BrightLog Mood Journal & Diary

Cristian Milia

About this app

We never see what you write: everything stays on your device. BrightLog is a mood tracker, private journal and diary, gratitude journal and habit tracker in one calm app for your mental health — with a feelings wheel, daily nudges for self-care, a weekly view of your goals, AI insights, therapy preparation, a meditation timer and home screen widgets.

PRIVACY FIRST
We never see what you write. Your journal lives only on your device, and no BrightLog server ever receives it. No account needed: many people never sign in, so their journal never leaves the device and the AI is never involved. Sign in only for backup, to your own Google Drive, where we cannot access it, or for AI insights, which work only after you sign in and give your explicit approval, and never send photos, voice notes or files.

MOOD TRACKER, ONE TAP A DAY
Tap how the day went — Awesome, Good, Not sure, Bad, Terrible — and get on with your evening. Daily mood tracking in seconds, with no pressure and no streak guilt.

A FEELINGS WHEEL WITH 82 WORDS
Put a word to it: 7 core emotions, 41 shades, 82 precise feelings. Proud. Powerless. Hopeful. Overwhelmed. Naming the feeling is the first step to working with it.

A DAILY JOURNAL FOR THE WHOLE MOMENT
Write freely, or speak and watch your words appear. Attach photos, videos, voice notes and documents. Search every journal entry instantly and see your month in the calendar.

A SECRET DIARY WITH A LOCK
App Lock keeps your journal behind your fingerprint, face unlock or your device’s screen lock.

GRATITUDE JOURNAL
Drop a sentence, a photo or a video into your Gratitude Pot. Once it holds ten, BrightLog hands one back to you each day.

HABIT TRACKER WITH DAILY CHECK-INS
Turn goals into small daily habits. Start from ten Goal ideas — nine evidence-based starting points such as better sleep, small mood-lifting actions and facing fears step by step, plus Take my medication, a daily reminder at a time you choose — or build your own. Check in with one tap, rate how a task felt and see What lifts you. Plan around obstacles, pick any 3 days a week, or take a break: nothing counts as missed.

YOUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
This week sits at the top of Goals. Your week shows a ring per goal, twelve weeks side by side and next week’s plan: keep, adjust or pause each habit.

DAILY NUDGES FOR SELF-CARE
Gentle self-care reminders through the day: water, a stretch, a minute outside, a kind word. You choose how many and when. Done, Later or Not today — every Done is a moment of care.

THOUGHT RECORD FROM COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
Question an anxious thought on any journal entry: what happened, what you thought, the evidence for and against, and how it looks now. Learn to spot 16 unhelpful thinking styles.

MEDITATION TIMER
5 to 30 minutes, eleven calm soundtracks or silence, and 16 mindfulness prompts for breath, body scan and grounding.

INSIGHTS AND MOOD CHARTS
Sign in and BrightLog summarizes your month and year: what kept coming up, what shifted, one small habit to try. Five views of your mental wellness — Story, Heatmap, Trend, Wheel and Mood: your year in pixels. Export as a PDF.

THERAPY PREPARATION
Build a six-part summary from the dates you choose and take it to therapy as a PDF, so your therapist sees the pattern, not just the worst day. The Experts tab lists psychologists and counselors near you, ranked by distance, never by who paid.

HOME SCREEN WIDGETS
Start today’s mood check-in with one tap, keep your streak and badges a tap away, and see today’s habits with what’s done.

THIRTY BADGES
Quiet milestones for journaling, mood, gratitude, habits and meditation. No leaderboards.

GOOD FOR
- A mood journal and diary for anxiety, stress, low mood and everyday mental wellness
- A secret diary you’ll actually want to open
- A gratitude journal and healthy habits with a daily check-in
- Therapy preparation with real notes

Dark mode and 20 languages.

What’s new

Version 4.0.6: small improvements throughout the app.

• Daily nudges — gentle self-care reminders
• Your week — a ring per goal, 12 weeks at a glance
• Rate any task and see what lifts you
• Notes, if-then plans, any 3 days a week
• Ten goal ideas, now with Take my medication
• Insights that suggest one small habit to try

A private journal, mood tracker, gratitude pot and thought records in one app. We never see what you write: everything stays on your device.