moody vs The Observing Ego

Moody is a private, daily mood tracker designed for people managing bipolar disorder. Log your mood, sleep, energy, and medication in under a minute — then watch your patterns emerge. Why Moody? If you've recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, understanding your patterns is the single most important thing you can do. Moody makes that easy. • Log daily in under 60 seconds — mood, sleep hours, energy, irritability, anxiety, and more • Track manic and depressive symptoms with clinically relevant questions • See your patterns with beautiful charts and trend summaries • Get auto-generated insights that spot correlations you might miss • Export PDF reports to share with your psychiatrist or therapist • Track medications, dosages, and daily adherence • Log mood episodes (manic, depressive, mixed, hypomanic) with severity and duration Built for Bipolar Moody's default questions are designed around the specific needs of bipolar disorder management: - Mood scale from 0 (severely depressed) to 10 (severely manic) with descriptive labels - Sleep tracking 0-24 hours (the #1 predictor of mood episodes) - Energy, irritability, and anxiety scales with severity labels - Manic and depressive symptom checklists - Medication adherence tracking - Trigger and event logging with customizable tags Your Tracking, Your Way Every question is fully customizable. Create your own scales with custom labels, add multiple choice options, tags, yes/no toggles, or free text fields. Track what matters to you — not what an app developer decided for you. Insights That Matter After a few days of logging, Moody starts analyzing your data based on established bipolar disorder research: - Sleep vs mood correlation charts (Harvey, 2008) - Weekly and monthly trend summaries - Episode tracking and pattern detection (Goodwin & Jamison, 2007) - Medication adherence stats (Colom et al., 2003) All sources are cited in-app with links to the original research. Privacy First All your data stays on your device. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No analytics tracking. No ads. No subscriptions. Just you and your journal. Share With Your Doctor Export your mood history as a formatted PDF report or raw CSV data. Give your psychiatrist the data they need to make better treatment decisions. Features • Auto-saves as you log — never lose an entry • 5 question types: scale, multiple choice, yes/no, text, tags • Streak system to build consistent habits • Mood calendar with color-coded days • 4 beautiful color themes • Daily reminder notifications • Crisis resources available 24/7 • Episode markers for manic/depressive/mixed episodes • Medication tracking with daily check-off Disclaimer Moody is a self-monitoring tool — not a medical device. It does not provide medical diagnoses, treatment recommendations, or clinical advice. Always seek a doctor's advice in addition to using this app and before making any medical decisions. The insights and correlations shown are based on published research (sources cited in-app under Settings → Medical Disclaimer & Sources) and are for informational purposes only. If you're in crisis, resources like the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline are available directly in the app.

A mood tracker built by a doctoral-level clinician, with input from fellow clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists, using the actual clinical screening instruments your therapist uses: PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5, DERS-16, SCS-SF, C-SSRS, ASQ, and STIPO-R. No AI therapy advice. No gamification. No social feed. No ads. Your data stays on your phone. Safety features are always free. Forever. No paywall on crisis resources, the safety plan, or the 988 Lifeline. — TRAUMA-INFORMED BY DESIGN — Built around the psychoanalytic concept of the "observing ego": the part of you that can step back and notice your own mental processes. The app is a mirror, not a therapist. It helps you see yourself clearly and bring that clarity to your own work, or to a clinician. — WHAT YOU CAN DO — Track moods with the precision your therapist would recognize. An age-adaptive picker (ages 7 through adult) draws from a 100+ emotion vocabulary mapped to validated affect models. Take the clinical screenings your therapist uses, scored to published thresholds. PHQ-9 for depression. GAD-7 for anxiety. WHO-5 for wellbeing. ASQ and C-SSRS for safety. STIPO-R for personality organization (uncommon outside research settings). See patterns over time. Mood correlations with sleep, exercise, medications, and habits. Year in Pixels view. Longitudinal assessment trends. Every correlation needs at least 7 data points and a moderate effect size before it surfaces. Quality over noise. Log defense mechanisms (Vaillant's three-tier hierarchy). Record dreams with psychodynamic framing. Practice mentalizing exercises drawn from MBT. Map body sensations to feelings. — PRIVACY BY DESIGN — No accounts. No servers. No ads. No analytics. No third parties. Your data syncs through your own iCloud, encrypted end-to-end. We cannot see your entries, your moods, or your reports. We do not want to. — SAFETY ALWAYS FREE — The safety plan, crisis resources, 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, and gentle check-ins when the app detects elevated risk are free forever. Mood check-ins and journal entries are unlimited and free. Premium covers the deeper features: longer insight ranges, Year in Pixels, the Mood Calendar, weekly reports, Apple Health insights, medication effects, and data export, plus more room for habits, assessments, and medications. Safety never goes behind a paywall. — BUILT BY — Casey Simon, Psy.D. (Doctor of Clinical Psychology), MFT (Marriage and Family Therapist), with input from fellow clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. Designed for honest self-reflection, not performance. A tool meant to be shared with a clinician when you choose to. — PRICING — Free to download. 7-day free trial of Premium. Then $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year. Safety features stay free regardless of subscription. Cancel anytime in App Store settings. Terms of Use: https://myobservingego.com/terms-of-service/ Privacy Policy: https://myobservingego.com/privacy-policy/