I suffered from depression for many years in my life, in 2018 I discovered this app to help cope with it. Daylio at first was simplistic for me. I would choose a happy face or sad face depending on my mood and leave a short blurb of the day sometimes. It was easy enough for me to do and didn’t require that much effort so building the habit of early journaling was easy. little by little I added activities so I didn’t necessarily even have to type anything but could just choose an activity I did, it helped me begin to be able to track what was making me happy and what was making me sad and spotting the consistency of these activities correlating with my moods. Almost 6 years later, my journal entries have become very detailed. If I’m trying to recall what I did days, weeks, or even months ago, I have the resource to find it. Daylio is become the single most important app on my phone because it’s help me establish a record of my life. The continued updates have made it worth buying the premium version. You don’t require subscription to use it as so many other apps and services nowadays have become obsessed with bleeding consumers dry. I recommend this app to anybody who feels like they’re in a rut, to anyone who needs an eye-opening self reflection tool. Do you want to get a better understanding of your habits and who you are as a person? This app can be your greatest resource to do so.

I was looking for a mood tracking app where I could have multiple entries throughout the day, not just one at the end. I use this app to help track my anxiety and how I feel leading up to an anxious period as well as other moods. I love that I can go back and add entries even days later if I forgot. I also love that it’s completely customizable and I can have tons of options. I did end up upgrading to premium to unlock unlimited moods and activities because I find it really beneficial and absolutely worth the around $20 a year. I have an activities folder with ranges for my heart rate so so can track that during an anxiety attack, I have one with different physical symptoms like sweaty, dizzy, etc., and even a folder for methods and techniques I’ve already tried to calm down. I hate having to type out every little thing so being able to just go through and simply pick what applies at the moment is great. The small comment section is great as well if I want to add a small note about something that might be important but not frequent enough for its own button. This app is really fantastic for helping track moods and keeping a record of how I am feeling and when in an easy to use format that’s customizable to every person, even down to the color scheme. I started off simply looking for an app where I could have more than one daily entry but this app goes above and beyond.

I have always loved to journal and document both important and mundane days in my life. It’s easy to do with this app, even if you only have a few minutes to check in with yourself to see how you are feeling. All you do is click a few buttons to record what you’ve been doing and how you feel, the app records the time stamp and you’re done! Or if you have more time you can add text too - a little or a lot - I’ve written paragraphs at times.As someone diagnosed bipolar over 20 years ago, using this app is a great way to track moods (I too am in to the popular “mindfulness” trend, even before it became popular): it allows me to pause throughout the day, take a few minutes to sit quietly, notice how my body feels, see what kind of feelings my thoughts bring up in me, and then record that snapshot. Then, at any time I can look at the app’s simple reports that show a variety of trends in you activities and mood over a given period of time. I may think, “wow, I’ve been down and frustrated a lot lately” and then look over the report for the month and see that I actually had a lot of really positive times too. It helps me focus on the positive and work on training my brain not to go automatically to the negative. With practice, our brains CAN be rewired that way! I’ve done it successfully with a couple different things I wanted to change.Anyway, try the app. It’s great!

I always argue with myself about whether or not to renew my subscription. A few months before the subscription renews, I find myself abandoning the app. I don’t want to renew it because something is lacking. The correlation vs causation element isn’t as evident as I’d like it to be. For example, I have set to have my mood assessed every four hours (during waking hours, of course). I then choose a mood 1-5 and list what I’ve been doing the last four hours. Sometimes it’s shopping, with family, making art, with friends, etc. However, there is no good/bad element to this, so if my mood is bad, soon the app is correlating innocent things like time with family as frequently accompanied by my poor mood. It winds up just being a lot of data that I don’t know what to do with. I see no way to run experiments. It would be great to be able to automatically integrate data from Apple Health, showing things like HRV and sleep quality that would have an obvious bearing on mood and energy. So here I sit on the fence again, wondering what the point is. Am I learning anything from recording all of this, or is it just another compulsive activity to do on the phone? How can this make my life better? Something’s lacking here. As basic mood apps go, it’s really the best I’ve found, but then again, I’m not learning anything from the random activities I’ve charted every four hours. Therefore, why pay for another subscription?

I usually don’t leave long reviews when it comes to apps, and I know sometimes people don’t check the reviews but this app is worth it. I have a lot of trouble journaling, I wish I had energy to scrap book journal in the physical but I’m usually out and seeing words on paper and even doing the act can be a bit overwhelming. Not to sound dramatic but I recommend this app to all my friends. I try to block out the days, and usually forget what even happened. Using the custom features to add moods, things im tracking and more makes it easier for me to understand what was impacting me that day and why I felt the way that I did. Daylio lets you write, and put pictures from your camera roll which I adore. I associate days with things whether it’s art, pictures of things I did and even sometimes it’s just a page of words of me expressing myself. I have a reminder on to journal but it never feels forced. I do it when I can, but whenever I do I always feel better. I recommend it 100% if you dissociate and want to just have a reminder that you’re not crazy because a lot of things are happening in your life you cannot control, and with the little customizing aspect where I can just click on how im feeling it makes me feel so much at ease. An app that will hopefully be around forever because I’d honesty be lost without it T_T 🩷

I LOVE Daylio! My streak as of today is 1,475. I’ve even paid for a permanent premium account. My favorite thing is how customizable and easy it is to do. I track my daily moods, activities, etc. and even more medical things like pain, bowel movements, periods, all of it. I highly recommend it for any spoonies out there! Unlike a lot of other journal apps, there’s no pressure to write any entries. You can just tap bubbles like taking a multiple choice survey and you can customize every bubble, every category, all of it. You can still write entries though which I’ll occasionally do if I’ve had a memorable day! You can upload photos from your day as well. It keeps track of your moods, and shows you stats for the week, month, and year. You even get a wrapped at the end of your year!! I’ve been using it for years and I can honestly say it seamlessly became part of my daily routine. I set to do mine at 8:30 pm every night and it sends me a reminder notification. It’ll send me a notification the next day as well if I’ve forgotten so that I can go back and put in an entry. It’s a great place to track all those little details about your day that you may have forgotten otherwise in a super easy way, and it doesn’t take up a ton of energy for anyone out there with chronic illnesses or fatigue. I cannot recommend this app enough. I love it.

Dear Dalio Team. Congratulations on building an amazing app that I use every single day. Dalio is the perfect combination of elegant design and simple, practical, usefulness. You have helped me start a habit that creates the raw material that I can use to understand my point of view from last week, last month, last year. Having a record of how I was feeling and the circumstances surrounding those feelings has been a indispensable tool of my own emotional wellbeing. I also love the journaling function. And that is the space where I have a recommendation. I have been writing in your app for more than 850 days in a row. Those journal entries range from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages each. While the convenience of having your journal with you anytime, any place is an wonderful innovation, the functionality of moving through a feed makes looking backward less easy than a physical journal. Here are a couple of suggestions to remedy. Create a skim feature for journal entries. Being able to move quickly through the content would be helpful, like opening up your journal in a random place and flipping through pages. Use AI to read my journal and make connections that my little brain cannot. Suggest past entries that correlate to my here and now (by date, activity, mood etc). Thanks for all of the love that you put into your app.

i adore this app. as someone who loves to collect data, but also has adhd and struggles to keep a routine, i tried for YEARS to keep a paper bullet journal and failed every time. this app is the one thing ive managed to use consistently. i pay for premium and it’s well worth it, i’m able to track what classes i go to, what hobbies i do, how the weather was, all of my emotions i felt during the day, and so much more. this is what i’ve always wanted to be able to do for myself, but always found the energy cost of keeping up with it too high. however, using daylio is so simple, it takes less than a minute to write an entry for the day, so i can do it even when i’m laying in bed exhausted or taking a three minute study break. it’s so rewarding to look back on all of my entires and know ive got a little piece of every day of my life written down to reflect on. all the little icons are SO FUN, and honestly it’s well worth the inexpensive subscription price to be able to use them all and create unlimited activities to toggle on and off each day. this is my third year of being a daylio user, i have just over a thousand entities and i can’t wait to add in a thousand more. i truly can’t recommend this app enough for someone who’s always wanted to keep a diary or bullet journal or habit tracker but found it too time or energy intensive.

This app is super helpful for keeping track of literally everything and I love the new update however I would love to be able to see my entire year in the same format as monthly mood. I bought the premium version so I can see my year in pixels but it can get a little confusing so it would be helpful to see my year in a line graph. Thank you for the great app! (update): The people who keep this app running are amazing! They really do listen to your reviews. I left this review and a couple of months later they had a new update and my complaint was one of the things they added in. Not sure if it was my doing or if they already had it planned, but this app is literally almost perfect now. I suffer with a mood disorder so sometimes I can feel great that day but still be angry throughout the day so it can be a bit confusing when I try to add moods that don’t exist in the “norm” like I can have a great feeling day but still be irritable so I’m not sure which mood to click so if I click both throughout the day it’ll just read as an even day when that isn’t the case because the mood is a high day but I went through highs and lows throughout the day. Maybe that’s just a flaw in my system and not the apps, but I’ve never use an app this long, i’m almost at a 365 day streak!! Anyways thanks for such an amazing app!

I cannot say just how much I love this app! I have been journaling in it now for years, since December of 2018 actually! I write in every single day, sometimes a lot, sometimes basics. What I really love is that you can add photos and make all the little activity icons that your little heart could ever want! Sometimes just by ticking each of those activities from your day is enough to tell about your day without even writing a word. And if you don’t write that day then you can always go back to it and add in details later! I love being able to look back and just see everything. Love that it lets you look at stats and search for different days you did activities or moods. There is just so much data you can pull from this that it makes my organized and analytical heart so very happy!Developers there is only one thing I would want, and I would be willing to pay a lot for, and that is ability to go back and journal for any day from any year ever. That way I could go back and add pics from my childhood and jot down memories that go with them! How cool would that be! Please consider it, I’m sure others would love that feature too! Thank you all for making, maintaining, and continually making this app the best thing ever!