The best ADHD apps for tracking mood, compared honestly

Daylio, Bearable, and How We Feel are three of the most well-regarded mood and symptom trackers around right now, and each does its actual job well: tap-and-go logging, correlation-finding, and precise emotional vocabulary, building a picture of your patterns over weeks and months. None of them, by design, is built for the specific minute a rejection, a shame spiral, or an overwhelm spike is happening to you right now, which is a different, narrower problem than pattern-tracking solves. This site's own free tool, the Reset, is built for exactly that minute instead.

Daylio: built so you never have to write a word

Daylio works by tapping icons for your activities and a mood, nothing written out, and it turns those taps into a visual mood history you can look back over for weeks or months. That makes it one of the lowest-friction mood trackers around, genuinely useful for anyone who knows a journal would help but won't actually sit down and write one. It carries a 4.77-star rating across roughly 62,000 App Store ratings, a large, real track record for an app this focused^[1]. It's free to download, with Daylio Premium priced somewhere between about $4.99 and $59.99 depending on which term you pick (its own listing doesn't clearly label which price buys which length of plan, so check the purchase screen before you commit to one). What it doesn't do is help in the minute itself: the history it builds is only useful once you stop and look back at it later, which isn't where you are when something just hit hard.

Bearable: finds the correlation you can't see yourself

Bearable logs symptoms, mood, sleep, and medication in a few taps a day, then does something most mood trackers don't: it surfaces correlations between what you log and what actually makes things better or worse. That makes it less of a diary and more of a pattern-finder, genuinely valuable if what you want to know is which habit, medication, or sleep pattern is actually connected to your worst days. It holds a 4.77-star rating across roughly 6,400 App Store ratings^[2]. It's free to download, with Bearable Premium priced roughly between $4.49 and $49.99 depending on term, with the same unclear-by-period labeling as Daylio above. Like Daylio, Bearable is built to be looked back over, not leaned on in the moment. By the time a correlation shows up in your data, the moment it came from is long over.

How We Feel: the most honest free app in this comparison

How We Feel is a free, ad-free, nonprofit app built with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence, with no subscription anywhere in it. Instead of a vague mood scale, it has you pick a precise word for how you feel from a detailed grid, a genuinely well-regarded way to build emotional vocabulary over time. It holds a 4.9-star rating across roughly 30,000 App Store ratings, and there is nothing to upgrade and nothing gated behind a paywall^[3]. Like Daylio and Bearable, it's a practice built around looking back and naming a pattern over days and weeks, not a tool for the specific instant something goes wrong. None of that is a weakness in what it set out to do. It just isn't the same job as getting through one hard minute.

Where this site's own tool fits, honestly

The Reset, this site's free tool, isn't a mood tracker at all, and it isn't trying to compete with the three above on their own terms. It's built for the specific minute a rejection, a shame spiral, or an overwhelm spike is happening to you right now: naming what's going on, one known fact to weigh the story against, a kinder reframe to choose, and one small action for the next hour, all in about two minutes, with no account needed. It has no AI yet, and no memory of your past visits. A deeper, paid companion tool is planned for later, but it isn't available today, and this page won't price something that doesn't exist yet. If you want a record of your patterns building up over weeks, the Reset isn't that tool. If the problem right now is the minute itself, that's exactly what it's for.

How to actually choose between these

• If you want zero typing, just tap icons and go, Daylio.
• If you want to find what's actually correlated with your symptoms, Bearable.
• If you want something completely free forever, with no upsell anywhere, How We Feel.
• If the problem right now is one specific spiral, not a pattern you're building, this site's Reset.