Heartspring Journal

i never write reviews. NEVER. this app has been beyond cathartic and helpful for me. I love the captions, the vlog style, and the analysis features (that i’m supposed to see tomorrow). anyways, if you’re the kind of person who talks yourself into a hole and solves your own problems because of it this app is so helpful. however, it’s not perfect. sometimes it crashes, won’t let me edit my name/information, and i think it has a lot of room to grow. i don’t want this to become one of those self help apps with a gazillion useless features though. the simplicity makes it so good. even so, i think the tag feature could use some adjustments (make more/customizable tags), maybe more accurate captions if possible, and if you’re going to go the AI route, maybe more features related to that? i don’t want an ai therapist, but the “mood analysis” type things seem to have a lot of potential! especially the customized notifications. after journaling, it sent me a notification saying something along the lines of “it looks like you’ve had a hard day.” that was amazing!!! i love that kind of thing where AI isn’t so intimate but can still play a personal role in making this app and experience feel human. i’m saying this because the developer seems very receptive. all in all, best app i’ve downloaded in a while! :) it would also be nice to have a one time purchase option for getting premium features. i think it would be more appealing than subscription based stuff. i also would like to not have a word limit or at least be able to do more than one journal a day.

I think this app is cute and straight to the point. My new years resolution was to journal more and this app is literally perfect for that. You can record up to ~800 words (maybe more I forgot) per prompt. If you want to record several times per day though, that’s premium which isn’t a big deal to me. It has like a AI feature that looks at your entry and recommends tips or encouragement and etc which I was skeptical of but it’s actually turned out to be a good feature in my option. I have some things that should definitely be fixed 1. Oh my god this app does get buggy sometime and it can be annoying. Maybe you’ll have to close it and reopen sometimes when recording, or sometimes when I just try to open it, it lags and doesn’t let me click anything when I open OR it just won’t open. Thankfully it doesn’t lag THAT MUCH for me but it does happen. Still a good app. 2. I really wish I could see more customization features in the future! It’s all black and boring and that would be kinda cool if there was maybe different backgrounds or something!!

So I was skeptical at first because of the lack of reviews on this app, so I figured I’d help with that and leave my own review. I’ve had this app for a few days now and I absolutely love it! It’s so easy to use and exactly like it was advertised to me (on TikTok). I have two little things to say about the recording part, but other than these things (which are fully understandable and reasonable lol) the app has been amazing so far! 1. You can only record a certain limit for your entry (like how long your entry can be), but it is a decent length. 2. You only get one entry a day, but if you get premium, you can record up to 4 times a day. The captions are sometimes a bit off, but that’s to be expected with all kinds of voice dictating things, especially with background noise, just like how text-to-speech is in messaging. However, you can play your entry when you’ve finished recording and easily edit your text before you save your video. Also, I love how the app automatically trims the moments where you’re quiet or thinking of what to say, which keeps the videos short and sweet! So far this app has been really nice for me and I love mini vlogging every day <3