BrightLog Mood Journal & Diary

Cristian Milia

About this app

Your journal stays on your phone. We never see what you write — there is no BrightLog server that could. Backups go only to your own Google Drive, and only if you switch them on.

BrightLog is a mood tracker, a mood journal, a private diary and a CBT toolkit in one calm app. Find the exact word for how you feel — 82 emotions, not five faces — then see what has actually been changing. Journaling for mental health, without the homework.

NAME WHAT YOU FEEL
BrightLog gives you a three-level feelings wheel: 7 core emotions, 41 shades, 82 precise words. Proud. Defeated. Hopeful. Overwhelmed. When you can name it, you can work with it.

YOUR DAILY MOOD, IN ONE TAP
Open, tap how the day felt — Awesome, Good, Not sure, Bad, Terrible — and get on with your life. Add a note, a photo or a voice memo if you want to. One mood a day, no pressure, no streak-guilt.

WIDGETS ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
Three home screen widgets: today's mood logged with one tap on a face, your day streak in sight, today's tasks ready to check off.

A DAILY JOURNAL THAT HOLDS THE WHOLE MOMENT
Write freely, or speak and let your words land in the entry. Attach photos, videos, voice notes and documents. Add a follow-up note later, when your perspective changes. Search everything instantly. See your month at a glance in the calendar.

A SECRET DIARY, WITH A REAL LOCK
Some days you need to write the thing you would not say out loud. App Lock keeps your journal behind your fingerprint, face unlock, device PIN or password. Your secrets stay on your device.

QUESTION THE THOUGHT (CBT)
BrightLog includes a proper CBT thought record: what happened, what you thought, the facts for, the facts against — and how it looks now. It is the same seven-column model therapists use. Learn to spot the 16 unhelpful thinking styles.

A POT FOR THE GOOD THINGS
Gratitude deserves its own place, not a checkbox. Save a sentence, a photo or a video to the Gratitude Pot. Once you have ten, BrightLog greets you with one each day.

SMALL STEPS, REAL HABITS
A habit tracker: turn what matters into tiny daily actions. Start from nine evidence-based ideas — better sleep, small actions that lift mood, reshaping thoughts, stepping toward what scares you — or build your own. Check in with one tap. Keep a gentle streak, with one forgiving freeze a month.

SIT WITH IT
A meditation timer — 5 to 30 minutes, eleven calm soundtracks or silence, and sixteen on-screen prompts for breath, body scan and grounding. It works offline. No voice, no guru.

INSIGHTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY ABOUT YOU
Sign in and BrightLog quietly summarizes your month and your year in your own language: what kept coming up, what changed, and one small thing to try next. Five views — Story, Heatmap, Trend, Wheel and Mood, which lays a whole year of your days out as a grid of color. Export any of it as a PDF.

WALK IN PREPARED
Before your next session, build a six-part summary from any date range and take it as a PDF. Your therapist gets the pattern, not just the worst day. Still looking? The Experts tab finds psychologists, psychotherapists and counselors near you, ranked by distance, never by who paid. Thirty quiet badges mark the milestones — for journaling, gratitude, consistency. No leaderboards, no sharing.

PRIVACY, PLAINLY
Your entries live on your device. There is no BrightLog server that receives them — we never see what you write. Backups go to your own Google Drive, not to us. AI insights are optional and only ever send the text you ask BrightLog to analyze — never your photos, voice notes or files. AI always asks first, and usage statistics switch off in Settings.

GOOD FOR
- Journaling for mental health — anxiety, stress, low mood, a hard season
- Keeping a private diary you actually want to open
- Building a gratitude journal that survives past week two
- Preparing for therapy and remembering what really happened

BrightLog speaks 20 languages, works on phones and tablets.

What’s new

4.0.2: BrightLog is now on your home screen — three widgets. Log today's mood with one tap, see your streak at a glance, check off today's tasks.

NEW Mood tracker — one tap, five levels, one mood a day.
NEW Thought record — CBT, plus the 16 unhelpful thinking styles.
NEW Meditation timer — 11 offline soundtracks or silence, no voice.
NEW Calendar view — the whole month in one look.

Your journal stays on your phone. Analytics switches off in Settings; AI always asks first.