Momento: Private Journal Diary

Looks like developer stopped updating and responding to request since January 2024. Don’t pay for an upgrade cause it doesn’t do anything.

Ive been using this app now for 12 years, back when I was a completely different app. And for some reason it was the only one that finally stuck with me. It felt like the closest thing I could get to being a digital version of my journals I kept as a kid with the little locks on it. Its very simple. But thats what I like about it. It only serves one purpose for me and I dont feel overwhelmed by its features and such.

So I sprung for the paid version, the annoyances got to be too much. At first I stumbled around with things like ‘location’ until I figured out you need to click on ‘Current Location’ to search other areas (seems clunky). The whole process of attaching photos is still a bit confusing… deciding to keep existing photo info OR inherit from the ‘Moment’. Backup & Restore are clunky too… if it syncs to iCloud why must I manually sync between devices. Sometimes I’m not sure if I made any changes on my other device they will be wiped out after syncing OR changes on my current device will be overwritten. As for “sharing”, simply sending a photo of your Momento screen doesn’t really constitute “sharing”. And why the “Feeds”? Do people really want to post to Facebook or Instagram first, then have Momento scrape their feed to populate Momento? Maybe I’m unusual in that regard. Also, I’d really, really like to “share” with another Momento user, like you can do with ’Notes’ in iOS. My travel partner can’t see what I’ve documented, unless of course I show her my screen. How ridiculous is that? I realize the development team is small but it’s obvious that they’re looking to increase revenue by creating obstacles and removing previous functionality. Not a good business model from a customer perspective. I like the main concept and app interface, just tempted to continue my search for a better tool at this point. Oh, and after paying for the subscribed version it reverted back to the free version… had to do a “restore”. Maybe the developer will review the product design and their decisions.

I loved this app, first I would like to thank the developer team for such a great app. It is easy and friendly to use. I would like you pls to add 5 stars per each day or an icon to be selected once we have a good day I would highlight it by the number of stars if possible. Thank you

Been recording my gratitude since Nov & can’t wait to print out in a year!!

I’m extremely disappointed. Don’t count on an automatic feed from Facebook. It doesn’t work. There has been a bug report open for 14 months which still hasn’t been addressed as of today 2/18/24. I contacted Customer Support two months ago and received an automated email in reply.

I’ve tried so many of these things, and this is the one I returned to. Can’t beat it.

The description is FALSE! I paid the premium subscription fee for this app ONLY because it said it would pull in my social media feeds. It worked for a month, maybe, and now it hasn’t worked in almost a YEAR! Total waste of money and total misrepresentation of what this app can do. The “known issues” list says they have know about the issue for at least a year! No fix! They blame Facebook for that feed, but another journal I have since found supports the syncing of my feed(s) (Diarium). CORRECT your description Momento, or fix the issue! I use Day One for day-to-day journaling… I wanted this one for the social media syncing. Zero stars ⭐️!!

I downloaded and started using this app years ago. Suddenly they changed their service. If I want to continue password protection and posting pictures to an event, I need to upgrade to the paid version. I have no problem with app developers making money, but allowing me to get years worth of entries before suddenly removing the password protection is playing dirty. Now I have to pay them or the entries that they allowed me to believe were private will all be more easily accessed by others, and it is less useful because the photos are more restricted. If that were the deal from the start, I may or may not have chosen their app. Changing their rules after I entered years worth of memories is not ok. What will they change next? I can’t trust this company so now I need to start moving the entries to a more reliable platform. If that sounds ok to you, then by all means download this app.

Reminders daily create a great diary !