Mood · Health & Body · Free
Track your mood. Notice patterns over time.
Log how you feel on a five-face scale, add a note and triggers, and see your days on a calendar, a year grid, and a 30-day trend.
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A check-in in one tapPick one of five faces, from Terrible to Great. The entry saves the moment you tap.
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A note when it mattersA line under "What's behind this?" keeps what the day was like, for when you look back.
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Triggers you can countTag "Poor sleep", "Deadline", "Friends" or your own, and see which tend to come with better or worse days.
Your first check-in
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Open Mood and tap "+"
Or tap a face in the "MOOD" strip on Today, which saves an entry in one tap.
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Pick a face
Choose one of five under "How are you feeling right now?". The entry saves as soon as you tap.
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Add context, if you like
Write a line under "What's behind this?" and tap a trigger or two under "What's driving this?".
Every step, in detail
- 1 Open Mood and tap "+" ("Log mood").
- 2 Pick one of the five faces under "How are you feeling right now?". The entry saves as soon as you tap.
- 3 Optionally write a line under "What's behind this?" and tap a trigger chip, or "Add trigger", under "What's driving this?".
- 4 Close the sheet. The entry shows in the "Today" card and colours today on the month calendar.
- 5 Tap any day on the calendar to see its entries, edit one, or add a back-dated entry with "Log Mood".
What you can learn over time
One check-in says how a moment felt. A few weeks of them start to show a shape. Mood draws the same entries five ways; “Insights” and “Year in Pixels” are in the “⋯” menu.
- Month calendar
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Each logged day, coloured by mood. A small number marks a day with more than one entry.
Helps you notice A hard week, or a good stretch, before you would have named it.
- 30-day trend
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Your average mood, how many entries you made and your logging streak over the last 30 days.
Helps you notice Whether recent check-ins are higher or lower than earlier in the month, or close to your usual range.
- Weekday rhythm
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Your average for each day of the week.
Helps you notice Your best and toughest days, such as a Sunday that runs lower than the rest.
- Lifts and Drains
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Tags whose entries average higher or lower than your overall mood, with how many entries each rests on.
Helps you notice What tends to come with better or worse days. It needs tagged entries to work.
- Year in Pixels
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The year as one square per day, coloured by that day’s average mood.
Helps you notice Seasons and runs that a month view is too close to show.
Year in Pixels
“Your emotional footprint mapped out day by day.” Twelve columns, one per month, and a square for each day, coloured by that day’s average mood. Empty squares are days without an entry.
Squint at it and runs appear: a grey February, brighter weekends, a summer that held up. The example beside it is sample data, drawn the way the app draws yours.
- Terrible
- Bad
- Okay
- Good
- Great
An example: three weeks of check-ins
How a few seconds a day turn into something you can read.
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Tuesday, 11:40 pm
A late night logs a check-in
How are you feeling right now?
- Terrible
- Bad, chosen
- Okay
- Good
- Great
What’s behind this?
Third late night on the launch deck.
What’s driving this?
Deadline, chosen Poor sleep, chosen Workload Tired
The chips offered first are the ones that usually come with the face you picked. New installs start with 18 triggers in seven categories, and “Triggers” in the “⋯” menu adds your own.
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Three weeks later
Insights shows what comes with lower days
Drains
These tags show up with lower mood.
Compared with your overall 3.4 mood average.
Poor sleep 2.3−1.16 entriesDeadline 2.8−0.69 entriesLifts
Exercise 4.1+0.77 entriesSample numbers. Each row is the average of the entries carrying that tag, set against your average across every entry.
A pattern is not a cause. Lifts and Drains show what tends to come together, not what causes what. Poor sleep and a bad day may both come from the same deadline, and a tag with a handful of entries can swing on one day. Read them as questions worth asking (“Do I sleep worse before deadlines?”), and give them a few weeks of entries before you trust them.
Questions
About Mood day to day.
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Can I check in more than once a day?
Yes. Each "+" starts a new entry, and the calendar marks days with more than one. A day is coloured by the average of its entries, or by the latest one if you turn off "Colour by daily average" in Settings.
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Can I edit, delete or back-date an entry?
Tap a day on the calendar to see its entries. Tap one to edit it, or press and hold it for "Delete entry". "Log Mood" under a past day adds an entry you forgot to make.
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Do I have to tag triggers?
No, a face is enough. "Lifts" and "Drains" count only tagged entries, though, so tagging one trigger most days makes them useful after a few weeks. "Triggers" in the "⋯" menu adds, renames, recategorises and deletes them.
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Where are my mood entries kept?
On your iPhone. If you turn on iCloud sync, they sync through your own private iCloud with the rest of HourLife. Auto Export to iCloud Drive always leaves mood records out.
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Does Mood work with Apple Health?
No. Mood entries stay in HourLife, and the module does not read from or write to Apple Health.
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What if I have a run of hard days?
If your last seven days hold only Terrible or Bad entries, the log sheet shows a short "Take Care of Yourself" note suggesting you reach out to a friend or a professional. You can turn it off in Settings.
Works with
Where Mood hands off to the rest of HourLife.
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Today
Today's "MOOD" strip logs a face in one tap, Rest mode asks "How do you feel?", a morning check-in can appear before noon, Evening mode has an optional "Mood reflection" step, and Weekly Review shows your average mood for the week.
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Highlights
A Good or Great entry with a note can be saved as a Highlight with the "Also save as a Highlight" toggle.
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Calendar
Mood entries appear on the day timeline as their own source, which you can hide with the Mood toggle in the timeline's sources.
Read and try
Books from the library that Mood puts into practice, and something to try on paper or in the browser.
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Feeling Good David D. Burns Burns on writing down moods and the thoughts behind them, the basis of a mood log.
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Atlas of the Heart Brené Brown Brown on naming feelings precisely. A note beside the face says more than the face.
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How Emotions Are Made Lisa Feldman Barrett Barrett on emotional granularity: the more precisely you name a feeling, the better you handle it.
Already have HourLife?
The quickest check-in is the "MOOD" strip on Today. One tap on a face saves an entry, and you can open Mood later to add a note or triggers to it.
Mood is in the Library, under Health & Body. If it isn’t there, turn it on in Settings → Look & Feel → Modules.
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