InnerPulse – GAD-7 & PHQ-9

InnerPulse thrives on minimalism: you capture your mood in a few moments, without working your way through menus and screens first. That is not going to change. So version 7 brings hardly any new screens. It is an update for how the app feels in use: animations, haptics and many small decisions that barely stand out on their own and together make the app feel more coherent. LOGGING AN ENTRY - The mood slider clicks into place on every value. When you let go, a stronger tap confirms your choice. - Quick picks always offer five open factors. What you pick stays in place, and the next suggestion moves in at the end. - For feelings, three dots show how many you have picked. At the limit, a fourth feeling bounces back so you can feel it. - Tap a writing prompt and it glides straight into the note field. New: “Other prompts” shows more suggestions. - When you save, the editor takes on your mood color, a checkmark draws itself, and the ring of the new row fills up to your score. Every entry gets this confirmation, however your day went. JOURNAL - The chart draws itself when you open it, as a line, columns or ribbon. - After you delete an entry, the list closes the gap smoothly. The first time you delete, InnerPulse shows that shaking your device brings the entry back. - Tap plus shortly after deleting, and InnerPulse offers once to bring the deleted entry back. A restored entry glides back into its old place. QUESTIONNAIRE - A ring at the top right shows which question you are on. Swipe back and forth between questions. - After your last answer, a short thank-you appears, then your result with the trend of your recent results. InnerPulse acknowledges that you filled it in, never the score. The result stays a screening, not a diagnosis. ANALYSIS - The “Factors” tile opens with your first insight. A dot on the tab and on the tile shows where something new is waiting. - Numbers count up, impact bars grow, and the curve reshapes when you switch the time range. - “Year in pixels” fills up day by day. If you have an entry today, today’s pixel settles in last. MILESTONES AND SHARING - At 30, 100 and 365 recorded days, InnerPulse shows a milestone. It counts days with an entry, not a streak: gaps never count against you. - Share milestones, your “Year in pixels” and insights as an image. InnerPulse creates a separate card for this, without notes, factors, feelings or the data of single days. You choose with switches what it shows. - Take a screenshot of one of these, and InnerPulse offers to turn it into a shareable image. APP LOCK - A new lock screen in the look of your theme. While the app is locked, nothing of your entries shows through. After unlocking, a mosaic reveals the app. MORE RELIABLE - Insights are stricter: InnerPulse compares days instead of single entries and only reports a connection once it stands clearly apart from chance. Across 1,000 test datasets with no connection at all, the share of false insights dropped from 100% to at most 5%. Instead of a percentage, you now see the strength of evidence: high, medium or low. - When you travel, every entry counts toward the day you logged it, even after a time zone change. - Entries you delete while device sync is paused no longer come back when you turn it on again. - Choose the unzipped export folder when importing, and InnerPulse restores your photos too. - “Delete All Data” now also resets learned suggestions and your changes to factors. - VoiceOver describes your charts as Audio Graphs. On iPad with a keyboard: ⌘N for a new entry, ⌘F to search. FOR EVERYONE - Every animation follows the “Reduce Motion” setting: you then see the result right away or a simple cross-fade. - Longer animations play once per session, so they never hold you up the tenth time you open the app.