journi

I tried the Journi app on my phone and don’t find it intuitive at all! It’s WAY too tiny to maneuver on your phone and the app is not fully functional on my computer. I ended up designing my book on my iPad. When I went to order I almost lost a whole days worth of work as it didn’t save that last draft! I will stick w Mixbooks site for creating photobooks!

I have been using Journi for years and love it. But there is some sort of issue with the viewing and scrolling from my iPad. I can only successfully use it from my iPhone now. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it with out any change. My friend said she is having the same issue. Any adjustments from you to rectify the issues would be greatly appreciated.

I spent a day adding pictures and customized an album, thinking it will be a great Christmas present but unfortunately after the creation of the album all other edits were not saved.

I share my trip diary and photos with family and friends. They love it. Then once home I do a photo book. I love that it includes my diary. I have 8 now. From all over the world.

July 2024: review revision #13, yet ANOTHER year gone by, and STILL no way to access iCloud Shared Albums. Journi GmbH needs to provide a way to use the standard iOS “photo picker” so we can access photos in shared albums!! (Please?) When we go on a trip, everybody traveling together puts their favorite photos into a shared album, but shared albums are inaccessible with Journi! I know they have their own “shared photos” solution that they think is sufficient, BUT IT’S NOT. (People don’t want to deal with other apps and “special instructions”.) It’s enough of a challenge to get folks to add photos to an iOS shared album (and that only takes a few taps!) Other apps on the App Store allow access to the built-in shared albums so it’s not a technical limitation. There have been lots of updates to the app in the years since I initially mentioned this but it continues to be ignored. 😢

Seems like a great app but as someone who is trying to utilize it as a travel journal, the maximum character count is extremely limiting and I will have to find a different app.

This app is so close to perfect for what I need. It is significantly easier to use than my previous photo book app that I used to chronicle my kids and print books for them each year as keepsakes. But these are my wishes:<br/><br/>Allow a post to be added to multiple journals at once. Right now it’s a single select for journal but it would make my process so much easier if it was a multi select. I make a journal book for each kid and at least 50+% of entries are shared between kids. Eventually I’d like to make a general travel book, more aligned to this apps original goal and being able to add to all albums at once would be great. <br/><br/>As an avid traveler of the United States, I wish we had state stamps AND country stamps. It would make this page more interesting for those that don’t do as much international travel. When you live in NC and travel to Hawaii or Alaska, it’s a big deal! National Parks would also be an amazing addition. <br/><br/>Text only entries. I want to save kid quotes or text focused pages but right now will need to find placeholder images for those funny moments.<br/><br/>I can’t wait to see what my first printed books look like! Overall this is a nicely polished app and very fast performance.

Here are a couple things that could be improved:<br/>1. offer an option to show the travel route on the map connecting the stations by order of date.<br/>2. allow to upload small videos even though they will not print in the book. <br/>3. it seems difficult for some people to link the journal after they have been invited