Mood & symptom journals

Looking for a Mood Balance alternative?

Mood Balance is a self-care mood tracker with statistics, activities and small exercises attached to what you log. MoodSwings is a different shape of app — and this page is an honest comparison rather than a pitch, so the table starts with what Mood Balance does better.

Mood Balance vs MoodSwings, side by side

Mood Balance MoodSwings
Known for Mood Balance is a self-care mood tracker with statistics, activities and small exercises attached to what you log. 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 Turning a log into something to do next, with activities suggested off the back of your entries. MoodSwings suggests nothing. It answers a narrower question — how your moods line up with your cycle — and stops there.
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 Mood Balance if…

…the suggested activities are the part you use.

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. Mood Balance 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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