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Personal Wellbeing
A Private Mood Journal
for iPhone
Mood Patterns
iOS Application
Overview:
People remember events. Very few remember how they actually felt at the time, and fewer still can say why the same feeling keeps returning. Mood Patterns exists for that gap: it is a personal mood journal that records a moment in a few seconds and, over months, turns those moments into a picture of what repeatedly affects you and what helps you come back.
It is deliberately not a tracker that wants a single score each day, not a therapy app, and not an assistant with opinions. It never tells you what to think about a reading. It reflects what you recorded, in the words you recorded it in, and leaves the conclusions to you.
The privacy is structural rather than promised. There is no account, no sign-in, no backend, no cloud sync and no AI, and the app makes no network requests at all. Every moment you save is written to your own iPhone and stays there. If you want a copy elsewhere, you export one yourself and decide where it goes.
Key Features
1
A moment, in seconds
Recording how you feel is one gesture on a scale that runs from extremely low to joyful, and one tap to save. Everything after that is optional. There is no form to fill in and no streak to protect, because a check-in that takes real effort is one you stop making on the days it would matter most.
2
Reasons, without typing
What sat behind a moment is chosen from a short list rather than written out, and the list follows the mood: work, sleep and money on the hard days, family, exercise and finished work on the good ones. The whole vocabulary is yours to rename, add to or delete, so the app never insists on somebody else's idea of why you feel the way you do. A free-text note is there when you want one, and dictation counts.
3
The day, and then the year
A day holds as many moments as you record, laid out as a timeline you can read back: how the morning went, what changed by the evening. Those days become a calendar where each square is one day, coloured by how it went, and an untouched day simply stays empty, because silence is not a mood. Tapping any square opens that day again.
4
Patterns that repeat
With enough history the app can say which reasons keep turning up when things feel hard and which keep turning up when they feel good, which weekdays run low, which hours run bright, and how the months compare. These are written as observations about your check-ins, never as verdicts about you and never as predictions.
5
What helps you come back
Beyond what pulls a day down, the app counts the dips your record actually recovered from: how long coming back has usually taken, and what was present in the check-in that turned things around. It also shows your longest brighter run and your longest difficult one, and a day with no check-in ends a run rather than being quietly filled in.
6
A day you missed
Life interrupts and some days end with nothing written down. A day that has already passed can still take one late addition, up to 30 days back, and the app names the day and the time before it saves anything so a moment cannot land on the wrong one. That day then closes: it is a closing note on how the day turned out, not an invitation to rewrite it.
Support
Questions, problems and feature requests all go to the same place, and a person answers.
Mood Patterns is free and runs on iPhone. It is not on the App Store yet.
- How do I move my history to a new phone?
- Settings, then Export, writes everything you have recorded into one file and opens the iPhone share sheet so you can keep it wherever you like. On the new phone, Settings, then Import, reads that file back. Import merges into whatever is already there and deletes nothing; replacing your existing history instead is a separate choice that cannot be undone, and the app asks you to confirm it first.
- I lost my phone. Can you recover my journal?
- We cannot, and that is a deliberate consequence of how the app is built: there is no account and no server, so we never held a copy of your journal and have nothing to look up. Your own backups are a different matter. The app keeps its database in the app's own storage, which iOS includes when your iPhone is backed up to iCloud or to a computer, so restoring that backup onto a phone can bring your journal back with it. The export file is the one copy you control yourself, so export if you want a copy that does not depend on a full device restore.
- Why can I only add one moment to a day that has passed?
- A past day accepts a single late addition and is then closed. It is meant as a closing note on how that day turned out rather than a way to rewrite it, and it reaches back 30 days, while the memory is still fresh enough to trust. Today is different: today takes as many moments as you want to record.
- Does the app tell me what my moods mean?
- No. It reflects what you recorded back to you as observations, and it stops there. It gives no advice, makes no predictions and offers nothing medical.
