Mood Tracker & Journal: Pixels

Teo Vogel

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

How are you feeling today? Pixels is a simple mood tracker and mood journal: one colored pixel for each day, until your Year in Pixels takes shape. A quiet moment at the end of the day.


🌈 ONE PIXEL A DAY

Pick how your day felt on a 1–5 scale, and that day becomes a colored pixel on your yearly grid. One tap is enough, and you can add more entries if your mood shifts during the day. Over weeks and months your pixels become a year in colors: your life in pixels, on a single screen.

Pixels is a daily mood tracker built to stay out of your way. Use it as a quick mood tracker for ten seconds before bed, or as a mood diary when you want to write more. The weekly and monthly views make it a weekly mood tracker and a monthly mood tracker too, so you can look back at any stretch of time.


🎨 A VISUAL MOOD TRACKER

Your feelings become colors. Choose the mood colors that feel right to you and watch your Year in Pixels fill in. Pixels is a color mood tracker and a color journal at once: beautiful to look back on, and honest about the hard days as well as the good ones. Prefer a calendar? The calendar view shows the same pixels month by month.


😌 NAME YOUR FEELINGS

How do you feel, really? Tag your day with emotions from the catalog or create your own, and learn to name your feelings instead of only scoring them. Add a note, and your mood journal keeps what matters. Pixels works as an emotion tracker and a private year in pixels journal for your daily emotions. No streaks to protect, no goals to crush.


📊 SEE YOUR MOOD PATTERNS

Simple charts show your average mood by weekday and by tag. Is Monday always heavier? Do walks, sleep or time with friends lift you? The mood graph and mood chart turn your entries into mood insights and emotion patterns, and your mood trends across the year become easy to read. If you have ever wondered what affects my mood, this is where the answer starts.


🩺 FOR BODY AND MIND

Many people track more than mood. Create tags for symptoms and Pixels becomes a symptom tracker that sits right next to your mood: a migraine tracker, a pain diary, or a PMS and period mood tracker that shows your cycle alongside how you feel. Over time it works as a mood swings tracker too, so you can see whether your moods and your body move together.

Pixels is also used by people living with depression, bipolar disorder, BPD, ADHD or autism, and by people in therapy. Whether you want a bipolar mood tracker, a mood tracker for BPD or an ADHD mood tracker, the same small daily habit applies. A mood journal of emotions and notes can be a helpful thing to bring to your therapist, and many people keep Pixels as a therapy journal or CBT journal between sessions. Pixels is not a medical device and does not replace professional care. It is a gentle mental health journal to help you understand your own patterns.


✨ WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH PIXELS

- Mood tracking on a simple 1–5 scale, with more than one entry per day
- Emotion, activity, symptom and habit tags, from the catalog or your own
- Notes for your daily mood journal
- Year in Pixels grid (an idea by @PassionCarnets), calendar view and zoom
- Average mood by tag and by weekday
- Daily reminders and home screen widgets
- Customizable mood colors, themes, light and dark mode
- Password protection and data export
- Premium: add up to 3 HD photos to each pixel


💛 MADE BY ONE PERSON

Pixels is an indie mood tracker app built by a single developer. Every feature for your mental well-being is free; Premium only adds photo storage. Pixels is ad-light: no ads interrupt your daily logging and nothing is locked behind them. A couple of optional ads exist only to support the project. Learn more at www.teovogel.me 😌


🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Your entries are stored on your device, Pixels works offline, and your data is not shared with other parties. You can protect your pixels with a password.


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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!

good app!! i hadn't used in quite a long time, so when i came back to find it had been changed a lot, i was a little worried that it wouldn't be what i needed anymore. but the additions are actually very nice and helpful! no complaints at all. it's well made enough that i'm making a point of viewing the ads every once in a while (and those ads are completely optional, just a choice you can make to support the dev)!

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

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