Bullet Journal Companion

Update March 2026 I thought I would try this app again and it continues to lock up when I select dates. I noticed the app hasn’t been updated in years. It feels like this is becoming abandonware at this point. I would recommend just scanning your journals with Apple preview app although you are limited to 24 pages at a time. Alternatively you can use Readdles Scanner Pro. Update July 2024 This app has now become unusable for me. If I try to add a journal to my library with previous dates it simply won’t work. I pick a starting date and it’s fine. When I go to pick an ending date it locks up when I try to scroll prior to 2022. I’ve completely deleted the app several times, restarting my phone but nothing works. At this point I would recommend using a good scanner app and just scan in your notebooks. The rest of the content in the app is already available for free on the BJ website. Extra features like on the go logging have an annoying 72 hour auto delete. I understand the goal was to get you to migrate to the journal but the time should be adjustable. I would love to go for a week vacation and not have to bring my journal and risk losing it. But the 72 hour limit means I can’t use this app daily to log my vacation. I recommend using Notes, Apples built in journal app or DayOne when a digital solution is needed. Original review I really want to give this app 5 stars but it has an absolutely fatal flaw for myself and I’m sure many others. You can have journals with overlapping dates. The reason this is critical is many of us can not mix our work and personal journals. So if you have to keep 2 journals that overlap the same date period you can’t back them up. If the app would simply add the ability to have multiple journal libraries it would solve this problem.

Works as intended. And love the reflect option includes log from the app. My only things that would make it better would be 1. The load page to be the log. That way it minimizes friction and immediately you can jot ideas 2. The widget to show if you marked an item as migrated or not. I wish it would either be removed from the widget or the “x” shown. Right now it keeps original symbol even after marking it as migrated. 3. Reflection page editable to add our own reflection routine before offering the photo option. That way people who are new to bujo can remember their end of day routines easier.

I am paying the paper journal 30$ and I am expecting a premium product coming with the right digital companion, instead this comes at a price. Then once you purchase it the functionality is extremely limited. It’s a to-do list that you can easily setup on apple reminders, that does not integrate with Siri, that does not have extra space for notes or upload a picture. The reflect-reminders are an interesting concept, but it’s under developed as pointed out on other reviews.

Please fix the freezing that happens every time I try to log pages in the library. It happens when trying to create volumes for my bullet journals older than my current. Also I use a notebook separate from work. Being able to have both over the course of the same dates is a need function for many of us. Otherwise it’s a great app.

First off, the idea of this app is great; that being said it is completely unusable. Constant freezing and crashing on my newer iPhone. Trying to even open the menu crashes the app. Apple has been less than helpful. Maybe the developer can use the money I paid for an UNUSABLE app to implement some fixes. Completely disappointed with this app and the company in general after this experience. I went from a loyal fan to never purchasing anything manufactured or developed by them ever again.

I truly love this app! I’ve been Bullet Journaling off and on for probably 12 years. My downfall has always been that I don’t carry my journal with me everywhere, so things often don’t make it in. I had a list in my notes app of “Things to add to journal”, but I always forgot that it existed. The fact that this app has a quick add widget that I can have up front and center of my Home Screen is so helpful! And the fact that things disappear after 72 hrs forces me to interact with my journal on the regular.

Sort the reviews by Most Recent, and you’ll see that there are many reviews that express frustration with how difficult it is to actually read the screen, due to poor choice of font and background colors. This isn’t just a design preference, this is literally an accessibility issue. Then notice that, while a new version was released last year, the app has not been touched since then: no updates in response to user requests, no bug fixes, and no responses to reviews by users. So disrespectful.

I really like using this for rapid logging on the go but the light background color and small white text is really hard to read. I wish it there were settings to adjust that to a higher contrast or different text size

I have to say this app has proved to be more effective than I thought. I used to use Apple Reminders to log quick tasks that I would come back to later, but inevitably wait days before opening the app, be overwhelmed by the large list of tasks needing to be addressed, and avoid “migrated” them to their specific list or area of my life. After moving back to pen and paper and using the bullet journal method I still needed a way to capture tasks and quick notes on my phone on the go so I paid for this app. The sheer brilliance of a task or note expiring after 72 hours forces your hand to migrate them timely into your bullet journal (or any “system”) but also reminds you that if you haven’t looked at something in 3+ days it must not be that important. There have been many times I’ve forgotten to open the app after 72 hours just to find out all my tasks and notes expired. I at first panic, and then sigh a relief. “If it was that important it will come back”. The app is a little dated on the font/style and I wish it had Siri Shortcuts accessibility so I could voice log tasks with Siri. Other than that I’ve loved it and have been using it about a year now.

I get the simplification of the process. However, there are a few issues with this app: 1. Text size and background color choices. Too small for those of us who are in their "reading glasses" era. You'll get there soon, Ryder. Why not "black on cream" like a pen on your paper products? These make it too hard to read. 2. Reflection time rigidity. Why? I got busy on a phone call with a family member last night. It wasn't over until after midnight. Now I can't mark last night's reflection because I did it at about 12:15. Why? Make them editable in the past. I have a lot of "missed" reflections for this reason. 3. Journal dates rigidity. You now sell "Pocket" journals. I'm ok adding my own size, but since you're trying to sell me two sizes, one to have with me when mobile, why can't it start on the same dates? Don't give us reasons not to buy your stuff! Could I say it was next month's? It's an ugly hack, but could I even have two open with "Current" as the end date? None of this feels like "there's no wrong way to Bullet Journal". This app is telling me I'm doing it wrong every day.