Google Play Console — HiveJournal listing copy

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Package com.hivejournal.app · Default language English (United States) · App · Free

Same rule as the iOS copy: this describes what ships in the AAB. No dark mode claim (the app has none), no voice-entry claim (web only). Play's "Misleading claims" policy enforces this as strictly as Apple's 2.3.

Store listing

Full description (4000)

Full journaling, free — the entire product, not a trial.

Most journaling apps give you a taste and charge for the rest: a cap on entries, AI reflection behind a subscription, your own history locked until you pay. HiveJournal gives you the whole journaling experience for free. Unlimited entries. Moods, tags and notebooks. Goals. Sleep. AI reflection on what you wrote. No entry limit, no trial clock, no paywall on the part you came for.

WRITE
• Unlimited entries in a fast, distraction-free editor
• Mark how you felt and tag entries however you think
• Organize into notebooks — one per project, person, year, or whatever you keep
• Search everything you've written from the top of your journal

TRACK
• Log how you slept, night by night
• Set goals and check in against them
• Watch your stream — entries, sleep and encouragement in one timeline

REFLECT
• AI reflections that read your entries back to you and find the patterns
• Ask JQ, the built-in companion, about anything you've written
• Keep a dream log with steps for the ones you want to chase

SHARE, ONLY IF YOU WANT TO
• Entries are private by default — every one of them
• Share a single entry as a link when you want someone to read it
• Connect with someone through JQ Bridge, or receive an encouragement drop

YOUR JOURNAL STAYS YOURS
• Row-level security means the database itself enforces that only you can read your entries — not just the app
• We never sell your data and there are no third-party trackers or ad SDKs in this app
• Delete your account and everything in it, whenever you want, from Settings

HiveJournal is part of a larger platform you can grow into on the web — stress triage, voice capsules, a writing community, audio fiction — but the journal is complete on its own, on your phone, for free.

Start writing.

Privacy Policy: https://hivejournal.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://hivejournal.com/terms

1,902 characters — well inside the 4,000 limit.

Release notes (500)

For the 1.0.0 internal-testing and production releases:

First release. The whole HiveJournal journaling experience, native on Android — unlimited entries, moods, tags, notebooks, goals, sleep tracking, search, AI reflection, and JQ, your companion. Free, in full.

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Content rating questionnaire (IARC)

Play routes this through IARC. Choose category Utility, Productivity, Communication or Other — not Social Networking, which triggers a heavier questionnaire we don't need. Expected outcome: Everyone / PEGI 3, possibly Teen because of the user-interaction declarations.

⚠️ Play policy risk — User Generated Content. Play requires apps hosting UGC to provide an in-app reporting system and a way to block users. Neither exists anywhere in the product today (searched apps/mobile, apps/backend/src/routes, apps/frontend/src). Because Drops arrive from other users, answering "Yes" here without a report/block path invites a policy rejection. Same finding as App Store Guideline 1.2 — see app-store-connect.md. Answering "No" to dodge it would be a false declaration; fix the product instead.

Target audience and content

Because 13–15 is included, Play applies its Families policy for teens: no ads (satisfied), no data collection beyond what's declared (satisfied), and the privacy policy must be linked from the listing (satisfied).

App access

Play asks whether any part of the app is restricted behind a login.

Note the same Turnstile caveat as iOS: sign-in runs a Cloudflare challenge when a site key is present in the build. Confirm a reviewer can pass it, or ship 1.0 without a site key in the Android production profile.

Ads, government apps, financial features

Data safety

Answered field by field in privacy-and-data-safety.md.