DailyBean - simplest journal 4+

i really cannot recommend this app enough. i love journaling but sometimes it’s hard to find time to sit down and physically write. my favorite things: 1. The data!!! You can view what icons (logs of what you did that day, how long you slept, social interactions, weather, etc) correlate the most with each mood, which offers great retrospection of what causes you to feel more down/uplifted. 2. The picture feature! This is one of my favorite parts as it adds such a good visual reminder of the day. 3. Intuitive, customizable design. You can add whatever you want to log, organize it any way you want, with no hassle. 4. The premium is soo cheap and lets you add up to three photos, more blocks, and see more of your data. However, premium is not necessary to use the app and it is still enjoyable without! I used this app for free for months and enjoyed so much that i shelled out the $17 for a year subscription. So worth! If you love journaling but need a low energy alternative, or want to get into journaling I seriouslyyy recommend DailyBean.

The only downside I can think of is that there are not a ton of icons so I find myself using the same ones for different things. Would love to see more icons in the future!

I love this app so much and definitely recommend this to people who are struggling to be productive and proactive. It kind of inspired me to be more productive and confident in myself and the beans are so cute. I like how you can track your mood and everything like that. The only thing I would suggest is that if you are making a custom thing for when you do the stuff for your day, instead of 12 characters max make it 20! This would be helpful :) Anyways, I love this app so so much.
So i’ve been using the app for quite some time now, and i’ve noticed if you don’t have the premium pass you cannot record other things about your day except for your mood with the beans. Of course you can watch an ad, but i think that there should be a separate feature to the premium pass along with the customization of the beans. An idea would be to add themes to the whole thing. Like maybe an underwater theme and the beans are fish! Or a candy land theme and the beans are lollipops! Whatever it is, I feel premium could be so much more than what it is.

First of all, out of all the "self care tracking" apps I've used this is the easiest one. It's really simple, doesn't take too long to enter a day and it's relatively straight forward. You can filter by the icons you've assigned to different things, for example if you want to see how many times you've socialized with friends over the past few weeks, you can make it display that rather quickly. So that's cool and all but I still think the app could use some improvements: 1. The bean color is not colorblind friendly, regardless if you purchase a pack or not, they are all greenish or pinkish, we should be able to customize their colors to make them more distinguishable (give us a color slider or something because the little faces aren't enough in my opinion). 2. The ads pop up after you log a day and if you don't watch it, the day won't save, which is kinda greedy. I don't mind the ads that much because they're quick and the app is free but I wish there were a one time purchase price for the premium features, no way am I paying monthly for what this app currently has to offer. All in all, I'm still going to use this but it could be better.