Talkbook Journal

This app has an amazing foundation and amazing potential, and I have been journaling the last couple days however, there are several necessary adjustments needed for the app to be useful and for users to want to use it as their primary or one of their primary diary tools that they’d be willing to pay for. I recommend adding the feature to be able to play a journal entry back from a certain starting point by clicking the transcribed text so you don’t have to rewatch the whole journal entry in order to get to the part that you wanna listen to. I noticed that you can keep recording multiple journal entries in a day. When one entry ends you can go back and record another and it just adds it on top of the previous journal entry, which is great. But I cannot see a feature yet where I can skip the first journal entry and go to the other to watch/listen it. It just always replays the first journal entry of that day even though I see the transcribed text available from the following entry beneath it. The only way I’ve managed to watch all journal entries in a day is by exporting the journal entry to my photo library which I don’t always want to do for storage and privacy reasons. Also, the app should manage to detect the date automatically and allow for the user to adjust the date if needed on their own. I noticed that when I recorded my entry for today, it bundled it up with all of yesterday’s journal entries. And no, I did not record yesterday‘s entries after midnight for that to make sense. Another thing I’ve noticed is that if you record multiple journal entries, it’s always the latest journal entry that you have to choose as the cover for your journal entry. You should be able to select any cover from entries from that day to be the cover not just the latest. An extremely useful feature would allow users to trim their entries as needed if they say something they regret or don’t want included or if they’ve stumbled on their words. As of right now, I don’t see any feature to edit any entry. In addition, the 1000 word cap on an entry seems very limiting when sometimes the only place you can let your feelings and thoughts out are in journals so allowing that to have an unlimited word cap or at least a much higher cap would make better sense. I also noticed that when it gives me the warning that I’m about to reach my cap it’s always around 800 words and when I try to continue to record the last few words of that entry it forces the warning to pop up again and prevents me from getting in those last couple hundred words. So it seems like the cap is more around 800 rather than 1000. I am going through one of the toughest times in my life so this app seemed like a godsend since I can’t speak to anybody in my life about what I’m going through, so having these adjustments made would make this so useful and I would be willing to continue my membership if these changes were applied. There are other changes I would recommend but then this review would be much longer and I’ve already spoken enough lol.

Absolutely love this app. It’s exactly what I was looking for. One thing I wish it had was an “add entry” option or something to be able to add more than one entry to a day. I feel like I would like to be able to record in real time right after something happens that I want to talk about versus just waiting to make one entry and possibly forget.

I can do everything

I dislike the fact that I can only do three entries a day when I only have 1000 words per entry. I honestly would pay the membership if it allowed me to talk more and/or make more entries, but it does not let me do either. It’s honestly just not that good if you’re looking for an app that would allow you to talk freely and rant at the end of a long day. Maybe if they update it, it’ll help.

But dude it deletes vids so fricking often it’s making me mad. All my entries from yesterday deleted and I’m so frustrated agh.

I have trouble writing my thoughts down on paper so this helps a lot. I like how it records everything you say and you can edit it. Magnificent app, the videos are usually so cute too.

i really like the idea of the app but it isn’t allowing me to submit any of my entries

Such a cute idea but everytime i've recorded a journal entry it just bugs out and deletes. Sooo many good thoughts and i've even filmed some with friends that would be cute intimate memories but now they are gone forever ☹️ Would reccomend just taking videos on your camera roll at that point cause this app just doesn't work.

Literally pay for membership and it keeps crashing on me every time I try to record. This is such a good app and concept and I genuinely think it would be a game changer if yall just did something to make it stop crashing or glitching. Sometimes it just gets off the app and back to my phones Home Screen. Sometimes it just stops recording and picking up on the audio/transcribing. Every time I try to hit “help” the email literally blocks all messages to it. There’s nothing on the website. Putting a one star review hoping they see this and take it seriously enough to fix bc I’m literally paying $ for a membership and it shouldn’t do this esp if I’m paying.

instead of just ai i should be able to say how my mood was and also i should be able to acess my own diary without a password or face id i should also be aboe to choose my own written password also multiple entires a day should be free? this is a glorified folder in my photos app why would i oay extra for that