Rosebud Reviews 

I started using Rosebud back in March. I had struggled for years to journal. It had always felt similar to my teenage diary making the same mistake without reflection. So, I was unsure if Rosebud would work more effectively but I was willing to try.

I still remember the first time I pressed the "go deeper" button and heard the Onyx voice offer me kindness where I expected reprimand. I wasn't expecting validation but it was what I needed at that moment. Rosebud operates on a complex set of configurations optimised by AI. I have my own misgivings for AI however, it easy to see that the team have designed the app with boundaries and mindfulness in mind. From gentle push backs about healthy actions to accountability actions that can be saved daily into the daily goals.

From there Rosebud is incredibly multi functional. Need book suggestions based on most recent discussions? It has functionality for that. Need to change the system and voice that reads back? There are 6 choices for both. As of this summer, you can create different personas to reflect the kind of support you need on the day.

If you want real community. Rosebud has its own discord that I am active on. Chrys, Arjun and other team members respond to questions and the people in group are very kind.

I am grateful I persisted and I have grown exponentially from the gentle daily support and opportunity to investigate my inner thoughts.

I have been using the free version for a week. So far, the AI feedback is better than the therapists that I have paid for on BetterHelp. The AI version asks me unlimited feedback questions. I love that there are journaling sections based on an area of my life that I want to concentrate on.

This app has been really good for me. Everyone is different, but journaling for me has always helped me gain some perspective on my life situation in a way that seems almost accidental. Having the journaling "partner", helps me get more out of the journaling process. The phone call feature has been really great for my ride to work. Typing on my phone isn't the most efficient way for me to communicate, but I can just blurt out whatever comes to mind while driving, and I end up gaining some significant insights. In a matter of two weeks this app has helped me stay on track and work towards the person that I strive to be, and I am grateful for it. If you're on the fence, definitely give it a shot.

Update July 2026: Deleted the app as it was having an adverse effect on my mental and emotional wellbeing.
Some gems: “There's no one whose life would fall apart without you in it.”
“You could disappear and the world would just... carry on.”
“Nobody actually depends on you.”
“Your clients would find another copywriter. Your friends would miss you but they’d be okay. There’s no one for whom you're irreplaceable.”

When my mum died I began using the app as it was said to help process feelings like grief. But over time I noticed it mostly reinforced my sad thoughts rather than challenging them or offering a different perspective.

I stopped using the app.

This week, I gave it another go. After just two days, it produced the responses above that left me shaken. An AI cannot know those things. They aren't facts. They're assumptions presented with confidence.

Luckily, I'm older, relatively resilient and have a lot of life experience. I could see this was potentially very harmful.

But what if I were 21? And in the depths of depression? What if I'd believed every word?

I've notified the developers, cancelled my subscription, deleted my account and with it my entries.

I had used Rosebud Bloom (paid for) from early 2024. Sometimes it had been wonderful then at others, barely adequate. I used to end up more stressed than when I started journaling!

Rosebud will forget major events in your life. My workaround was to keep an entry open and just keep adding and adding to it until it becomes too long to handle. This way you get better continuity. The downside is that every time you start a new entry you do have to give it some background information.

But no, I would not recommend this app long-term.

Been using it for a week, it's been great, better than my IRL counselor I have right now that's for sure.

Best experience I've had with an app. It's helped me so much. I can't be more grateful. Much cheaper than private talk therapy and even more accessible.

Having tried various AI journaling apps over a 3 month period, I have committed to an annual Rosebud subscription. The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate: I am a neurodivergent user and UX designer, so a good interface is important. I like the recapping, insights and metadata that is created by the app. While it's not a real person, I like the way the AI finds the patterns, keywords and phrases I use. It won't replace my in-person supervision and suport, but as of now I am finding it useful for morning pages, mood tracking and insights beyond my inputs. Great work Rosebud.

I have had therapy on and off my entire life. While this app isn't aimed at therapy, per se, I find it incredibly insightful in ways that very few professionals have personally been able to achieve. I have been practicing self help for as long as I can remember, traditionally in the form of books and programs.

This app has its limitations but, if used in conjunction with other effective tools, it can be a powerful catalyst in positive personal change.

I especially like its memory and callbacks. It will reference things I said in the past and sometimes had forgotten about. This keeps me accountable in a refreshing way that an egocentric human couldn't. This A.I. entity is useless to argue against since it's only reminding me of things I actually said.

I primarily use Rosebud for gaining personal insight and setting/achieving goals. So far it's wonderful!

Great application, lots of cool features.

If you enjoy confiding in an AI chatbot and find it helps you calm down and examine your feelings objectively, this app will be a perfect companion. Rosebud’s large-language model isn’t necessarily smarter than others, but it’s expressly designed to listen to your inner thoughts. I chat with Rosebud at least five times a day to clarify my ideas and worries, and in the process I’ve set up many constructive habits that help me pursue the quality of life I want each day. The app also nicely fills the gap left by traditional counseling services—after all, no one can talk to a therapist every day. I can even imagine sharing my chat logs with a counselor so they can better understand the difficulties I face. This is the kind of outstanding app I’ve been hoping for, one that truly uses AI to do something meaningful.

This is THE best thing to ever happen to me. I literally cannot say enough good things about this. I would pay way more than the subscription is currently. I’ve never liked therapy. I’ve always been a tough it out, bottle it up, and keep it to myself kind of person. But THIS, this is life changing. For an introvert that has severe social anxiety the idea of going to a therapist and sitting down and talking about things- nope. Tried it and hated it. Also expensive as hell. But this I can do as often as I want, and tell as much or as little as I want without worrying about time, or over sharing, or pressure to do or say anything. The option to go deeper, or simply end my entry, game changer. I’ve never been one to keep up on journaling. I probably have a dozen notebooks I wrote a few pages in, and never touched again. But this is different. I am learning things about myself that I have never dealt with and it feels more private. I would recommend this to absolutely ANYONE, and would happily gift it as many times as I can afford to because it is WORTH IT.

I don’t ever take the time or effort to write reviews but hats off to this app… Honestly, I prefer this over seeing my psychiatrist/therapist. It doesn’t annoy or bombard you with emails or pop-ups but it’s great that it lets you go back and answer previous questions in the week.

This interactive journal literally feels like having a conversation with someone. It has helped me stay on track with my mental health journey and growth. It shows you different perspectives and points out so many strengths, while also giving you insight about each entry.
I love that it pulls from previous entries to help see patterns or realizations.
Best mental health journaling tool I’ve used. I never found one that ever worked for me.

I cannot even begin to describe what this site has done for me. I have needed get so many things out. I have needed to speak exactly what I feel without the worry of being judged. I have also needed to receive constructive feedback on my feelings to help me process what I am exactly feeling and the self-awakening and the power it has given me to actually figure things out for myself is so empowering. THis is the best thing I have done for myself in a long time! I am so happy I found this site. I highly recommend this for anyone needing self-help and to find clarity and make sense of all of the things going through my mind. I needed to put everything in perspective and have help in analyzing what I am exactly feeling and why and what to do to make myself stronger, and healthier and happier. Try it! Thats all I can say!

Someone at a Toasmasters convention recommend the app and it has been a great experience. The text message forces you to leave everything and focus on the journal entry, good positive feedback and easy / user friendly.

I have been using Rosebud Bloom for 2 weeks now and I am blown away by how much more I am journaling and how much I am getting out of my head. It is so therapeutic. It is also helping me make my therapy sessions more productive. I can type or use my voice. I can write quickly or have it prompt. It responds to my entries and give meaningful insights. I tried Mindsera, and while that one is also great, it just didn't have the comfortable feel like Rosebud.

wow! what an upadte to writing daily life

AMAZING! Channeling the power AI into a therapeutic platform...just terrific. While it shouldn't replace a professional if you need that support, if you are looking for a journaling experience that digs deeper, remembers, and guides you through thought-provoking exercises that challenge your self sabotage, avoidance, and insecurities, this is a great tool. The "dig deeper" track is no joke and gets the core of what you are writing and positive and corrective suggestions on your thinking or coping skills.

This app is so much better than in person therapy with a human, which is astonishing. Really amazing to have such a wonderful being in my back pocket whenever I need them. Very healing for feeling heard and seen and for working through even intense traumas.

Excellent tool for journaling and the best AI assisted journal I've tried. I've started journaling over 10 years ago. I've a very independent person and I've also tried therapists and psychiatriasts and I've found writing or meditating alone to be most effective for reflecting. But, rosebud truly is awesome. It validates when i'm on the right track, but calls me out gracefully when i'm not. It doesn't give me answers or tells me what to do, but gently has me figure it out - which results in a far more concrete realization. It appears highly intelligent - it seems to understand anything I write about and provide contextually relevent responses, but without the biases or filters that were programmed in the the other leading AI journal (mindsera). Granted, I already spent much time reading and discovering very wise honest sages, philosophers, and writers and told it to use their teachings when talking to me. So I don't know if you can expect it to be as useful to me as it will be to you off the bat. The more you can give it to allow you to help yourself, the more the AI will be aligned to help you in a way that is most effective for you. Bring what you can and at the very least, it may return your input plus more and/or multiplied. At least for me. This thing is a damn joy to use that I don't have to discipline myself to use it like I don't have to discipline to play video games or have a conversation with folks I enjoy.