# The Mood Meter > Emotion tracking and regulation tool for emotional intelligence development. (iPhone/iPad app by Emotionally Intelligent School, LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mood-meter/id825930113 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Emotionally Intelligent School, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/825930116) - Category: Education, Lifestyle - Price: $0.99 - Rating: 4.66/5 from 1,932 App Store ratings · 21 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 11.0 · 83 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2014-03-21 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mood-meter/id825930113/reviews.md ## What is The Mood Meter? The Mood Meter helps you identify your emotions throughout the day and supports you when you’d like to shift to a different emotion. Using the Mood Meter is quick and easy, helping you expand your emotional vocabulary and discover emotional nuances. Use the Mood Meter to: * Check-in regularly with your feelings at work, at home, anytime. * Discover what causes you to feel the way you do and see patterns in your feelings over time. * Share your emotion check-ins with a small circle of family, friends or colleagues. * Learn effective strategies to help you regulate your feelings and enhance the way you manage your life each day. Over time, you’ll develop emotional intelligence skills that can help you in all areas of life. ## Key features - Daily emotion check-ins - Identify emotional triggers - Track emotional patterns - Share emotion check-ins - Learn emotion regulation strategies - Develop emotional intelligence ## What do users think of The Mood Meter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and helpful - 🚀 Great concept - 💡 Helpful for self-reflection and mood monitoring **Cons** - 🔍 Limited options for causes/factors - 🔍 Lack of additional suggestions for shifting mood - 🔍 Shift mood advice not always relevant - 🔍 Lack of ability to view emotion definitions - 🐛 Removed helpful features in recent update **Commonly reported bugs** - Advice not relevant to reported emotion - All prior entries deleted after update **Most requested features** - Add more categories like gym, hobbies, social, outdoors, and adventures - Provide additional suggestions for shifting mood (e.g. breathwork, gratitude, reflection) - Allow entering numerical values for energy and pleasantness - Enhance journal view to see written notes and visualizations - Add reminder/prompt settings to check-in on mood throughout the day - Capture multiple emotions simultaneously - Provide more substantial and varied advice for shifting mood - Keep record of journal/reflections for pattern recognition ## Recent user reviews (10 of 21) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mood-meter/id825930113/reviews.md ### 4/5 — Really nice app but missing a couple things *2022-12-30, version 2.1.4* 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.) ### 2/5 — Very limited *2021-11-10, version 2.1.4* 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. ### 4/5 — Great bones, hope it continues development *2021-08-17, version 2.1.4* 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 ### 1/5 — It USED to be somewhat OK…now it’s a waste *2021-06-14, version 2.1.4* 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. ### 3/5 — Helpful app, but could be improved *2021-06-14, version 2.1.4* 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. ### 5/5 — Chain reaction *2021-03-27, version 2.1.4* You probably have downloaded this application from “permission to feel”. Well utilizing RULER has never passed my mind until I started reading the book. I have been able to recognize and understand my emotions, but putting a label on them was the hard part. When I am in a bad mood I take this app out and look through the words to find what best suits my mood. By strengthening my emotional vocabulary I will have a suite of words to help label my emotions. By doing so I can effectively express them and then regulate them if need be. After inputting your emotion you are prompted to “stay or shift” and if you choose to shift it gives you a great motivational quote and advice to try to move you to a different quadrant. Such a beautiful good and a powerful tool. Thank you Marc and the developers of this application you have really helped my life out. ### 4/5 — Simple and helpful *2021-01-26, version 2.1.4* Even though I’m an adult and have done a lot of therapy, this app is so helpful. I’ve realized I default to saying the same three emotions and doing this has really helped me be more aware of how I’m feeling and has thus allowed me to better handle it. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because I wish you were able to view definitions on the mood meter. Some of the words are so similar, and without really knowing what the distinctions are, it’s hard to choose wisely. You could add the definition in the mood square directly; that’d be easy for users. Otherwise I love that the app is simple, I hope it stays that way! ### 4/5 — Love it, with one suggestion *2021-01-23, version 2.1.4* As a coach, I find this app helpful in self reflection and mood monitoring, trending, etc. I am using it for myself and with clients. It’s perfect for what I need. However, I would love a reminder setting built into the app where I could schedule checkin reminders for so many times a day, or at specific times of day. This would help tremendously with trending and learning your own patterns around your moods. Currently I have to use a separate app to set reminders. So maybe in a newer version?!? ### 5/5 — Great concept, could be better! *2020-12-19, version 2.1.4* I really love this app & the mood meter concept for reinforcing a habit of self-awareness. This has so much potential! Suggested improvements for future programing: 1.) The ability for users to schedule prompts/notifications to check-in with their emotions throughout the day. 2.) Adding a function for identifying the location of tension-sensations in the body at those check-ins. 3.)I also wish the meter could capture more than one emotion simultaneously (ie: the multi-dimensional aspects of feeling “sentimental” [simultaneous joy, sorrow, love]). 4.) The “advice” given for shifting an emotion needs to be more than one sentence & more than one option (& perhaps discuss the brain science supporting each option). Moving the body, crossing the midline, journaling, talking to a friend, sitting with a pet, meditating, deep breathing, doing yoga, painting or even coloring with crayons, playing music, etc. Thank you!!! ### 3/5 — Great for mood mindfulness but not for mood management *2020-10-17, version 2.1.4* I love the idea of this app but I think there is need for improvement. I appreciate the color chart for practicing awareness of my moods and feelings. However once I’ve logged my feelings I find this app fails to deliver meaningful advice or direction, particularly if I want to “shift” my mood, as the app prompts. If you choose to shift your mood you are brought to a page that has two sentences on it. One is a quote, and the other is a piece of direction for how to help shift your mood. Nice...except the sentence of direction is not especially helpful, and some of the directions are actually frustrating or help emphasize my bad feelings. For example, it is not helpful at all when I am feeling depressed to hear the advice “put a smile on your face”. In fact not only is it not helpful or substantial in any way, it’s also a little insulting. When I tried to refresh for more meaningful advice I found that the sentence rotated between 5 or 6 short directions, some of which might be effective, like calling a loved one, and some that were not especially inspired, like “do something fun”. This app helps me with recording and noticing moods but it does not help with shifting or managing moods. At least not directly. I feel that work needs to be done to make that part of the app more robust and meaningful. ## Frequently asked questions about The Mood Meter ### What does The Mood Meter do? The Mood Meter helps you identify your emotions throughout the day and supports you in shifting to different emotions. It expands your emotional vocabulary and helps you discover emotional nuances. ### What are the key features of The Mood Meter? Key features include regular emotion check-ins, discovering what causes your feelings and seeing patterns over time, sharing emotion check-ins with others, and learning strategies to regulate your feelings. ### Is The Mood Meter free to use? Yes, the application is available for free. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned. ### How can The Mood Meter help me manage my life? By helping you understand your emotions and develop emotional intelligence skills, the app equips you with strategies to regulate your feelings. This can lead to better life management and improved well-being in all areas. ### Who is The Mood Meter designed for? This app is for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of their emotions, identify triggers, and learn effective ways to manage their feelings. 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