Looking for a Day One alternative?
Day One is the long-running, award-winning journalling app: rich entries with photos, audio and video, encrypted and synced across devices. MoodSwings is a different shape of app — and this page is an honest comparison rather than a pitch, so the table starts with what Day One does better.
Day One vs MoodSwings, side by side
| Day One | MoodSwings | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | Day One is the long-running, award-winning journalling app: rich entries with photos, audio and video, encrypted and synced across devices. | A calm period tracker built around how you actually feel: next-period and cycle-phase estimates, mood and symptom logging in a few taps, PMS patterns over time, and optional partner sharing. |
| Genuinely better at | Journalling as a craft — the best writing experience in the category, with a serious archive you will still want in ten years. | MoodSwings asks for taps rather than sentences, so it survives the weeks when you have nothing to write. |
| Day to day it feels like | A general mood or symptom journal: you record how you feel day to day, with no cycle underneath it unless you add one yourself. | One screen, a few taps a day. Dates, mood and symptoms in the same place — and if you want, a partner view where you choose what is visible. |
Stay with Day One if…
…you actually write, and the archive and the writing experience are the point.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and stopped logging after a fortnight. A half-used tracker cannot show you a pattern.
What you get if you do switch
- Predictions that learn your pattern. Next-period, cycle-day and cycle-phase estimates that adjust as you log, instead of assuming a textbook 28 days.
- Mood and symptoms next to your dates. Cramps, bloating, sleep, energy, cravings and how you felt — logged in a few taps, kept as history.
- Your PMS pattern, over months. The days before your period stop being a surprise once you can see them repeating.
- Ovulation and fertile-window estimates when you want them, from your own logged cycles.
- Optional partner sharing, on your terms. You choose whether to share at all and what a partner can see — it is off until you turn it on.
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MoodSwings is a wellness tracker, not a medical device — predictions are estimates, not guarantees, and nothing here is medical advice. Day One and other product names belong to their respective owners; this comparison reflects each app's publicly described focus and our own honest read of it. We deliberately quote no ratings, review counts or prices for other apps, because those change — check the App Store for current details.