Moodfit is like a fitness app but for your mental health. You track your mood, sleep, exercise, and thoughts, then the app shows patterns and suggests tools like CBT exercises, gratitude journaling, and breathing to help you feel better. It’s best for people who want to understand their moods and actively work on them. It is not a replacement for therapy or medication if your symptoms are severe.
Mood Tracking & CBT Tools
Moodfit appears easy to use and helpful for tracking how you feel and what affects your mood. There’s not yet strong research showing exactly how much it improves depression or anxiety, but it uses tools (like CBT and mood tracking) that have good evidence in general.
Moodfit is best for people who:
Rate your mood on a scale and add tags for what might be influencing it (sleep, work, caffeine, social connection, medication, etc.). Over time, Moodfit builds charts that show how habits and life events correlate with mood changes.
Evidence: Mood tracking can help people with depression and anxiety notice triggers earlier and see the impact of positive behaviors, especially when combined with therapy.
Fill out standard depression (PHQ-9) and anxiety (GAD-7) questionnaires regularly and track scores over time. You can export this information to share with a therapist or doctor.
Evidence: PHQ-9 and GAD-7 are widely used, validated tools for screening and monitoring depression and anxiety symptoms in clinical practice.
Guided exercises help you identify automatic negative thoughts, examine evidence for and against them, and create more balanced, helpful thoughts.
Evidence: Thought records are a core tool in cognitive behavioral therapy with strong evidence for reducing depressive and anxious thinking when used consistently.
Daily prompts and tracking for gratitude, enjoyable activities, and meaningful actions. Helps shift attention toward positive experiences and reinforce behavioral activation.
Evidence: Gratitude and behavioral activation exercises have been shown to improve mood and reduce depressive symptoms in multiple studies.
Track sleep duration, exercise, and other habits alongside mood to see relationships (e.g., worse mood after short sleep, better mood after exercise).
Evidence: Consistent sleep and regular exercise are strongly associated with better mental health and lower risk of depression and anxiety.
Set reminders to log your mood, take medication, practice gratitude, or complete self-care activities. Track progress toward personalized goals.
Evidence: Reminders and clear goals make it easier to build and maintain new health habits over time.
Moodfit uses a freemium model. Core mood tracking features are free, with optional paid upgrades to unlock more tools and insights.
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Trying Moodfit and using basic mood tracking and a subset of tools
Annual cost: $0/year
Approx. $8–$10/month (varies by region and platform)
Short-term use or testing all premium features
Annual cost: Around $96–$120/year depending on local pricing
Discounted annual subscription (price varies by region)
People who plan to use Moodfit regularly over many months
Annual cost: Less than paying monthly; exact cost depends on app store region
Moodfit is not typically covered by insurance. In some cases, people may be able to use HSA/FSA funds for app subscriptions if recommended by a clinician, but this depends on local rules and plan details.
Moodfit states that user data are encrypted, not sold, and not disclosed to outside parties except for essential services like payment processing. Grade: A-
Moodfit is not HIPAA-compliant and is not intended to store protected health information in the way an electronic health record does. If you share app data with your clinician, ask how they will store and protect it.
Daylio is another mood tracking and journaling app that uses icons and short entries. It’s simpler and more lightweight than Moodfit, but has fewer CBT-style tools and symptom questionnaires.
Headspace focuses more on guided meditation and mindfulness training rather than detailed mood tracking. Good if you want structured meditation courses instead of data-heavy self-monitoring.
Calm is better for sleep and relaxation (Sleep Stories, music) and less focused on mood data and CBT tools. Moodfit is a better fit if you like charts and active mental fitness exercises.
Daily mood tracking, behavioral activation goals, and PHQ-9 monitoring can support treatment for depression when used alongside therapy or medication.
CBT-based thought records and breathing/mindfulness tools may help reduce worry and tension in mild to moderate GAD as a self-help supplement.
Long-term tracking of mood, activity, and sleep can help people and their clinicians see patterns over months and years.
Daily mood and sleep tracking can support bipolar treatment by helping track early warning signs and medication effects, but only when supervised by a clinician.