5 Minute Journal: Self-Care app for iPhone and iPad

4.6 ( 8976 ratings )

Lifestyle Education Health & Fitness
Developer: Intelligent Change Inc.

Free

Current version: 3.6.15, last update: 6 months ago
First release : 22 Mar 2016
App size: 95.21 Mb

The Five Minute Journal uses proven principles of positive psychology to make you happier in 5 minutes a day with the guided gratitude journaling format

“There are plenty of benefits to journaling, whether you take time to write out your full thoughts or just spend a few minutes jotting down the things youre most grateful for every day or lessons youve learned. Five Minute Journal for the iPhone makes this process easy enough to do on the go.” — Lifehacker

BENEFITS OF PRACTICING GRATITUDE

Cultivating gratitude can positively impact all areas of your life—from personal growth and emotional intelligence to meaningful relationships and enhanced productivity. A lot of thought leaders practice gratitude (including Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Tim Ferris, and many others), as studies have found it improves health, has lasting positive effects on the brain, and is a key to mental wellbeing.

Practicing gratitude with the Five Minute Journal app brings you a more positive outlook on life and ability to notice wonderful things and capture the life-changing experiences. The key is consistency. With its thoughtful features and a structure to help you focus on what’s good, you will find The Five Minute Journal app to be a great way to start and end your day.

WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAYING

“Not only do I love the simplicity in the design, but the fact that it takes only a minute to update the entries means this is something I’ll actually use. This app really gets you thinking about the positive things right before you start your day.”

FIVE MINUTE JOURNAL APP FEATURES

– Beautiful, Intuitive Journaling Experience: The Five Minute Journal app has been designed to capture the physical Five Minute Journal experience. Getting around the app is a breeze and adding entries is easy with a guided flow for both your morning and evening entries.
– Easy Journal Entry Navigation: Quickly cycle through previous entries by scrolling your timeline or by tapping on a specific date in calendar view.
– Guided Journaling Flow & Prompts: A new guided process to help you get the most from your gratitude journal experience.
– Reminders: Set daily notifications to keep up with a rewarding journaling habit.
– Timeline View: Access previous journal entries and view short daily excerpts. Tapping an entry leads to a full day review.
– Daily Quotes & Weekly Challenges: Receive daily inspiring quotes and weekly challenges, and share them across social media.
– Passcode Protection: Keep all your journal entries private with secure passcode, Face ID or Touch ID protection.
– Dark Mode: Use your journal in either light or dark mode, which is especially great for late night journaling.
– Compatible With Any Device or platform: Use it on iPhone app, iPad app and Apple Watch companion app.
– Track your mindful minutes in the Apple Health app with our HealthKit integration
– Streaks: Track your personal progress and get insights on positive changes in your life.
– Backup/Export: Easily backup your entries and export your treasured memories and media to PDF, HTML, Dropbox, and more. You can select a date range or export all.

PREMIUM FEATURES

Five Minute Journal App offers an optional monthly or yearly subscriptions with free trials or lifetime license.

Heres what you get when you unlock the Premium:
– Photos and Video: Capture and view your magical moments with a daily photo or video. Attach media to any of your daily prompts.
– Personalized Practice: Create your own custom questions, tailored to your mood and goals.
– Space for Notes: Clear your thoughts and write freely in the new notes section.
– Mood tracker: Check in with yourself, express how you feel, and gain insights into how your emotions influence your days.
– Look Back Reminders: Get reminded of your memories with the “On this Day” feature.
– Timeline Photo View: See a photographic timeline view of all your daily photos.
– Widget: Add a thoughtful Five Minute Journal widget to your home screen.

Pros and cons of 5 Minute Journal: Self-Care app for iPhone and iPad

5 Minute Journal: Self-Care app good for

Ive just started and alt ady feeling better about my life.. Thanx!

This app is very great !!! And all day helps to improve a positive attitude.

Awesome app to practice gratitude and be happy everyday. It helps you stop for 5 minutes everyday and justa think about life, what youre grateful for, how you can make today a great day, and how you could have made it even greater at the end of the day. Everyone should use it!

This App is amazing! I love Mimi and Alex and Im so thankful theyve made a app too.

Thank you for that amazing piece of work! I really enjoy and appreciate this app! Not only is it beautiful, it is soooo functional! I love it and I dont miss the paper version. Its completely worth the 5€

Having a positive outlook on things gets super easy. Plus the app is designed simply and beautifully. All you need to practice gratitude and enjoy its benefits - in a visually appealing way. Worth every cent.

Some bad moments

Was looking forward to this app. Purchased, and discovered you have to sign up and log in -- WHY? Why cant anyone make a journal app that really IS private?

Firstly, the app freezes when I try to open it. I have to close it and try again multiple times before I can create a new entry. Or I have to wait 5 mins and come back to it. Which is frustrating to deal with first thing in the morning. And makes me not want to use the app. Secondly, it created a black page for one of the days I attempted to record. So I attempted to recreate it from the best of my memory. Once I tried to delete the blank page the app deleted both the new and the old entry.

I admit this app has been crucial to getting me to journal more frequently. And maybe $5 and tax is worth that. But on the whole, it seems the key to this apps success is the fact that its got a following already, no one seems to mind the price tag. For starters, it is extremely lacking in features...and I can appreciate minimalism, no problem. Its just that there are certain things missing that could make this a flawless app. For example, I cant count the number of times have I typed out my daily entry and forgotten to save, leave the app, only to return to a blank page. Everything gone. Autosave is the least they could have, no? I can understand the lack of a customizable/dynamic/creative visual aesthetic. I can understand the lack of calendars, icons and visual aids. But why have the picture of the day and nothing else? Not only is it placed first on the list (what?) it seems like an arbitrary addition to the journaling process. The developers could easily add a selection of add-ons for the user to customize and beef up their journaling experience. Perhaps a simple version of the journal (identical to the book version) and one that enables you to create the journal you always wanted. Thats what 5 bucks should get you these days...

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