Leave a Review Moodnotes
So disappointing
I used to adore this app. It was pretty much perfect. It was simple and you could really easily just write about your day or how you were feeling without any complications. It was easy to look through past entries and the design of the app was very nice to look at at. In short, the app was about the journaling without all the extra distractions.
Not anymore though. Now the whole thing is bogged down with so many new “features” that go completely against the main reason I used the app in the first place. Now the spot for writing is super small and to get to it you are forced to jump through an absurd number of hoops. Looking through past entries is a pain and the app looks completely different from when I first downloaded it, and not for the better.
I’m so unbelievably disappointed. I have a lot of writing wrapped up in this app and now it feels inaccessible. It’s just such a shame and I would really love to go back to the simpler times of this app, when it didn’t require you to complicate your entries. It’s really frustrating that something that was once so great is now something I’ll probably never use again.Show less297374718173
Developer Response
Hi! We're really sorry that your recent experience with the app wasn't what you'd expected. We are constantly working on the app's improvement and are doing everything possible to provide our users with a highly functional product. We appreciate your comments and will consider them while working on future versions of Moodnotes. Thank you for sharing your concerns with us!Enhanced Color Contrast
Like the app. Especially the ease in functionality between quick saves and detailed. One small but potentially powerful improvement to consider is enhanced color contrast.
It seems the goal of CBT is to broaden (contrast) the distinction between similar feelings, or create more contrast within thoughts and feelings. Using deeper color contrast may better symbolize the stark difference between happy and sad, or happy and extremely happy.
For example using electric-punch red for happy-happy and indigo blue for sad-reallysad.
This may come off as too childlike or possibly less serious to the magnitude of our struggle, but keep in mind emergency situations use the brightness color ( and contrast ) available.
CBT seems designed for emergency emotional situations. Why not use a more intense color pallet to reflect that?Show lessSummertime1
Bring Back Old Interface
Love this app. It’s quite useful to record your mood, and the feelings you were experiencing at a particular moment.
However, the updated interface with the emoji-like face is hideous. This is a clear example of app’s design teams tinkering with something that wasn’t broken. The app’s main purpose is to help people become more aware of their emotions and response to these. This is a serious topic, which the old interface reflected well while still being user friendly. The updated interface however, plays up to “modern sensibilities” but fails miserably at doing so. There’s a major and painful disconnect in the design language of the “log” tab and the “stats” tab. The emoji-like face in the “log” tab is the stuff of nightmares, and overall detracts from the app’s mental awareness goal. Buttons and overall design now feel modern for the sake of modernity: not purposefully designed that way, instead it all just reads like design taken out of a UI template you find on Dribble.
Please, please, please Moodnotes team. Bring back the old interface, or find a way to tone down the new visuals. This updated visual language doesn’t reflect the app’s true value. I hope you realize that.Show lessarguellos
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you very much for sharing your feedback with us. We're deeply sorry that the new update hasn't met your expectations. We appreciate your words on the app's improvement and will take them into consideration when working on future versions of Moodnotes. Thank you for your opinion, it really matters to us!UI headed south
On-and-off user of the app for a couple years now, and appreciate that it’s been there all those years.
Even just spending a few days with this latest update, though, has sent me looking for alternatives. It’s not the subscription—the benefits this provided me are more than worth the price being asked for premium—but the simple fact that the app itself has gotten worse. The face-scanning mood input solves a problem I don’t think anyone has, and it does so poorly—my face seems incapable of anything than a 0 or -1. The button designs guide the user _away_ from the CBT details workflow. The timeline now uses a physically-inspired design (depth, shadows etc) that is entirely incongruous with the CBT workflow screen, which is in the old, flat style; also for some reason the details screen’s header seems to be double its old height.
If there were something magical or proprietary about what Moodnotes did, then these UI concerns would be middling—but CBT is beautifully simple enough that it can be done with pencil and paper; that Moodnotes provided a superior UI compared to alternatives was its entire selling point. For years, going off of that original ustwo design, that superiority seemed assured. I am sad (30%) for that to no longer be the case.Show lessRiwsky
Developer Response
Hi! Thanks for your opinion, it really matters to us. We're sorry that your experience with the new version wasn't what you'd expected. We appreciate your comments and will take them into consideration. If you have more to say - feel free to get in touch with us via support@thriveport.com. Thank you for your feedback!Change the pricing model
I have been recommending this app to my loved ones left and right for its life-changing place in mental health. It was disheartening for me to learn that the developers have moved the app to a subscription-based pricing model, without there even being any real changes to what is offered... Many of the people I had shown the app to expressed excitement and willingness to purchase the app for the amount it used to be listed at, but now are turned off by the subscription-based pricing model.
Please change this model! If the developers are still working on the app and adding new features (which I do not see happening — real shady, guys) then I suggest looking at the way the developers of the app ‘Agenda’ are monetizing their product. That would be a good model that doesn’t turn people off!
Moodnotes is a great app, but I really don’t see any reason why it is being monetized in this way.Show lessgupgoop
Small adjustments away from greatness
I use Moodnotes as a mood tracker in hope of detecting patterns over time. I log moods about four times daily. I would get hopeless and irritable in the late afternoon so I began testing my blood sugar around that time and it was always low, about 80 on average. This might be normal at 4 AM not PM. I often forget to eat due to ADHD time blindness and rarely eat on schedule.
The interactive emoji is helpful for quickly logging mood. Can’t think of a quicker way. Simple and brilliant. Now the problem is the app doesn’t challenge and hook the user by asking “Why” immediately post mood entry. Instead it has Add Detail as an option displayed in the same color with a white boxed line. Not as effective as it could be. I rarely choose to add detail due to avoidance and not really seeing it. There’s no nudge. Ideally it’d go: emoji, why/what’s causing/happening or skip (in smaller font) ending the session, choose feelings, check a thought (applicable CBT)...etc. The pages would change immediately post entry. Now the app would be beneficial to us by reducing mental pain quicker ad more effectively.
Moodnotes has a couple of other simple flaws including translating, displaying data effectively. The colors shouldn’t blend into each other. Instead important choices should be in different colors for easier visual flow.
These simple changes will increase efficacy and user usage thus more healing and yes, a better world.Show lessnoahpictures
decent, but not so much free
So I downloaded this app for a class, and because I have bad borderline personality disorder and wanted to see if my mood swings had patterns or indicators, however, upon using this app I have learned nothing. I still have no conclusions, and the only useful way this app could be used is if one paid for it. The free mood trends are confusing to understand as there is no indicator to what each line means, and moreover the key words you can put in your mood description don't seem to have a correlation chart. Some of the features promised in the paid version seem promising and look fun (although blurred in the free version). I don't however believe one should HAVE to pay for these basic features, if you wanted an app that was for mood tracking or something like I wished for, I wouldn't recommend this one unless you're willing to pay.Show lessminkefam
Writing really calls for an iPad version
I used this app pretty regularly a couple of years ago and found it to be helpful. I’m going to try to start using it again so I can supplement visits with my therapist. However, I’m not sure that I’ll keep up with it.
I originally stopped using it because I started using my iPad as my primary “personal time” device (i.e., my phone generally stays plugged in and stationary in another room.) The iPad experience is painful for an app that relies heavily on text entry. Since there is no iPad version, you end up having to use the awkward iPhone simulation keyboard. I have a physical bluetooth keyboard case I would LOVE to use with this app (using it right now to write this review), but that would require me to do one of two things: 1) take the iPad out of the case and prop it up vertically 2) try to read the text sideways as I type.
While I realize the effort to make an iPad version of an existing iPhone app is not zero, the functionality of this app is not so complex that I would imagine it taking an inordinate amount of time and effort.Show lessjlleblanc
Developer Response
We thank you for taking the time and sharing your feedback with us! There is always room for improvement and we appreciate your kind contribution. If you have more to say, please write to us at support@thriveport.com. Thank you for using our app!Great app⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟
I love this app and I feel it’s a place I can really be free with my emotions. I would suggest this app to anyone that feels they need someone to talk to but doesn’t or is feeling a little self conscious. The app allows you to show how you feel write about it and show your feelings bad or good, it’s not just an old app it’s like a place, a place where you can be completely free. Though some people may say something like this “but I have nosy brothers/sisters they’ll find it for sure and I don’t want them knowing.” well if that’s the case then you can set up a password and or use your finger print so only you can get in. Those are the reasons why this app is great and I would certainly recommend it to you.Show lesscc_65🦄
A Word From A 14 Year Old ...
Hello , ThrivePort . I’d like to start off by saying that the idea of this app is quite wonderful , considering the fact that my moods are slowly becoming more negative than positive , due to it being easier to aggravate and irritate me now and because of possible gender dysphoria . I got to get a peek of what the app was about , and so far , it’s calming .
The issue I have with the app is the fact that I have to pay for a subscription , membership , premium , whatever fits . The thing is , I am only fourteen . On top of that , I personally have no money , nor a credit card that has money on it . I also don’t have my pay settings set up on my phone due to that , and — well I’m sure you see the problem . I would like it if ... we didn’t have to pay for a subscription . This is simply because I would like to improve my mood and make it so that I can lower my irritation tolerance a little everyday .
That’s my personal opinion , of course , but I feel it would be best for people like me who are still young with parents who don’t really allow subscriptions for apps . Thank you for reading .Show lessTheWeebOverThere
Developer Response
Thank you for reaching to us! We appreciate your feedback and thank you for choosing Moodnotes. You may contact our customer service at support@thriveport.com so that we could find a solution to your problem and bring you better experience with our app. We are looking forward to hearing form you!
