The 6 best apps to track your mood
Technology can be both a blessing and a curse in today’s society. But as glass-half-full thinkers, we like to celebrate the ways that technology can help people access support, therapeutic advice, and provide an easier way to complete mood tracking.
Mood tracking, negative thoughts, and behaviours is so important for positive wellbeing and mental health, as well as mental illness recovery. It helps people to:
- Stay attuned to their thoughts and feelings, learning more about themselves and becoming more mindful.
- Notice patterns and triggers that they may not have been aware of before, especially links between thoughts and feelings.
- Share any fluctuations in mood with their mental health professional to use in treatment.
Here are 6 excellent apps that help people track their moods, thoughts, and behaviours:
Mood Prism
Developed by Monash University, MoodPrism is a newly developed app that helps you learn about your mood by transforming daily mood reports into a colourful summary of your emotional health. You will receive feedback on your mood each day, and the more you use the app, the more detailed this information will become!
Mood Tracker
Mood Tracker takes mood monitoring a step further by including information on sleep patterns and medication reminders. The other fantastic part of this tool is that it can send alerts to your supports when you are struggling, and your supports and mental health professionals can access the information you put into the app (with permission of course). This interaction between people and their supports is SO helpful.
Smiling Mind
While Smiling Mind is a great app for practicing mindfulness at all ages, it also helps you track your progress and mood/emotional states before and after meditation. This can be a helpful way to track the benefits of meditation!
Grid Diary
Not technically a mood tracking diary, but a personalised journal written in grid format. You can write your own daily prompts for exercise, mood, gratitude etc.
Thought Diary Pro
An app that takes the important therapeutic process of thought challenging from the therapy room to your phone. It allows you to track your negative or anxious thoughts, triggering events, unhelpful thinking styles, and more balanced, helpful thought alternatives. You also have the great benefit of emailing the thought diary to your therapist if wanted.
Mood & Anxiety Diary
This simple but effective app allows you to record your mood and levels of anxiety at regular intervals to help you to recognize the factors which may be impacting on emotional state.
There you have it! I’d love to hear about any of your great mental health app suggestions?
The thought diary pro sounds like an interesting app. Not sure how it works so will have to download and have a look #teamIBOT
Great, let me know what you think!
Thanks for these I can’t wait to check them out! I really like the sound of the mood tracker it might help me to see if there is a pattern for my anxiety.
Yes! Tracking your mood can definitely help to understand your patterns and triggers more.
I hadn’t even thought there would be apps for moods! What a great idea though, especially for someone who is struggling in that area. I’ll have to keep this in mind.
It can be helpful to track your moods, understand triggers, and reflect on your day.
I haven’t heard of any of these but am now quite curious. There really is an app for everything these days! Xx
There is isn’t there?!
I didn’t even know mood tracking was a thing, let alone that there was an app for it! I can see how beneficial it would be though.
It can be so helpful in many ways!
Thanks for putting together such a great list! I’m working on an app to help people track their moods, medications, and overall health. I think it would make a great addition to this list! It’s called Wellness: http://getwellness.co/appstore
This is a good one too: https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id1241839696
Mood – Emotion Journal
I found it really helpful for managing my mood swings lol
Check out: Emotions Tracker Dr. Grif. Low cost and you can e-mail your daily and weekly data to your emotional tracker partner (ETP, up to 5 people) for no cost to the therapist, friend, personal coach,etc.
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I use an app called Mood App which is a great replacement for most of these apps.
Its clean, sleek, and really convenient. Highly recommended:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mood-app-journal/id1241839696?mt=8
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We just released Happy Life for Android for this purpose as well!
We would love if you want to try it out, and any feedback or ideas for improvement would be greatly appreciated! 🙂
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.simonolsen.happy_life