Grateful: A Gratitude Journal 4+

I’ve been suffering with Depression, Anxiety and Anorexia Nervosa and this was recommended to me by my therapist. I gave it a shot and it’s so easy to use. We all get stuck in a cloud of negativity but this will help you break from it. I started to notice after a few days of using this that I started to see the positivity in things. It’s changed my mindset to look at the good of the days we go through instead of focusing on the negativity as well as appreciating the good in our lives even if it’s as small as the smell of our shampoo bottle. I upgraded right away to the premium and made my own prompts! I highly recommend this app! I feel miles better than I did before!

I have used this app for a long time (I have the purchased version). I love that I can add photos and create my own prompts, and the prompts that are there in the beginning are also good to utilize. I never had an issue until a few weeks ago. The app would crash every time I tried to open it. I didn’t want to delete it because I didn’t want to lose all of the memory filled entries I had made (probably close to a years worth), and I couldn’t remember the last time I backed it up to the cloud. After a couple weeks of hoping an update would occur to fix it, I ended up having to delete the app. Fortunately I only lost about a week or two worth of entries (not including the two weeks it didn’t open for me). I transferred all of the entries I had been keeping in my Notes app, backed the Grateful app up to the cloud, and continued to use it. But it was short lived. I am now experiencing the same issue. Even if I uninstall the app, reinstall it, restore my purchase, and import my data from the cloud, it tells me to restart the app to complete that process and then crashes all over again. I’m not sure what’s going on, but I would really appreciate a solution as I look forward to using this app every night before I go to bed. Until this issue is resolved, I would not recommend this app. Maybe others are having better luck than me.

I just tried using this app for the first time. When I first opened it, I loved the simple UI and design. I was pretty excited to get my gratitude on after just waking up. So, the prompt asked me “What are you looking forward to?” I spend a good five minutes considering my response, and about another ten minutes typing in my entry. I also liked how you can add photos if you’d like. Since my entry was about taking my first trip to London, I thought perhaps I should attach a picture of the city to help me visualize it better. So, I swing over to Google Images so that I could grab a photo, and when I came back—poof. My entire entry was reset. NOT COOL. I spent a considerable amount of time coming up with a thoughtful entry, and it all gets deleted just because I switched to another app for a brief moment. This wasn’t good for my first experience using the app, as I do quite a bit of multitasking on my device. It’s such a basic feature, why would you wipe all of my intimate thoughts just because I momentarily switched apps? With that said, I’ll probably delete the app and never upgrade to the premium. Perhaps I’ll change my mind if you fixed this issue. I only gave this app 3-stars because I like their other apps so much. I expected way more.