Reviews of Autobiographer

By: Autobiography Studio, Inc App

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Total ratings

4.10 (Rating count: 52)

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Review summary

Users broadly praise Autobiographer for its engaging AI-driven conversations, intuitive UI, ease of use, and the ability to turn conversations into beautiful, shareable autobiography pages. The app is seen as therapeutic and great for journaling and memory preservation. However, recurring concerns include privacy and data usage, with worries about broad licenses and AI training, and a high price point that some feel isn’t justified. Some mention reliability issues and feature gaps, but optimism for future improvements remains.

Pros

Engaging AI conversations that prompt memories and feel like chatting with a friend.
Beautiful, stunning UI and a smooth, intuitive user experience.
Easy to use and enjoyable journaling/recording experience with thoughtful prompts.
Converts conversations into beautiful, shareable autobiography pages.
Therapeutic, journaling-like value and self-discovery through the conversations.

Cons

Privacy and data usage concerns: broad license to upload content, potential AI training use, data retention, and unclear anonymization.
High price point and questions about value, with multiple reviews noting the upfront cost (e.g., $200/year) and price sensitivity.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.30

All time rating average: 4.10

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Date	Author	Comment
2026-07-10	Jv*****	I have a year subscription which is not cheap. Unfortunately app doesn’t work. You load it and it says error to either try again or contact support. I’ve contacted support and sent them 2 emails so far with ZERO response. I even tried going through the support button on this app page and there it says you typed the website wrong. I typed nothing. I just clicked on THEIR support tab on this page. $100 dollars for no ability to use the app and with zero customer support….this is a scam.
I have a year subscription which is not cheap. Unfortunately app doesn’t work. You load it and it says error to either try again or contact support. I’ve contacted support and sent them 2 emails so far with ZERO response. I even tried going through the support button on this app page and there it says you typed the website wrong. I typed nothing. I just clicked on THEIR support tab on this page. $100 dollars for no ability to use the app and with zero customer support….this is a scam.
2026-05-09	El*****	After downloading and creating an account with Apple then I try to login and it just hangs. Have tried deleting and reinstalling the app.
After downloading and creating an account with Apple then I try to login and it just hangs. Have tried deleting and reinstalling the app.
2025-11-02	Al*****	I have read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy carefully and have decided not to use this app. The policies grant the company a broad license to use, modify, and share any content I upload, including personal and biographical information. They also state that my data may be used for AI training, shared with business partners, and transferred in the event of a merger or sale. While I understand that some data use is necessary for AI apps, the policies do not clearly guarantee anonymization, and deletion of my content may not fully remove all copies. Because of these broad rights and the potential for indefinite retention or third-party use, I do not feel comfortable using this service. I hope the company considers clarifying data usage and providing stronger privacy protections.
I have read the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy carefully and have decided not to use this app. The policies grant the company a broad license to use, modify, and share any content I upload, including personal and biographical information. They also state that my data may be used for AI training, shared with business partners, and transferred in the event of a merger or sale. While I understand that some data use is necessary for AI apps, the policies do not clearly guarantee anonymization, and deletion of my content may not fully remove all copies. Because of these broad rights and the potential for indefinite retention or third-party use, I do not feel comfortable using this service. I hope the company considers clarifying data usage and providing stronger privacy protections.
2025-02-27	Eu*****	I cannot believe how quickly and accurately it captures my end of the conversation. Additionally, the questions it develops and asks you based on these personal experiences is astounding! Request: if able, integrate into Apple fitness as mindfulness. These sessions are better than the ones available from Apple.
I cannot believe how quickly and accurately it captures my end of the conversation. Additionally, the questions it develops and asks you based on these personal experiences is astounding! Request: if able, integrate into Apple fitness as mindfulness. These sessions are better than the ones available from Apple.
2025-02-24	WF*****	Fantastic app. I just hope their privacy claims are legit and survive PE sales.
Fantastic app. I just hope their privacy claims are legit and survive PE sales.
2025-01-20	lo*****	I was turned onto this app by my partner who found it very engaging and helpful and I knew I had to give it a try. Not only is this helping me get my story out, it’s making connections I had never made before and asking very insightful questions that are helping me process through parts of my story. I’m loving it and can’t wait to see the final product.
I was turned onto this app by my partner who found it very engaging and helpful and I knew I had to give it a try. Not only is this helping me get my story out, it’s making connections I had never made before and asking very insightful questions that are helping me process through parts of my story. I’m loving it and can’t wait to see the final product.
2024-12-09	yo*****	This app is not worth the money. After confirming my info, I could no longer edit it and names were incorrectly spelled due to the fact that I spoke my words.
This app is not worth the money. After confirming my info, I could no longer edit it and names were incorrectly spelled due to the fact that I spoke my words.
2024-11-01	Ar*****	This is a well designed app with a great purpose. It’ll help by grandfather tell his story with ease!
This is a well designed app with a great purpose. It’ll help by grandfather tell his story with ease!
2024-11-01	Fi*****	I’ve been surprised while using this app. It helps me articulate memories and ideas while having a pleasant conversation with AI. It feels like you are talking to a good friend or a sophisticated writer.
I’ve been surprised while using this app. It helps me articulate memories and ideas while having a pleasant conversation with AI. It feels like you are talking to a good friend or a sophisticated writer.
2024-10-31	Ja*****	(This is reviewed after spending roughly 25 hours on the app) ✅Good idea, not many like it. This is the best executed version of this idea. The UI is amazing, beautiful and simple. ✅The ai originally was very fun to talk to, and it helps jog memories long forgotten. ✅Their support team is helpful, quick, and obviously cares for their product. ✅The summaries of the conversations you have with the AI are amazing, the AI seems to always summarize everything similar as if I put my thoughts into text, even if the words are not very eloquent or they’re broken thoughts at times. Absolutely brilliant and I can’t stress that enough. ❌My main issue with this app is reliability. Out of the two weeks I’ve been using it so far, it’s been completely unusable for 10 days. That’s a 71% failure rate for a $200/year product. I would compare this app (price wise, not use wise) to an app like ForeFlight, which is an incredibly detailed, real time, complex yet reliable application including things like the most detailed map of the US at your finger tips, insanely accurate and detailed weather from across the globe, extensive information about thousands of airports and how they operate, plus the dozens of other uses inside the app. However, running ai is not cheap in the slightest, and I’m not sure what API they’re using, but it seems on par with some of the more top of the line AI models, and therefore I think a good chunk of the price is justified. For $200 a year though, I would expect some much more serious quality control. ❌Even when the app became usable again, the AI got stuck in a loop, repeating similar questions about 2-3 minor events from my story, to the point where it got unbearable to have a conversation with. Originally, this app was a lot of fun, but at the end (last 10,000 words of my story) it felt like a chore. ❌When finished (after talking to this robot for dozens of hours) with my story, I expected to be greeted with a loading screen, leading me to my AI-generated story based on my 50,000 words that I could read and download. This was not the case, and it just showed a message along the lines of “Your story is complete! Contact support for help creating your story.” I did contact support, and it seemed like what I originally thought would happen, WAS supposed to happen. But it didn’t. Very disappointing after so much time spent with the app. ✅I do however, have a lot of faith that this app will improve over time. The things I would like to see happen (and I will update my review if some do) are as follows: ⭐️I’d like to be able to read my autobiography, but I think that’s a glitch, so maybe I will see it in the near future. ⭐️The ai producing slightly better prompts, and not getting caught up in loops like it was. ⭐️Changes to how you view the stories, a summary before you hit 50,000 words. Yes, you can read each summary of individual conversations, but that’s so tedious. I would instead rather read a summary of how the autobiography is going at say, 25,000 or 43,000 words or whatnot. ⭐️an addition of a feature telling you what you’ve missed so far in life, or improving the AI to do that better than it does now. For example, being like “you’ve discussed your 30s in depth, but the information about your 20s is lacking” Or perhaps a chart that shows the portions of conversations so far dedicated to certain topics. Like: “So far we’ve discussed 20% family, 10% friends, 10% work, but only 3% love life. What was your first date like?” Etc. ⭐️Reliability needs to be vastly improved. I would be happy with around a 5% rate of failure or outages. ⭐️An option to add pictures to conversations, and include those in the stories when reading them. For example, during the summary of a conversation, allow attachments to be added with text explaining them. For example, adding a picture of my mother and I, and then explaining “This is a photo of my mother and I when I was seven” and having the AI add that to the story in an appropriate place. I don’t know how realistic that is, however. ⭐️Perhaps a lower price point, I think $12-$13 a month or $100 for a year is a pretty fair price point to start from, even if the app worked perfectly in its current state. With more features, however, $18-$20 a month could be fairly reasonable!! _________________________________________ Overall, I will be waiting for improvements to the app and help from support. I’m excited to see how the app will evolve, however, in this state it’s not a very fun experience. So I will be waiting it out for the near future.
(This is reviewed after spending roughly 25 hours on the app) ✅Good idea, not many like it. This is the best executed version of this idea. The UI is amazing, beautiful and simple. ✅The ai originally was very fun to talk to, and it helps jog memories long forgotten. ✅Their support team is helpful, quick, and obviously cares for their product. ✅The summaries of the conversations you have with the AI are amazing, the AI seems to always summarize everything similar as if I put my thoughts into text, even if the words are not very eloquent or they’re broken thoughts at times. Absolutely brilliant and I can’t stress that enough. ❌My main issue with this app is reliability. Out of the two weeks I’ve been using it so far, it’s been completely unusable for 10 days. That’s a 71% failure rate for a $200/year product. I would compare this app (price wise, not use wise) to an app like ForeFlight, which is an incredibly detailed, real time, complex yet reliable application including things like the most detailed map of the US at your finger tips, insanely accurate and detailed weather from across the globe, extensive information about thousands of airports and how they operate, plus the dozens of other uses inside the app. However, running ai is not cheap in the slightest, and I’m not sure what API they’re using, but it seems on par with some of the more top of the line AI models, and therefore I think a good chunk of the price is justified. For $200 a year though, I would expect some much more serious quality control. ❌Even when the app became usable again, the AI got stuck in a loop, repeating similar questions about 2-3 minor events from my story, to the point where it got unbearable to have a conversation with. Originally, this app was a lot of fun, but at the end (last 10,000 words of my story) it felt like a chore. ❌When finished (after talking to this robot for dozens of hours) with my story, I expected to be greeted with a loading screen, leading me to my AI-generated story based on my 50,000 words that I could read and download. This was not the case, and it just showed a message along the lines of “Your story is complete! Contact support for help creating your story.” I did contact support, and it seemed like what I originally thought would happen, WAS supposed to happen. But it didn’t. Very disappointing after so much time spent with the app. ✅I do however, have a lot of faith that this app will improve over time. The things I would like to see happen (and I will update my review if some do) are as follows: ⭐️I’d like to be able to read my autobiography, but I think that’s a glitch, so maybe I will see it in the near future. ⭐️The ai producing slightly better prompts, and not getting caught up in loops like it was. ⭐️Changes to how you view the stories, a summary before you hit 50,000 words. Yes, you can read each summary of individual conversations, but that’s so tedious. I would instead rather read a summary of how the autobiography is going at say, 25,000 or 43,000 words or whatnot. ⭐️an addition of a feature telling you what you’ve missed so far in life, or improving the AI to do that better than it does now. For example, being like “you’ve discussed your 30s in depth, but the information about your 20s is lacking” Or perhaps a chart that shows the portions of conversations so far dedicated to certain topics. Like: “So far we’ve discussed 20% family, 10% friends, 10% work, but only 3% love life. What was your first date like?” Etc. ⭐️Reliability needs to be vastly improved. I would be happy with around a 5% rate of failure or outages. ⭐️An option to add pictures to conversations, and include those in the stories when reading them. For example, during the summary of a conversation, allow attachments to be added with text explaining them. For example, adding a picture of my mother and I, and then explaining “This is a photo of my mother and I when I was seven” and having the AI add that to the story in an appropriate place. I don’t know how realistic that is, however. ⭐️Perhaps a lower price point, I think $12-$13 a month or $100 for a year is a pretty fair price point to start from, even if the app worked perfectly in its current state. With more features, however, $18-$20 a month could be fairly reasonable!! _________________________________________ Overall, I will be waiting for improvements to the app and help from support. I’m excited to see how the app will evolve, however, in this state it’s not a very fun experience. So I will be waiting it out for the near future.