Mood Tracker by Tyneside is another simple tracking app, but it focuses solely on your mood. It has you rate your current mood on a simple 1 to 10 scale as many times a day as you feel like it. You can then add notes about that particular rating in a simple journal entry. The tracking will show your high and low for each day, and you can view a week at a time.
The app recommends making notes about who you are with, when you noticed the change in mood, how long it seems to have lasted, activities, sleep, food, descriptive words for your mood, etc… so that you can go back and try to find patterns to your moods. The graph however only shows your mood numbers. You can click a day to see your full tracking info for that day and to read your associated journal entries.
You can connect the app to your Facebook page to collect journal data. The app does not post to your Facebook page, but it does mine your entries for keep words and possible reminders to enter your mood rating.
You can sync the data you input with multiple devices and the app’s website. Almost all the the websites resources are set in the UK. Keep this in mind if you ever need urgent help, because all their links to help are in the UK. The real advantage to the website is the ability to print out your results so that you can show them to your doctor or therapist. Conveying what you’ve been feeling can be difficult during an appointment, especially because your mood is likely different at that time and setting. Tracking info can help show how often mood swings or types of moods occur. There are also well being tips, and you have the option to share your own. This is a feature that is only on the website unfortunately; and although the mobile version is very functional, it would have been nice to see it integrated more fluidly into the app itself.
PROS:
CONS:
Over all really basic app for no fuss tracking.
You can connect the app to your Facebook page to collect journal data. The app does not post to your Facebook page, but it does mine your entries for keep words and possible reminders to enter your mood rating.
You can sync the data you input with multiple devices and the app’s website. Almost all the the websites resources are set in the UK. Keep this in mind if you ever need urgent help, because all their links to help are in the UK. The real advantage to the website is the ability to print out your results so that you can show them to your doctor or therapist. Conveying what you’ve been feeling can be difficult during an appointment, especially because your mood is likely different at that time and setting. Tracking info can help show how often mood swings or types of moods occur. There are also well being tips, and you have the option to share your own. This is a feature that is only on the website unfortunately; and although the mobile version is very functional, it would have been nice to see it integrated more fluidly into the app itself.
PROS:
- Simple.
- Clearly understandable tracking.
- Printable summary available.
- Can use on multiple devices without interruption.
- Allows for multiple tracking points per day.
- No ads and completely free.
CONS:
- Help resources are limited to one region.
- While it tracks the mood well, it doesn’t make it easy to link what is causing the mood like other apps that track multiple things.
- No way to set reminders manually.
- No way to lock the app to ensure it stays private.
Over all really basic app for no fuss tracking.
 Meghan Bomberger is a freelance writer from Salt Lake City, Utah. She a "geek" expert as well as a technology guru. She is the owner of Geekery Made. |
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