baseline: a better journal

baseline health

About this app

Understanding what you’re feeling and why is often way harder than it should be. baseline is here to help. By giving you a distraction-free, easy way to journal and track your mood, baseline gives you easy opportunities to write and reflect on what you’re feeling throughout the day. With time, you’ll start to understand yourself and your brain better.

baseline is designed not just to help you write and reflect more often, but also to help you understand more about yourself and your mood over time. You’ll get mental health surveys and reviews each week, and we have beautiful visualizations across our app that are designed to help you better see what you’re going through and when you’re struggling.

We know we’re dealing with really sensitive information here, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information 100% secure. Everything you write and upload to baseline is encrypted, so we can’t even see what you’ve written. You can also protect your data in-app against people who might have access to your device.

Start journaling and mood tracking today with baseline.

Features:
- Write about how you’re feeling whenever you want, and rate your mood with two different scales
- Upload pictures and screenshots to remember important moments
- Set reminders to keep yourself accountable to your journaling and mental health goals
- View all of your mood logs at a glance, and see how your mood changes over time
- Take mental health surveys to track things like anxiety, depression, and stress over time
- Lock your data with a passphrase to stop people who might have access to your device from reading it
- Find mental health support, including financially with the baseline Gap Fund, which can help users cover “gaps” in their finances
- 100% free, forever.

Ratings and reviews

After trying 4 or 5 other similar apps, I'm very glad I found this one. It's simple, has a clean UI, allows as many entries per day as needed, and even lets you link a song to your entries (my personal favorite feature). This app knows exactly what it needs to be without the unnecessary bloat so many other apps get caught up in.

This app is wonderful, I just wish I could add entries for days/times I forgot to enter. I often have an entry from that exact day that I want to transfer to this app but I can't. One time I fell asleep after writing my entry in app, but didn't hit submit, so when I woke up it looked like it was my entry/mood for the following morning. Might be a small detail but I can't accurately see my mood chart when I can't put in the correct time.

this app is simple, but honestly it makes me so much more likely to use it daily and even several times a day. the adding music to an entry feature is AMAZING! what an amazing idea! I have a neverending radio in my brain that is like a moodboard for my emotions so this works incredibly for me. plus I am hating all the features other app-based journals have, too overwhelming and too much to press when I just need to write a really important thought down. literally easier than my notes app. 10/10

What’s new

This update fixes some timezone-related bugs with journaling!