Recollect - AI Journal & Diary 4+

Insightful, motivating journal app!

This thing has all the basics you expect from a fantastic journal app, and SO much more! I’ve loved the suggestion feature within home page widgets. Every day I get a meaningful and approachable suggestion to write about my life for future recollection. I also LOVE the For You tab. Once you have a few entries (especially if you import from another journal app), it’s so cool to see how the app brings up wonderful memories. These suggestions, plus the insanely powerful tag and search features, will make Recollect my go-to for journaling going forward!

Buggy, No Way to Contact Developers

If the app worked as intended it would easily be 5 stars. But as of right now, I lost 90% of an entry, entries appear blank when loaded from the timeline, I can’t turn off the auto suggested entries, and more. I tried to reach out to the developers but the Help option in settings is disabled. At one point I went to their website (before it got this bad) and found a Patreon I think it was. It promised that you could pay $1 and get access to a discounted lifetime purchase. I did this and got a vague email in response. I tried replying to this email to contact them, but it’s gone unanswered. I ended up purchasing a 1 year subscription because I couldn’t find the promised lifetime purchase. So now I have a 1 year sub instead of a one-time purchase, bugs keep mounting up, and the dev seems to be unreachable, despite issuing updates here and there.

I’m frustrated because this app could be great, but the bugs and lack of support or contact info brings the whole thing down quick.

Developer Response ,

I’m truly so sorry. Please email me at
sayhellobryan@icloud.com

I’ll get the support button fixed. Truly sorry.

AI in a journal?

Nothing personal, I’m sure you worked hard on this project but by very principle I would never use an AI journal.

Seems wrong on every level.

Nothing feels right about cozying up to your Journal to share your deepest thoughts with an AI bot.

I don’t know why people can’t see this. They think everything about technology is the greatest. But there is a dark side to it. And when the consciousness of the society and those creating the tech is not high enough technology can be a very dangerous game.

Few are willing to talk about this. The hive mind mentality of much of humanity, just follows in blind trust to what their tech gods and other so-called leaders put into their minds, without questioning.

I doubt this review will even get posted in this time of censorship of anything that deviates from the conditioned norm — but let’s see and if so, will anyone agree with me …?

I am giving you 3 stars not on the merits of your work, but on principle. And that 3 should really be a 1. I just wanted to make a statement that will likely fall on mostly deaf ears. After all you are a human being, and deserve to be treated with decency and respect.

Developer Response ,

Yes my wife and I worked very hard on this project. It uses AI to recommend photos without duplicates and to identify the names of people you are writing about. And it transcribes audio to text.

It doesn’t integrate with a chat bot like you’re accusing and I would really appreciate if you moved your feedback to social media instead of doing something that harms our livelihood