stoic is your mental health companion – it helps you understand your emotions and provides insights on how to be happier, more productive, and overcome obstacles. At its heart, stoic helps you prepare for your day in the morning and reflect on your day in the evening. In the process, we also guide you to journal with thought-provoking prompts, build better habits, track your moods, and more. ** ‘Featured App of the Day’ - Apple ** * Join over 4 million stoics bettering their lives * “I have never used a journal app that has impacted my life so much. It's my best friend.” – Michael MORNING PREPARATION & EVENING REFLECTION: • Start the perfect day with our personalized daily planner. Prepare your notes and to-do list so nothing can surprise you during the day. • Track your mood throughout the day and do bite-sized mental health exercises if you need them. • Reflect on your actions with our habit tracker in the evening to grow as a human and get better every day. GUIDED JOURNALS: Whether you're a journaling pro or new to the practice, stoic offers a welcoming space with guided journals, suggestions, and prompts to inspire reflection and cultivate the habit. If writing is not your cup of tea, you can also journal with voice notes and pictures/videos of your day. Choose from topics in productivity, happiness, gratitude, stress & anxiety, relationships, therapy, self-discovery, and much more. Stoic also has templates to help you with a variety of situations like preparing for a therapy session, CBT-based thought dumps, dream & nightmare journal, etc. Journaling is a therapeutic tool for clearing the mind, expressing thoughts, setting goals, practicing gratitude, emotional wellbeing, and promoting self-reflection. MENTAL HEALTH TOOLS: stoic provides you with the tools you need to feel better, reduce stress & anxiety, manage ADHD, be mindful and more. • Meditation – unguided or guided sessions to help you meditate with background sounds and timed chimes. • Br
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The app garners strong praise for its journaling prompts, mood tracking, and ability to foster consistent self-reflection and mental clarity, with many long-term users calling it insightful and habit-building. However, reception is mixed due to persistent technical issues like crashes, aggressive premium billing practices, and feature changes that frustrate users. Overall, it excels as a personal development tool for dedicated users but suffers from reliability and monetization complaints.
What users love
Effective prompts, quotes, and mood tracking that inspire self-reflection and build consistent journaling habits
Simple, intuitive UI with useful features like meditation timer and customization options
Helps with stress relief, mental clarity, and digital detox for daily users
Motivational content and step-by-step guidance that promotes peace and personal growth
Where it falls short
Frequent app crashes on launch and ongoing instability with poor support response
Aggressive billing, short trials, unexpected charges, and difficult refunds for premium
AI features that feel biased, repetitive, or unhelpful, especially for LGBTQ users
Removal or changes to popular elements like classic stoic quotes, voice-to-text, and widgets
Intrusive upgrade popups and high premium costs limiting core access
App crashes and instability preventing reliable use
Develop a lightweight, crash-free version with offline mode and proactive bug reporting
Target → Users who abandon apps due to technical frustration and seek dependable mental health tools
Billing surprises and lack of refunds or trial reminders
Implement transparent billing with extended trials, in-app cancellation, and prorated refunds
Target → Budget-conscious users wary of subscription traps in wellness apps
Biased or repetitive AI responses harming inclusivity
Create a customizable, bias-checked AI counselor with diverse perspectives and user controls
Target → LGBTQ+ and diverse users needing safe, affirming journaling support
Praise
Truly Insightful
I rarely review apps but there are about 5 apps on the App Store that are worth mentioning. This is one of the 5. \n\nStoic is one of the apps where I can confidently assume there were multiple talented developers with varying perspectives and skills involved, which ultimately resulted in high levels of insight. \n\nMost of the features inspire ideas, self reflection , and action. All while giving you choices and maintaining intuitive UI for users. I find that amazing and worth a review!
— Legato Stacatto
Stoic
I wanted something that would clear my mind, This app has done just that, I wish I could say more.
— anonymous_e_wg
Rly great
I downloaded this app a little over 3 years ago and I can’t express how much I love it. The prompts, the options for writing, the quotes. It’s all so easy to understand and navigate and even if it doesn’t sound like writing what happened today down, or journaling about what you wish you could have said, or whatever it is that’s going on in your life will help, speaking from experience IT DOES. And this app is perfect for that. My only complaint is that premium is needed ignorer to have stoic ac
— Nickname333iloveicloud
Excellent Personal Development Option
I am very saturated with ai and related technology. I needed an option to help relieve stress and digitally detox. I found Stoic through one of my AI options. I use it everyday and during my much needed breaks. I highly recommend.
— Puma Station
Complaints
Did not want to extend trial. Does not give refunds.
I wanted to try it out. I never used the app. They charged me $100 and will not give a refund. They say oh it’s not our fault because Apple handles al the billing. We can’t do anything about it. That is BS, unethical and terrible business practice.
— Sprodigality
money
mental health that everyone is talking about, you ended up charging and making business… not good should be free
— elixabth
AI is biased and bad for LGBTQ users
The AI is horrible for LGBTQ users. An app all about journaling, where LGBTQ users often need it more, shouldn’t be discriminatory towards them.\n\nThis is the last thing I want to be seeing in my journal, and it’s horrible for your mental health unless you’re a straight white Christian.
— Cyro Paws
Unable to open app
App crashes every time starting up now
— Big Nimz