a typo, I asked Patricia if there was a way to merge my accounts. After a day or two, she replied saying the developers were able to merge my accounts and I got both my previous and new journal entries combined into one account. I’m so happy I can continue using the Five Minute Journal app with the peace of mind that my data is there and if I have any additional problems, their team stands by their product!

Updated review. [2nd update] After 3 days, the data transfer is complete and I am able to recover my old journal entries. Because of the new $25/year subscription model, I have already purchased a different journal app, one that has a fixed price, and have migrated there. [update] The developer sent an email, via the Apple App Store, with instructions to recover my data. Unfortunately I can’t perform the suggested account changes, because the app has been stuck on the Account Data Transfer in Progress page for several days, even after exiting the app [original] I’ll pay a fair fixed price for a good app, which 5 Minute Journal used to be, but not a subscription. On top of that, several years worth of data is now gone because I can neither create an new account or recover the password for a previous one.

First and last app. This app has replaced social media as the first and last thing I look at on my phone and I couldn’t be happier. After 2 years of writing in the five-minute journal I transition to the app (a little nervous about another reason to look at my phone) but this app didn’t make me look more, it replaced unnecessary use of social media which ultimately doesn’t add value to my life. I love this app, I hope to use it forever! (Also, I was nervous that I would miss the physical, tactile journal but the app has so many great features that make up for it - the ability to add photos and notes to accompany my journal as well as the fun “good job” feature when you complete the entry!) LOVE.

Miss the old version. I wish they hadn’t changed it. Just another scam to get more money. I paid for the full version years ago, I didn’t want to then later be forced to subscribe just to have all those features back. I liked the older version better. Just read the most recent reviews glad to see I’m not the only one who is unhappy with the new update. I’ve also lost all my years of entries, I hate the way it now asks for your entry. The app icon is hideous. Idk what the developers were thinking but this was a horrible move on their part. BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL! PS I’m deleting the app and will not be subscribing because that is ridiculous. The development team only responded to the missing entries and not the fact that they completely ruined the app! I still want the old version back the new one is awful and I will not be using it anymore especially because you just want more money.

Was the best... but my journal is held hostage. UPDATE: figured out my password, which was great since password reset wasn’t working. Updated again, got my journal back. New format is not great. Feeling negative thoughts towards the people that apparently asked for upgrades and changes to a free product. It was really great the way it was and I hope somebody else copies that format. Prior: In an effort to monetize their product, without warning, they made it impossible for folks to get to their journals - albeit perhaps temporarily. I am now two weeks waiting for their very busy development team to address the fact that I think I’ve lost two years worth of journaling to an upgrade that I would’ve happily paid for - were I able to even access the account I’ve been toiling away at all this time. Somehow I have no idea which email address is affiliated with the account even though I have logged into it before. When I tried logging in and using the password reset, it failed out. It’s been a really helpful and meaningful tool, but losing all of those memories, pictures, and thoughts has been really sucky. I hope they “find my account” so I can at least download my journal. After making a true habit and ensuring I had an update for every day through two super difficult years, it’s super lame to have these weeks be blank. I’ve converted to the notes app and you know what - it’s not so bad.

Account Data Transfer in Progress. My ritual for this point in my day, I would be doing my morning entry in my 5 Min Journal. Instead I am leaving a review. I love the five minute journal! I have been using it for years, both the book and the app. A month or two ago when intelligent change requested a survey of how they might improve the five minute journal I spent time offering constructive feedback. I did not imagine that this update would be forced (I did not choose the app update, I saw that the app icon had changed and opened it to find that I could no longer access my account, my entries, my photos) or that the changes would be motivated by increasing their revenue. I paid for a previous version of the app and was pleased with the functions that it offered. My frustration is compounded because at this point when I open the app the only message I receive is ‘account data transfer in progress’. I am unable to add any new entries. What makes all of this feel ugly is that the change seems to be motivated by money. I feel a loss of gratitude. I feel the need to find a new resource. Which is disappointing since I buy cases of the book version of the journal to provide to clients.

Thank you for making this wonderful, easy to use, timeless keepsake, and uplifting activity. My medical doctor could see I was in a rough situation. One of his prescriptions was that I purchase the Five-Minute Journal. He felt it would lessen the pain I was going through, and help me to look on the bright side of things. I went to a bookstore to find it, but they didn’t have it, so I bought a knock off of the five minute journal. It was OK, but it never did what this app is doing for me now.! I use it to center myself, to plan my day, to see the good, and to add momentos and quickly give a sketch of my life. One can easily download their journal entries to a PDF file and more. This app is so easy to use, and it can take very little time to make a daily contribution to a Journal. I love it so much, I’ve already given it to two other people. The price is so reasonable, and is bringing a lot of fun, joy, and comfort to others. Thank you for making such a wonderful app!

End of an era: all downhill from here, eh?. Went from being minimalist and clean (honestly - perfect - best app design of all the apps I've ever used) to having the same design ethic as the similarly declining Headspace layouts - cluttered, busy, and attention-draining despite supposedly promoting mindfulness and centeredness. And it has to LOAD entries now if I scroll. There were no load times before. I used to use the app more for written journaling but the past couple years have been using it to select a photo/painting a day as a visual diary, and with this update the galleries (both stacked and tiled) went from being flush and beautiful to full of rounded padding and wasted space. I'm not sure which view looks uglier now. Bonus: I have the option of giving them subscription money for this disappointment a year from now. I think the company's business strategy wasn't successful at getting as many new downloads as before so now they're switching gears to just kicking back and squeezing existing users for cash. These are simply the "whatever justifies a subscription" changes and supposed upgrades they've come up with. I'm assuming more extra super cool features are incoming to bloat the whole thing more to be able to compete with the Instagrams and TikToks of our parasitic attention economy. I'll be looking for clean and beautiful alternatives, and if you value that sort of thing, I suggest you do too.

Not what I expected but probably what I need. *Updated* with the new upgrade I have lost everything, several years of journaling without warning. What a breach of trust! I contacted customer service which sent me an email that said nothing was lost but still have been unable to access anything. I love having access on my phone but I have to re-evaluate whether I can trust any app with journal entries again. I liked that this app has prompts but didn’t anticipate that it didn’t have just a free area for writing random thoughts. But I have ended up liking the prompts. Two things I would change: I would enable the program to show me a list of just affirmations I have collected. Also give me a choice of which answer to show on the timeline. And yes, I would add a section to record additional unprompted thoughts. As it is, I’m using two apps for journaling instead of one. Update: The more I have used this app the more amazing it seems. It is so much easier now to be in a thankful positive frame of mind. It is incredibly easy to use and that makes it easier to use consistently. I STILL with there was an option to see my list of affirmations on their own to see what I’ve said about myself over time.

Worth the money. I’ve used Five Minute Journal for several years now. When they went to the paid version, I didn’t think I would need the extra features. In talking recently with the friend who introduced me, I decided to give it a try. Worth it! As it’s not great for my mental health to spend much time on social media this allows me to have my own memory book. As I see pictures pop up and remember past moments it delights me. It doesn’t have me scrolling and comparing. Just remembering. I’m so glad I have this part of the app. Plus, I love the simplicity with room to write more. A great app that works well for me.

Beautiful, simple, effective. Not only do I love the simplicity in the design, but the fact that it takes only a minute to update the entries means this is something I’ll actually use. This app really gets you thinking about the positive things right before you start your day. I recently started cognitive behavioral therapy and one thing I am working on is positive psychology (which I initially thought was super lame and a waste of time). But in just a few weeks, it has brought an awareness to me that has already had a huge impact on my life...this app takes similar concepts of positive psychology and makes it easy/doable to do every day. Sometimes all you need is a little encouragement and this does it. I should also mention that I have downloaded probably 5-10 apps similar to this to compare, but this is by far the best one. Worth the few dollars for sure...also there is no monthly subscription or anything. I refuse to download apps that don’t have an option to just pay once and be done.

Do not update. So disappointed with V3. I am so disappointed with this new update. I should have read reviews prior to getting this version but I caught a glimpse of this update on Alex’s ig story last week and was excited to try. I have used this app religiously for almost 2 years and can honestly say I enjoyed the simplicity of the app. It got the job done and I didn’t think it needed anything extra. Overall, I am really upset that they didn’t really think about the existing’s customer’s experience when migrating to this version. When I tried to login with my credentials it wouldn’t let me log in. I kept getting an error message that my email didn’t exist in their system. When I finally did login, none of my entries were there. I actually had to log out and log back in a few times to even get the message about getting 1 year free to pop up (which is still unfair to existing users - we should have been grandfathered in to basically get the same exact features). I should also add that I actually can’t even use the premium features on the app despite the message popping up. I have been in touch with customer support but I am really frustrated with how long this is taking. Would not recommend this version to anyone looking to get it!! Way too glitchy and needs a lot of work.

Proposed changes. I really wanted to ask to see a few changes that would help alleviate the stress and resentment caused by the new update. 1: please remove the automatic addition of a quotation of the day to our entries - or make it optional. It’s just tacky/unwanted as a set part of entries 2: make the images bigger in the gallery PLEASE. to be able to actually scroll through and enjoy your past journal pictures in an aesthetically pleasing way. It’s such a simple change but would help enjoy the journal immensely as we used to. Two images per row is ENOUGH because we want to scroll through and enjoy our journals 3: allow to press on an image and see the journal entry from that time as well - not just the image itself This would really help improve the app and keep new features for anyone that actually wants them. Thank you for your consideration.

Loved this App until….. The past few weeks it has been deleting my entries! I have sent a few emails to support and no response. I will either have to turn to paper and pen or find a more reliable app. I’m so disappointed because it was really my favorite thing and I recommended it to so many people. Update: I did receive help and I was able to fix the problem moving forward. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to retrieve any of my previous entries from that time, but it’s been months now and I haven’t had the problem again. I’m back to loving it. Based on my experience I can’t give it 5 stars, but as long as it doesn’t delete my stuff, it’s the absolute best!

Update is broken. I paid for the app a few years ago and now the features I paid for are locked behind a subscription model. I don’t want new features so I’d like to see if I can adjust to the basic plan, but I will be pursuing another app over considering any sort of subscription for something I already paid for. I understand the financial benefits of the corporate subscription model, but there are many other apps that made this transition in a more consumer friendly fashion. Namely, not locking people out of their accounts for updating and providing all of the classic content for legacy users for free while giving users the option to upgrade to Premium for new features and to support the devs. A year free trial of the premium plan does not compensate for this. Sure, this version is more financially sustainable regardless of how many people leave the app; I just won’t personally be a part of it.

Gratitude for the 5 Minute Journal. I am so happy and grateful for so much, and the 5 Minute Journal practice is very high on the list. Twice daily I remind myself to choose to feel Great! There wasn’t enough space in the hard copy journal to record all my gratitudes. I have learned to focus my daily intentions, but I didn’t have near enough space for my affirmations until I subscribed to online version. I love being able to add pictures from my daily saunters, and have them pop up to remind me of the changing seasons. That always makes me smile even more. I love the positive statements and quotes. The weekly challenges are fun and thought provoking. Among my daily gratitudes I am so happy and grateful for my abundant time and money freedom. Thank you!

Morning entry keeps getting erased!. I would probably give this app a solid 5 star review except for a glitch that continues to happen. When I use my iPad to do my morning gratitude time all goes well. Then, in the evening my phone as me to finish with how the day went. When I go to do that entry it erases all of my morning stuff, including photos I posted on the entries. It is so frustrating!!! I took to the time to carefully and thoughtfully enter that stuff and now it is all gone. This has happened many times and as a result I will be deleting this app and no longer subscribing. I noticed this issue only occurred after the updated version of the app came out. It is really hard to feel the gratitude I am seeking when the app malfunctions and erases my entries!

I used this for years on and off and always return to it.. I started using this years ago when it was very rudimentary and I got the most out of the gallery feature. To scroll back and see my Imperfect photos that are just for me felt good. I updated it recently and it was a BIG change. I had a hard time migrating my contents and their customer support helped me (thank you!). Getting used to the robust features and enjoying it. I do wish that when I'm in Gallery and I click on a photo that I can see that journal entry too. I miss searching entries that way. Please bring that feature back AND include the YEAR. When I scroll gallery, I'd love to see the year on each image too. Thank you!

Really missing the previous design. Why break a good thing? Bought the app two years ago and been using it since. I used to have the paper version. The previous app design prior to June 2021 was so elegant, intuitive, clean and inviting. The result of submitting entries and photos was appealing and in flow. Everything about the previous was just right. The current version is unfortunately the exact opposite. It is out of touch, busy, not elegant and just messy to look at and messier to use. You have to go through all steps instead of writing where you want. Also so long the new list of three. and gone in the nice notebook like aesthetics. Hope you enjoy looking at a bright tangerine first thing when you reach for your phone in the morning and last thing before you put your phone away to go to sleep. The lust goes on and on. It seems that to justify an annual $25 subscription they had to add a bunch of unnecessary features, hence taking away the app’s very appeal as “5 minute journal”. Now it is just.. “messy journal”. Here wishing and praying the design team will have the humility to bring the clean old design back, but highly doubting this could happen. I took the time to write this review because I love this app, or at least used to. Turned many people to it. Now finding myself looking for an alternative sadly. Btw I got a notice about developer response but could not access it.

Wonderful, life changing. I’ve been using this app for only two weeks and it helps me tame my morning / evening anxiety. It’s been a rather rough couple of months, and I genuinely feel like this app has begun to change my life in the past 2 weeks. Every morning I wake up with anxiety (as I have for the past few months) and then before it can flare up I pull out this app to journal and write my daily affirmation - I’m strong, kind, smart, and I can do it! It completely changes my perspective on the day and even my confidence in myself, and it helps me keep a grip on my anxiety and self doubt. I also love the daily pictures function - it’s fun to look for something nice to take a picture of every day and I really enjoy looking back on entries to remind myself of fun times :) Thank you so much for this app!

For your health and.... This action alone, of writing down what ur thankful for...what ur grateful for, could save ur life! It’s proven. I myself notice that I calm down from all that makes me anxious, but also notice that my anger and hate towards things that surface when life gets really hard, disappears. How can we harbor those terrible feelings when we are finding gratitude in our days? Yes, that’s the antidote for pain...try it! What a world we’d live in if everyone did this daily! We wouldn’t have to turn on the news to see the violence perpetrated by sad and lonely people perhaps if they could find peace. I know it might not be that simple. But I believe it is! Write your peace.

Feel as if robbed. I had “bought” this app a couple of years ago and had enjoyed using it, finding it easy and enjoyable. Then came the upgrade. 1. All the options I believed I had paid for was taken away, and I’m told I now have to pay yearly for what I had paid for, it’s sort of like selling someone a convertible then telling them two years later they now have to pay an extra fee to put the roof up and down. They offer a free year but I’m going to take a hard pass on that. I have since deleted the app and gone to another 5 minute type app which has the ease and simplicity I used to like in this app. Which brings me to: 2. The new version seems clunky to me. While the old version was simple and straightforward the new one is too fancy for my liking, it’s as if they had to invent a reason to charge you for something that you already paid for. I am very disappointed in the app and would discourage anyone from using it.

Definitely NOT ready for Prime Time. An update should improve usability and meet the demands of operating system updates. Like so many others, I’m stuck at “Account data transfer in progress. It can take several minutes for this process to complete.” Well, several minutes is now over 3 hours. I was hoping that confirming my account via the email I received after logging into the update would help, but no. Really? The response to other reviewers is that the large number of users trying to update accounts is slowing things down? This looks much more like a complete failure to properly stress test the update. All I know is that my battery is draining and I have no idea when I will be able to use the app (or if I even want to anymore.) Even shutting down my phone and restarting doesn’t phase the app—it just keeps spinning away and wasting my battery. I may just delete the app and be done with it. I’ll lose my data, but I’m not convinced I’ll ever see it again, anyway.

Bring the old app back and fire who did the upgrade. This use to be my favorite app. I heard about the physical journal over 4-years ago and found the digital version. I don’t know what’s going on that the data migration is so poor. There’s so many problems! Much of my daily entries aren’t complete. Basically the evening highlight of the day entries aren’t there from the past, but not each one is missing. I entered repeatedly the evening entries and it looks like it’s been saved but when i go back, there’s no evening entry. Maybe they should have run a beta version before springing this on me and saying we won’t charge you until next year. I have emailed developer and they said it’s because i have two accounts, i looked and no that’s not true. Email again and they said to log out and back in. 7 days with the “upgrade” and the entries weren’t saved. I am now looking for other, more reliable digital journals.

Honestly the best and worth the money.. You can't put a price on mental wellbeing. I've struggled with horrible depression and anxiety my entire life. Without getting too into it, my husband and I were struggling and even though I take medication that helps, I'm still miserable. I downloaded (6) different 'gratitude journal' apps and disliked them all for a few reasons. Paid for this one, I've only been using it for three days and I love it. It's easily worth the $5 several million times over; no subscription is really cool. The layout and UI makes it easy for even the most depressed folks (like me) to be able to complete this easily and quickly and actually feel better. To me, the little things make this more enjoyable as well. It's easy to type and then press "enter" and it goes to the next number, and it's easy to add a photo. I'd like to be able to add two photos per day but the app is so fantastic the way it is. I usually know within the same day of downloading if I will continue to use an app. This one, I will for sure. Thanks for making it. You're helping people. ♥️

A Journal for Every Day. I have repeatedly tried to keep a brief journal of positive affirmations of my day - both on paper and on my phone. I always have great intentions that seem to pass away after a few weeks. However, this app has solved that issue for me. It asks me a few specific questions every day that have really made me think about what is positive in my life, with the goal of continual improvement. Some days I write a lot, some days not so much, but I have stayed with it. After all, my phone is always with me and the app is easy to use. I've also started keeping the daily photo, which is a great feature.

New life.. I love this app. It helped me to become consistent with my gratitude daily. Before it was sporadic; me thinking about how thankful I was for my life. Now? I do it every single day. And, not only that, I now focus on what I want for my life and in my life. And I focus on things I can do daily to change my life. And it works. I get up every day happy and thankful. I go to bed with peace of mind knowing that all is well. FMJ helps me reflect on my day. It helps me accept the things I couldn’t control and to change the things that I can. No more worry. No more pain. No more fear of the future. FMJ keeps me grounded in this present moment. FMJ was the best thing that I’ve ever spent money on. THANK YOU!!!!!!

So glad I heard about this app!. I’ve only had this app for about a week, but I’m really liking it! It’s great for journaling, goal setting and tracking, and practicing gratitude. The inspirational quotes and encouragement are an added bonus. I appreciate the reminders I get each morning and evening so I don’t forget to do it. (You can turn these off if your memory is better than mine and you don’t like them. 😆) I’ve only tried the free version so far, but this may end up being one of the few apps I’m willing to actually pay for. This app really simplifies things and helps me overcome my “I don’t have time for that!” thoughts. If you’re like me and want to, but struggle to be regular with keeping a journal, would like reminders about daily (and longer term) goals, and like to practice gratitude give it a try!

Disappointed. It use to be a great app. The new model is not bad, but not great. Unlike a lot of people I did not loose my data. I have not used this product since the change. Only reason I still have it is to transfer data to DayOne which I like much better. It is about the same price but has more features I like. The new format is just not to my liking. It use to be simple but they have added even more junk entries. They have also taken away the ability to insert pictures. They have a yearly fee and a forever fee. Unfortunately, I also do not trust them any more. When I originally bought it they said it was forever. Now they say another $75 and it is forever. If they changed there minds once on a forever purchase they will probably do it again.

Enjoyed for a long time, however…. I really am thankful to have this app to record gratefulness! 😉I’ve never been able to enjoy journaling, but this app hits the spot. I even ask for family responses when they are around when recording my day. The trouble started, as with most things tech, when things changed in the interface. I liked the previous version screen look better- this one is dark and the page doesn’t fit! I wonder if I can reduce the font of question prompt? It takes up the whole screen and I cannot focus wholly on my three entries. Also, how do I add photos now? I did pay for a subscription so this should be a part of my use? I want to be able to go back and reflect on the days gone by sometimes… and a photo is a wonderful way to do this for me. My previous version photos imported, although in no particular order, but I cannot see how to insert or take a new photo. (My kids get more reflection on their past moments using Snapchat! Ugh!) if this is user error, forgive me. But help, please! Thanks so much!

Please add classic view. Update: customers support was helpful and were able to recover my entries. However, i have still decided to stop using the app. The new interface is still cluttered and bloated, causing me to spend more time than I want to staring at my screen. I have exported my entries and have moved to a different diary app. The new app is a super simple experience, but doesn’t have templates or photos. If Intelligent Change adds a classic view, I would consider switching back. Original review: I have been using the journal for a few years and it has really helped me. But this update is rough. Now i have to recover all my entries and this interface is overwhelming. I have to see metrics that stress me out, there’s no way to hide daily quotes on my entries, and it asks about how I’m feeling in smiley faces I have no use for. The strength of the app was its simplicity. Please please please add a classic view for users who want the straightforward approach that made this app so great.

Best App!. This app has been a game changer for me. Last year I tried to start a gratitude journal but just didn’t stick with it. While I was using it I really did feel better and had a different outlook on my life though so I wanted to try again and look for an app to help me. This app is so easy to use and keeps me focused. It’s a quick 5 min entry which sets my mind right in the morning and evening. I also quit posting anything on Facebook recently to maintain my privacy but I find posting photos on this app is a good substitute and while I don’t share my journal I still get to look back at my photo memories and remember special days. Thank you so much for making it. This is exactly what I needed!

I did love this app but…. Update: moved it from 1 stars to 2 because using it more it has slightly grown on me but I’m pretty sure I’m going to change to something else due to its his yearly cost. Hopefully someone provides the simple features and layout of the old app with either a one time fee like this old app was or a lifetime fee option unlike this one. Ok, I really did love this app back with the old style but then it really changed everything with the recent update. First they added a subscription, now I’m not anti subscription model because you want to reward the developers for their time (and they did offer a 1 yr subscription to all previous owners of their non subscription app which is good) but $25 a year lol really I’m going to pass. A $5.99 or even maybe a $9.99 yearly amount makes sense but this app is not worth $25 a year for something you can do in the note app or other apps do for free one time fee. Finally the new layout is not as simple as the old model. It takes more time to do your journaling which is even more sad then the change to a subscription model. Someone is going to capitalize on their old simple model and offer a one time or lifetime subscription option or a yearly $5 subscription option and will steal consumers from them. I’ll keep it maybe about month to see if I can get use to it but will probably not since I’m not paying $25 a year for this app.

Perfect; well almost!. The app is incredible and very easy to use. I needed something like this to get me to journal without feeling like it's a chore. And who likes to carry around a journal and try to keep it private? With this app its always with me and I can set a password to open it. I can take a pic which is incorporated into my journal entry and then prompts steer me to completion in less than 5 mins. The almost perfect...At this time I don't think the journal will switch/flip to landscape view when you turn your IPAD---so when I use my bluetooth keyboard which mounts my IPAD in landscape---the app will open but remain in a locked position which forces me to remove my IPAD and turn it so the home button is at the bottom.

Lost all entries after new update. This is a review for the new update. I checked the email I was signed in with in the app as the update said existing users will be logged out. I didn’t care to take any backup as the update info didn’t talk about that. I used google login for the same email (as I usually do google sign ups when available) and now account says total entries 1 Maybe I had signed up directly with the email and not google login. But usually the other apps just link the direct email account with the google login account or they give an error. I haven’t lost access to my direct email account so far with other apps or websites. So this is just sad :( UPDATE: Pro: Should have looked at reviews before updating. Deleted the google login account and now I have my entries back Con: Also realized that I will be loosing access to some features I already paid for in the previous version and thought will have them for life as they now fall in the premium bucket. My feeling about the update: New features falling in premium bucket, makes total sense. Existing features becoming premium, what were you thinking! I already paid for them years ago, when you advertised to me $x is the price to have that version of the app forever. I’m not paying monthly for something that I already paid for, so no to buying subscription to have previously existing features. Will I be looking for another app or way to journal, most likely.

Love it. This is the first time I’ve ever bothered to write a review for an app, but this one is so perfect and helpful I wanted to express my appreciation to the developers. It’s simple, easy, and makes a big difference. I love it. I‘ve been including a “tomorrow’s goals” list in the “what could I have done better” section at the end of the day (so I don’t worry about trying to remember them overnight) - while I’d appreciate having a section for that, I think the fact that it isn’t very modifiable is one of the best things about the app - if it was left up to me, each section would be 50 lines, I’d stress out trying to remember everything, and it would take an hour to write each day. But it only takes a second to fill in 3-5 lines, and there is no stress, but the act of writing things down in an orderly fashion, every day, is very relaxing and it helps me get my responsibilities done more effectively.

It’s almost perfect.. For me, this is nearly the perfect journal app. Quick prompts that allow you to be grateful and mentally prepare for your day in the morning whilst also allowing you to reflect in the evening. The picture a day is also something I greatly enjoy. I’ve found a habit in making it a point to take a picture each day of something that catches my interest or means something to me. How fun to be able to look back on your life with a picture a day and a constant reminder to be present in your daily life. It’s been mentioned in so many reviews and it seems the developers don’t intend to add it... however, the only thing this app is missing to me is the option to freeform journal. Though I do understand that the journal is different, I dislike that I have to use a different app entirely to capture those thoughts. There must be some way to fit a free form option in the current user interface in an unobtrusive way. I would even happily pay .99 to 2.99 to unlock it as an added feature. First time journal users, this is the one you’re looking for.

Still Disappointed. Objectively, the update is very nice. Considering the chaos of the unexpected and ill prepared update, the loss of access to my account for a week (experienced by many), and the removal of once included features now made premium by a subscription model…the update is pretty bad. I have been a user since 2016 and have adored this app, especially the feature of having a photo for each day. I have raved about it for years, even purchasing and gifting the app to friends. Without a doubt, before this update any review I left would be 5 stars. The developers should graciously show appreciation to longtime users, but currently they have not. In a similar situation years ago, a wellness app I cherished and had used since 2015 changed to a subscription model. In contrast, I opened the app to find I was automatically given a lifetime subscription as a token of appreciation. A page should be taken out of that book. $25 for a lifetime subscription as a longtime user I would consider, but what the current offer is…not so much. Once my one year free trial is expired I have no intention to pay monthly or yearly, even my almost 6 years of journaling could not convince me of that. In the meantime, I will be preparing to move to a different app or leave app based journaling completely. I’m so disheartened that the userbase is being treated this way because of greed by an app that is constructed around gratitude and mindfulness.

Discover what really matters. Hours in social media watching what you think others value and what you should value. That’s where we are now. Used daily as part of your routine, FMJ will accomplish two things. First, you will feel better if your life. There is no entry in the app for complaints or what what went wrong. Those things are still there- but you will be forced to find the positive every day. Second, over time, you will see themes start to emerge. Mainly these will reveal your values. You will probably find that things matter less than friends and family, and that the little things have a bigger impact on you than the big time social media moments that people post. The layout of this app is simple and intuitive. The display and aggregation features allow reflections and self analysis that are easy to use like a collage of all of your photos and extracts of all of your entries. You’ll find themes that make you happy. It’s so simple yet so powerful.

Never been so disappointed.. I recently got this app after years of buying the physical journal. I’ve never been so disappointed. All my entires are gone. And not only did I have to buy this app before the update. Now I have to buy a year subscription to even use the features I was already using. I don’t recommend this app to anyone. Especially since seems like a lot of users that were existing are having so many issues. I’ve had a ticket open and still have no resolution. I’m not going to pay for the year subscription. I got the pop up for the free year but then got a pop up to change my password. So it’s been a lost cause since and to say I’m disappointed is an understatement. Existing customers should have been grand fathered in because what do I look like buying an app and then having to pay to use the app I bought. Not me sounding like a Karen lol

Minimal time, meaningful impact. I’m grateful to the dear friend who introduced me to this during a low time in my life. It has helped me start/end the day feeling more centered, reflective, and grateful. I love several things about it, chief among them: daily photo option; the fact that you don’t feel pressured to carve out a ton of time to check this off your to-do list; and that there’s (seemingly) no character limit for the text fields. I’ve kept my responses in the app brief, anyway, but the mere absence of a “character countdown” is refreshing. Great work to the team who developed this resource and made it accessible by offering it at a very affordable price point. Thank you.

UPDATE - they recovered my files!. I reached out to the company after this surprise "upgrade" (aka massive money grab) because I could not access my account. After some malarkey about how I must have created another account (I didn't), they finally sent me a password reset link, only for me to hit the data transfer debacle. HOWEVER, as of this evening, I am in and can see my entries dating back to 2016. I have exported them to my email and now my computer. Chapter closed. The only semi-positive thing I will say about this whole experience is this-if you email the developers, you will (eventually) get a response. You will have to keep at it, and they will relentlessly promote their brand in a way that feels incredibly tone deaf in light of all the trouble and heartache they have caused, but they did eventually fix everything. Will I be keeping this app? Heck no. I'm not going to pay a subscription fee to create my own content only to have it go missing for a week. But I will give credit where credit is due- they at least got my information back.

Really good, a couple things could be better. This app is a brilliant idea. In the past I used to journal long form, but I just don’t have the bandwidth for that right now. I’m in therapy and have often thought that journaling would be helpful. I get an insight, and I just want to write it down without making a big deal of it. So having a shored entry journal that prompt you seemed perfect. There are a couple things I wish that were different. First, although I allowed notifications, the reminders are not working for me. Second, I wish there was one more section available that was just labeled “Notes” or something. I don’t mind having the prompts, but maybe I want to write something that isn’t relevant to those prompts. It would be so easy just to add a freeform section.

Works well for me. I’m not really a journaler. I have many apps that I’ve tried over the years, and while they are very robust, I’ve always been the weak link. I just don’t keep up with the journals. This app narrows the focus to specific questions, and you can further reduce the scope in the settings to just morning or eve, and limit the questions at those times. I’m currently only answering the daily gratitude question (and only requiring myself to answer 1), and that’s really helped. I plan to add in more questions after I have some consistency and practice, but it’s been several weeks of daily entries, so we are headed the right direction. The interface is great and conducive to using the app-visually pleasing and simple. Works well for me.

Simple yet elegant. Quick, easy, effective. The most brilliant products are often the simplest, and this one of them. This is an excellent solution for those who wish to journal but perhaps have neither the time, patience, or penmanship for traditional journaling. The morning & evening entries are all subtle exercises in positive thinking, designed to help you approach the day in a cheerfully motivated frame of mind & end it on a positive note. I was rather skeptical of this approach until I experienced positive results from it myself. Now I highly recommend this app without reservation and tip my hat to the makers. Well done! Thank you for adding the cloud syncing feature - I was able to import my journal entries from my previous phone and they have become a valuable time capsule of special memories.

New version is way worse. Loved this app. The new updates and the pricing structure change mean I’m deleting the app and going elsewhere. It’s gone from simple, quick, easy to use and is now bloated, ugly and more complicated. 5 Minute Journal is no longer that. 1. The disaster of the update from a user account and data loss perspective was a complete train wreck. Sure, they’ve “posted” fixes now, but many of us struggled for days. And then the account update took days. Ridiculous. 2. The new UI is way worse. It’s less intuitive, more bloated and uglier. The old one was clean and simple. Made it so easy and quick to use. This…enough for me to quit using the app. 3. The new icon is hideous. Color is way too bright, and the overall design is poor. 5 minute Journal - simple, clean, easy. New UI. Not that way. New Icon…a vomit of complex lines and bright yellow colors. No. But hopefully they add the option to change it as that is easy and standard in many apps. 4. Subscription model switch — I don’t like it. No one does. I get they want $$. They claim to have added new better features, but not really. And nothing 99% of us want. 5. The “free year” is mostly in hopes that you will take it, then forget about it so they can get your renewal fee next year. Pass.

SERIOUSLY CURING ME. When you just drop everything, just drop the pride, drop the feeling of hopelessness for one moment, the stubbornness to continue being sad...and you just give these logs a chance, it really changes things. I won't detail my exact position, but I'm doing things everyday to just survive, and this was actually one of my first steps in truly dedicating my time and power into getting better and its has helped SOOOO much. You start to see the details and the little or huge value in different things, start realizing what things are better than you thought, whether that be things around you or how you see yourself or other people...anything. The app is really helping me change my life !!! also the one-time purchase is soooo tight !! Makes me feel like they really care c:

Used to love this app. Been using it top notch tool for several years-really made positive differences in my mood and my day ! Discovered today the “new improved “ version.” Really unhappy. Liked the old layout, structure, simplicity-was well crafted aesthetically, efficient, easy to reference & use/make changes as needed. This new version really really bugs me. TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED. Difficult to access all that I invested in and trusted I’d find easily accessible. Just unwieldly in several ways. And now they want $ for breaking what had been an excellent helpful uplifting tool. Tho I appreciated the free old version I’d prefer to pay for that than this. Thought was a really quality company. Now, not so much!💔☹️😢 PS hadn’t read the other reviews-now I see I’m not alone! Wondering if there can be 2 apps? The original (with or without subscription)& the new one separately with its bells & whistles requested by others!?! &all the stuff us tried & true original prefer to do without? Pretty please?😊

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Sunflower. I love this app. I use this app almost everyday; it makes me feel great. Such a beautiful reminder of how wonderful life is.

Long time user. It was incredibly stressful when I thought I had lost all my photos and journal entries when the app moved to the new format. Thank goodness it was found. I agree with the other reviewers and don’t like the nee format. I have been a long time user of this app. I have been so disappointed about the change in format. I have been religiously completing it for 5 years with the plan to print it out as a treasured keepsake for my children. I have recently tried to print it out but when I exported it all the photos were almost a full page size and almost every single photo went across two pages so cut in half. The format was unable to be changed. The feedback I received was that ‘it is not possible to change’. I am now moving to a different app. Until this is fixed I would not recommend this app. There are plenty of others and before the recent change I thought this was the best one.

I loved this up until now. I’ve been using this app for over 4 years. Loved it, paid for a life time membership. Recent update forces you into a membership, no real updates the app still functions the same, they removed some of the features from the life time membership version like photos so you have to subscribe to the new version. Pretty slimy move. You guys went the wrong way about doing this, pretty much ripped off your existing client base who should be the ones you protect the most believing in your product from the beginning and helped spread the word. Very disappointed, in the end if the day I just want the product i originally paid for, The 5 minute Journal.

Perfect for a man. Never been One for a writing. This has given me a great way to improve my mind space.

Loved the app until the developers got greedy.. I love this app. I’ve been using it for about 3 years now. I don’t use it everyday but I’ve been using it to document special days - days that I made special memories. My typical journaling style was that I would take a picture of something that would capture a moment from the day, then I would write out the journal. Today was a memorable day for me and I looked forward to journaling it in this app. I opened the app and tried to upload a picture, only to find that this feature now requires being paid for! What?! One of many features that have now been turned into “premium” features. Fair enough, I understand that it takes money to create such an app. I would be more than happy to make a one time payment to own the app and all its features but I am not subscribing to this. I have other ways I would like to spend $35. The developers should consider a one off payment to purchase the app then charge a small fee should a new update come out - to which the customer should opt whether or not they are willing to pay for the new update/features or not. Anyway, this app was good while it lasted. I’ll be looking for a new app to journal in.

Great tool for setting daily affirmations and goals. Very easy to use and follow the action steps first thing in the morning

Too expensive for what it does!. I heard about this App while in training so I bought it with high expectations but it came out too “flat”, I didn’t really feel it helped me much if at all and within a few days I silenced it and then deleted it.

Disgraceful.. I purchased this app a few years ago, when it was a simple one-time-purchase. The latest update has taken features away from me, and put them behind a subscription paywall. I have no issue with you adding new premium features to the app, but to turn your back on people who made a one-time-purchase is not only false advertising, but a clear breach of the App Store review guidelines. I respect that you need to generate income to continue supporting the app - but I suggest you do this by adding new features, rather than putting features that your customers previously paid for behind a paywall.

New version not working. For several days now the app says it is transferring data and is unusable but from what other people have said they have lost all of their previous entries so I am not sure what is getting transferred If the new update means I lose all my previous entries I will delete and try something new as we should have been given the option to save our data

Good App. However would really like to be able to access this on my M1 macbook and in a browser. I like the app. But I don’t like having to do all my entries through a virtual phone or iPad keyboard. Would be great if the developer could “tick the button” to allow the app to work on the apple silicon macs.

All changed?. I paid for the full version and now it’s changed completely? I should have the option to retain the old version. All my entries are gone too. I’ve been using it for years, I diarised my last days with my grandma, my graduations and my first day at my new job. It’s all gone and I feel shattered.

Great App but not a fan of the new logo.. Been using the app for almost a year now and highly rate and recommend. The new app update seems interesting enough even though I believe the old version was just fine. That’s not to say that a yearly membership has now been introduced. In spite of the changes and new fee, I can understand that some things need to be done to improve and provide better services to customers. However, I cannot get over how ugly the new app logo is. It sticks out so much compared to any of the other logos and I don’t mean that in a good way. Would appreciate a better logo if I have to put up with a yearly subscription fee also.

An App for all time difficult and good. I had been a big fan of One Day. However I was missing the structure in a lot of my note taking that this app provides. I feel more energetic and positive thanks to the simple framework in the app. Funnily I was using this app prior and during the time I was made redundant from my job and it was a great psychological help at that time.

Please fix the ugly and aggressive icon. Been using this app for about half year, it’s an amazing app for sure. However, the new icon is so ugly and visually aggressive that makes me want to remove it from my screen. An modern inclusive icon should not only reflect its own characteristics, but also look harmony when placed next to any other icons. Unfortunately, this is a terrible design, carrying a strong religious implication and an aggressive background colour. Missing “5” in the logo is a poor move. Dramatically changing icon/logo for a mature and successful brand is a ROOKIE MISTAKE. Fire your logo designer and switch back to the old logo.

Hugely disappointed - new upgrade should have been optional. The five minute journal has been a wonderful way for me to start the day and I liked the simplicity of the version I originally purchased. There should be an option to keep the old version as I was perfectly happy with it. Furthermore I it is still transferring my data so I can’t even get into the new version (which I don’t want) to write my morning entry (which was simple and all I wanted )

Slap in the face to previous customers. I purchased this app last year. Now the update has less features than what I actually paid for. If you want them back you have to pay a subscription 4 times the price of what paid for it. The supposed consolation is 1 free year. People who have previously supported this business should be rewarded with a life time subscription, not be punished by charging more. I have contacted you via email and I’ve just been receiving ‘cut and paste’ solutions to issues that I can’t seem to fix. Like receiving all my previous photos and data. It’s glitchy and difficult. I don’t really want to use the product anymore and I’d suggest that others do not subscribe to a lifetime membership being they just decide to take it away anytime. I wonder if I can get a refund from Apple as now the product that was sold is not what I have. This is against Australian consumer law. The new cult like new logo they have now is offensive and the new layout is soulless. The previous layout was simple and beautiful. It was similar to the book. What a shame this hasn’t been handled better by giving all their customers a heads up about the new change.

Love it. I love this journal - it prompts what we need to do. It ask the best questions for us to focus our thoughts and really live a day full of gratitude, action, affirmation and review how we can do things better.

Disappointing!. I bought this app outright a year ago and was later contacted that it was changing to a subscription service and I would now have to pay a monthly or yearly subscription fee! Very very disappointing and flies in the face of what I had understood to be an ethical organisation.

Can't take photo. On iOS 11 crashes when taking a photo. App feedback feature doesn't work (send button disabled). I don't have Mail installed, I use Outlook

No longer a fan. Not a fan of the recent change to go annual premium. The value just isn’t there. Not only have I lost all previous journal entries in the recent app upgrade. It’s also not right that you pay-walled features that was previously free like uploading images. The act of journaling is a beneficial act for the day. But that act alone is not dependent on this app. Happy to move to pen/paper or replicate 5 min journal functionality in Notion / Evernote / One Note. At least there’ll be no data loss.

Really disappointed. I loved the old version, and would happily try the new version if support would respond to my support requests. I’ve logged my journal daily for around 4 years, five minute journal was a well-ingrained ritual. The update to the subscription model has been incredibly poorly communicated - I just logged in one day to the news, and the account migration froze for hours. I’ve since lost 4 years of data, which I’ve contacted support about numerous times with no response. I’m so disappointed that this change has been so poorly handled and that support doesn’t seem to exist.

An app to change your life!. A positive change to my life. This app really motivates me and gets me to a much better and brighter place in life. Thanks!!!

Not What I Expected. It is not a journal where you can record your days happenings. It is 3 things i am grateful for, 3 amazing things that happened. how could I have made today better. I wanted an app that I could enter what happened during the day and there is no room for this. I think it is overpriced for what I got.

Disappointing. I paid for this app and have been using it for years, and now with the latest upgrade i’ve learned that I’ll now have to pay a subscription. I was happy with the app and features I paid for, this is a highly unethical bait and switch. Avoid at all costs.

New update. Ok can I just say that I’ve loved this app and been using it for about 2 years now, and as much as I get bored of things quickly, this app made journaling seem more casual and quick and I would go on often to write any small thing that happened in the day. But the new update ruined it all. Not only did my entries disappeared and I have no way getting it back, you now can’t add any photos unless you get the premium, which I think is stupid because pictures were a nice visual way for me to see what happened that day and without images, it looks boring with a bunch of text. I’m also opposed to the new icon design; it was much simpler and pleasing to the eye the way it was before. Although I know I can’t get my entries back, I really hope you fix this. The

Loving it!!. Such an easy to use, beautiful app. It puts none in a great Fran e of mind every day. Everyone should use it! I’ve referred so many friends.

Never been more disappointed by an update. I had paid for the old version and loved it. I wish I hadn’t downloaded the new update. With the update I have lost all of my old data entries and am now expected to pay again for an app I already paid for. On top of that the logo is outright offensive to the eye.

I used to be obsess with this app. I really loved it. I recommended it to my patients, friends, and family. I even paid for it for a few people that I thought would benefit from it. But since the update, I despise it. It’s so ugly now and I have lost all my entries from the last 3 years. I’m so heartbroken that my entries are gone. I did try the obvious ways to get them back and then when nothing I attempted worked, I emailed customer service. No one bothered to get back to me. I definitely will not pay for it now that is so much more money and they can’t even send a cursory reply back stating they’l address my concerns as soon as they can. I’m upset but hopeful that they can change my mind back

it’s a starter for 10. I feel like it gives a boost to my day before I even start - and I’ve only been doing it a short time so I’m keen to see the benefits unfold. It’s a simple elegant solution to journal keeping, goal setting and motivation. I’m glad I’ve got it.

Sorry to see this new design.. I was using this app for the minimalist feeling it gave. It was simple enough just to focus on the content. Sorry to see this new design, not minimalist anymore. I’m missing the old design which was nice. The subscription model has changed, as well; so as a premium user, I will have to pay more after one year just to upload pictures.

Latest Update is a Joke. I used to love this app... The latest update is a complete cash grab and is ridiculous for existing app users who have already paid for this app. I’ve emailed them the below and have received no response. It is really disappointing that the users of your app that were the first to support you and your business only get a year of the new ‘premium version’ of the app. We paid for the 5 minute journal app that allows us to add pictures to our journal forever - not just for a year because the developers of the app decided to make it free and charge for a premium version. I have recommended this app to several people in my family and this decision has made me regret that. All existing users of your app should be getting a lifetime of premium, not just a year. At the very least people should be getting the existing features that we paid for, for free. EDIT in response: 1. I did email your help email and got no response, a waste of time. 2. It’s fine to change your pricing structure for long term viability. This should only be applicable for FUTURE customers. However you have stripped features that were already paid for by your existing customer base that have been paid for, for life and now we have to pay to upgrade after a year of premium? lol. All that is asked of you is to not completely screw over your existing customer base. Considering you value your customers feedback, I suggest you review the most recent app reviews.

Bait and switch. Already paid for the lifetime access to this app - i dont care about any of the extra features they claim they will provide. If i paid for something, i should still be able to access the limited features that were promised back then. Pretty sure them taking away the product that has been already paid for is illegal.

Love it! (And I never write reviews). It’s beautifully simple and helps you easily practice gratitude. I started to use it when I was depressed and it absolutely helped to lift me out of depression and change my daily mindset to focus on the positive things more. I’m on a better path now thankfully! I recommend it to everyone.

What a fantastic App. This little beauty is my favourite of all my apps. Recording my gratitudes, giving focus for the day, and celebrating my wins, both in words and photos. What an incredible journal of my day, week and like focused on successes. Thank you guys

It’s good. I love this, daily quotes and exercise helps get the mind right. I do wish on the iPad version you could write using the pencil. It will be a lot better experience

Helpful. Great way to stop and think about what you can be grateful for; there is so much when you take time to appreciate

Amazing. This is actually amazing. It is quick and easy to use and makes me feel good every morning and night when I fill out the questions

Poor customer service. I am not happy with the new update as I cannot access my old journal. I have emailed and the issue has still not been fixed which means I can’t journal daily, unless I sign up again and loose all my data. Lucky I had been backing up and exporting then journal. I’ve decided to move on and find a new app, as I’m so unhappy with the customer service. I think this is a terrible way to treat a paying customer as I had the full version before and was not prompted before the update was deployed. I would have given zero stars if I had the option as I no longer have a desire to use the app. Very disappointed..

PLEASE FIX THE DATA LOSS ISSUE. As an existing app user, I would have given this app 5 stars. However, I am now very concerned and hesitant to update the app. Issues 1. If you update, you will lose your data 2. The photo view is no longer available 3. I am being asked to pay a subscription fee for a feature (adding photos) which I already paid for when I bought the paid version of the app! This is ridiculous and a really poor way to treat existing app users If you can fix these issues, I would love to update and continue supporting the app

Feel like I lost an old friend. I have never written a review for an app before but to see the new update of 5 minute journal had me so upset that I couldn’t help myself. I have used the app for years, collecting moments I would often come back to. I think the makers of this app really underestimated the personal and emotional connection their users had (that’s right: past tense!) with their product. The new update made me lose all my old content which I cannot retrieve because I had created the account via facebook years ago - which I no longer have. I had originally paid for a product which now has changed entirely, charging for premium features which I thought I had already purchased for a lifetime- never would have signed up for this! This just goes to show that nothing will EVER replace your good, old paper journal. At the end of the day, there‘s a company with economic interest behind the app. I should never have trusted them with my personal data, and suggest you don’t either if you‘re contemplating to download this product. Who knows what they‘ll change next... Extremely disappointed. Really feel like I lost an old friend (which is what journals are to so many people).

Was a great app before the update.. Shame I had to change to morning gratitude instead. This one was so good before the update, nice and minimal and I paid for features that got taken away, did even think that was legal. Not a great move at all from the developers, seems like a lot of people are in the same boat.

Paid for and now having to pay perpetually?. I hadn’t used my journal in a while. I bought the online version for convenience. I am not going to use it anymore now that it has a premium subscription. If I had known this change would happen I would not have purchased. This is advertising under false pretenses. Thanks

Lost all my journals. New app version arrived and prompted me to sign in to access my journals. I’d never signed in before. Tried retrieving password with email in case I had forgotten and had signed up, no dice. Signed in with Apple, no more journals. I won’t ever trust this app again.

Used to be better. The big update lost all of my old journal entries, it was converting them for more than a day so I deleted and reinstalled and now they are gone 😢 maybe I never confirmed my email address or something. It looks nicer now, so there’s that.

Good app wish there was more. Good app. Gets me in a routine of writing in it twice daily. Makes me excited to write an entry in. Easy to use and I like the daily quotes. I also like that you can turn on notifications so you can be reminded to write an entry otherwise I would totally forget and probably not use it. Only thing I wish was there was more to it. Maybe more questions or just notes so you can sort of journal more. Other than that I am very happy with the app! 🙂☀️

Suggested class action against the developers. Have read all the reviews and I am also not a happy customer. Perhaps all customers who purchased the app would like to look into a class action. Need to check Australian consumer laws first.

Yearly fee all of the sudden?. Quite disappointed, bought an app previously, worked fine but had some bugs. One day I just lost access and they changed it all. Really disappointing and disrespectful to previous users. And because of the creators behaviour during pandemic, would not recommend this app.

I already paid for the full app- now I have to pay AGAIN?. I really loved using 5 minute journal to document. But they have now updated the app and have introduced subscription fees. This is really unfair considering many loyal people have paid for the full app knowing that they’d be able to use the app for life with full access, but now have to pay AGAIN? Many other apps have introduced subscription fees too, but they honour their existing customers and give them lifetime access that they’ve already paid for; only new customers pay for the subscription. It does not feel like we’ve been cared for a customers. I wouldn’t be recommending this app to my friends anymore if the business module doesn’t even support existing customers- sorry.

Every day without fail. This journal has really changed my life. I’ve been using it since 2014 and I absolutely adore flicking back through my diaries and app to see what I was grateful for at that time and my wishes and how they’ve come true. I really notice my day is not so good when I don’t start it with gratitude certainly changed my life. Thank you

Journal export issue. I’ve been using this app since the beginning of January. I’ve really enjoyed it, and haven’t missed one day. However, I just tried to export it as a PDF and I’m really disappointed. The text is cut off on the right, but there is a huge gap on the left. Why can’t it be pushed left more so that text isn’t cut off? It also cuts images in half in some places. And lastly, it doesn’t let me download it and says “failed - forbidden”. I rely on this journal to keep track of my days, and things going on with my life/health. Can you please fix this issue? This is a huge disappointment. For a paid app, this shouldn’t happen.

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Greedy Company. I paid for app, then they moved to subscription-based model a month later.. Bought the app a little over a month ago, and now they move the app to subscription based in order to have full access. I would not have spent good money on this app if I knew they were going to hose me a month later. And giving me one year of premium access is not a proper trade-off for me having already paid for the app. If you were a decent company, you would grandfather in people that have already paid for the app, and given them “lifetime” access, and then new subscribers can pay the yearly/monthly subscription. And the fact that you chose to rip off people that have already purchased the app, proves that you are not the touchy-feely sensitive company that you pretend to be. I want my money back.

Terrible. AVOID THIS APP.. I bought the app a month ago, and with the new update all of my memories are wiped. I read the other reviews and the developer response on how to get my old entries back, and I warn you people: IT HASNT WORKED. HORRIBLE. DO NOT BUY. I’m so upset that some precious memories and photos are gone. Disgusted.

Where all my old posts??. Why am I paying for more functionality when I had paid for it already?

Love it. Love this app. Total game changer! Well done ❤️

Cloud Sync Failed!. I’ve been a happy customer for the past year since I purchased this. The past 2 days, however, my journal is no longer sync’ing and my data is gone!! I’ve used the contact link in the app itself to send a screen shot of the error (as the error indicates) and no one is bothering to answer me (or even acknowledge that they’ve received my note). Is anyone there?? Are you still supporting this thing??

Not happy with the changes made to the app. Your original app was much better and a lot more effective. The new format is not at all appealing. What I am most shocked and sad about is that I have lost all the data - all my journal entries and pics over the last 2 years. You changed the app without any prior warning and now even though I’ve logged in I have no access to my journal entries. It’s a shame ☹️ You’re obviously looking to make money. I don’t see why I have to pay to use the app the way I was using it earlier. I had already paid you for the app 2 years ago!! Very bad experience. Your new app is not even as appealing as the original 😕

Successful data transfer. I’ve been using the 5 minute journal app for the past five years and really loving it. The customer service was very helpful in retrieving and transferring my data to the new version of the app! I am looking forward to trying the new features of the 5 minute journal. I would definitely recommend this app to everyone! With gratitude 🙏🏼

New update is disappointing. I loved the former app the ability to add pictures to your entires and now to have that included you have to pay a subscription which is unreasonable considering I paid full price for the app. I enjoy the fact that you can write more but other than that this new update is a huge disappointment I’ve decided to delete this app. It doesn’t feel like it’s serving it’s purpose as effectively as the former platform it just feels like another way to make money out of a subscription app. You’ll get more out of the actual journal than this app.

Want to learn how to turn a 5 star app to a 1 star?. Just follow this devs approach. Take an existing loved app, force an upgrade that causes you to loose all your data and then pay to get the features you used to have. Great way to loose your exiting customers if that’s the goal. As it stands now, what makes 5 Minute Journal better than the hundreds of other journaling apps? Nothing that I can see. Price WAS the reason, one-off and simple. Now it’s just like all the rest. Maybe launching this in parallel with the old app as “5 minute journal premium” wouldn’t have caused so much outrage in this forced transition…. Yes, another unsatisfied customer. Take a look at Jour if you want a robust journaling paid app instead.

Lost all my data. Worst update ever. Do not buy or update if you've bought the app already.

Updated 5 Minute Journal - not as user-friendly. I used the 5 minute journal all the time and I loved it. Due to personal reasons I took a break. Yesterday I came back and I don’t like it. I am having a hard time finding my way around it. I used to be able to insert 1 featured image every day. It is also very difficult to have the overview of the daily entries. The daily entries used to be on one page. Now they are in layers. In my opinion, this update was not an improvement for the user. I will have to find a different app for my gratitude journal. Jeannette

I lost everything after they upgraded the app and now it's paid!. Since you upgraded the app I can't access my every day journal. What happened? Do I have lost all my information? No advance notice to I have the option to back up my posts?

5 Minute Journal Changed My Life. I love this app. Although I truly just wanted to buy the hardcover journal, I couldn’t afford it at the time. I’ve had this app for 2+ years now. I try to use it mostly everyday, and when I don’t I know my day just isn’t right. It’s an easy app to use, just like a journal, each page is dedicated to a day, where it asks you simple questions of reflection. It provides reminders to fill it out and pictures that have become a collage of journal photos redecorates to each day. It also offers a daily quote that triggers inspiration, love and happiness. At one point I began to write down my thoughts and just followed the outline as it has an affect of changing your mood slightly more than just using the app. Get this as a gift for yourself and I would recommend gifting it to someone else who needs a little more light in their life.

Amazing!. Keeps you looking at the bright side of life and nourishes a growth mindset. I love getting to take a pic everyday. Keeps me looking all day for inspiration, or something about the world around me that brings me joy!

Update sucks. New update is terrible do not purchase

Just in it for the money. Very unhappy with this app - paid for lifetime use 3 years ago and suddenly I will need to pay over $30 a year... gifted me one year free but it’s poor business practice. Anyone who had paid for lifetime use prior to the switch should have been honoured. I will not be recommending this app any longer.

SUBSCRIPTION BASED. I was told about this to try and help me get better. Im not about to pay 150+ after tax for a glorified notebook/mood tracker to get away from endless subscription, as if there aren’t others that can provide the services. Yikes.

$5-10 for a real paper journal $50 PER YEAR?. I’d be willing to pay a one time fee possibly up to 19.99 but upon seeing the sheer volume amount of people complaining about how the app used to be this pay once style and is now pay per view style…..I read the intro, saw the subscription price and put my mind in a logical philosophical stance. More expensive than paper bound? Are you for real? How gullible are customers? How greedy are developers? I deleted this as quick as it was to install. For $100 you can own (for life) personal meditation videos that you always has access to.

You had the best app why switch. I have you physical 5 minute journal and I purchased the app as well huge fan of your products but you should have made another application and not updated it I just can’t believe you would hurt all your fellow users like this the layout sucks and the subscription. The layout before was way better. I wish you would think about your users first before doing this

Bait and switch?. I purchased this app and was very pleased with how easy it was to use, the look and feel, and being able to look back at my entries and photos. It was an unpleasant surprise to wake up one morning and find that it had changed, with no notice, no instructions and on top of that, the features that had come with the original purchase you now need to subscribe for. What a complete disappointment. Interesting choice of logo and I am not sure that the added features are worth the subscription. Sadly I will no longer be using this app.

Update is a Crap Scam. Didn’t want the update. Won’t pay for the update (I already bought the lifetime access to the app once). I don’t like the changes, I didn’t ask for them and am now deleting this all off my phone. What a waste of money by a developer you cannot trust. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS APP. The developer will make sudden changes without asking you, and then insist you pay for them. I want a refund for the original app that I paid for and you have stolen.

Good but…. I would love to switch to this app, but having been invested in Day One since 2013, I have to decline as there is no way to import another journal app into this one. If you want people to come from other journal apps you have to offer an import feature. I have thousands of entries and it make them all pointless to switch to this one.

Stay away - do not purchase. I’ve already paid for the full version of this app once, and now all of a sudden and without warning, they want a monthly subscription for the same feature set I already paid for?? (even to add a picture it costs money - my notes app does this for free!) Horrible business practice. Will never buy anything from this developer ever again. Also, they told me that I’d receive a one year subscription (which I never did) AND all my data is gone. Absolutely disgusted. I will buy another journaling app instead. Goodbye!

My life has been changed. I am a Christian and I understand what gratitude is and how it works. I never trained myself to apply it to my life. I was introduced to this journal and it changed my life. I learned in small steps how to feel gratitude and what grace in action looks like. I use this app at least 4 times a week and times I run out of things to be grateful for. Then it forces me to dig deeper and I get there. I keep getting there and now the process of digging deeper is very familiar. I recommend this app to everyone.

It was better before. The old version was simple and easier, like the book. Even if you’ve paid it before now you have to subscribe for keeping the photo option. I don’t want to use it anymore.

So much potential. This app is frustratingly getting worse with time. It used to be simple and highly functional (and subscription-free). In their quest to add more features, they’ve made the basic journaling process more complicated. There are long-standing bugs, like blurry images in the timeline, that don’t get fixed. There is no support for journaling on a Mac.

Not Grateful. Hard to be grateful when the app updates without any warning and, besides not liking the new interface, I’m livid that all of my previous journal entries and photos were completely wiped out. I used those as memories and uplifting reminders of good days. Very, very disappointed.

Selfie. Would be great to be able to switch between front and rear cameras.

Do not buy it’s a scam. I cannot believe I fell for this and that Apple is allowing this to happen on their platform. I paid for the app. Now to be able to continue to use the app I have to pay $31.99 per year. The app should be free if you need to pay a yearly subscription to use it. And it feels particularly gross that a company called “Intelligent Change” would take advantage of this self help industry in this way. You are better off just writing in your notes app with all the same prompts. Extremely disappointed.

Great customer service. Thank you to Patricia Huxtable for her amazing customer service. She helped me with the issue I was having with the app. and was quick with replying back to my emails. For anyone who is having issues with getting replies back from customer service, it ended up being that the emails were being sent directly to my trash folder for some reason. So if you aren’t seeing replies in your inbox or junk folder, check your trash folder. It was also coming from “Intelligent Change” which I didn’t recognize as being the apps name.

Lost all my data. With the new version, I lose everything I had before... And they put new pictures and quotes that I've never had before. Not sure where they are taking that data

Update Wiped my Journal. It was pleasant while it lasted but the new update while everything. I followed the instructions and made sure I did not make a second profile by mistake. But it seems everything is gone. The app didn’t even recognize me as an existing user. I’m grateful for the time I had with my journal but will be moving on. Wish it could have had a better ending. Hopefully new users will find the joy I once had with this product. But for existing users, there seems to be bugs with the transition. ORIGINAL REVIEW: Simple but intuitive design. A great reminder to practice mindful thinking. I like to think I am the type that will sit and write in a physical journal- especially because I think there is a special ritual with the act of writing with a purpose. However, I can be forgetful. This app is a more convenient way to accomplish that when on the go. It's also a nice way to preserve memories with daily photos. Great job!! 2 MONTH UPDATE: I've been using this regularly (I've occasionally missed a day or two, but was able to catch up). This is such a great way to document my day with thoughts and photos. It's so gratifying to look back at it with instant visual cues. It serves as a reminder that life is good :) I have an idea for you Mimi and Alex- perhaps sometime in the future you can find a way to make the journals printable for physical copies of our journals. Thank you so much for making this. It is wonderful and has had a very positive affect on my mindset :)

Love it!. Thought I would hate not having an actual journal, but I love it! I can actually write in it in the morning with no light in the room and my husband sleeping. It reminds me at 8 pm to write in it again (I would probably forget otherwise). The function to add a photo of the day is really fun too - I don’t always use it but it’s fun to add something interesting when the day has had something to photograph.

Wishing for more simplicity. I’ve been using 5 minute journal for nearly five years now and I loved the app prior to this update for its simplicity. There used to be the option to turn off the quotes, I wish that was still the case. They’ve also added a mood tracker which I wish I could disable as well. I also wish I could disable the daily memories saying “3 years ago…” without having to I click “X” on them every single day. I just wish it was more simplified like it used to be. All I want is the prompts, that’s it. I just wish I could disable all of the new bells and whistles because they just distract from the main experience of writing the journal entry. Overall, I really enjoy the new UI though, just wish I didn’t have so many steps before getting to the prompts.

Love it. I love this app! Can’t wait for the laptop version!!!! Plzzzz 😁

After 2 years I’m angry at changes. I paid for this app and have used it for 2 years, and really enjoyed it. Until today. Today the app changed and now unless you go with premium you can’t put your daily picture on your entry. A free year and then 31.99 yearly. I’ve already paid for the app. Don’t do it. There have to be better options. I’m going to look for one.

Old version better. The daily journal section is not nearly as nice to use. An upgrade so you can try to change a subscription. Is not a good upgrade of the platform is not as nice or easy to use. Bring back at least the daily entry platform from older version. Major fail.

solution. this app was simple and easy now its complicated and costly, just get “morning-gratitude” its the same thing as this app before the lame update.

I wish it was available in mac. The layout looks great, but I wish the app is also available in mac format. So accessibility is available in all platforms.

New update is terrible. Purchased this app in 2016. Without warning, this app was updated and now I no longer have access to my data. There are allegedly ways to retrieve this information. However, better efforts could have been made to make this transition seamless for existing, longtime users. Not a pleasant way to start the day. Hoping new users get something positive out if this but I’m out.

Bad V3 rollout. I have the paper journal and love it. Paid for the app years ago and found it so much more convenient for my lifestyle. I can easily hack it in my other journals but I liked being able to add a photo. V3 really should have been rolled out as a separate app. I too lost everything. They assure me it will reappear but i have doubts. Disappointed in how they destroyed everyone’s trust with this new version rollout. Some notice to back up or export our journals would have been kind. Also, when dayone went to a subscription model they honoured the payment and loyalty of their past users by creating a usage option just for them. It is still in effect and I am so proud to support and recommend their product every way I can. It would have been nice of intelligentchange to respect their users in a similar way. A year free premium is ok I guess… the utter shock and disappointment of waking up to my entire gratitude journal being gone has me skeptical.

App is now a subscription service. A couple of months ago I purchased the app as a one time purchase. It is now a subscription service and I’m extremely disappointed that my one time purchase isn’t credited towards the app. I’ve only been using it for a short while and enjoy using the app. But I feel like I’ve lost some money thinking it was going to be a one time purchase only.

My journal vanished. I purchased and used this journal, I like this journal. I sent to pick it up again after having been away for awhile and I’m locked out, unable to reset my password or open a new account. The app is basically useless now. I heard they charge you now too, but I wouldn’t know - can’t even get that far. Not what it promises… feel pretty violated as I had a whole journal that has just disappeared 😢

Was great until the new update. Loved this app, which I paid for, and then it auto updated and now I can’t access any of my history or use the new one, either. And in a year I will have to pay all over again. Why ruin a good thing?!?

Fun while it lasted. Welp it was fun while it lasted, since the money grab update I can’t use it anymore customer service is not responding and I have lost all my data

New update is a money grab - Do not buy. I bought this app more than 3 years ago. Have 3 years of pictures and journals that all vanished with the latest update. Tried to connect using my Facebook account and it tells me that it already imported this account. When I login, my journal is completely blank. Nothing left. And they tell me that to get the same functionality I used to have and have been using for the last 3 years, I need to now buy an annual subscription. Stay away. Terrible.

Disappointed like many other users. While my journal entries eventually did come back after many, many days later when the app just crashed while trying to update ... some of the new features are nice but doesn’t justify the cost for me. I paid for the app a few years ago that I also thought I could use forever but now basic features that were included are removed and we have to pay $35/yr to have them back like a picture (which was a nice feature) ... Paid app users should’ve been given the features they paid for and maybe some warning of changes and upgrades would’ve been nice. Isn’t that what most companies do when they make a big change? I’m not sure I’ll continue with this app... 🤔

Bait and switch app-stay away!. There should be something that can be instituted that can prevent such developers fleecing customers by paying them pay for the product i.e full features of the app and then flip the service model to an annual subscription without offering existing customers the benefit of the purchase that was already committed! Stay away from these scammers.

Disappointed. I don’t believe that the developers worked with an expert in gratitude practice. This product felt too gimmicky. The gratitude prompts do not guide you on a journey. You should feel like your moving towards that feeling of being more connected to yourself. Glad that I didn’t spend $27 CAD on the book.

I LOST A YEAR OF ENTRIES. don’t waste your money.. After over a year of using this app, it automatically upgraded without notice and I lost all of my entries...over 350 entries just gone. I’ve reached out for help and support three times in the past 7 days and no one has even acknowledged my emails. Very disappointed. I’ve moved on and now given up ever finding my old entries. So sad. I paid for this app and now they want more money. What’s going to happen in another year even if I buy in now. Read the reviews. This happened to so many people.

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Simple, powerful, gratitude.. There is no long start up. No explanation needed to get you to a place where you can journal. It is a perfectly simple download and start the five minute process of journaling in the morning and in the evening. It takes me less time to journal than it does to respond to my group texts and I ACTUALLY feel good about the minutes I spend doing it. I think about my intentions the the day and follow through with them. Its not a “nice-to-have” app, it’s a vital reclamation of my happiness.

Worst app I can imagine. How can you have a journal that erases what you wrote? Immediately after you spent several minutes writing it. I used to be a very active user of this app and even recommended it. Now I avoid using it although I purchased the forever package. Which I of course regret dearly. I just gave it another chance this weekend thinking it was fixed or I was doing something wrong and after journaling my three last days I returned to see and I only had The pictures. Which I also have in my photo app so why would I need this garbage rather than to loose time and have a broken heart of loosing your thoughts forever.

Transformational app. I bought the subscription last week, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. I paid for Day One for a couple of years, but I couldn’t journal regularly. It was too unstructured for me. Five Minute Journal guides you through the process, focusing you on positivity. I use the extra fields, and I write more than five minutes. I’ve customized it. There are several prompts throughout the guided process, and you can customize the prompts with your own. This app is transformative. It’s also beautifully designed.

Perfect for me. This journal is so easy to use and I love that I can type directly into the app. I don’t have to worry about losing a notebook or having someone else read my entries. It’s easy to include a picture or go back if you forgot to write an entry. The topics are right on point. Gratitude is something that I want to practice daily. I appreciate the way the daily entries are set up. At the end of the day you can also review your day and write what could have made it better. Try this app. You’ll be pleased too.

Data Recovered. Great support. Ready to go.. I recently upgrade the app and had a similar scare that many have had where all the data disappeared. Turned out the update queue was significantly longer than expected. It took a little over a day for the data to reappear, but the folks were there to keep me posted throughout the process. Entries going back five years are back in the app without a hitch. Thanks for the attention and support. And thanks to the 5MJ team for getting how important it is to retrieve all those entries.

Wish I hadn’t updated. **EDIT: I found a great replacement app—GridDiary— all the features I loved about the original while completely free, wish I’d found it first** I loved this app, it’s the only app on my phone that I’ve ever paid for. But the new update has taken away the features that made me look forward to journaling every day. It constantly pushes you to pay a subscription for basic features and has completely taken away the value from the app. I’m very disappointed and do not think I will continue to use it. At it’s core, the app is a smart way to train your brain to be more grateful, but now it seems the app creators have forgotten to be grateful to their users.

App update. UPDATED REVIEW: After signing in with the correct logon, it took 1 day to sync all my old comments/post and pics. Thank you to someone who posted the developer email and was able to get the fix in the auto response. I wish there was communication prior to this or some type of post to ensure everything is seamless for the transition. I’ll see how it goes with the free 1 year trial and then see if I really want to pay the subscription. Original: Update gone wrong. What’s with this latest version? Says it is updating and downloading information for HOURS.

Game changer!. 5 minute journal is perhaps my favorite app of all time. I have been doing gratitude lists on and off for almost 10 years, and although the powerful positive effects were obvious with a simple pen and pad, I have struggled w/ consistency. This thing gives me a friendly reminder every morning to write my gratitude list, and another in the evening to review my day. Everyone I’ve recommended it to has given me huge thanks for the suggestions. Worth the $5 for sure !!

Paid for features now locked behind subscription. I loved this app and the update makes me sad. The new UI is less intuitive than the minimalist design of the original app. The bigger issue for me is they locked existing features behind the subscription. I’m not opposed to a subscription model, but I think it’s pretty scummy to sell a set of features to then remove those features and ask for more money. I feel like existing customers should be able to keep the features we paid for and then do a subscription to get new features. Alas that is not the case.

Life-changing. Starting the day with gratitude has completely changed my life. I had the paper Five Minute Journal and loved it, but the app takes it to the next level. It’s so cool that you can add pictures to help document the day, and then it will remind you of stuff you did or thought 3 weeks ago, for example. I always loved that feature in social media, but I stopped sharing so much there because of privacy. This journal is just for me. It’s my own timeline, and it is so comforting to have that.

5 Stars!!. This app deserves the greatest rating. I have been using the 5 Minute Journal on and off for 2 years. I find myself feeling more positive, mindful, and balanced when I use it regularly. When I go days without using it.. things are really put into perspective for me! I have learned from experience how important practicing gratitude is for me to live a productive and healthy lifestyle. Thank you for such a simple yet creative way to really process the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives, while being mindful of the little blessings of that come with being alive.

Update ruined the app and my entries. This is one instance where automatic update should not have been used. I logged into the app with my id and password and it has been stuck on “Account data transfer in progress” for days despite an “It can take several minutes” message. It doesn’t respond to closing or anything else. The app is totally unusable. I would give this zero stars if I could. Today the app finally unstuck days later from the upgrade from the “Account data transfer in progress” and all of my entries are gone, gone, gone. App is being deleted. What a horrible thing to do to its users.

They moved to a subscription model. Seriously? It’s not that difficult if a concept yet they managed to turn this into a subscription model like everyone else. I paid for the original and now they’re going to charge me for continuing to use it. No product 5 minute journal would put out is worth a subscription model. Save yourself wasted money and write out the questions on your own journal or notes app at that point. Why don’t companies understand that the people are exhausted by subscription models? Sorry you’re not making enough money and want to capitalize on people more but make better products if that’s your problem. Subscription model is lazy and loses customers over the long run. Like me. 👋🏽 bye

Disappointed with the recent update. I have had this app for years. Sometimes I use it daily sometimes 2-3 times a month. My favorite part was being able to take a pic in the moment. Why was that included in the premium. Why not leave the basic tools free and all the other stuff you added from users requests paid? I have no need for all that other stuff. I don’t track my mood or need extra stuff. I enjoyed the simplicity of the 5minute journal. Please make the pic feature free again. I agree with one of the other reviewers, should have given the OG users an option. Or left the old features in the free app. 😭 I have no desire to pay for something I’ve already been using for free.

Unethical practices. I do not understand how I paid money for this app and now they’re taking away features and making them premium that I have to pay to use monthly. I bought the app because it’s what I wanted. I never would have bought it if it was a subscription. I don’t even know what to say. It’s like if you bought a video game and after a year they took out huge chunks of the storyline you had to pay to play indefinitely. I liked being able to add pictures to entries. I’m not paying $25/year to do so. I’m not sure how this is legal, but it sure isn’t ethical. It looks like you can pay $75 to get all the features “for life”……. I’m not falling for that again. It’s just until they update it and want more money.

Love this app!. I use this app as my gratitude prayer journal. I’ve not missed a day in almost three years. I like how it is set up so that it is not time consuming. However, it allows me to be detailed enough so that I can get my day started off with a positive attitude, prayer requests, and end it with all my blessings from the day. Adding a picture each day creates a year full of digital memories along with journaling. I’ve even used the documentation to help me remember important events.

Was Amazing, Now Can’t Even Get App Support. Update: No one has returned my email requests in a week. I can’t even get into my legacy acct so I am entirely locked out. Please help - Read my emails and respond. I count on this app. I have been using this app since 2017 (after using the paper version) and have found it really helpful to keep myself focused on gratitude and mindfulness. Over time, I have worked on the daily affirmation and I’m making progress in each area That is incorporated. For me, it’s like a mission statement. One of the features I love the most is adding a photo so that when I scroll, I see all the joy in my life. I am so disappointed in the updates that were just released. The look and feel - the app icon, the dark mode - there is more business to the design. It no longer is clean and simple. And now you have to pay to upload pictures? I have been sharing my love for this app over the years and getting my friends to use it and now I can’t even get into my acct to access my journal. Very sad :(

Helps Focus My Retirement. I find I’m busier now that I’m retired and doing what really makes me happy. The 5-minute journal is slowly becoming a habit for me and that’s a really good thing. I’m more positive each morning, I take care of me and move on to “becoming immortal” as this morning’s quote pointed out by helping to make others happy. I’m more observant of what’s going on around me and more satisfied at the end of each day. I’m more hopeful for tomorrow. I find that I’m getting more rest and getting healthier in the process. This is good stuff and it just takes a spoonful of discipline each day; nothing time-consuming just 5 minutes.

Daily Burst. This app is awesome. It allows you the space to use it as much as you want but with the gentle reminders on days when I definitely need to check in with myself. Happy to have it as a resource when I need a little perspective but also because it is such a low barrier to entry to do every single day - at just five minutes I don’t feel overwhelmed or pressure to write something every day. That is a perfect self care practice if you ask me.

Lost 4+ years of journaling. Surreal to wake up with my coffee and try to write a journal entry and have it be completely wiped. The app tells me my email account doesn’t exist- I locate my password and user name rather than my email and I login to discover I am waiting now over 24 hours for my data to update to the new platform- it is the spinning wheel of death! I have emailed, I have messaged I have gotten ZERO response regarding my lost access and loss of 4+years of pictures and entries!! If you had asked me to rate this app prior to this incident- I would have given it 5 stars- it was a wonderful wellness choice to help me get through some really tough moments! Now I feel I have been punched in the gut!

An app so good I’m motivated to write my first review. I have used the paper version of the five minute journal for years now, and decided to try the app. I was very hesitant to spend the money as I was worried the app wouldn’t have the same feel as putting pen to paper each morning and evening, but with fabulous and simple layout plus the addition of a photo each day, I think it’s even better. It’s much cheaper then the paper version, always with me, sends me reminders AND fits well into a minimalist lifestyle. Thank you for this wonderful app!

A good app that with a few tweaks could be great.. I’ve just begun using the app, it’s simplicity makes it very user friendly. I give it a 4 out of 5 rating because the functions are so basic that I feel it limits my ability to express what I feel in writing. It would be nice to be able to italicize or bold text when I’d like. It would also be nice to hit “Enter” and start another line within the same text box versus “Enter” automatically taking you to the next text box. These are little things that would make a big difference to me, personally.

Good app, Annoying Glitches. Love the idea, especially being able to add pictures to your posts. I’ve been using this app for over a year and had zero problems with it until this new update. Now I keep having random things go wrong! Once I finally figured out how to import all my old journal entries AND get the free year they offered I figured I was set. But now the app won’t even allow me to login! It keeps saying I’ve already imported my journal entries (which is true) and then says I should try signing on, which is infuriating because that IS what I’m doing. Then it just pops me back to the sign in page 🙄 Help would be appreciated.

The reason I downloaded and used this app is now gone. I wanted an app that would structure my journaling towards happiness or self-reflection. Additionally, it would’ve been great if it was open source and free/libre (FLOSS), but that is sometimes not available. So I settled for Five Minute Journal. It was highly structured and, although not FLOSS, I would pay *once* for the app and then it would be mine. One could argue that this makes software not viable, since developers need to eat, but viable FLOSS business models abound. Zotero, Anki, Element, Tutanota, you name it. But, coming back to the point, this app lost the sole reason I installed it: its fixed price. Now I have to pay them constantly to, for example, add images (which was a ‘free’ feature before). This does not mean the app has not improved. If you’re willing to pay the subscription, it very well may be a better option than the same option before. But for now, I’ll go back to basic FLOSS note-taking apps: Joplin on my phone and qOwnNotes on my computer.

A blessing to my life. I rarely review apps or products, but this app deserves a good review. I have owned it for many years, but in the last 3 months I have been very intentional about using it and it has blessed my life. I love looking back at the pictures of my days and seeing what I was grateful for. It has built a habit of gratefulness into my life which has put me so at ease. I struggle with anxiety and this has helped me end the day and go to sleep thinking of the positives in my life instead of dwelling on the things I can’t control. Thank you!

Not happy. I have been using 5 minute journal for YEARS! loved it, it was simple to use, easy to edit, and I could add a photo with each entry.. EASY! NOT NOW!!! Now I have to pay $$, which I don’t want to do, just to see my own photo, and write my journal. Thanks but where’s my journals that I’ve written for years! WHERE and how do I at least reread those, and see the photos that go with my journal I had written.. has everything I’ve written been deleted, everything just have bridged over. I never paid before and I could add a pic, now not paying means only a writing..what the heck!!! Done, I’ll delete this app and find another one that helps me.. 😳🤨🧐😒😞

Tiny suggestion. Hello, I just want to start this out by saying I appreciate your app and everything your team has done to create such a beautiful hardware for us users. I do have a suggestion that I think would improve upon user experience, within the to-do list portion of the app I feel adding the feature of rearranging tasks and the ability to check off tasks as the day goes on would be phenomenal. Again, thank you so much for this app, I start my day with a beautiful outlook which carries through the entirely of my actions and impact on this world. ❤️

My daily must! This has changed my relationship with gratitude journaling.. I am so in love with this app. I have always believed in the power of gratitude but this has been the key to turning it into a daily practice that is changing my life. I love everything about it. Literally five minutes of doing this daily practice has helped me to truly recognize the power of not only gratitude for all that I have but also all that is to come. I speak things into existence with praise every day and I am seeing my life change because of it. Thank you Five Minute Journal!!

Truly a toothbrush for the mind!. I had the physical journal for many years. And I switched to the app a coup of years ago. I love to add pictures to my entry because it makes me mindful throughout the day, if I see or do something I'm grateful for even if it is a simple thing I snap a picture for my 5 minutes Journal and if I’m having a bad day I look through the picture and read the entries to remind me that I can find gratitude in simple things like a tasty meal, my plants or my pet. The new version with meditations made this app complete and perfect.

It's Better Than The Book, But Not Better Than The Book!. I love this app because it does everything the book does for your thoughts and focus on gratitude and it's also easy to include a daily photo journal - that is a big plus. The calendar feature is great too. However, if you are wanting to "unplug" in your life - there is no substitute for the pen and paper feel of writing your Five Minute Journal and flipping the actual paper pages back and forth! Both are great products by Intelligent Change.

Update broke the app and prevents access to old journal. The old app worked well. The new update was released without warning, and I am unable to access my old data or use the new app. It seems like some of the basic tasks, such as importing old data, for the new app were not adequately quality tested. UPDATE: So by looking at the comments in the App Store (not the support from the developer), I was able to overcome the first issue - I’d accidentally created a duplicate account. I deleted the dupe account but now am stuck in an endless “importing” spinning wheel of death. I get that they need a recurring revenue stream but this rollout was terribly managed. UPDATE 2: Import finally completed, but for some reason (maybe I had two accounts without realizing it), it only is about half my entries. So I still had some unexpected data loss, which is annoying. New interface is clean. I got the premium subscription since I get a year free, but I’ll see if I keep it active or just cancel. Raised rating from one to three stars.

Exactly what I needed. Dealing with addiction, depression, and anxiety is very rough indeed... But this is the first app I’ve actually been able to stick with for journaling that I’ve heard so often can really help. Lo and behold.. it really has made a noticeable difference in just over a month, and the benefits are only becoming stronger and more noticeable! The UI and the short suggestions are perfect for me, since I’m a man of few words, and it doesn’t require a Megillah from me each day. Perfectly balanced for me!

Love it! A couple features I wish it had... I love this app, I’ve had a hard time finding a good photo journal app and this one is clean, easy to use and I love that you can add a photo- some times though it’s really hard to just choose one photo to sum up an entire day and I really wish you could add more photos to swipe through (like on Instagram- up to 10) and also it would be so great if you could export the content in a printable format (like a pdf) I think it would be so fun to have a booklet with all my entries. I would totally pay to have these features as it would make it so much more valuable to me.

5 stars, first time leaving a review. This app has brought me a lot of joy. The UI and user experience are streamlined and easy. I’ve only been using the free version because I wanted to see how consistent I could be in using it. I’m amazed - I’m 16 consecutive days and 58 days total in it since mid-December (it’s February 1st now). I’m now looking forward to my morning and evening entries and I can only imagine what enhancing my experience with the added features will do. Thanks for a great and rewarding app 😍

Horrible Update - Unusable App. Please revert back to the way this app was before. I’ve now been stuck at the “transferring account data” for over a day now with no change. The app is literally unusable for me now, not to mention what I see is a new subscription model for an app that was already paid for. This seems like a really scummy move by the development team and I have no idea why this change was pushed. It was very obviously not tested and not something that anyone was asking for. The old app was great. Quick, easy to use, simple. Not sure why you felt you needed an entire overhaul but until this gets rectified I recommend passing on this and finding another journaling app.

Love it but….. I really love how simple and easy the prompts are so that I can journal my life everyday but please please please fix the mood emoji icon thing. Every time I swipe through to the emoji face that I can put to show my mood - either the screen enlarges and I can’t scroll to get to the range of emotions or I do get to it and then it doesn’t let me slide the bar to pick my emotion. I’m using an iPad Air for reference. Everything else works smoothly and I would so love to give it 5 stars but it really annoys me that that is a feature that I paid for and it doesn’t even work properly. Please get the web developers on it because otherwise I would love to change my review to 5 stars!!

I Want My Journal Back!!!. I have been using and trusting this app with my entries for 3 years now. It was so dear to my heart. Now it is telling me it doesn’t recognize my email address and I apparently can’t remember my password. All of my entities and pictures are out there in limbo somewhere...not what I would have expected from the app I trusted with my life story. I would have expected them to reach out to me and at least prepare me for this change since I have been a loyal user. Are we as loyal user the non paying ones they are hoping to rid themselves of? I am having a very small panic attack here. I know there are worst things in the world, but my journal is a very personal and important part of my life.

Making it a habit is important!. I’ve owned this journal for a month now and the work it takes to open up to share your experiences is difficult, if you’re an introvert like myself. The notifications actually deterred me from writing everyday and I thought that they would help me write everyday. The unique idea behind this is that it’s ok to have some blank spots in your journal, but it really makes me want to be better to highlight the good things that happened and the improvements that I could make. I wish I would have purchased a paper copy!

Everything I needed. 5 minute journal was recommended to me by my counselor. And it’s been a huge blessing. Writing down things you are thankful of morning and afternoon. Three goals you want to get done today, and how you will accomplished that. Are proven success habits of high performance people. I like to do my writing digital so I can keep track of my previous notes more easier with build in search engines. Instead of combing through hundreds of journals not knowing what information is in them. So yes, one of the best $5 bucks you can spend if you will utilize this app on a daily basis.

Excellent app that can actually help you start journaling. For the most part, I’ve found journaling regularly quite hard. But this app makes things dead simple and reduces the friction just enough for your to write quality content every single day. The app is well-made with mood tracking, journal insights and doesn’t clutter! Few suggestions: Allow multiple separate journal entries / day, extend to a web/desktop app! Otherwise the app’s perfect.

Great phone app. I tried keeping journals for years. Sometimes I journal but then I stop. Usually I would journal to vent about what was going wrong. I love this new journal. I saw the nice bound one and I love nice paper and pens but I wondered if they had a phone app. Sure enough they do. It is easy fill in the blank and I get reminders day and night to fill it in. I think becuz I have my phone w me and becuz you literally can just fill in a few blanks, I have been able to continue. And hopefully as research says, writing about my gratitude twice daily will make for happier daily living.

An app that reminds you of what Apple used to be.... This is a luxury brand feeling application, while at the same time being innovative and upgrading the “same ‘ol journal” in ways you didn’t even know you needed or wanted. We all used to say that about Apple with our smartphones. Even though I may have a difficult saying it about the phone, apps like these renew that sense of hope that things will get better for iOS land one day soon. Well done developers. User interface is beautiful, user experience is easily understood, and features are simplistically amazing. Well done.

Increases gratitude and positive thoughts. If you discipline yourself to use it daily your outlook on life and situations is much more positive. I really like that this is a journal and I can look back over the three or more years I’ve used this and relive joy. Although, my first year with this app I cared for my ex during cancer and his subsequent death I recorded many good memories of him and my two young children’s lives despite grieving and going through a harrowing experience. The specifics and simplicity of this app support a grateful mindset.

Still Needs Work. The concept is good but the app seems rough yet. I have an ipad air and when the app opens for the day I would expect the default be for it to open to today’s date and to display the quote of the day. It does not open in this manner and the qoute of the day is not readily available. Also I would like the ability to order the fields and even to change the questions in the fields. The app opens in the morning with spaces for things for which I am grateful. In the morning I am only grateful for coffee. For myself I would like to see the question in the evening. I did email the developers with one of my comments but never heard back. I could not recommend this app at this time.

The old version was better. I have read recent reviews since the update and I have to agree….Simplicity with the old one was better! I did not experience what others have with not having their old entries transfer, as mine did without a problem. And while I appreciate the “Free trial for a year, then $25 a year thereafter,” I will be using it for the year free trial and then finding another option, likely going back to old school paper journals. I’m sadly disappointed they opted for the route they have taken. Heck, I could even justify a one time $25 charge, like it was $5 and that was it before. But $25 a year is excessive. Hoping they reconsider their massive overhaul and new pricing structure.

UPDATED - [NOT] So disappointed. Lost my entire previous journal. ** I am happy to report the issue was resolved and they recovered my old entries! Tech support was very helpful and my data is all back. The new app takes a little getting used to but I think it is great (again). ** I am so disappointed in this update. I have been tracking every day and including photos to document your year in gratitude. The update resulted in me losing every entry and all of my work. I have tried to find my work and reached out to the developer but have not had any resolution. Do not upgrade to this if you want to keep your record.

BACK UP ENTRIES BEFORE YOU UPDATE APP!!. I have been using this app religiously for years and I updated all my apps automatically this morning. The new app update completely wiped my old journal 😭😭😭 I have some of it backed up, but nothing from this year. So all of my journal entries from 2021 are gone. I have not heard anything back after emailing about this issue. I also dislike that I paid for the original app and now it's making me pay again for the new subscription as if I hadn't already paid. There should have been a notification of changes to existing customers.

For the person who wants to journal but never has time. As a full time care taker for my grandmother, This app helped me get through some of my worst days. There is not a lot of time on your hands when you are caring for elderly and your own family- I needed this to keep me grounded and sane during some of our hardest days. Thank you 5-Minute Journal for being easy to apply in my “spare” time (what little I had). This app and my Bible were essential tools to keep me focused on the good in the midst of suffering.

Time stamp feature? Another entry same day?. 1) why can’t we add another entry in the journal for same day? I don’t want to edit my entry but add an entire new one. Why control “how” I journal? 2)I would like to turn off “highlight of my day” and I would like to be able to add another entry on the same day instead of editing it out. 3)Can you have time stamps for entry? Like when I put entry it should display date and time, not just date? If possible please.

Worthwhile until the update. I’ve been using the app for over 3 years now and have been really enjoying it until the latest update! For some reason upgrading made all of my previous journal entries disappear and didn’t give me a years worth premium on my account as promised. I’ve emailed them for support on the issue and have gotten no response. I’m now left with an empty journal where I’m being promoted to pay for adding photos (functionality that was available a week ago). I’m hugely disappointed and am now looking for a new app :(

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Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 3.6.38
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The application 5 Minute Journal: Self-Care was published in the category Health & Fitness on 22 March 2016, Tuesday and was developed by Intelligent Change LLC [Developer ID: 1556875886]. This program file size is 89.69 MB. This app has been rated by 14,174 users and has a rating of 4.7 out of 5. 5 Minute Journal: Self-Care - Health & Fitness app posted on 12 March 2024, Tuesday current version is 3.6.38 and works well on iOS 15.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.intelligentchange.Five-Minute-Journal. Languages supported by the app:

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