LifeMood
Pick how you feel
Five levels, from Great to Rough. You can rename them, recolour them, add your own, or swap the faces for a different emoji theme.
The mood tracker that shows you why some days go wrong
LifeMood is a private mood tracker and journal for iPhone. Pick how you feel, tap what you did, and after a few weeks the pattern you couldn’t see from inside it shows up on a chart.
- Great
- Good
- Okay
- Low
- Rough
- Free to download
- No account
- Entries stay on your iPhone
In one paragraph
What LifeMood is
LifeMood is a private mood tracker and daily journal for iPhone. A check-in takes about ten seconds — pick a mood, tap the activities that filled the day, and add a note, a voice memo or a photo if you want one. After a few weeks it reads your own history back to you: which activities travel with your best days, which weekday is quietly your worst, and whether your mood has been steadier this month than last. Entries are stored on the device. There is no account, and nothing is uploaded.
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 18.0 or later
- Price
- Free, with optional Premium
- Account
- None — data stays on device
- Languages
- More than 30
How it works
Ten seconds, and you’re done
Most journals ask for a paragraph before they will let you log anything. This one asks for a tap, and counts it as a real entry.
Tap what you did
Work, gym, friends, bad sleep, too much coffee. Build your own list with your own icons and colours, grouped however you think about your days.
Say more, or don’t
Some days the whole entry is one tap. Other days you write three paragraphs about why you’re angry. Both count, and neither one nags you.
What you get back
The point isn’t the logging
It’s what turns up a month later. LifeMood reads your own history and tells you things you were never going to notice from inside the week they happened.
- Often Together. The activities that keep landing on the same day as each other.
- Mood over time, mood counts, and how often each activity shows up.
- Filters on everything. Narrow any statistic to one activity, group, goal or mood level.
- Rating scales for energy, stress, sleep, caffeine and exercise, each with its own trend.
- Streaks, goals and achievements that build the habit instead of guilt-tripping you into it.
Your year, at a glance
A month you can read in two seconds
Every day gets a colour. A bad fortnight stops being a feeling and becomes a shape you can point at — and a good run stops being something you have to take on trust.
- Month calendar coloured by how each day actually went.
- Year in Pixels — twelve months as one grid, a square per day.
- Tap any square to open that day and read what you wrote.
When one tap isn’t enough
Capture the why
A mood on its own tells you what happened. A sentence tells you what it was about. LifeMood takes whichever you have the energy for.
- Written notes of any length — a line, or a page.
- Voice memos for the days you’d rather talk than type.
- A photo attached to the entry, for the days worth seeing again.
- Whatever shape therapy needs — a thought record, a DBT diary card, a CBT-style log. Export a date range as PDF for the session.
Works with your iPhone
Check in without opening the app
The fastest entry is the one you make from where you already are: the Lock Screen, Control Center, or a sentence to Siri.
Apple Health
Each mood can be saved to Apple Health as a State of Mind. With Premium, LifeMood also reads your sleep, steps, exercise and mindful minutes and shows them next to your moods.
Widgets
Home Screen widgets for a one-tap mood, today’s check-in and the month calendar, plus Lock Screen widgets.
Control Center
Add the LifeMood button to Control Center and a check-in is one swipe away.
Siri and Shortcuts
Say “Log my mood in LifeMood” or “Check in with LifeMood”, or build the action into your own Shortcuts.
Privacy
Your entries stay yours
A mood journal holds the things you would not put in a group chat. LifeMood is built so that there is nowhere for them to leak to.
On your phone
Everything you write, record and photograph is stored on the iPhone. Nothing is uploaded and nobody reads it.
No account
There is no sign-up, no email, no password. Install the app and start logging.
Locked if you want
Lock the app with Face ID, with a PIN behind it, and it stays shut even on an unlocked phone.
No ad tracking
Advertising identifier collection is switched off in the build, so LifeMood never shows a tracking prompt.
Free & Premium
The app is free. Premium is for people who stay.
Everything you need to build the habit is in the free app, including the lock. Premium is sold as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time purchase.
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Entries, notes and voice memos | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Photos per entry | One | Unlimited |
| Statistics, insights and Often Together | Included | Included |
| Month calendar and Year in Pixels | Included | Included |
| Year in Pixels “Months” view | — | Included |
| Face ID and PIN lock | Included | Included |
| Widgets, Control Center and Siri | Included | Included |
| Save moods to Apple Health | Included | Included |
| Read sleep, steps, exercise and mindful minutes from Apple Health | — | Included |
| Goals and rating scales | One of each | Unlimited |
| Themes | Default themes | Every theme |
| CSV export | Included | Included |
| PDF export | — | Included |
How it compares
LifeMood, Daylio, How We Feel and Bearable
Four good apps that overlap but aim at different jobs. We make LifeMood, so read this as our summary, and check each listing yourself.
| LifeMood | Daylio | How We Feel | Bearable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | Quick daily mood and activity check-ins, and the patterns behind them | A micro-diary of moods and activities, with goals and stats | Naming emotions precisely, with guided strategies | Symptoms, pain, migraine and medication alongside mood |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone | iPhone |
| Price | Free, optional Premium | Free, in-app purchases | Free (nonprofit) | Free, in-app purchases |
| Where entries live | On your iPhone, no account | On your phone, optional backup to your own cloud storage | On your device unless you opt in to share anonymized check-ins for research | Encrypted, with restore across devices |
| App Store privacy label | Not linked to you: identifiers, usage data, diagnostics | Not linked to you: purchases, usage data, diagnostics | Linked to you: contact info, identifiers, other data | Linked to you: health and fitness, user content, location and more. Used to track you: contact info, identifiers |
| Apple Health | Saves moods as State of Mind; reads sleep, steps, exercise, mindful minutes (Premium) | Not mentioned on the listing | Reads sleep, exercise and health trends | Reads steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health (and Fitbit) |
Questions
Answers, before you install
What is LifeMood?
LifeMood is a private mood tracker and daily journal for iPhone. You pick one of five moods, tap the activities that filled your day, and optionally add a note, a voice memo or a photo. Over time it charts the pattern behind your best and worst days.
How long does a check-in take?
About ten seconds. One tap on a mood is a complete, valid entry. There is no blank page demanding a paragraph before it will let you log anything, so the days you have nothing to say still get recorded.
Is LifeMood free?
Yes, it is free to download. Unlimited entries, notes and voice memos, one photo per entry, all the statistics, the calendar and Year in Pixels, one goal, one rating scale, CSV export, saving moods to Apple Health, widgets and the lock are all free. LifeMood Premium adds unlimited goals and rating scales, unlimited photos, every theme, the Months view of Year in Pixels, PDF export, and reading sleep, steps, exercise and mindful minutes from Apple Health. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase.
Where are my entries stored, and is LifeMood private?
Everything you write, record and photograph is stored on your iPhone. Your journal is not uploaded, your notes are not read, and there is no account to create. You can lock the app with Face ID and a PIN. Advertising identifier collection is switched off in the build, so LifeMood never shows an App Tracking Transparency prompt.
Does LifeMood work offline?
Yes. Logging, charts, the calendar and export all run on the device, so the app works the same with no connection and on a plane.
Does LifeMood work with Apple Health?
Yes. Turn it on and each mood is saved to Apple Health as a State of Mind: how pleasant it felt, and when. Notes, activities and photos stay in LifeMood, and deleting an entry removes it from Health too. With Premium, LifeMood also reads your sleep, steps, exercise and mindful minutes from Health and shows them next to your moods.
Does LifeMood have widgets and Siri support?
Yes. There are Home Screen widgets for a one-tap mood, today’s check-in and the month calendar, Lock Screen widgets, and a Control Center button. Siri understands “Log my mood in LifeMood” and “Check in with LifeMood”, and both actions are available in Shortcuts.
Can I use LifeMood alongside therapy?
Many people do. The notes field takes whatever shape you need — a thought record, a DBT diary card, a CBT-style log of what happened and what you made it mean. Export any date range as a PDF to bring to a session, or as CSV to do your own analysis. LifeMood is a self-tracking tool, not a medical device, and it does not diagnose or treat any condition.
What can I track besides mood?
Activities that you name, colour and choose icons for, plus rating scales from a library of 20, such as energy, stress, sleep quality, caffeine and exercise time. Each scale is tracked as its own trend, so you can read energy against mood, or sleep against a bad week.
Does LifeMood have a Year in Pixels?
Yes, in the free app. Your year appears as a grid of coloured squares, one per day, alongside a month calendar coloured by how each day went. Tap a square to open that day. Premium adds a Months view of the same grid.
Can I export my data?
Yes. Any date range exports as CSV in the free app, or as a PDF with Premium. The PDF is the format most people bring to a therapy session.
Does LifeMood sync between devices?
No. Entries stay on the iPhone you made them on, and there is no cloud account. Export a CSV or PDF whenever you want your own copy.
Is there an Android, iPad or Apple Watch version?
Not at the moment. LifeMood is an iPhone app and needs iOS 18.0 or later. There is no Android, iPad, Apple Watch or web version today.
What languages does LifeMood support?
More than 30, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Hebrew, with right-to-left layout for Arabic and Hebrew.
How is LifeMood different from Daylio?
Both log a mood and activities in a few taps and chart them over time. LifeMood keeps everything on the iPhone with no account, saves moods to Apple Health as State of Mind, and runs on iPhone only. Daylio has been around much longer, runs on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and can back up to your own cloud storage.
How is LifeMood different from other mood trackers?
It is built for week two rather than day one, so a one-tap entry counts and a missed day is never used to shame you. It reads your history back as findings rather than raw charts, including which activities keep landing on the same day. And it keeps everything on the device with no account.
Make one entry today
In a month you’ll have something worth reading.
Free on iPhone, iOS 18.0 or later. No account needed.