Our Favorite Mood and Mental Health Tracking Apps 📱
Just like taking care of your
physical fitness,
your mental health is a big part of being at your best.
And like physical fitness, we can exercise our mental health to keep it in good shape. The phone in your pocket is now a powerful tool for tracking thoughts and feelings and building cognitive skills.
Whether you’re looking for a simple journaling app, guided cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), or insights into your emotional patterns, there’s an app for that. We’ve rounded up some of the top mental health tracking apps to help you build self-awareness, manage stress, and improve overall well-being. Check out the list below and get hands on with your emotional fitness!
Please note: These apps are tools to support mental well-being, but they are not a substitute for professional mental health care. If you are experiencing significant distress, anxiety, depression, or any mental health crisis, we encourage you to seek support from a licensed therapist, counselor, or medical professional. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent help, contact emergency services or a crisis helpline in your area. To reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, call or text 988 for 24/7, free and confidential support for mental health crises.
1. Daylio (iOS and Android📱)
Daylio is a fun and smart way to track moods and activities such as meditation, exercise, meals, and anything else you want to keep tabs on. It helps you spot patterns in how you’re feeling and what you’re doing, giving insights to improve mental wellness one day at a time. It can even scan your facial expression to track your avatar’s mood. There’s a free version, and premium subscription costs $23.99 a year.
2. How We Feel (iOS and Android📱)
How We Feel is a slick app for recording your moods, learning helpful mental techniques, and doing activities to help chill out, like breathing exercises and even a cool music-making mode for programming calming soundscapes. We especially like that How We Feel is a nonprofit – it was cofounded by one of the founders of Pinterest and has lots of input from psychologists and scientists. Maybe the best part, it’s fully free forever.
3. The iOS Health app (iOS📱)
The iPhone and iPad now actually have their own mood tracking features built right into the standard Health app. You can open your system settings and tap Mental Wellbeing then tap State of Mind. Track your mental wellbeing by logging your moods and emotions and by taking standardized mental health assessments to understand your current risk of depression and anxiety. Then you can see trends and patterns in the Health app. Free on iOS devices.
4. Moodnotes (iOS📱)
Moodnotes is a mood-tracking and journaling app to help improve emotional well-being. Developed in collaboration with clinical psychologists, it uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and positive psychology techniques to help us recognize and manage negative thought patterns. There is a free version (although you have to enter payment to activate it) and an annual premium subscription costs $69.99.
5. Reflectly (iOS and Android📱)
Reflectly is a journaling and mood-tracking app that says it draws on positive psychology, mindfulness, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help process negative thoughts and increase positivity. It was rated an iOS Editor’s Choice and App of the Day. A premium subscription costs $59.99 per year.
6. MindDoc (iOS and Android📱)
MindDoc is a mental health app for self-monitoring and emotional well-being. It aims to help users track their mood, emotions, and symptoms over time through daily check-ins and guided reflections. There is also educational content on mental health topics, mindfulness exercises, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools.
7. eMoods (browser-based💻)
eMoods is a simple app to help you track symptoms related to bipolar, depression, PTSD, and anxiety. The app claims that it’s useful also for sharing mental health info with your doctor or therapist. There is a free version with a good number of features and paid premium versions as well. eMoods runs in your browser on your computer or mobile device.
8. Clarity (iOS and Android📱)
Clarity describes itself as an all-in-one mental health hub for stress, anxiety, and low mood. Based around Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Clarity is a self help journal that incorporates an AI chatbot. There’s a free seven-day trial and then a subscription costs $59.99 a year or $4.99 a month (though when we downloaded the app it was offering a year for $29.99).