Mood Tracking Made Meaningful
Reflect, journal, and discover your emotional patterns in a way that’s fun, mindful, and truly you.
A mood tracker built around real emotions
Feels is a mood tracking and journaling app for people who want more than a smiley face and a daily streak. Instead of asking "rate your day from 1 to 5," Feels helps you name what you're actually feeling — overwhelmed, grateful, restless, hopeful — and then notice the patterns over time. You can explore the full vocabulary on the interactive Feels Wheel, which maps 50+ distinct emotions across the core families of joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust.
The science is simple: people who can describe their emotions with precision — a skill researchers call emotional granularity — regulate stress better, recover faster from setbacks and report higher day-to-day well-being. That's why every part of Feels is designed to expand your emotional vocabulary instead of flattening it. Daily mood check-ins take less than a minute, but the reflections build into a living history of your inner life.
How Feels works
Open Feels, tap the emotion that fits the moment, and add an optional sentence about what triggered it. Over the following days and weeks, the app surfaces emotional patterns — the people, places, sleep habits and routines that quietly shape how you feel. Unlike a scored journal, Feels never ranks your days. It treats sadness and joy as equally valuable data points, because both tell you something honest about your life.
If you're new to emotional reflection, start with the two-minute emotional check-in quiz to get a snapshot of where you are today. Feeling drained? The burnout assessment draws on the Maslach Burnout Inventory to gauge exhaustion, cynicism and efficacy. Curious about your overall emotional intelligence? Try the EQ test. All four tools are free and require no sign-up.
Research on affect labelling, popularised by neuroscientists like Matthew Lieberman at UCLA, shows that simply putting feelings into words reduces their intensity in the brain's amygdala. The work of Lisa Feldman Barrett goes further: emotions aren't fixed circuits we react with, they're predictions we construct. The richer your emotional vocabulary, the more accurate those predictions become.
Frequently asked questions
What is Feels?
Feels is a mood tracking and journaling app for iOS that helps you name your emotions, log a short reflection, and discover the patterns that shape how you feel. It's built around the science of emotional granularity rather than 1-to-5 daily ratings.
Is Feels free to use?
Yes. Feels is currently a free public beta on iOS via TestFlight, and the web tools — the Feels Wheel, the emotional check-in quiz, the burnout assessment and the EQ test — are free with no sign-up required.
How is Feels different from Daylio or Pixels?
Daylio and Pixels rate days on a fixed colour or number scale. Compared to Daylio and Pixels, Feels asks you to name the specific emotion rather than compress a whole day into a single rating, which makes long-term patterns more meaningful.
Do I need to journal every day?
No. Feels works whether you check in once a week or several times a day. The patterns surface faster with more data, but a single honest entry is still useful — the goal is reflection, not perfect streaks.
Is my data private?
Your reflections stay on your device. Feels does not sell data, does not show ads, and does not require an account to use the web tools.
When will Feels launch on Android?
Feels is iOS-first while in public beta. An Android build is on the roadmap — follow @salmantln for updates.