AJournal and ATracker

I have really enjoyed the premium trials of both apps, but the downside is that there is neither a discount nor a combined subscription option. It would be great if one premium subscription covered both apps. Given that both apps still have many shortcomings and feel somewhat unfinished, I’m not sure if the subscription price is reasonable for just one of them. I guess I’ll need to look for another app that meets both of my needs.

I expected there to be a macOS version of AJournal, especially since the trial version of ATracker was available for macOS. Not being able to use AJournal on my computer is quite disappointing.

Additionally, I couldn’t find any user-specific customization options in AJournal. There is no way to create or modify elements, and even the fonts of headers cannot be changed—only their sizes and colors. I won’t even mention personal backgrounds; it’s quite surprising that, in an era of customization, users are limited to “seasonal backgrounds” and the developers’ aesthetic preferences.

The sync between ATracker and AJournal is a great feature and makes a lot of sense. However, the imported elements from ATracker don’t fit well if I only want to track one or two goals, as I can’t resize the icons. There is also no direct interaction within the app—either I have to navigate to ATracker via a shortcut icon or make changes via the calendar, since the ATracker elements behave more like non-clickable iOS widgets.

It would also be great if the app could integrate with other to-do apps like TickTick, as I haven’t seen many people still using iOS Reminders or Tasks.

Finally, it would be wonderful to truly “journal” with long-form text, like in the Day One app. Writing in small text boxes doesn’t feel smooth or intuitive at all.

In the end, I’ll just stick with the one-time payment for GoodNotes to journal.

Official comment

Jian

February 02, 2025 20:23

Thanks for using ATracker and AJournal and providing valuable suggestions on them! We will keep improving it.

Although AJournal can read ATracker data, they cover quite different features. Most of ATracker/AJournal users only use one of them. Maybe we will create a subscription package when we release yet another app.

We plan to release a macOS version of AJournal, but Apple decided not to support the Pencil toolbox in MacOS, so we will need to implement our own if we add support for MacOS. It will be a lot of work.

It is quite tricky to support integration with third-party apps. iOS sandboxs all apps, and it is not possible to read other developers' app data directly if we try to use some interface to read it. We will need to monitor their app release actively and update our app as soon as they change the interface or add new features.

For the other ATracker and AJournal specific requests, they are easier, and we will investigate them.

Again, thanks for all the suggestions!

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