Mood & symptom journals

Looking for a Gratitude alternative?

Gratitude is a self-care app built around gratitude journalling, affirmations, a vision board and daily motivational content. MoodSwings is a different shape of app — and this page is an honest comparison rather than a pitch, so the table starts with what Gratitude does better.

Gratitude vs MoodSwings, side by side

Gratitude MoodSwings
Known for Gratitude is a self-care app built around gratitude journalling, affirmations, a vision board and daily motivational content. 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 Directing your attention somewhere positive on purpose, with prompts and affirmations that a tracker does not attempt. MoodSwings does not try to change how you feel. It records it accurately and shows you when in your month it tends to happen.
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 Gratitude if…

…the affirmations and the gratitude practice are what you came for.

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

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MoodSwings is a wellness tracker, not a medical device — predictions are estimates, not guarantees, and nothing here is medical advice. Gratitude 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.

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