Exist

Apps to track your mood

For Exist, we wanted a simple way to track mood so we built in a daily mood rating, which sends you an email every night at 9pm. You can choose a rating from 1-5 in the email, and add an optional note. With this data we can tell you how (if) exercise, sleep, or the weather affect your mood.

Update: We just released a whole new section of Exist dedicated to mood tracking! You can now browse old mood entries with our calendar view, see what your mood entry was one year ago today, and edit your past mood entries. There's also an entire trends page dedicated to mood which shows a breakdown of your ratings so you can see which rating out of 5 you choose most often, what you talk about most for each of the numbered ratings, and what changes in your other data correlate to good and bad days.

You can also rate your day from your phone with our Android and iOS apps. But if email is more your cup of tea, that's still available, and you can now choose what time of night your email or mobile notification arrives, in case our old default of 9pm doesn't suit you. With our free trial you can test Exist mood tracking for 14 days to see if it's for you.

But if you're looking for a standalone mood tracker, here are a few alternatives to choose from.

1. MoodPanda

Web, iOS, Android

MoodPanda is a popular option for mood ratings. You can rate your mood in MoodPanda anytime, and the service creates a colour-coded mood calendar for you as well as graphs of your ratings. You can also share your mood on social media and embed it into your blog or website.

2. iMoodJournal

iOS, Android

iMoodJournal has a really simple mood rating process. You can choose a mood score all the way from "couldn't be worse" to "insanely great", and if you add a note you can use hashtags to categorise your ratings. Built-in graphs make it easy to see how different tags correspond to different mood ratings.

3. Happiness

iOS

Happiness is a mood journal app that lets you add journal entries about your day, tag them with topics or people, and rate your level of happiness.

4. My Mood Tracker

iOS

My Mood Tracker lets you rate your mood and add a note, but you can also track exercise, sleep, and medication. You can even rate your exercise and sleep on a 1-10 scale.

5. Track Your Happiness

Web, iOS

After answering an initial survey, you can tell Track Your Happiness when and how often you want to be asked about your mood. You'll get either an email or SMS reminder to report how you're feeling and what you're doing.

6. mappiness

iOS

Mappiness was created as part of a research project at the London School of Economics. The app randomly pings you throughout the day to answer how you're feeling and grab data from your phone's sensors about noise level and location. You can also add notes about who you're with or a photo if you're outside.

7. MoodJam

Web

MoodJam lets you use colours as well as words to describe your mood, giving it a more fun, visual element than many other mood-tracking tools.

8. Moodscope

Web

Moodscope starts with simple web-based mood tracking, but once you've got that handled it focuses on getting your friends involved. The site uses an online card game to make rating your mood fun. Then your mood score gets sent in an email to the friends you've enlisted to keep you on track.

More:

• Reporter: random sampling survey app iOS
• Moodynator: track your mood as "internal weather" iOS
• Mood 24/7: rate your day from 1-10 SMS
• Emotion Sense: see how your mood relates to data collected from your phone's sensors Android
• MedHelp Mood Tracker: track mood hourly, add symptoms and journal entries Web
• Expereal: visualise your emotions iOS

I've done a few app roundups now. In the past I've looked at apps to track your finances, media, sleep, habits, and how you spend your personal time.

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Image credits: Moodscope, MoodJam, jaunted, TEDx Taipei, Aspyre apps, Good To Hear, Lifehacker, iGen.fr