Mood Tracker Journal vs Swing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mood Tracker Journal
Monitor your emotional well-being, identify patterns, and set personal goals. This app offers comprehensive tracking for various conditions, guided journaling, and clinically-validated questionnaires to support your mental health journey.
- Comprehensive mood tracking
- Goal setting and tracking
- Medical questionnaires
- Reminders and notifications
- Journaling prompts
- Health integrations
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Understanding and managing your emotions is crucial to your mental health, and Mood Tracker+ is here to support you every step of the way. By monitoring your mood, you can identify patterns and triggers, empowering you to make informed decisions and improve your overall well-being. Key Features: • Comprehensive Mood Tracking • Goal Setting & Tracking • Medical Questionnaires • Reminders & Notifications • Journaling Prompts • Daily Affirmations • Pre-made Care Plans • Health Integrations with Apple Health Kit Comprehensive Mood Tracking: Mood Tracker+ is designed to cover all aspects of your emotional well-being and record mood swings. Whether you're dealing with Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, OCD, PTSD, Borderline Personality Disorder, or simply want to keep track of your different moods, our simple mood tracker app offers specialized features to help you monitor and understand your mood fluctuations. Trackers Included: • Diary • Factor Tracker • Medication Tracker • Symptom Tracker • Measurement Tracker • Mood Tracker • Nutrition Tracker • Fluid Tracker • Activity Tracker • Therapy Tracker • Sleep Tracker • Stool Tracker • Weather Tracker • Menstrual Cycle Tracker Goal Setting & Tracking: Set and track personal goals to promote self-improvement and emotional growth. By using Mood Tracker+, you'll be encouraged to reach your goals, develop healthier habits, and improve coping strategies. Example goals include practicing mindfulness, increasing exercise, or reducing social media usage. Medical Questionnaires: Complete clinically-validated questionnaires to help you better understand your mental health conditions and track your progress over time. Our app includes: • PHQ-9 for Depression • GAD-7 for Anxiety • Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) for Bipolar Disorder • Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) for OCD • PCL-5 for PTSD • Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23) for Borderline Personality Disorder • Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) • Social Anxiety Scale (SAS) • Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) • Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1) • Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) These questionnaires offer valuable insights into your mental health, allowing you to monitor changes and work towards improvement. Reminders & Notifications: Never miss a medication, appointment, or therapy session with our handy reminders and notifications. Customize your notifications to suit your needs, such as daily mindfulness practice or weekly check-ins with loved ones. Journaling Prompts: Our app provides guided journaling prompts to help you explore and express your emotions, supporting you in your journey to self-discovery and emotional well-being. Example prompts include, "What made you feel grateful today?" or "How did you cope with a challenging situation?" Daily Affirmations: Start each day with a positive affirmation to uplift your spirits and cultivate a positive mindset. Examples include "I am strong and resilient" or "I am worthy of love and happiness." Pre-made Care Plans: Take advantage of our pre-made care plans tailored to various mental health conditions, helping you to establish a routine and prioritize self-care. Care plans include step-by-step strategies for managing stress, improving sleep, and fostering positive relationships. We understand the need to maintain a healthy emotional balance. Mood Tracker+ is here to help you take control of your emotions and lead a happier, healthier life. Read our terms (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Read our privacy policy: https://careclinic.io/privacy-policy/
Swing
Easily track your mood from your home screen with a single tap. Review your emotional patterns over time and understand how daily life affects your state of mind. Securely synced across devices with a focus on privacy.
- Home-screen widget for one-tap tracking
- Hourly mood progression assessment
- Review mood changes over time
- Understand daily life's impact on mood
- Cross-device syncing
- Privacy-focused with no analytics
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Swing is the easiest way to start tracking your state of mind, right from your home-screen. It was designed for people who struggle to build routines (like myself), who still want to benefit from learning about their inner emotional patterns and desires. Using the Swing-widget, you can start start tracking your mental health with just a single press. The widget will then gradually neutralize again over the span of an hour, prompting you take a breath and assess how your mood has progressed. In the Swing-app, you can review how your mood changed over time and learn how the things you experience in daily life affect it. Swing works on iPhone, iPad, Mac and soon Watch, allowing you to track mood across all your devices. Your mood-history is securely synced across devices and backed up using CloudKit, without any analytics or tracking used to keep your privacy protected. Swing does not phone home whatsoever. Later this year, Swing can automatically sync your state of mind to Apple Health. Try Swing today for free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Swing at 5.0 against Mood Tracker Journal's 4.3. Swing also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 15) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Mood Tracker Journal's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mood Tracker Journal sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Swing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mood Tracker Journal has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Mood Tracker Journal's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swing's.
| Parameter | Mood Tracker Journal | Swing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CARECLINIC SOFTWARE INC. | Mees Boeijen |
Customer experience
Mood Tracker Journal
Swing
In-app purchases
Mood Tracker Journal
- easy pass$5.997 Days
- weather max$9.993 Months
- flex pass$9.991 Month
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- carey ai max$19.991 Month
- carey ai ultra$29.991 Month
- smart pass$34.991 Year
- your free week3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- 7-Day Trial7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- select pass$49.991 Year
- limited deal$49.991 Year
- limited sale$49.991 Year
- free access3 Days trial$59.991 Year
- store credit$1.99
- carey ai credits$8.99
- lifetime pass$149.99
Swing
No in-app purchases
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