Mood Tracker & Journal: Pixels

Teo Vogel

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

How was your day today? Pixels is a simple mood tracker and mood journal that turns each day into a single colored pixel — download now and start building your Year in Pixels, one day at a time.


💡 HOW DOES PIXELS WORK?

Discover the calm of daily mood tracking with Pixels.

🔔 Never Miss a Day: Daily reminders send a gentle notification to record your pixel, so reflection becomes an easy daily habit.
🌈 Every Day is a Pixel: Capture your daily mood with a simple tap, choosing from a color palette that reflects your inner world. Add “subpixels” to track mood variations throughout the day — a color mood tracker for how you really feel.
😌 Emotion Diary: Use tags to log your emotions and feelings. Create custom tags to track activities, habits, medications, or anything you'd like.
📝 Reflect About Your Day: Go deeper with notes — a private mood journal for your thoughts, events, and personal reflections.


💡 WHY PIXELS?

Pixels helps you understand your moods, emotions, and mental well-being over time.

📊 Statistics and Graphs: Gain insight with beautifully crafted graphs — see your average mood by tag and by weekday, and spot weekly and monthly mood patterns at a glance.
🧠 Enhanced Mental Health: Track your mood variations and recognize trends, leading to improved mental health and a better understanding of your emotions.
📈 Visualize Your Progress: Watch your Year in Pixels grid evolve over weeks and months, giving valuable context to your emotional well-being — a whole year of moods on a single screen.

Pixels has been highly recommended by mental health professionals as a powerful tool to complement therapy sessions and assist individuals in managing mental disorders, like anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder. By tracking daily moods, emotions, and related thoughts, Pixels helps users build a comprehensive emotional profile — a valuable starting point for productive discussions during therapy and deeper self-exploration. Tracking mood variations over time also helps you better understand your emotional patterns through simple, proven mindfulness practices.

Pixels is not a replacement for professional help, but it's a valuable companion on the journey to better mental well-being.


💡 WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH PIXELS?

- Simple Mood and Emotion Tracking
- Mood Journal & Note Taking
- Daily Reminders
- Customizable Color Palette
- Visual Mood Grid, Calendar View & “Year in Pixels” (an idea by @PassionCarnets)
- Weekly & Monthly Reports and Statistics
- App Password Protection
- Habit Tracking
- Productivity Tracking
- Diet and Nutrition Tracking
- Gratitude Journaling
- Medication Tracking
- Travel and Adventure Journal
- Relationship Tracking
- Export Your Data
- Light & dark mode with customizable themes
- And more!


💡 WHO IS BEHIND THIS PROJECT?

Pixels is an indie app developed by just one person! You can learn more about me and Pixels at www.teovogel.me 😌


💡 WHAT ABOUT ADS?

Your daily reflection stays calm and distraction-free — Pixels never interrupts your mood logging with ads or pop-ups, and never locks features behind them. A couple of optional, easy-to-ignore ads exist only as a way to support this indie project. ❤️


💡 WHAT ABOUT PRIVACY?

Privacy and transparency are at the core of Pixels' design and values, and always will be. Your data is stored locally and is NOT shared with any other parties. You can also protect your pixels with a password!


Join our Discord community to connect with other users, get support, and follow the development of the app!

Ratings and reviews

I started using this in 2018. While I've been in a rocky relationship with how frequently I stick to recording every day and the level of detail, I'm so happy this app is on my phone. This app allows me to decide how me want to use it. I hope the developer keeps up the spirit of everything done so far, because I can't imagine a better system for keeping track of my mind, and have all the features I care about without a subscription. I have ~2k pixels & can't wait for the next thousands to come!

Great app! Free is usable, one time affordable purchase, no subscriptions! No widgets. Only thing you cant seem to do is reorder the categories, but it looks like you can customize just about everything about them otherwise! Super useful, excited to try this Parrot app thats linked! Would be very nice to be able to have tabs with different categories per entry in each tab. So we cab track physical health and work without too many options in each entry

The best mood tracking/journaling app I've found. It's clean, simple, customizable, and easy to use. I LOVE that you can add your own tags and categories at any time. Ads are optional. I the data visualization is amazing, took me a second to figure out how it works. They just added filters which lets you see which calendar days have certain tags or text (or combos of both!). Super cool! All in all, an incredible app. I love it

What’s new

NEW: widgets for your daily mood
NEW: zoom on your pixels grid and Year in Pixels, see all your pixels at once!
Improved performance of Pixels grid