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Motivation - Daily quotes
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Top complaints - extracted from 27 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"subscription"
11 negative reviews mention this · 41% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Uninstalled. Everyone is different so I won’t say that they’re absolute cookie cutter. Quotes don’t have the potential to be helpful. I don’t know if I would even say motivating, but I don’t feel like it’s anything different than anything else or anythi…" - transplant Looking for facts
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"free"
9 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. They make it seem like it’s free you set up the entire account I assumed there would be in app purchases which fine I just wouldn’t get them. The whole app is a monthly subscription after a 3 day free trial. I’m not going to pay for an app …" - noodles68274992874
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"quotes"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Uninstalled. Everyone is different so I won’t say that they’re absolute cookie cutter. Quotes don’t have the potential to be helpful. I don’t know if I would even say motivating, but I don’t feel like it’s anything different than anything else or anythi…" - transplant Looking for facts
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"money"
6 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "TRYING TO TAKE MY MONEY. I WAS ONLY CURIOUS FOR THE FREE TRIAL BUT CANCELLED AS I KNEW I COULD NOT AFFORD IT! NOW GOOGLE/+APPLE WONT EVEN LET ME UPDATE MY APPS!! THERE ARE A FEW REASONS I REALLY NEED TO UPDATE MY BROWSER ETC. WILL YOU PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME AND INFO…" - miyeyosh79
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"trial"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. They make it seem like it’s free you set up the entire account I assumed there would be in app purchases which fine I just wouldn’t get them. The whole app is a monthly subscription after a 3 day free trial. I’m not going to pay for an app …" - noodles68274992874
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"year"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Going downhill…. Same trite, bumper-sticker tidbits that they’ve had for years. Content is smallest focus; constant needless changes to functionality, however, abound." - Naladana
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"whole"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. They make it seem like it’s free you set up the entire account I assumed there would be in app purchases which fine I just wouldn’t get them. The whole app is a monthly subscription after a 3 day free trial. I’m not going to pay for an app …" - noodles68274992874
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"every"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Uninstalled. Everyone is different so I won’t say that they’re absolute cookie cutter. Quotes don’t have the potential to be helpful. I don’t know if I would even say motivating, but I don’t feel like it’s anything different than anything else or anythi…" - transplant Looking for facts
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"free trial"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. They make it seem like it’s free you set up the entire account I assumed there would be in app purchases which fine I just wouldn’t get them. The whole app is a monthly subscription after a 3 day free trial. I’m not going to pay for an app …" - noodles68274992874
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"trying"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "TRYING TO TAKE MY MONEY. I WAS ONLY CURIOUS FOR THE FREE TRIAL BUT CANCELLED AS I KNEW I COULD NOT AFFORD IT! NOW GOOGLE/+APPLE WONT EVEN LET ME UPDATE MY APPS!! THERE ARE A FEW REASONS I REALLY NEED TO UPDATE MY BROWSER ETC. WILL YOU PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME AND INFO…" - miyeyosh79
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"motivation"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Trash. I was super excited for this app after spending 10 minutes filling out the questionnaire, I signed up for premium only for an hour later when I get my first notification for Motivation I click on it and it opens the app and just wants me to…" - Blake41798
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"know"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Uninstalled. Everyone is different so I won’t say that they’re absolute cookie cutter. Quotes don’t have the potential to be helpful. I don’t know if I would even say motivating, but I don’t feel like it’s anything different than anything else or anythi…" - transplant Looking for facts
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Uninstalled
Everyone is different so I won’t say that they’re absolute cookie cutter. Quotes don’t have the potential to be helpful. I don’t know if I would even say motivating, but I don’t feel like it’s anything different than anything else or anything that even particularly strikes a note or a cordbut again everyone is different. I definitely would never pay for any kind of subscription to this app and quite honestly, there are so many notifications and everything is so cookie-cutter basic boring I uninstalled it. It is not something I would share with someone that provides unique sayings or direct quotes or anything that seems to really spark much of a darn thing.
Waste of time
They make it seem like it’s free you set up the entire account I assumed there would be in app purchases which fine I just wouldn’t get them. The whole app is a monthly subscription after a 3 day free trial. I’m not going to pay for an app I was able to get for free especially not pay every month.
TRYING TO TAKE MY MONEY
I WAS ONLY CURIOUS FOR THE FREE TRIAL BUT CANCELLED AS I KNEW I COULD NOT AFFORD IT! NOW GOOGLE/+APPLE WONT EVEN LET ME UPDATE MY APPS!! THERE ARE A FEW REASONS I REALLY NEED TO UPDATE MY BROWSER ETC. WILL YOU PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME AND INFO, AS WELL AS REMOVING ME FROM YOUR SITE. I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN MY ACCOUNT AND IF TNEY DO CHARGE ME ILL BE IN THE NEGATIVE - WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS ISSUE ASAP?? I HAVE TO ALSO KEEP MY CARD SHOCKED AS THEY RUN IT A FEW TIMES A DAY🤦🏻♀️ THIS WHOLE THING HAS BEEN SUCH A NIGHTMARE, AND A HUGE INCONVENIENCE. HELP PLEASE 🙏
Dont try the free days
They give you 5 days free, but you going to be ending paying for a whole year, with no way to cancel your subscription, they make it super hard to cancel so don’t try it
Dishonest
Do not purchase this dishonest app. The “trial” period is a lie, I tried to cancel within the three day window as advertised for the trial only to discover I was locked in for a whole year. Still trying to get my refund, no communication whatsoever.
Trash
I was super excited for this app after spending 10 minutes filling out the questionnaire, I signed up for premium only for an hour later when I get my first notification for Motivation I click on it and it opens the app and just wants me to fill out the entire questionnaire again
Missed cancelling the subscription! Just self help nonsense
I really liked the quotes from actual people. But no matter how I tuned it I could never get rid of “you are good enough, smart enough, and dog gone it, people like” self-affirmation nonsense. I went to delete the app and discovered I had paid $35 for a year of this silly stuff. Ugh. It’s on me for forgetting about the subscription. But I wanted to help others know what they are risking.
3 days free then you Pay
Did everything answered all questions and as soon as it pulled the screen up “we offer 3 days free” I immediately closed out the app and deleted it. Thanks but no thanks. I’ll stick to getting my “Motivation”off YouTube lol
Gotta pay
Nowhere did any advertisement say that you have to pay. 3 day free trial then it’s a subscription.
Pretty buggy for a simple background and quote app
Still has the same bug: Sharing a quote changes the background from what was originally displayed in the app. Theme mixes cannot be saved even when you create one from the batch of themes/backgrounds they have. My favorite themes I had in the past no longer available.
Cancelled subscription
I do not recommend this app at all. I cancelled my subscription and it’s still trying to pull money from my Apple Pay. Now I can’t download free apps because of it. Very frustrating!
Don’t get
Waist of money.
Scam
This app is a scam. After you do the free trial they will charge you $30 and you can’t download apps for a year unless you pay. Scam!!! And apple won’t help
Loss of quotes
Unfortunately, as good as this app is, it’s bad when I go to tap on a quote to like it as sometimes it advances to the next screen, therefore losing a quote that I wanted to actually There should be a way to go back and see the last quote!
Misgendered
Tried several times to correct but app won’t. Paying for a service where half my quotes are referencing me as a female
It’s gotten weird…
I got this app for the widget and it was pretty cool for a while…
But recently the notifications I have been getting have been really weird, specific… like
“Nobody sees the 2AM worry
The silent tears in the car.
The way you pull yourself together before walking through the door.
But I see it.”
Or
“The Arianna who cried in the parking lot deserves every good thing coming next.”
Are these AI generated?
The app is cute, but if yes, I’m going to delete the app.
But recently the notifications I have been getting have been really weird, specific… like
“Nobody sees the 2AM worry
The silent tears in the car.
The way you pull yourself together before walking through the door.
But I see it.”
Or
“The Arianna who cried in the parking lot deserves every good thing coming next.”
Are these AI generated?
The app is cute, but if yes, I’m going to delete the app.
I highly recommend you don’t get this app
I don’t know why it does this but every night at 12am (sometimes 1am) an alarm/timer goes off that I never even set. I don’t think you can even do anything about it
Will have to pay money
It’s a subscription required app. Not actually free
Trash
Trash
Smt
Paid for my subscription and then I started seeing the same motivational quote so I closed the app, updated my phone, and nothing worked. So I deleted the app and would you believe it wants me to pay to download it again and I already paid???? Why not let me download the app so they can find my account.
Her
It’s great to accidentally start paying for app that is supposed to be motivation and it calls you a her all the time when you clearly selected male.
Money hungry
The app used to be a good app, and the lock screen quotes were genuinely a good feature (and why I downloaded the app). But now, they charge you a subscription to use that feature. The greedy, money-hungry drive, like every other company, seems to go against the very idea of this app to begin with.
Trash Ethics
This app is trash. They opened a Facebook group and promised all the participants a 1 year subscription for their input. They took all the input and made all the changes and never gave anyone their one year subscription. 🗑️
Going downhill…
Same trite, bumper-sticker tidbits that they’ve had for years. Content is smallest focus; constant needless changes to functionality, however, abound.
What
Yall ask waaaaaaaay too many question when starting off. Immediately deleted.
Sneaky
App is well made, but finds ways to try and take your money. When I want to change my background, the first time there were options to change it to for free but now there are none. This app is trying to take your money, but it has good quotes.
Motivation app
This is the worst app ever. At first I was getting all my reminders now all of a sudden I’m not getting any. I refuse to pay for a subscription and it doesn’t work 🤬
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)