I only recently got an iPhone and have been pleasantly surprised by many of their apps quality. I always wanted to journal but never got it to stick. This app being preinstalled on my phone helped *enormously* in getting me to journal. It has helped me immensely, by finally being able to put all my thoughts down somewhere. I get reminders to write, and I always get something in even if it’s something small. I love being able to log my mood and share things directly to it as well, like if I’m listening to a song a lot I can link it directly and express how it makes me feel; I do this with other things too, often a lot of the “suggested” options which I really appreciate. I don’t use them always, but I find them very useful and they help me write more. It also helps me bring things up to my therapist, having worked out my emotions already in a written format so we can go over things in a more efficient manner.It’s simple, it’s user friendly, it’s fine-tuned to my everyday experience. It’s the only journal app that has ever grabbed me and kept me using it. I hope to see it get more support and features as time goes on! Thank you guys for your work on this app

For me, as someone who loves writing, this app is really cool! At 15 i’m writing a book and sometimes do short story competitions, but just having a topic and writing a paragraph about is just so fun. I love going back to journal entries I did years ago and reading about what I was struggling about then. It’s so cool, for me anyway, because the things and the people I was deeply struggling with I don’t anymore. That’s just so encouraging for me to see how God has really worked in my life. One verse I write a lot about is Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you, not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.” I would usually write this verse after I wrote about what I was struggling with, and going back and rereading it and just seeing how God does have plans for me and they are for my good. Even if life feels hard is really encouraging. Something I came up with while writing is, “A fire will burn and destroy, yes. But the growth and new life that comes after is a fresh start to what once was.” God can do this as well. It’s through our pain and suffering, like a fire, that can start to break and weaken us, but it’s the through that that we learn and grow. Nothing bad happens for no reason. God always has a plan, for the lost or for the found. He always cares. My God is a loving God. And he has done, and will continue to do, great things for us. Because he loves us.

I really do enjoy writing in this, it just has a few issues that may not apply to most users, but it does for me. So, I am aspiring to be a writer, and I thought it would be cool to try using this app. It’s super cool and really good, just has a few issues that I’m willing to overlook but would really love to see these differences: 1, I like it when you tap the writings, it extends, but it only does that for smaller amounts of writings; I’d like it if it did that for larger ones too. 2, I’d love it if the pictures that I can submit, I’d love to edit which part of the picture is used, and where it is submitted. I think it’s cool and looks like a book cover, but most of the time, I have the perfect picture but it only shows part of it, and it doesn’t work. 3, (last one) I don’t think this app lets me change my words’ font, and I think it’d be cool if I could customize that sort of thing, like background or font and stuff. BTW, number three is not super important, just my small requests. But I really do love this app, I’m not much of a person who likes to document my day or think about it, I like to be more creative and fun with what I write. So, anyway, hope that if you get this app, you enjoy it. I think it’s super cool, again, just those small requests that would def brighten up my day. *looks up at all that I wrote* Dang, I talk a lot…

I've been a professional writer all my life (novels and screenplays) but I've never been able to get into journaling, nor particularly wanted to. But I live by my iPhone (if it could be implanted in my head, I'd be happy) and Apple's own native Journal app is a thing of simplicity and pleasure. You can very easily capture any thought or memory or reflection you like, including adding photographs and even music tracks. If, like me, you're a news junkie (I used to be a journalist), you can very simply post stories from your favorite online news sources and you don't even need to comment - you can just have them there as a record of our times. There's a bookmark you can add to more personal posts, to make them easier to find, and while I'd like new ways of navigating all the posts you've written to be added in the future, this app is beautiful in its simplicity. Its true value won’t become apparent until later, when you have years' worth of recollections to look through, but the act of journaling is therapeutic and it's like a more private form of social media: you can vent, but only you see it! I would highly recommend trying this.