Best Mood Tracker Apps

If you’re looking for a good, well-rounded app to help with a wide range of mood-related needs, Moodfit is a solid pick. It’s a free app (a premium subscription with advanced features is available), but it’s packed with customizable insights and self-care tools designed to help track your moods; reduce anxiety, depression, and high levels of stress; and improve overall mental health.

Available on iOS and Android, Moodfit allows you to create and track daily personal goals, which provide the basis for getting yourself into mental shape. Some features of the app include:

• Mood and gratitude journal: Checking in with yourself helps you gain awareness about low moods and other symptoms and encourages you to see life’s positives. 
• Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): Moodfit uses the foundations of cognitive behavioral therapy to help you focus on how your thoughts affect your feelings and behavior and teaches you coping skills.
• Mindfulness meditation and breathing exercises: These self-care tools help you effectively deal with stress and encourage relaxation.
• Sleep and lifestyle tracking: These tools allow you to learn more about how key lifestyle factors such as sleep, nutrition, and exercise can affect moods.
• Sharing with therapist: Moodfit lets you easily share mood charts and other insights with your therapist or coach, so they’ll know how you’re doing between appointments.
• Medication alerts: Track and learn which medications may affect or help your moods. You can also share your medication log with your healthcare provider.

Moodfit also provides themed reminders for calm, gratitude, and motivation; custom activity tracking; and other helpful data and summary reports that let you monitor and identify patterns. You can download the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Designed for anxiety self-care, the Worry Watch app puts a unique, data-driven spin on mood tracking and self-monitoring. It lets you record your anxious thought patterns, then set a reminder to revisit those worries and note whether the outcome was as bad as you initially anticipated. It does so with the help of a detailed statistics dashboard that can generate helpful reports. The result? You may realize that your worries and anxious feelings may be mostly unfounded.

Worry Watch features include:

• Anxiety journal: The Worry Watch journal captures your anxious thoughts with a great level of detail. For example, you can record the context, scenario, and intensity of the anxious thoughts.
• Anxiety tracker: Worry Watch offers tools that let you challenge irrational thoughts and behavior with visual charts and statistics that can show you that some worries may have been unwarranted.
• Positive affirmations: You can set daily or weekly reminders that affirm optimism.
• Personalized settings: The app allows you to set a password to restrict access to your journal and offers options for exporting or downloading data and reports.

Based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, MoodTools offers features aimed at people with depression (although it can also help with anxiety, stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder). It is designed to help users track, identify, and challenge negative thought patterns to help improve mood.

To take advantage of the app’s research-supported tools, users take the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), a self-administered test used for screening, diagnosing, monitoring, and measuring the severity of depression. MoodTools reminds you to retake the questionnaire every two weeks so you can track the severity of your symptoms over time.

MoodTools’ features include:

• Thought diary: MoodTools lets you create thought diaries to record and analyze the situations and scenarios that can cause negative thought patterns.
• Activities: The app recommends and provides activities such as mindfulness meditation and therapeutic videos and lets you record your mood before and after to discover which activities help improve your moods.
• Self-help and information: The app is packed with self-help literature, guidelines, and resources to continuously improve your mental health.
• Safety plan: MoodTools also lets you develop a suicide safety plan to help keep you safe and access emergency resources during a crisis. It allows you to add warning signs, coping strategies, positive affirmations, and emergency contacts.

MoodTools is available for free (it offers in-app purchases) from the App Store and Google Play.

Developed by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs National Center for PTSD and the Department of Defense National Center for Telehealth and Technology, PTSD Coach is a completely free app designed to educate users about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), provide information about professional care, and offer self-assessment, personalized feedback, and support tools to help them manage their PTSD symptoms. 

Although tailored to the needs of veterans and military service members, friends and family members may also find PTSD Coach a valuable resource for education, and anyone dealing with PTSD is welcome to use it.

Some of the tools include:

• Symptom tracking: Users can enter details about any distress they are experiencing and receive a coping technique based on the information provided.
• Relaxation techniques: The app features visualization and breathing exercises, tips for better sleeping habits, and muscle relaxation techniques.
• Self-help strategies: PTSD Coach offers positive self-talk and anger management strategies, among other tools.
• Support and safety plan: The app also features a Support function that provides information about emergency and crisis support services and lets users create and connect to a support network. A self-guided safety plan for suicide prevention is also available.
• Customizable tools: PTSD Coach lets you customize the app and integrate personal photos and music.

PTSD Coach is available from the App Store and Google Play.

While it could also help with depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders, the eMoods app was developed for journaling, graphing, reporting, and managing symptoms related to bipolar disorder. It’s a free app, available for iOS and Android, and it offers privacy features for extra peace of mind. All data is stored locally—the app doesn’t store data in the cloud and doesn’t connect to any application programming interfaces (APIs), which are software tools that share information across applications. So no data ever leaves your device without your explicit action.

One of the app's main features—the CBT-based charting journal—lets you track and capture daily highs and lows, symptoms, irritability, and sleep. But it offers additional features that make it more than just an effective mood tracker.

• Medication tracker: eMoods lets you record medication responses so you can make changes with the help of your healthcare provider and learn about what works and what doesn’t.
• Downloadable reports: You can create, share, and review reports of your tracking data with your doctor or therapist, either in print or electronically.
• Charts and visualizations: A monthly, color-coded calendar provides a snapshot of mood changes to show patterns and how different symptoms relate to one another. Charts and insights let you track trends and monitor triggers between appointments with your doctor.
• Safety plan: The safety plan for suicide prevention lists warning signs and triggers and offers a support network and coping strategies.

The app, available on the App Store and Google Play, has also improved its interface design, adding a dark mode and a colorblind-friendly color scheme.

Stressors are everywhere. MoodKit draws on the principles and strategies of cognitive behavior therapy to help you manage the daily stressors that impact mood and emotions. The app (currently iOS only) does this with four main integrated tools: a mood tracker, various mood-improvement activities, a thought checker, and a journal. The four tools are packed with resources that help manage symptoms of stress, anxiety, and mood disorders but also work hand-in-hand with professional treatment.

• Mood-improvement activities: The app offers over 200 activities that suggest specific ways to implement CBT principles and techniques and reduce negative feelings. You can choose to commit to an action, implement it, favorite it, schedule it in your calendar, or even share it with others.
• Thought checker: MoodKit helps you manage and modify thoughts and negative feelings related to a specific situation. If you use the tool regularly, it identifies patterns, giving you insights that help you learn to change how you think and lower the level of intensity of your feelings.
• Mood tracker: You can save and chart daily ratings of your mood and export them for archiving or sharing with your doctor or therapist.
• Journal: The journaling tool lets you create, save, and export written notes (you can even add your own emojis!) about your moods, activities, or observations. 

The app is enabled for security PIN and Touch and Face ID for privacy. MoodKit is available for $4.99 from the App Store.

Developed by non-profit organization Anxiety Canada, the MindShift app is packed with resources and interactive cognitive-based tools to help track and manage anxiety symptoms and encourage overall healthier thinking. Initially, the app was designed for young adults, but most everyone will find the interface user-friendly and visually appealing.

Like many of the apps listed here, MindShift uses CBT-based strategies and techniques to help users relax and be more mindful and develop more effective ways of thinking to tackle everything from anxiety, worry, and panic to perfectionism and phobias. MindShift’s many self-help features include:

• Thought journal: Note and identify low moods, negative feelings, and anxiety symptoms and transform them into balanced thoughts.
• Coping cards: Positive affirmations and coping statements help ease your anxiety in any given situation.
• Challenges and activities: The app provides belief experiments and comfort-zone challenges so you can learn to overcome your fears and build confidence.
• Chill zone: You can listen to audio recordings for guided relaxation, breathing exercises, and mindful meditation.
• Goal setting: The app lets you set goals to keep you motivated and inspired and keep anxiety in check.
• Check-in feature: MindShift’s check-in feature allows you to record and view graphs and entries. You can easily export and share data with your therapist, counselor, or doctor.
• Numerous extras: You also get guides and other tips for incorporating healthy habits into life.

MindShift is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.

Sure, a no-frills, straightforward journaling app is sometimes all you need. But customization features, such as the ability to add and change emojis and personalize prompts and reminders, can make mood-tracking more fun (and thus, more likely for you to use).

The Daylio app is a colorfully designed micro-diary app that lets you track and monitor your daily moods and activities, offers insights to determine any patterns, and suggests active steps to decrease your anxiety or avoid stressors and improve low moods.

Once or multiple times throughout the day, simply open up the app to choose or enter your current moods and activities, with the option of customizing emojis, color themes, and descriptions and adding notes to help record details of important events. You can then review entries with stats, charts, and calendars to measure the impact of certain activities on your moods and ultimately build habits, set goals, motivate yourself, and collect achievements.

Daylio’s many features include:

• Customization: The app has a database of icons for personalized activities, and you can mix and match your moods with emojis and customize color themes,
• Statistics and reports: Explore monthly or yearly statistics created from your entries and export them. 
• Reminders: Set reminders, so you never forget to create a memory or note an interesting observation.
• Goal setting: Ceate daily, weekly, or monthly goals to motivate yourself and build healthy habits.

Daylio is free, but a premium subscription lets you enjoy more personalization, set an unlimited number of goals, remove ads, and access more features. The app is available from the App Store and Google Play.