Most mood trackers I tried were charts with nowhere to write. You tap a face, you get a graph, and a month later the graph doesn't mean anything because you can't remember what any of those days were. So I built Cozy the other way around: it's a journaling app first, and the mood tracker rides along with the entry.
Write the entry, then tag the mood
You open a blank page and write. When you're done, or when you don't feel like writing much, you tag the mood. Cozy comes with a default scale out of the box: Great, Good, Meh, Low, Bad. The tag lives in the same file as the words, so the mood always has context attached to it.
The tracker is a field you can change
- Five moods by default. Great, Good, Meh, Low, Bad, each with an emoji, ready the moment you install.
- Add your own trackers. Trackers are custom fields. Sleep, energy, anxiety, water, whatever you want to watch, each gets its own emoji.
- Mood plus whatever. Because you can stack fields, you can build a "how did I feel and why" setup instead of a single lonely mood score.
Looking back over time
A mood tracker is only useful if you can revisit it. Cozy has a calendar view so you can see the shape of a month at a glance. You can filter entries by a tracker, show me only the Low days, and read what was going on. "On this day" pulls up entries from the same date in past years, which is where the patterns tend to show up.
Tags and places, if you want them
Beyond mood, you can tag entries and attach a place. The location lookup is offline: it geocodes without any API keys, so pinning where you were doesn't send anything anywhere. None of this is required. It's there if noticing where and with whom helps you understand the how.
Your mood data stays on your computer
Everything is one of your own files, in a folder. No account, no cloud, no login. How you feel is about as private as data gets, and it should never sit on someone else's server. With Cozy it doesn't.
What it isn't
Cozy is not a clinical mood-charting tool and not a printable bullet-journal template. It won't track a mood disorder or replace anything a professional gives you. I wrote about what journaling can and can't do for mental health separately. What it is: a lightweight tracker sitting inside a real journaling app. If you found this page from a Reddit thread asking for a mood tracker that lets you write, that's the fit.
Related reading: a private journaling app, a journaling app with photos, and an offline journaling app.
“I've been using it for a week and I do not regret the purchase at all! :) Very solid, intuitive and aesthetic. I synced with two of my computers to be able to access it from bed, which is where I like to do my digital journaling, and works like a charm. I hope your app continues to grow!”
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