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I’ve already reviewed this once, but I just want to review it again
As a thank you for making such an amazing app. I can’t tell you enough how much this app has change my life over the last year. I tend to only come for it when I’m feeling absolutely helpless and crushed, but every single fricken time I come out with a better and more genuinely positive perspective. Between this app and a few other things (but really this app) I have learned about who I am and what I’m capable of. I recommend it to anyone who ever tells me they’re struggling, and I always get thank yous in return. Thank you thank you thank you for making me feel less hopeless when facing adversity. I will never be able to fully articulate the amount of gratitude I have for this app and it’s creators ❤️Show lessBoom Shaka Laka 123
ACTUALLY based on science
I am so tired of downloading health and productivity apps that claim to be “based on science” when they are throwing that phrase around loosely. Young me probably wouldn’t have called psychology a science, but after ten years of struggling with chronic mental illness, I’ve come around. I have PTSD, and I’ve never been a big fan of therapy. I went for several years, mostly just to satisfy my friends and family, and I liked my therapist. But, I’m very introverted when it comes to my mental health, and trust is one of my major issues. So, finding a useful tool like this where I can keep my thoughts private is a godsend. I just started using this today, and I recognize much of the information from CBT, so I know it’s actually created by someone who is educated and truly cares, rather than just trying to make a buck. Plus, a lot of apps that claim to be for “mental health” are really just lifestyle or meditation apps, not fit for people with serious mental illness. I highly recommend that people go to therapy to get diagnosed if they are struggling (and not use an app), but for mental health maintenance, for those dealing with chronic problems, this is on a short list of useful tools.Show lessSherylc6
I learn more about myself everyday
As someone who struggles with identifying how I feel, and more so what I can do about it, this app helps me tremendously. I don’t usually write reviews, but this app helped me (and is continuing to help me) through a rough patch in my life. It was recommended to me by a friend and I love it! It breaks down emotions into coherent subcategories and analyzes how these emotions may be contributing to negative “thinking traps”. I like seeing my most often get emotions, as well as how many entries I have for each category. This app helps me identify what I feel and I can therefore think about these emotions and what is causing them and help me change my life for the better. I recommend for everyone. The cost is definitely worth it.Show lessafifelski
Underwhelming.
I love this app. I also am annoyed at this app. That's because i see potential for it to perform so much better at helping people really improve, and these changes I imagine would be so small and easy to add.
1) scrolling through feelings would be alot easier if they were grouped under 3 main feelings (in the negative feelings), depression, anxiety, and anger. Every negative feeling is a different expression of one of those feelings. It would just be more organized that way.
2) identifying traps should be followed by writing why the thought is actually a trap. If your thought is "jill doesn't like me" and you identify "mind reading" as the trap, one more step would really help, which is, go back to the statement and now respond to it. "Jill doesn't like me is mind reading because"...
So basically in this step you match the thought with the distortion(s) that fit, and then you have a statement followed by "is a distortion because" and then you fill out the "because...". Ex: "...because I can't really know what she's thinking, at least not without asking her".
Is step 2 too obvious? I think it's crucial and really stops this app from lifting my mood personally. I wonder how many people find their mood improved as is. CBT is a bunch of obvious and simple things but each detail really makes a difference. I'm hoping for some new feedback from developers from this new review. I'm writing this to you!Show lessEMETFORU
So-so
It’s a good motivation to journal and for that reason I keep using it. I wish there were an option to add feelings to the list - there are many there, but obviously there are many more that I simply note in my text summary. I do wish that the app wouldn’t automatically send me a thought correction procedure whenever I identify even a single “negative” feeling, even if the overall mood and tone for the day are highly positive as expressed in my “smile” and positive feeling selection. It seems like it negates all the positive feelings. I also wish it didn’t list “tired” as a “negative” feeling - I’m much more likely to be tired when I’ve had a very good day, and tired is a pleasant feeling after a long run, productive meeting, etc! Finally, please delete the optimism exercise about “what will your life look like in a few years.” My life expectancy isn’t that long, and although I don’t mind being reminded of it, it makes the exercise difficult (I generally write “I will have had a quick and comfortable death at a time and place of my choosing, and my end of life wishes will have been honored” ... but it has to be the same response every time since my life expectancy isn’t going to increase!) - and others might find that a serious downer. Not everyone who uses this app is 25 and healthy!Show lessJ.S. Bleccch
Developer Response
Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us! There is always room for improvement and we really appreciate your kind contribution. Thank you for giving our app a chance!Great for people with anxiety!
I have Asperger’s Syndrome and I’m very prone to anxiety, and this app allows me to write down how I’m feeling and work out any thinking errors. I think this could be a great app for autistic people who might otherwise have trouble identifying how they feel. It lets you adjust the face on the screen to be sad or happy and pick and choose from various emotion words, and more often than not I’ll find the right word for how I’m feeling. I obviously can’t speak for all autistic people, but in my experience this app is very helpful. Sometimes just writing how I feel helps me to feel better, even if it doesn’t change my situation.
I especially like that it allows you to select more than one emotion (which many apps don’t), as well as the intensity of the emotion(s) you’re feeling. And then it lets you write down why you feel that way, and it takes you through some questions and prompts you to thinking about any thinking errors. And then it asks if your emotions have changed and lets you change the intensity of you feel different. Another cool thing is that it doesn’t make you complete every step. If you just don’t feel like it right now, you can just complete some of the steps.
All in all, I really like this app. :)Show lessUmbra Magna
A great help
This app has helped me a lot by providing a place to freely talk about my emotions more honestly. The app doesn’t judge, it just is. The thought analysis is really helpful, just having the prompt of “What are ways of thinking about the situation without traps?” has been so useful. There are times I don’t feel like answering that question and just want to sulk, but the app gently nudges me to do it anyway. Answering eases my thoughts so much. Thank you developers! :)
The only reason it’s not a full 5 stars is issues I’m having with scrolling. When I filled out the Insights entry (not a Moodnote), I found that I couldn’t scroll without messing around with the existing text. It’s a little annoying, since I wrote some important things that I want to be able to read more often. Other than that, a full 5 stars from me. :)
Edit: I also had an issue where a whole chunk of a moodnote was deleted. I’m not sure what caused it and it’s only happened once so far. Kind of sad to lose that though.Show lessTéaLëaf
Great app for anxiety
I’m really enjoying this app. I don’t have anything I’d want to change, but there are some features I’d like to see in the future:
- I like the fact that sometimes the questions “talk me out of” whatever I’m feeling and I’d like to see an option for a more detailed approach to this, for example where you are experiencing a panic attack and a series of questions would guide you back to normal
- maybe some info/tips/advice and possibly would pop up when you select “anxious” or “sad” and would give you a more detailed approach to dealing with that particular feeling
- also maybe a calendar or graph view of the mood data
And there’s a little bug when you limit screen time (in the new iOS), it won’t let you sign in even when you ignore the limit. Otherwise, app runs perfectly!Show lessmaggie3646
Transformative in my anxiety, depression, and happiness coping
This app changed my life regarding how I manage my anxiety. I have recommended it to countless others. While I don’t journal as often as I would like, I use this app when I am feeling myself start to slip into the endless cyclical depths of anxiety and depression. I immediately feel a sense of relief after coping through my own thoughts to first acknowledge my feelings, validate that I feel them, understand why I feel them, and then redirect my thoughts and energy about them.
I also try to occasionally check my happy thoughts when I remember. When I need a quick pick me up, I like to go back to them - similarly to looking at pictures of a fond memory.
This app is transformative. I am so happy I downloaded it years agoShow lesseriin.
Notifications
I love this app. I’ve had it since the start of the year after being recommended and it’s been amazing since. However in the last few weeks I’ve stopped getting my notifications to when to record my moods. I had 9 months of nonstop reminders at exactly 10 pm like I set it the first day I used the app and suddenly—nothing. Like I didn’t even get a notification tonight as I’m writing this review. This is very disappointing because so far I was able to keep a good record of things to reflect on later and it was helpful for when I went to therapy. Now I randomly get reminded one day yes and another no. It’s really stressing me out because I’m relying on this app for this. I know the update said they fixed it but it’s really not fixed. I either have to remember to do it (which I don’t often hence the reason I have my reminder notification) manually or the day isn’t recorded and now I have gaps in my daily reflections. Please fix this it was doing so well before until the last 2 months.Show lessNivaliente
