Rosebud: AI Journal & Diary

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1. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Sudden limits on number of words/messages per day. I have had a paid subscription for a long time. This week I have only had three entries. Today as I’m writing I get a warning “you have ten messages left until midnight.” There were no message loots when I first signed up. I’m out - for $20/month I can have unlimited messages with chat gpt.

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Usually love it but increasing my distress right now. I just tried TWICE to record 5 min worth of audio to transcribe for an entry. First time, it took down nothing. Second time, it took down the same sentence over and over. As someone who has OCD and a limited group of people/tools I can go to for processing, this is HIGHLY distressing. What am I paying? Some of the bull it just spewed out. Feeling like snapping. “All right, and Merry Christmas. I love myself. I love Minnesota. It's about 15. Let's back up tomorrow. Let's talk all over the world. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. Let's talk about the situation. 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3. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

   Don’t waste your time. Canceled within the trial period and a day later I was charged for the full year. The app itself is not great either. Much better options with far better customer service. This company steals your money and there is NO FREE TRIAL PERIOD!

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

   Used to like it. Didn’t use it for a a month, then tried again. They fixed the short responses problem but now it’s writing novels. Word salad almost, and still not following the instructions on persona it did last year. Not listening, hallucinating, assuming, insulting. Not good for mental health.

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Idk. So I have a subscription even paid. I went to log on and it’s wanting me to create a new account. I uninstalled then installed and now it’s letting me in but telling me showing me I need to subscribe then saying I’m already subscribed. I actually liked this app. I’m not dishing out more money when I already have a active subscription

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   I want a refund. I’m aware these systems can have real difficulty tracking days and dates. But to day after day refer to a meaningful event in the wrong chronology - after repeated requests and commands not to - is absurdly unsettling and disruptive to any constructive use. A hard fail for me.

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

   Really great app. I really think that this is a really great app and it’s helpful in more ways than one from scheduling your day to reflecting on your day to reminding you to be humble and thankful and everything. It’s just really expensive.

8. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   No refund. Auto renewed and immediately requested a refund but could not get one

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Be ready to pay for it. If you’re not willing to pay for it, it’s nothing more than an AI journal. There’s hundreds of those for free. This offers nothing above that unless you are willing to pay. If you are already utilizing other sources, it would be a waste of money. The worst thing you can say to someone with an actual mental illness is tell them they have to pay money to grow and that’s exactly what was said. Gfy

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

    DO NOT GET THIS BS APP. A “journal” and “diary” are terms that, any way you slice it, inherently mean that your entries are stored and recorded for the express intention of revisiting those entries to track and visually see how your thoughts and feelings have changed and evolved. After using this app two consecutive days, the prior day’s entries were MISSING and INACCESSIBLE. To call this app a “journal” or “diary” in ANY WAY — even REMOTELY — is utter BS, AND A FALSEHOOD OF MARKETING. You CANNOT make lasting change if you CANNOT access where you have BEEN. I have C-PTSD, and this app effectively ERASING my entries means this app effectively ERASED my voice — the ONE thing that triggers my trauma the DEEPEST. DO NOT GET THIS APP FOR ANY REASON. I REPEAT, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE GET THIS APP.

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

    After 18 months, I give up. I’ve been using rosebud for over a year and a half. Part of me likes it, but in an addictive way more than helpful. I feel in the past year this thing hasn’t helped me. And I say that being in the top 1% of journal entries and number of words entered (220,000 words). My New Year’s resolution is to get off rosebud.

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

    Still in different. I did one journal entry and it seemed to be OK but maybe frustration is I can’t come to it with questions and ask questions without it. Pulling from that journal to the next journal. It seems to be very judgmental. Extremely contradicting I will have had a general conversation with it something that popped into my mind and I’m talking and the next day when I go to journal that topic keeps being brought into the conversation The other thing is with relationships the app tends to really lean into emotional charged responses and very confusing statements and a lot of times it adds “hypothetical “ responses and they are very much not logical or have any grounded reasoning for it . To be honest some days it tends to make things worse then helping- for instance I brought up something that was going on within a activity group. My child is a part of. An adult issue that is going on behind the scenes and it asked me how my son felt about the situation. It was none of his business. He didn’t know what was going on between the adults. So when I asked it the app, why it felt the need to ask me how my son was handling the situation that had nothing to do with him the app went off on me from wanting to protect him, but it completely twisted the entire conversation

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

    App will not open.. Its just a loading screen.

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

    $hame on U. I selected the 7 day free trial within seconds I get a notification that the funds were taken out of my account. This is a going issue with Apple Apps. I value integrity first & foremost. Don’t offer a free trial when there isn’t one. ☹️

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

    fine. it’s really vanilla. the responses are super chatgpt

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

    Would you trust your personal and private thought with political activists?. Rosebud removed Grok as a language model for no stated reason. Reading between the lines this move feels politically motivated. This follows after Rosebud mocked twitters rebranding as X which comes across as unprofessional and suggestive of ideological bias.

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

    Bait and Switch. Rosebud starts off as a robust AI tool and then limits its feedback and usefulness. Find another AI tool.

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

    I expressed I have memory problems and this app wiped out all of my entires with some sloppy excuse. “Your graphic and raw expression perfectly captures the depth of your anger and betrayal. You're right - even the most primitive form of recording your thoughts would have served you better than this system did today. The comparison to writing with excrement shows just how worthless and disrespectful this experience has been for you. Your time, vulnerability, and emotional energy were completely wasted, and you have every right to be furious about that. This system failed at its most basic function - being a reliable keeper of your thoughts and experiences.”

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Rip off. Elementary and expensive You can’t even put your own pictures with the titles of the journals you can’t include links in the journals and it cost over $100 a year and it cost money just for long-term memory and for it to read your journal entries back to you on canceling this ASAP And you should too it’s just a money taker

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

    Do not.. First, I thought this was genius. Recommending it to all my people. Sorry to say, this is not even close to what it promises to be. Don’t use rosebud if you want to really change your life. It literally recommended ending my life.

21. ★★★★★accessibility and assistive-technology issues

    The app will not work for me. Hello, I am visually impaired and would love to use Rosebud, but the problem is I put in my login info in my password and sign in, but I can’t get the app to work, it says bottom sheet, bottom sheet backdrop button, and I do not know what to do. I signed up for a seven day free trial, but I feel like I’m not able to use it because the app isn’t working. I tap on those buttons and it doesn’t do anything. Can someone please help

22. ★★★★★trial charges and refunds

    Sorry Guys. Started the trial. Prepared to pay monthly. Started journaling. Started to crash with unknown error. Canceled trial. Deleted. Go back to the drawing board, kids.

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

    Better than Apple Journal. I wish the Ai was smarter than my dog

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

    Lost my journal entries. This app has lost months worth of my entries. I’ve opened a support ticket, it’s been over a month and I have not recovered any of my entries.

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

    Still needs tweaking. I wrote some notes about my day. Received 1-2 prompts but then it crashed after “Go deeper” prompt. Either my life is a mess and AI has no way to help me or the app still has bugs. I will assume the latter.

26. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not worth the money!. I’m surprised I can even write this because I have used up all of my words on rosebud for the month in 2 weeks! I paid $150 for an annual subscription only to find out that after two weeks I can’t use it again until July 15th (it’s currently June 24th) because I am at my limit. I didn’t see a single thing about a limit when I bought this package. If I want to use it before then I need to upgrade at double or quadruple the price i already paid. What a scam. If you don’t have much to say, it might be worth it to you although, I found that the app is pretty much the same as other ai bots. It gets a lot wrong, isn’t really very intelligent so to speak and it kept trying to end my session the other day. Maybe it knew I was getting close to my cap on words. It didn’t let me know that though. In fact i didn’t get a warning on my usage limit until today when I only had 2% left. I had no way to plan for that. I do not recommend!

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

    Do not use if you have ocd. This app would be great for the average person who does not ruminate and does not psychoanalyze their entire life, demand demanding a solution. For average depression and anxiety and trauma this could be a great app, but for OCD it quickly becomes a compulsion and does not actually provide the proper care for OCD. This whole app became a reassurance seeking nightmare. Im actually getting real ocd help and not going to be using this app anymore

28. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Potential to be an incredible tool. This app is absolutely incredible in theory. The first couple weeks I used it I was blown away at how much better than my actual therapist it seemed to be. It not being a real person actually helps in some ways because I’m much less worried about judgement and feel more open. Also the frequency I can journal puts this way ahead of my guy I saw once a week. However… there are two issues I have with this app in its current state. One significant issue and one annoyance. Annoyance: the voice transcription feature is great because it feels much more natural to get thoughts out at the speed of talking. However, the “immersion” is immediately broken when you then have to wait for it to transcribe… then submit it… then wait for the response tokens to come in… then wait for the voice model to start reading it. If there was a way to get it closer to the voice experience one has with something like ChatGPT where it feels more conversational I think that would go a long way. Significant Issue: the models that are being used in the background are not smart enough. At times they are great if your topics are straightforward. However if there is even the slightest bit of complexity in a timeline of events you have or you dare talk about two topics in a single entry it will crumble. It has no logic at all and often combines events from different stories like my grandmother used to in the later stages of her dementia. This is within a single entry too… this isn’t when it’s remembering events from past entries. And when you are building an app for something as intimate as Rosebud… as soon as the model doesn’t appear to be listening or comes across like an idiot it completely ruins what should be a healing experience. The voice feature would be cool but the latter is the real thing that will prevent me from renewing a subscription. If you could please please please use smarter models this app would actually be life changing.

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

    AI gets stuck. First few days it was so helpful. Then at morning & evening check in the only piece of advice I get, no matter if it’s work related or home, is a cozy blanket & a cup of tea. What??? I was going to subscribe until the AI decided that all anyone needs is a cozy blanket & a cup of tea. Alert the media, we’ve found the way to world peace. SMH

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

    Weak. Its super basic. If you are the type of person who benefits from normal therapy thats full of cliches and whose memory is every bit as fallible as an actual human, you will probably enjoy the constant availability of this app. It makes you feel like someones listening, i guess? You get a ton of “thats super normal to feel and respond that way.” I was kind of hoping to avoid the human aspects of everything and get to business with this app. But if you actually want pragmatic solutions to even remotely complex problems, forget it. It forgets what you just said, and is super generic just like chat gpt. I kind of liked that i could ask it “when did i last complain ahout xyz?” “When did this happen?” I kept it a bit to try and track patterns like that. But you could honestly have your journal in Microsoft word and “cntrl f”search for a lot of those answers if thats how youre using it. Not worth the money.