Card Diary - Journal, Diary

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Don’t pay for the app. Can’t transfer the pro. Just got pro on my Iphone and it won’t transfer to I Pad. It wants me to pay twice for both. NOT DOING THAT. Don’t get Pro it is not worth it. I may change my review in the future if they fix the problem, but as of now DONT BUY THE APP. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. JUST STICK WITH THE FREE APP. WARRING - DONT PAY ANYTHING FOR THE APP. JUST USE THE FREE ONE. NOT WORTH IT. THE MAKERES NEED TO FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Letters. Letters in diary are too small and not dark enough.

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   돈아깝네요. 디자인도 이쁘고 쓰기 편리해서 유료 결재 했는데 일기 작성할때 이미 작성된 부분 수정 하려 커서만 옮기면 글이 이렇게 써집니다 ㅇ ㅗ ㄴ ㅡ ㄹ(오늘) ㄴ ㅜ ㄴㅇ ㅣ(눈이) 이거 버그있다고 카톡 문의 했는데 답변도 없고 진짜 환불 받고 싶네요

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Always crashing. I can’t even open this app anymore without it immediately crashing. It’s so insanely frustrating. I recently transferred to this app from the Collect app because of the reviews and from a recommendation, but now I wish I’d never switched at all. I haven’t been able to open the app for over a week. Im terrified all my daily photos since 2013 are just gone and I can’t do anything about it since the updates never help.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Paid for a lifetime PRO APP…. And now suddenly they have gone subscription taking away my so called lifetime PRO VERSION… I am done with these companies who play this bait and switch! If you think after purchasing this app, I am going to pay a subscription for your bait and switch, I will delete this app like every other app that has pulled this bait and switch!!!

6. ★★★★★cross-device sync is unreliable

   Synching / Autosave Problems. The UI is wonderful and has helped me flesh out my thoughts in a beautiful and succinct way. HOWEVER after writing a LONG journal entry and saving it, the entry reverted back to a previous (and shorter) version. It doesn't appear I can get back the most recent entry. The exercise of working through my feelings gave me what I needed. I intended to send it to my therapist to show her my breakthrough but I can't now given the earlier draft is now THE final draft. Loved the app until this happened. Can't trust it with my thoughts anymore.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Unworkable in 2020. Since New Years it doesn’t work January is full of December old entries had to switch apps. Shame

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Once loved but now am just frustrated 😞. I used this app for 2 years and i loved it to keep memories. Suddenly i was going to add memories for this month and it copied December 2019’s data over in January 2020 and i can’t change it without deleting entries. It also shows 0/31 entries for January but then when i try to add calendar entries they don’t show up. Very frustrated with this app that i once loved.. think it’s time to move on to a new app.. i couldn’t seem to fix the issue- I tried everything!!

9. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Deleted everything I wrote.. This should have no stars. Says there is an auto save functionality but it just deleted everything. I’m not wasting another second on this thing and you shouldn’t either!

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Love the app but can’t get tech support. and a whole month of diaries gone missing. I’ve sent feedback several times. How can someone trust this app with their memories if entries can go missing and if there’s no one to provide support when something goes wrong? Hello?

11. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Bad picture. At first you use it and you like it. But after a while when you want to upload photos it delete the photos itself! I spent so much time choosing photos and upload. It is just junk!

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good, but for how much longer?. I like the app and its features, as well as how it looks. It’s missing PIN or FaceID lock, and a widget would be nice. But… I’m concerned about future development and maintenance of the app. The app appears to now be Oak Diary under a different developer and is presently only on the Google Play store. The carddiary.me link in the app redirects to a website that tells me my phone has been hacked. The last update to the iOS Card Diary apps were over a year ago. I don’t have a lot of confidence this app will be useful long term.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Has Promise, but….. I want to like this app, but the card idea is gimmicky and not functional. I want to be able to see my journal entries, quickly! This app make it very hard to located your journal entries. In addition, you have limited options to format your text. Good price, but poor functionality!

14. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    One of the best purchase. Just updated today and already buggy(still). Please put back that plus button! In the entry area!!! Its way more convenient. Now I have to add from the calender. Not feeling that format. I need that fix asap. Thank you.

15. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    App crashes on opening. App is great but now crashes when I open it. They fixed it to a few days but now it is broken again. It is a great app, but having to play this game of “is it broken today?” for an app that is supposed to be used daily is a bit infuriating.

16. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Difficult. Too difficult to understand what to do

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Love this, but.... I was having so much fun with this app until January 2020 hit and for whatever reason it pulls up my December entries for every date in January and I can’t add anything new. I emailed the developers over a week ago and have gotten no response. I paid for the lifetime subscription, too, so it’s super frustrating. I wanted to keep loving this app, but it seems to work like crap. 😞

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Help. It won’t let me post for 2020 now

19. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

    Several Bugs.... Latest update broke this app. Entries can be seen in "All Diaries" but not in their respective months. Very frustrating.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I loved this app but... I tried to go back back and edit one of my pictures, and the app crashed. I tried again and it kept doing the same thing. It also won’t let me add any new pictures I took today. They don’t show up when I try to select them. Such a disappointment.

21. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    2 stars for a nice idea. Not intuitive, or just functions poorly.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Good but. Needs black mode before I’ll use it. Thank you

23. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Please Read. This app is good but needs some updates. The text for the diary is too light even at the darkest color. It’s way lighter than the text you’re gonna read when I type this review. Please update. Also one suggestion is on the emotions bar where our profile is make it possible to click on all the for example “happy” emotion and it takes us to every diary entry with those. Please please please update app to make the text more readable (DARKER like normal text)

24. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    The photos are not showing up. This app keeps not showing my photos

25. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Leaves A Lot To Be Desired. It’s fine. But even after paying for the full experience it is pretty slim. Font options do not stay in the saved version. I used bold or italics in a draft and went back later - didn’t save them. If I use a black font, it doesn’t adjust to something that can be seen when I use dark mode on my phone. Saving photos and video is a good function, I like that. The most recent update seemed cosmetic at best.

26. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Pretty good!. I think I’ll be switching to this but I wish we could change the layout of the cards, add prompts and connect our accounts to a email instead of our Apple accounts :( It’s a way simpler interface than most diary apps tho- which is nice.

27. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    软件什么都好，就是无法图文混排。. 开发者你好，请问为什么不做一个图文混排的功能呢？我有时候会写一两千字的日记，如果图片不能插入到文字中的话，整篇日记的观感会很差，我无法快速得知某一段的内容，也没法快速找到自己想回顾的段落。 卡片日记对我来说几乎完美，我也是第一时间购买了永久版，但用了几天后发现没有图文混排功能的话我根本没法用，希望以后能增加这项功能，谢谢。

28. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not so good but not so bad. I love it but it’s a bit laggy and glitchy but because it’s nice I will keep it, when I go to find my diary page, it’s not there. Please read and take this to your consideration.

29. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    2020 Bug. My favorite app, previously 5 stars, but unfortunately it has stopped working! When I create a 12/31/2019 diary, it appears under December 2019 AND January 2020. When I create a 01/01/2020 diary, it doesn’t appear at all! Please fix!

30. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great Design but Limited Features. Card Diary has a nice minimalistic design that I really appreciate. However, I can't use this for my main journaling app because of two things. One: User support is almost impossible to find. This is an issue that's easily fixed and is just lazy on the developer's part. Two: The free version has almost no features. I can't input my Mood and the weather doesn't display basic information like Degrees. I haven't looked for the option to add tags or location info.