Best Mood Tracker Apps Compared: Which One Suits You?

A mood tracker app asks one simple question: how do you feel right now? You answer in a few taps, and over weeks the app shows you patterns. Every mood app does that basic job. The differences are in the extras. Some let you name your feelings in fine detail. Some track symptoms and medicines too. Some come built into your phone. The Mood Tracker app is the EveryApp option: five faces, a few taps for what your day held, a year in pixels and plain insights.

There is no single best mood tracker app. The right one is the one you will open every day. This guide compares the main mood tracker apps and says who each one suits.

This comparison is based on what each product is designed for. Plans, prices and features change, so check each app's own site before you decide. No mood app diagnoses anything or replaces a doctor or therapist. If you are struggling, talk to someone you trust or a health professional.

The short version

App	Best for	Platforms	Works offline	Free to use
Daylio	A quick mood diary with lots of ways to customise it	iPhone, Android	Check their site	Has a free version
Bearable	Mood alongside symptoms, sleep and medicines for a health condition	iPhone, Android	Check their site	Has a free version
How We Feel	Naming your emotions in detail and learning ways to cope	iPhone, Android	Check their site	Yes
Apple Health (State of Mind)	iPhone and Apple Watch users who want nothing extra to install	iPhone, Apple Watch	Yes	Yes
Mood Tracker	A fast daily check-in with a year in pixels and private, simple insights	Any browser; installs on iPhone, Android and computers	Yes	Yes

Who each one suits

Daylio

Daylio is a well-known mood app. It calls itself a micro-diary. You pick a mood, tap the activities that filled your day and add a note if you want. You don't have to write anything. Over time it shows charts, a year in pixels and which activities go with your better days. You can change the moods and activities, set goals and add photos.

Choose Daylio if you want a mature mood diary with many ways to make it your own. It suits people who like to tweak icons, moods and goals. It has a free version and a paid premium plan.

Bearable

Bearable is a mood and symptom tracker. Besides mood, you can log symptoms, sleep, medicines, energy and many other factors. It then looks for links between them, such as how a medicine or a bad night lines up with your mood. It can read some data from your phone's health app.

Choose Bearable if you live with a long-term health condition and want mood and symptoms in one place. It suits people who want to test what helps and share a clear picture with a doctor. It has a free version with paid upgrades.

How We Feel

How We Feel is a free app built with emotion researchers. You pick a feeling from a large grid of named emotions, sorted by how pleasant it is and how much energy it has. It then offers short strategies, such as breathing or reframing, to help you manage how you feel.

Choose How We Feel if you want to put a precise name to your emotions. It suits people who find "good" or "bad" too blunt and want help building an emotional vocabulary. It is free.

Apple Health (State of Mind)

On recent iPhones, the Health app has a State of Mind feature. You log how you feel right now or how your day went overall, on a scale from very unpleasant to very pleasant. You can add what affected it, such as work or family. You can log from an Apple Watch too. The Health app also offers standard questionnaires about depression and anxiety.

Choose Apple Health if you use an iPhone, maybe with an Apple Watch, and want the simplest start. It suits people who already keep sleep, steps and workouts in the Health app. It does not run on Android, so it is a poor fit if you switch phones or use a computer.

Mood Tracker

Mood Tracker is the EveryApp mood app. You tap one of five faces, from Awful to Great, then tap what your day held, like sleep, exercise or friends. You can add a note. Each day takes the colour of your mood in a year in pixels. Insights show your patterns after a week or two.

Choose Mood Tracker if you want a check-in that takes seconds, clear patterns and your moods kept on your own device. It suits people who use more than one kind of device, or who want to start in the browser with no app store. It is free to use.

What Mood Tracker does well

• Seconds to check in. Five faces, a tap for each activity and an optional note. Check in as often as you like. Days with several check-ins use their average.
• Activities built in. Ready-made activities cover sleep, your body, people, what you were doing and the weather. Add your own, like therapy, guitar or a dog walk.
• A year in pixels. A grid with one small square for every day, coloured by that day's mood. It shows at a glance which months felt good and which were hard.
• Insights you can read. See your mood over time, how often each mood comes up, your weekdays compared and the activities that go with your better days. Look back over 30 days, 60 days or a year.
• Streaks. The app shows your current check-in streak and your best one.
• Fill in missed days. Pick an earlier day in History to add a check-in, or edit or delete one you've made.
• Gentle reminders. Set a daily reminder. It stays quiet on days you've already checked in. Notifications never show your mood, activities or notes.
• Support when days are hard. If the lowest mood shows up several days in a row, the app gently points to where to find support. It never diagnoses anything.
• Ready for appointments. Export your check-ins as a CSV spreadsheet to show a doctor or therapist how things have been.
• Works offline. Once installed, you can check in, look back at your history and see your insights with no connection. If you sync, new check-ins go to your account when you're back online.
• Installs from the browser. On iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open it in Chrome and tap Install. On a computer, it runs in the browser. You don't need an app store.
• Private by design. Your check-ins stay on your device unless you choose to sync them to your EveryApp account. They are never sold. You can download or delete everything at any time.

What Mood Tracker doesn't do

Be clear about the limits. Mood Tracker uses five faces. If you want to name an exact emotion, How We Feel goes further. It doesn't track symptoms, medicines or health readings alongside mood, which Bearable does. It doesn't read data from Apple Health or a watch. It doesn't offer coping exercises or questionnaires. It doesn't add photos to a day. Daylio offers more ways to customise the look and the moods.

Its insights show patterns in what you've logged. They don't prove what causes a mood. Use them as a starting point for reflection.

Reminders need the installed app and a free EveryApp account.

The free plan covers check-ins, history, the year in pixels, insights and CSV export. Pro doesn't change how often you can check in. You get three activities of your own on top of the built-in ones, and one reminder on at a time. Pro adds up to 100 of your own activities and up to five reminders.

How to choose

Start with what you want to learn from tracking. The feature list comes second. Ask yourself these questions.

Do you want speed or detail? If a check-in has to take a few seconds or you'll stop doing it, pick a simple scale like Daylio or Mood Tracker. If you want to pin down exactly what you feel, How We Feel gives you a large set of named emotions.

Are you tracking a health condition? If your mood goes with pain, fatigue, sleep or medicines, Bearable keeps them all in one place and looks for links. A simple mood log may miss the factors you care about.

Which devices do you use? If you only use an iPhone, State of Mind in Apple Health is already there. If you switch between an iPhone, an Android phone and a computer, choose an app that runs on all of them. Mood Tracker installs from the browser on each.

How much do you want to customise? Some people enjoy designing their own moods, icons and goals. Daylio is strong here. Others want something that works well out of the box.

Who sees your data? Mood logs and notes are personal. Check where each app stores them and whether reminders show anything on your lock screen. Mood Tracker keeps check-ins on your device unless you choose to sync, and its reminders never show what you've logged.

Will you share it with a professional? If you see a doctor or therapist, an export helps. Mood Tracker exports a CSV spreadsheet. Bearable and Daylio offer their own exports.

Will you open it every day? The best mood tracker is the one you actually use. A short daily check-in will tell you more than a detailed app you forget about.

Other EveryApp tools for your wellbeing

A mood tracker shows you how you feel. A few other tools help with the habits behind it:

• The daily journal gives you space to write more than a short note.
• The habit tracker keeps routines like walks or reading on track.
• The sleep tracker records when you sleep and how well.
• The breathing exercise guides you through a few calm minutes when you need them.