Really nice app but missing a couple things
I really like this app (got the recommendation from Huberman Lab) but I wish there were more causes/factors to choose from outside of work and home/family. I would love to see things like gym, hobbies, social, outdoors, and adventures as options! They do give you an “other” option but that’s not as helpful as a true categorization.
The app also advises me to call someone a lot when I want to shift my mood, so it would be nice to see additional suggestions pop up from time to time (breath work, gratitude, reflection, etc.)
The app also advises me to call someone a lot when I want to shift my mood, so it would be nice to see additional suggestions pop up from time to time (breath work, gratitude, reflection, etc.)
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Very limited
As a therapist, I was hoping this app could be something I could recommend for clients. Unfortunately, with much of the work I do helping clients unlearning familial and cultural rules around emotions, this app sets up it’s own problems in trying to rank order emotion words along two axis. This is a useful tool for those looking to increase their emotional vocabulary and take a moment to look inward, but for those with even a bit more more emotional awareness, the challenge of feeling more than one way at the same time, and the challenge of defining your own unique relationship with your emotions and internal state are not only not addressed, but ignored entirely. I would like the app to give space to explore somatic sensations, and allow for more exploration of what an emotional is like for the individual. Separating the choosing of arousal state, good or poor valance, and emotion words (‘do one of these words apply?’ with an if not option), while adding somatic awareness (where do you feel this in your body) could be a great start. I like the work being done here, but there is so much more potential, and the app, perhaps great for some, would likely leave others feeling lost when they don’t fit into this cookie cutter approach.
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Great bones, hope it continues development
This is a nice app, thank you devs for making it. Here are my suggestions to grow its usefulness:
1. Offer an option to enter the number values (-5 to 5) for both energy and pleasantness. The UX here is often “leading” in that you basically “pick” your mood rather than discovering it based on assessing your energy and pleasantness first
2. The journal view shows dots on a chart but you are not able to see what you wrote or if a given score was work/home etc. this whole section could be greatly expanded. I’m sure there are some great visualizations that could be provided for tracking mood
3. “Shift” your mood is really basic right now, would love to see more thought out into this rather than “do something fun”. The way I learned the mood meter is that when you want to shift you actually pick the mood you want to have and then think of a strategy/actions to take to get there. Again, great bones in this app, now needing a little meat!
Thanks devs
1. Offer an option to enter the number values (-5 to 5) for both energy and pleasantness. The UX here is often “leading” in that you basically “pick” your mood rather than discovering it based on assessing your energy and pleasantness first
2. The journal view shows dots on a chart but you are not able to see what you wrote or if a given score was work/home etc. this whole section could be greatly expanded. I’m sure there are some great visualizations that could be provided for tracking mood
3. “Shift” your mood is really basic right now, would love to see more thought out into this rather than “do something fun”. The way I learned the mood meter is that when you want to shift you actually pick the mood you want to have and then think of a strategy/actions to take to get there. Again, great bones in this app, now needing a little meat!
Thanks devs
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It USED to be somewhat OK…now it’s a waste
I heard about this app a few years ago while I was in a meeting at work. They recommended everyone to try this mindful activity, so we downloaded this app. Back then, if you wanted to shift mood, it would give you ways in which to do that. The concept was pretty OK, but could use work. However, since updating it, as others have mentioned, they removed the old information and took away the ways to shift mood to replaced it with a quote. Before, they had calming scenes and sounds. Now-NOTHING. The update was a downgrade, and this app has become far surpassed by other apps in the same category.
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Helpful app, but could be improved
I got the app because I was reading Permission to Feel. I find it vey helpful for checking into my feelings and labeling them. It was particularly helpful because I have the Kindle version of the app, which does not show the Mood Meter clearly.
I have the following suggestions for improvements:
1) Double the character limit on explanations to 300 or eliminate it entirely. It’s frustrating to be cut off after just a few sentences.
2) If you choose to shift your mood, make sure the quotes and suggestions are relevant to the emotion. I said I was feeling anxious and got a quote about anger.
3) After you identify your mood, where it asks if you want to stay or shift, add a prompt to explore the resources accessed through an icon at the bottom of the screen
4) Add to the resources an explanation of the different regulation strategies (mindful breathing, forward-looking strategies, attention-shifting strategies, and cognitive-reframing strategies). It would be helpful to add more articles and videos, the resources were sparse.
I have the following suggestions for improvements:
1) Double the character limit on explanations to 300 or eliminate it entirely. It’s frustrating to be cut off after just a few sentences.
2) If you choose to shift your mood, make sure the quotes and suggestions are relevant to the emotion. I said I was feeling anxious and got a quote about anger.
3) After you identify your mood, where it asks if you want to stay or shift, add a prompt to explore the resources accessed through an icon at the bottom of the screen
4) Add to the resources an explanation of the different regulation strategies (mindful breathing, forward-looking strategies, attention-shifting strategies, and cognitive-reframing strategies). It would be helpful to add more articles and videos, the resources were sparse.
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