I was deciding between two dream journal apps, and ultimately I chose this one because of its recording function. But I’ll talk about that in a second…
You wake up in the middle of the night, and it is minutes til your alarm clock will actually go off. You don’t have time to type up the strange dream about your robot putting together a bouquet and speaking to you in German and then Italian. So what do you do? You tap the microphone icon at the upper right-hand corner of dreamPad Dream Journal / Diary with Audio screen and after a couple of seconds, you speak into the microphone of your Kindle Fire tablet stating the date, the time, and begin describing the details of your story…
I love this dream journal app! DreamPad Dream Journal / Diary with Audio is a practical way to write down your dreams as soon as you sit up in the morning or the middle of the night. Had a strange dream during a daytime nap? It’s useful for that too!
- The “+” icon lets you begin a new dream journal entry in an instant. Tap on the entry thumbnail to open the dream
-This app has Light and Dark themes. Just toggle by tapping “Theme” on the options menu
-You may sort out the dream journal entries by dream type, by search, by color
-The search function (provided by the magnifying glass icon) allows you to search for entries that contain the keyword you’re searching for. If you just want to look for a few of the same type of dream, for example, tap the label tag icon to the right of the magnifying glass, and you can limit the results by dream type, audio, and dates at most recent or least recent on top. If you have, say, 50 dreams recorded or written into the app, you can limit the number that shows up at a time, so you don’t have to keep scrolling and scrolling down.
-Questions/advanced fields for putting in details such as characters and setting; choose color if you’d like to color-code
-Label your dream with a primary and a secondary dream type
-Share function is found in the opened dream note in the options menu.
-When you open a dream journal entry, it is automatically locked so you don’t unintentionally edit your dream journal entry. Tap the lock icon to enable editing mode.
Read this far? Great! Here’s an extra tip on getting more out of dreamPad Dream Journal / Diary with Audio:
If you wake up in the early morning, or the middle of the night, and don’t’ have the confidence that you’ll remember everything as you’re typing your dream into the app, you can use the recording function to speak your dream description into your device. Just tap the microphone icon at the top right-hand corner of the screen and a new dream journal entry will start right away. After a couple of seconds pass, you can audio-record your dream notes, and return to writing the details of the journal entry later. Be sure to dictate the date and time in the beginning of the entry so you can know the first day you started the dream note. When you share the dream to your email, there is a reminder to “rename the .mpx file into .mp3 to play as audio,” so you can save and listen to the audio notes into whichever device you’d like.
I have to give a warning: the one hiccup that this app currently has is that if you were to share the dream entry by email, the emotion is always wrong. For example, I put Surprised, and it changed it to Anger. If you can, go to where the emotion is noted in the email draft and type in the appropriate emotion for your dream note.
I give dreamPad Dream Journal / Diary with Audio 5 stars because it made me appreciate writing down dreams again. It has everything I’d like in a dream journal app and more. The recording function really comes in handy. I think if the emotion-switch problem is fixed, it will be perfect, but, it doesn’t hinder the app in a huge way, not to me anyway.
This is just my personal suggestion: You could record/write down the approximate time you woke up from your dream so that you have a better chance adding more notes. Whether it was a night dream or a daytime nap dream, it may help to add that detail too. You could record your mood in the “Feelings” field in the Advanced Fields of your dream note.
I highly recommend dreamPad Dream Journal / Diary with Audio for your mobile dream journal needs. The recording function within the app alone is worth trying. Plus it includes the advanced detail fields, light/dark themes, and the email-share function. This is for anyone: whether you’ve kept a dream journal, or did and stopped, or never did and will get started with this, you’d be surprised how it may improve your dream journal habits, skills, and appreciation.
dreamPad : Dream Journal / Diary with Audio
4.7 | 11 ratings
Price: 1
Last update: 12-22-2024
Latest updates
What's new in version 2.1.2- New Interface
- More Text Sizes
- Updated emotions and Dream Types
- New help file and Video
- Contact Us Button
- Tell a Friend Button
Product Details
Release Date: 2012
Date first listed on Amazon: April 11, 2012
Developed By: niceSprite
ASIN: B007V63BPC
Customer reviews:
4.7 out of 5 stars11 customer ratings
4.7 out of 5 stars11 customer ratings
Developer info
- [email protected]
- www.nicesprite.com
- More apps by this developer
Product features
- Record and playback audio
- Advanced dream fields
- Day and night theme
- Password Lock
- SD Card Backup / email Share
Product description
dreamPad is a feature rich elegant way to keep track of your dreams. It features a beautiful easy to use interface with an audio recorder to quickly capture those dreams when you don't have time to write them down. It also features a variety of advanced hide-able fields to categorize your dreams.Features:
-Record and playback audio while typing.
-One touch quick record
-Day and night theme
-Four different text sizes for easy reading
-Share dreams with mp3 via email etc..
-Password Lock
-Audio is not detected by external applications (for privacy)
-SD Card Backup
-Advanced dream search and filtering functions
-Set the date and Time for dreams
-Set multiple dream types and emotion
-Color code your dreams
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Information not provided by the developer.Technical details
Size: 546.9KB
Version: 2.1.2
Developed By: niceSprite
Application Permissions:
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- Open network sockets
- Record audio
- Access the vibration feature
- PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
- Write to external storage
- Allows verification of Google app Entitlements
Minimum Operating System: Android 3.0
Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds
Top reviews from the United States
Sara W.
This App Made Me Appreciate Writing in a Dream Journal Again
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015
Neko-san
A nice dream journal
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013Max
great for lucid dreamers.
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014Kim young
love it
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2014