5 Minute Journal・Private Diary

I’ve been a big fan of this app, until the last year when no matter what is done I can’t export the pdf nor have my email properly recognised. Trying to have someone help is met with totally ineffective email support, and zero solutions. As a result I’ve lost four years of entries, despite doing everything suggested. Time to go elsewhere, incredibly disappointed.

is it possible to create multiple custom questions for ourselves?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.