iMoodJournal app review: learn more about yourself through guided journaling-2020

Introduction

iMoodJournal is an iPhone and iPad journal app that allows you to use it as a personal diary, make detailed notes about your mood, and notice patterns.

This moods app will help you not only express your moods but also help you understand yourself better. Your highs and lows, over time, can be charted and give you great insights about yourself. Featured on Healthline.com 10 Best Apps for Bipolar Disorder, this app also helps you identify or deal with psychological conditions in a productive way.

This app for noting moods runs on devices with iOS 11.0 or watchOS 4.0 or later with support of up to iOS 14.0 and it is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It will need 64 MB of free memory space on your mobile device to download and install.

Usually apps like these are free of cost but the developers of this one have priced it at $0.99. Is it worth the purchase? Let's find out in this MoodJournal app review. Check out our best note taking apps list for additional options.

How Are You Today?

The app interface of iMoodJournal - mood journal, personal diary and charting tool helping you recognize patterns and triggers of your mental state, including bipolar and OCD is colorful and uplifting. Each day, you can enter notes about how you feel, your thoughts, and your experiences.

A cute scale is also featured, letting you numeralize your feelings for easier data collection. Furthermore, you can take pictures of yourself for each day, signifying how your mood and other factors affect the way you look.

If you are not in the habit of journaling, it can be easy to forget to input information everyday. The developers have included a reminder feature where you can set multiple reminders per day at set times, or at random times.

Hashtag Your Way To Self-Knowledge

It's also recommended that you include hashtags in your entries, whether it's an activity you're doing or a certain emotion that you'd like to further investigate. This app will help you understand the ways in which your emotions are affected by certain activities or people.

Medications and sleep data can also be tracked easily by adding a hashtag followed by a colon and numbers. You can view hashtags on a landscape chart to spot patterns in correlations between different variables. For instance, #sleep:6h or #modafinil:200mg tags can help you figure out how you feel on days you have underslept or days on which you reduced your dosage or missed your medication.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Use hashtags to mark events, moods, activities, and anything else worth remembering
• Establish correlations amongst different factors such as sleep, mood, and medications
• Enjoy taking notes on a lovely interface
• Set reminders for when you want to journal
• Share your mood with friends on Facebook

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Cons

• There is nothing negative to say about this app

Final Words

I think iMoodJournal - mood journal, personal diary and charting tool helping you recognize patterns and triggers of your mental state, including bipolar and OCD is a fantastic app for those struggling with psychological disorders.

It can help provide some great insight into oneself and simply the act of recording thoughts and feelings can make people feel better. I think it's definitely worth the $0.99 to get your own personal diary on your iPhone or iPad.