Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that can cause severe mood swings and depression.
When you’re living with bipolar disorder, it can be hard to know what to do next. And as someone who has lived with bipolar disorder herself, we know how important it is to have resources and tools at your disposal when you need them most.
In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the best apps for bipolar so that you can get back on track with your mental health.
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HOME>TOP 6 MOOD-TRACKING APPS FOR BIPOLAR
Top 6 Mood-Tracking Apps for Bipolar
By bp Magazine
Last Updated: 26 May 2020
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Daily tracker apps can make it much easier to document our moods, bipolar symptoms, and habits, and to recognize trends, triggers, and patterns. Apps are not a substitute for professional care, but they are an excellent resource for identifying problem areas and collecting data that can be shared with our doctors, family, and support team.
A close-up of a person using apps on a smartphone.
1 iMoodJournal
This app is part personal journal, part mood tracker. It allows us to track not only our moods but also our sleep and medications. By also documenting symptoms and cycles of energy levels, iMoodJournal allows for analysis of our daily feelings so we can see when our stress levels rise or drop. iMoodJournal was named one of the “Best Bipolar Disorder iPhone and Android Apps of 2019” by Healthline.
Platform: Android & iOS
Fee: Paid
Developer: Inexika Inc.
2 T2 Mood Tracker
This mood-tracking app allows us to monitor moods on six preloaded scales: anxiety, stress, depression, brain injury, post-traumatic stress, and general well-being. But we can also build custom scales on T2 Mood Tracker. We rate our moods by swiping a small bar to the left or to the right. The ratings are displayed on graphs, and notes can be recorded to document daily events, medication changes, and treatments, which can help health care providers make treatment decisions.
Platform: Android & iOS
Fee: Free
Developer: National Center for Telehealth and Technology
3 eMoods
eMoods lets us easily track our daily highs and lows, sleep, medications, and other symptoms related to common mood disorders like bipolar. This app is very simple to use, and we are asked each day to select our mood, using corresponding colors. Those colors are automatically plugged into a monthly calendar for a big-picture view. At the end of each month, we have the option to email a report to our doctor, to help identify triggers or a cycle of events that could lead to a bipolar relapse.
Platform: Android & iOS
Fee: Free & Paid
Developer: Yottaram, LLC
4 Moodpath
Developed in collaboration with psychologists, doctors, and patients, Moodpath offers us three daily blocks of questions related to emotional and physical well-being. After an initial screening, the app provides a “scientifically validated” assessment every two weeks. More than 1 million people in 45 countries have downloaded this popular app, and it’s one of only a few to be CE-certified (European Union) as a medical product.
Platform: Android & iOS
Fee: Free & Paid
Developer: Moodpath
5 Moodnotes
Developed by two psychologists, Moodnotes can be used to observe and record our feelings and improve our thinking habits through positive psychology and CBT. By identifying bipolar triggers of our current mood, we can avoid common thinking traps. Over time, our mood patterns will be shown in pie charts and in the “Insights” dashboard, in order to increase self-awareness and to learn to follow habits that are more beneficial.
Platform: iOS
Fee: Paid
Developer: ThrivePort, LLC
6 Daylio
This award-winning journaling app is praised for its ease of use and as a way to identify and track our moods without having to type any words. Tailored to those of us who would rather visually select how we feel, Daylio presents us with an array of videos that portray different moods and allow us to choose which one best reflects our feelings at the moment. There is also a statistics and calendar area that is useful for identifying patterns in moods and behaviors.
Platforms: Android & iOS
Fee: Free & Paid
Developer: Relaxio s.r.o.
Note:
Before using any app …
(1) check for price changes;
(2) make note of the free trial period’s duration, if applicable; and
(3) be aware of any subscription fees that are automatically charged when the free trial period ends or are automatically renewed when the subscription period ends.
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bp Magazine
bp Magazine and bphope.com are dedicated to inspiring and providing information to people living with bipolar disorder and their families, caregivers, and health-care professionals. bp Magazine works to empower those diagnosed with bipolar to live healthy, fulfilling lives by delivering first-person success stories—including celebrity profiles and essays by people with lived experience—as well as informative articles addressing topics such as relationships, employment, sleep, exercise, stress reduction, mood management, treatments, and cutting-edge news and research.
15 COMMENTS
Tim December 16, 2020 at 9:06 pm
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I like Mood Time app! It’s based in behavior psychology (basically the app doesn’t add stress to use) and is science-based
Maria May 24, 2020 at 4:41 pm
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How do others feel about the privacy of your info once you’ve signed up?? I assume it would be out there to be available to “hackers”?
bea h May 24, 2020 at 4:27 pm
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I’m liking emoods so far after a couple of weeks of using it…. (free).
Lindsey M May 24, 2020 at 2:13 pm
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I’ve used emoods for about a month now and find it very helpful. If your med provider doesn’t have a general email or want to give you theirs (like in my case), you can email to yourself and print and take it with you. My therapist also finds these VERY helpful. There is a place you can enter notes as well on the free on. Only confusing part is online it says it fee is monthly but on app it says lifetime fee is only… 5.99.
Dan April 3, 2020 at 10:25 pm
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Thanks for sharing these important (and good) resources. For anyone who wants to try out an automated mood tracker, I made one (as sometimes I have a hard time to keep manually tracking my mood despite wanting to keep the habit up). It is called Misu, you can find it here (I’m easily reachable for questions and feedback!)
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