Reflectly - Journal & AI Diary 4+

Great app!

So when I was looking at reviews at this game, I didn’t actually know what it was about. Basically, you open a new story and it asks you how your day was, for example you may say somewhat bad, and then it asks what made it somewhat bad and it has a couple options like food, education, friends, exercise etc. etc. And then it asks you if you want to elaborate and you can write about what happened or not if you don’t want to. And, after you’ve written a certain number of stories, it asks you a question like ‘What was the most valuable experience today’ or ‘If you left suddenly in the night, what would be unsaid?’ It’s all completely private and you can even go onto settings and make a finger print lock. Reflectly is great because you can look back on your stories and read them and compare them to what you’re like in the present. Although. I put four stars instead of five because there is a feature where you have to write seven stories before unlocking your stats and I was excited because I wanted to see it and I wrote seven stories and found out you had to pay to access them . Although this was quite disappointing, I understand reflectly needs people to buy things or they will run out of money. I recommend reflectly to anyone, mental illness or not. It’s a nice thing to look forward to, especially on weekends when you receive your daily quote. Thanks for reading!

Helping me cultivate joy and perspective

I used this app every day for nearly 3 months last year (2017) after starting a new job. It was a great part of my day that I looked forward to on the train home and I felt it helped me be aware of where I was doing well and how I could improve. I fell out of the habit of using the app when I moved a lot closer to work and didn’t have that habit of the train journey home to use Reflectly. Recently I’ve felt very stressed and I felt like I was missing the app for how it helped me reflect on the day and see progress. I redownloaded it and saw they had updated the design. I liked the slick new look but wasn’t sure about some of the new structure of the questions. However after using it for just two days I have already felt that joy again from reflecting and decided to give the premium version a go for the free 7 days. The audio reflection was really really good - I love that even though it doesn’t know what exactly you wrote for your answer to the prompt, it helps you decipher it a bit and grow from there. Both the reflections I’ve had so far have been very timely (uncannily so) for where I am now and I’m really optimistic for how this new update to the app will help me reflect and cultivate my self awareness.

Developer Response ,

Hi,

Thanks so much for this review! - we love the fact that you like the new design :) We will continue to build a better product for you.

Best,

Waste of money, very disappointed

I’m someone who knows the benefits of journaling and likes to journal so I thought that the app would be great! I read the reviews, 4.4/5 with 12,966 ratings! ‘Great’ I thought! ‘This will be awesome!’ WRONG. I thought it would prompt really great questions based on your answers, but the questions are very standard. You can do the same thing yourself for free on the notes app on your phone using a feeling wheel (google it) and the W questions: What, Where, Why, When and How. To give credit where credit is due, the two good things it has going for it are that: 1. It’s aesthetically pleasing (although pretty useless and a waste of money), 2. The tracker is useful, but it’s not supposed to be a tacker it’s supposed to be a journalling app. The only reason I gave it 2 stars and not 1 is because it’s making an effort and an attempt at helping mental wellness, but at the price, you’re better just using that money to see a therapist! You can find a tracker for moods for much cheaper if not for free. I think that it’s rather scummy to not offer a free trial, but I guess they know it’s because the app is basic and that you won’t subscribe after the free trial. If you’re unsure, just get a month subscription, don’t do what I did and get scammed out of a year subscription’s worth of money thinking it will be great, because it’s not. I hope that this is helpful to someone.