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Diffathy, Inc. · 104 ratings · ★ 4.3

4.3
★★★★★
104 ratings
5 ★
71 (68%)
4 ★
14 (13%)
3 ★
5 (5%)
2 ★
4 (4%)
1 ★
10 (10%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 7 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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"premium"
4 negative reviews mention this · 57% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Dark Mode shouldn’t be “Premium”. Simple, clean, and fairly easy to use, however, I would never actually use this app exclusively because it considers Dark Mode as a “premium’s feature” and not a necessity. Most people, including myself, aren’t using Dark Mode for aesthet…" - Eyeless-Seraphim
2
"work"
3 negative reviews mention this · 43% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Dark Mode shouldn’t be “Premium”. Simple, clean, and fairly easy to use, however, I would never actually use this app exclusively because it considers Dark Mode as a “premium’s feature” and not a necessity. Most people, including myself, aren’t using Dark Mode for aesthet…" - Eyeless-Seraphim

📋 All 7 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ HLYHLY 4/20/2022 v3.4
Not free!
Another misleading app that seems free. The only thing you can do on the free version is add a title and a subtitle to a story! Anything further, you must pay. Pass!
★★★★ veathomie 7/16/2021 v3.3
Hate it
I guess I’m stupid …. Just wanted to journal my feelings but couldn’t even figure out how to get off first page to start!!
★★★★ otterman 10/15/2019 v2.8
Dark mode is a “premium theme”?
Delete
★★★★ Tech24073 3/30/2019 v2.7.2
Cute, not ready for use
I liked the idea, and though the interface took some time, I actually liked it.
I rated it very low for two reasons:
1) I could NOT get the app to sync between devices.
2) When I clicked on app support on the App Store, I was brought to an instagram page, not in a language I could read and it required me to sign up for Instagram for further access.
I did pay for the premium features, but they don’t seem to add much, or work (unclear on that point).
This app has been deleted.
★★★★ Pisces in march 3/28/2019 v2.7.1
Horrible
I paid for the premium and it’s awful. I don’t find it easy to use and what’s the point of premium if none of its features work. I want my money back and defiantly deleting it. Not a good app at all... I wish I could give it no stars!
★★★★★ 화성인27 7/11/2024 v3.11.1
개발자님은 메일좀 읽어주세요
앱 자체는 좋은데..ㅠㅠ 개발사 측과 연락할수 있는
수단이 메일 외에 전혀 없는게 진짜 안좋네요. 구매복원때문에 메일 보냈는데 2월에 보낸게 아직도 안읽음이시고.. 오늘 또 보냈습니다.. 전번이라도 알면 좋을텐데요..어쩔수없이 리뷰란에 올려봅니다. 최소 카톡이라도 되먄 좋겠습니다..
★★★★★ Eyeless-Seraphim 2/8/2024 v3.10.2
Dark Mode shouldn’t be “Premium”
Simple, clean, and fairly easy to use, however, I would never actually use this app exclusively because it considers Dark Mode as a “premium’s feature” and not a necessity.
Most people, including myself, aren’t using Dark Mode for aesthetic purposes, but as an accessibility option, as Light Modes can be genuinely painful and headache inducing to look at.
Dark Mode is required for those with visual disability or impairment, as well as for those who work with writing at night.
Without that, this app is nothing to me but the dream of what could have been.
Ideal in that it’s free to use, easy to navigate, has basic markdown, a decent amount of functionality.
Impossible to give a good review, because it’s actively hurting me every time I try to look at it.
Dark Mode is an Accessibility feature, and shouldn’t be behind a paywall, having it stay like that is a huge slap in the face to night owls and the visually impaired.
2 stars given for being free and good at it’s job.
3 stars withheld for having all that and being rendered unusable to me and an entire demographic by mere virtue of considering accessibility a paid privilege.

Sentiment summary

82%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
13%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.