Lifecraft: Your Life Coach

This is journaling app is the one!! I have been diagnosed with adult ADHD (the extreme side) about 3 years ago, and as one can imagine, I’ve had ADHD all my life ever since I can remember. With that being said, I’ve been journaling as well all my life... and am trying to inter grade my digital world into my writings, I’ve literally tried about 10-12 different journaling apps, (paid money for half of them) and they where not exactly what I was looking for, let alone the amount of customization one has with font styles, color texts, and paragraph set up etc. and with a yearly (as well as monthly-yearly is considerably cheaper) subscription of $15- I’m hook~line~& sinker. And that doesn’t mention the fact that you also get writing prompts on areas of self reflection with an added “AI”. I could on and on about this one and I’d like make a suggestion if I can: adding some background images or colors to the pages of ones journal entries (maybe as a premium benefit) and some stickers (maybe limited for free and everything available for premium) I just think with more customization on the pages would really help make it ones own...like with real paper and stickers..... highly recommend this app for any person who has tried them all!!! Which was me until now!!!

I’ve journaled almost all my life and have used many forms of journaling: art journals, bullet journaling, online journals (remember Livejournal?)...you name it. I found Day One several years ago and it has been my preferred method of journaling for at least five years. However, Day One upgraded and suddenly their apps stopped syncing, now you need to buy the app (again, in my case), and for what? Minimal features? Enter LifeCraft. Everything Day One is and $10 cheaper with an added layer of providing emotion tracking and an intelligent assistant. I think it’s innovative. LifeCraft has definitely tried to innovate in a genre that is saturated and still manages to provide something new. I appreciate that. I also appreciate that there is an easy import option for me to get my entries from Day One. The interface is straightforward, the intelligent assistant unobtrusive, and the emotion tracking is well done. It looks as elegant, if not more so than Day One. Their Mac App looks great. It synced rather seamlessly with my MacBook, iPad Pro, and iPhone 8. All of that is a recipe for success. Good job, LifeCraft!

I do like this apt. However the advertising is a little deceitful you can not change fonts while typing which the little movie about the apt clearly showed you could. You can set up a personal font size and color for the over all apt and maybe for the other journals you have. However this is one of the features that drew me to this particular apt. I had to take a star away for that. The next issue I have was not clear in the advertisement so I won’t take a star but I will mention it. It lead me to believe that once I updated I would be able to have more than one emotion per entry. That is not the case. I certainly have many feelings going threw me at once about many subjects at various points of the day. I rarely have just one feeling at a time. I don’t know about other people but I want that function. If these things are fixed then I would be very happy to give a full 5 stars. I look forward to what other new items you come up with. Stickers are an idea especially for food. With lots of American foods. I don’t eat Sushi ever but I love egg salad regular salad even the habbatchi grill. Wonton soup, ice cream and much much more. Just a thought. This is such a great app and so much can be added to it. I certainly hope you all keep working with it and upgrading it and more.

I struggle with Borderline Personality Disorder and PTSD and have so badly wanted to pull myself together but can’t find the motivation to even want to. I’ve tried journaling and many apps and mood trackers. My schedulers are useless if I don’t have the mindset to use them and I’m sure this app is what I’ve been looking for. I love that it feels like I’m socializing with someone because my extroverted nature makes it difficult to concentrate on self improvement and leads me to scroll endlessly or leave my house and waste time. The app is beautifully formatted. I love the writing prompts which have pushed me to think about why I feel the way I do about important subjects like why I liked a certain habit and why I liked a certain activity; versus just listing things I like and want. I wish there were more challenges because the ideas, accountability, and structure is something I’m looking forward to and I only see a few of them and only 1 fitness challenge. I need the fitness aspect as well because it’s so closely tied to mental health. And maybe organization challenges. Please add more challenges. So far that’s my only worry. Thank you for making this app. It made me very hopeful.

I really like the concept of having a journal and mood tracker in one. I do both avidly and have been using two separate apps for some time. I also like that there are journal prompts and timers. This app has potential. However, for this to be a paid app (you must get a subscription if you want the top tier features) it leaves much to be desired. First, it’s a bit glitchy and does not operate as seamlessly as I would like. The “Compass” section has not worked for me at all since installing the app despite me getting notifications to check the app. I like the idea of having challenges, but there are only two available. One for physical activity which I’m not interested in and another one for journaling which doesn’t seem to be of benefit to someone who already avidly journals. I am hopeful that this app will continue to improve with time. Oh, I would also like the different journals or notebooks to be color coded.