JRNL.com 4+

While the concept and layout of the app is nice, there is a major flaw that should make anybody think twice before using this to record important and valuable information. If you don’t constantly save your entry while writing it, or stop and come back to finish it later, and even jump to a different screen within the app before you scroll all the way to the bottom and save wherever you’re at, you lose all of the content of the entry. Ive reached out to the developers and so had my wife with no response.

It also is terrible when trying to type an entry from anything other than a desktop computer. The type in the screen lags considerably from what you’re typing after 10 or 15 minutes of use. I’ve checked other apps with the same hardware and the condition is not repeatable which tells me it’s is the app.

I gave it two stars and not one because the layout and concept is really quite good. But that’s not worth much if it’s flawed functionally.

Find a different solution for your digital journaling. Notability works great.

If you would even both to test your own app, you'd know that as you begin typing into a new journal entry things seems to going all fine and dandy. As you maybe get 5 or 6 lines down in a single paragraphs, things just start grinding to a halt, super lag, and typing shows up late, and sometimes letters get input out of order, and then trying to select with your finger the correct place of the cursor is super laggy. I've found that as soon as you double-enter, and create a new separate paragraph, speed is then restored. What the heck is this?!?! It's so inconvenient and dumb!

Also, you have no way of securing the app. No fingerprint, no PIN. If i get up and walk away, there should be a timeout and a PIN or fingerprint lockout. And every time I open the app I should be greeted with this lock as well. My iPad is sometimes shared among individuals. I should be able to safely and comfortable hand my iPad over to someone, loan it to them, etc. and not worry about them opening my JRNL app and reading my Journal.

The app crashes regularly when I upload pictures and slows down considerably every time I enter something longer than about 200 words.
I really like using it on my computer but it is disappointing that we cannot access all of the entries in like a “blogspot” kind of way where you just scroll down and see them all (or you could compare that to a feed on Instagram or Facebook). With JRNL you can only see your entries month by month and it is very inconvenient. It makes re-reading my entries or searching for a specific one very difficult as I cannot do a CTRL + F search or such. Could this be changed please?