Daylio Journal - Daily Diary Reviews

I have always loved to journal and document both important and mundane days in my life. It’s easy to do with DaylioJournal, even if you only have a few minutes to check in with yourself to see how you are feeling. All you do is click a few buttons to record what you’ve been doing and how you feel, DaylioJournal records the time stamp and you’re done! Or if you have more time you can add text too - a little or a lot - I’ve written paragraphs at times.

As someone diagnosed bipolar over 20 years ago, using DaylioJournal is a great way to track moods (I too am in to the popular “mindfulness” trend, even before it became popular): it allows me to pause throughout the day, take a few minutes to sit quietly, notice how my body feels, see what kind of feelings my thoughts bring up in me, and then record that snapshot. Then, at any time I can look at DaylioJournal ’s simple reports that show a variety of trends in you activities and mood over a given period of time. I may think, “wow, I’ve been down and frustrated a lot lately” and then look over the report for the month and see that I actually had a lot of really positive times too. It helps me focus on the positive and work on training my brain not to go automatically to the negative. With practice, our brains CAN be rewired that way! I’ve done it successfully with a couple different things I wanted to change.

Anyway, try DaylioJournal . It’s great!

DaylioJournal is super helpful for keeping track of literally everything and I love the new update however I would love to be able to see my entire year in the same format as monthly mood. I bought the premium version so I can see my year in pixels but it can get a little confusing so it would be helpful to see my year in a line graph.
Thank you for the great app! (update): The people who keep DaylioJournal running are amazing! They really do listen to your reviews. I left this review and a couple of months later they had a new update and my complaint was one of the things they added in. Not sure if it was my doing or if they already had it planned, but DaylioJournal is literally almost perfect now. I suffer with a mood disorder so sometimes I can feel great that day but still be angry throughout the day so it can be a bit confusing when I try to add moods that don’t exist in the “norm” like I can have a great feeling day but still be irritable so I’m not sure which mood to click so if I click both throughout the day it’ll just read as an even day when that isn’t the case because the mood is a high day but I went through highs and lows throughout the day. Maybe that’s just a flaw in my system and not the apps, but I’ve never use an app this long, i’m almost at a 365 day streak!! Anyways thanks for such an amazing app!

Dear Dalio Team. Congratulations on building an amazing app that I use every single day. Dalio is the perfect combination of elegant design and simple, practical, usefulness. You have helped me start a habit that creates the raw material that I can use to understand my point of view from last week, last month, last year. Having a record of how I was feeling and the circumstances surrounding those feelings has been a indispensable tool of my own emotional wellbeing. I also love the journaling function. And that is the space where I have a recommendation. I have been writing in your app for more than 850 days in a row. Those journal entries range from a couple of sentences to a couple of pages each. While the convenience of having your journal with you anytime, any place is an wonderful innovation, the functionality of moving through a feed makes looking backward less easy than a physical journal. Here are a couple of suggestions to remedy. Create a skim feature for journal entries. Being able to move quickly through the content would be helpful, like opening up your journal in a random place and flipping through pages. Use AI to read my journal and make connections that my little brain cannot. Suggest past entries that correlate to my here and now (by date, activity, mood etc). Thanks for all of the love that you put into your app.

I have used DaylioJournal for years, and it’s by far the most feature rich, easy to use, and helpful journaling app out there. It’s super easy to add an entry, add moods and describe your day - you can add as much or as little detail as you’d like. You can also look at how your mood adjusts over time with many helpful stat aggregation features.

However, there’s been one feature that’s been missing that makes it mildly inconvenient to look at all this useful data. Typically, I like to do two journal entries each day - one with my goals for the day in the morning, and a nighttime one with how the day went. However, since I typically go to bed after midnight, I either have to set the time of the journal entry back to 11:59 PM or it will count for the following day instead of the day you just went through. It’s be really nice if you could set a “day reset time” or something similar, where journals after midnight to a time of your choosing (say 6 AM or so) where every journal entry before that time counts toward the previous day since that’s what the journal’s about.

I know everyone uses DaylioJournal differently, but I got to imagine journaling before bed is a fairly common use case, so it’d be great if this feature could be added :)

This is the first review I’ve ever written for an app but this one deserves a review. I haven’t consistently journaled in years and have kicked myself every day as I continued to not journal. Sometimes it was the mind-block I’d experience when staring at an empty page, but most times I just don’t want to take the time and have to dig deep to think about my day and feelings. I have been using this for over a month and it is a fantastic investment! I have a horrible memory, so I don’t remember most days how I felt the day before, which makes it hard to figure out my general state of being. I’m also very visual, so having pictures of activities keep my head clear. Since using this, I can see trends between activities or lack of activity and my general state of mind. I tried DaylioJournal before, and it didn’t stick for me, but this time I’ve made the commitment and have a nightly alarm reminder (which is key). I wish there was a way to track mood changes throughout a day, or to write new notes instead of editing or starting over for a day. It’s not like my mood is constantly changing, but if I have a great day, but have one bad experience in that otherwise great day, it would be cool to be able to document that separately. Otherwise, I’m thrilled with DaylioJournal.

I love DaylioJournal. So much so I even invested in the subscription which is really affordable. I needed something where I could track my moods and why I was feeling the way I was. This not only tracks your mood but you can write down what happened that day, post photos to the entry, and make categories that specifically indicate what influenced your day. It is super helpful to help me keep track of things that are good for me and things that aren’t. DaylioJournal also send you gentle reminders, but not overwhelming too many, to make sure you don’t forget to write in. Also, I can’t tell you how many times I will reference DaylioJournal when I need to know what I did on a certain day. It has been a big help and I would 100% recommend! Out of the many, MANY mood and diary apps I have tried, this is the simplest and most fulfilling app that gets the most out of a little effort. And what’s better! Unlike most apps that make you pay just to use basic features, you don’t have to buy the full version to get it the way you want! But you will definitely want to once you realize this isn’t just a “once in awhile” app.

TLDR: such a great app, much better than other journaling mood tracking apps, 10/10 would recommend!

I hate diaries. I can never keep a diary for longer than a week and due to my constant on and off personality and my current mental issues I can never find the energy or effort to keep a diary. Daylio isn’t necessarily a diary though—it did so much more for me than any diary could. Daylio is simple; you go on and submit an entry every day of your mood, press these icons that have activities and things you would usually do within your day (there are default ones and you can customize it for yourself and add more), a goal you can set for yourself (ex. drink water once a day) and a note area where you can talk about your day if you want. It’s so simple but I love that I can just quickly go on and submit an entry every day without feeling like it’s a pain. Another thing is that it keeps track of your moods in the past and a chart that shows how your mood changes every day. If you really want to keep yourself in check and just keep track of your life I really recommend Daylio. It’s helped me so much and made me realize how I’ve changed from the past plus what happened when. There’s no annoying ads and everything is completely free other than a few other things that aren’t even needed :)

DaylioJournal has been incredibly helpful for me. I function much better with routine, but don’t always have the discipline on my own to stick with it. This helps me to make sure I do the things that contribute to making my life good.

I first started using it when I was working through very difficult circumstances, and having a lot of dark emotional days. By being intentional about doing positive things each day, it made it easier for me to get through of the difficult circumstances. Because when I was in them, I didn’t feel like doing anything positive or productive. But that made me feel even worse. DaylioJournal helped me break out of that & get back on track.

Also, one thing that’s very important to me is journaling every day. I do a five year journal (written) which is amazing. It’s it helps me to look back over the years and see my growth and change. However, when I get busy throughout the day, or if I’m traveling, sometimes I don’t have the time to sit down and write in my journal. DaylioJournal is so helpful! I can just use voice to text in DaylioJournal and make notes throughout the day. It only takes a second. Then I can catch up in my written journal later. Love it!

Last year I spent a lot of time really trying to be more mindful. I didn’t know how I was going to do that so the first thing I began to do was keep a daily “bullet journal” and this was a way for me to hold myself accountable, review myself on completed tasks, and of course keep a journal to jot down major events, while exploring more creative side. However, it didn’t take but 3 months and I began: getting sick of carrying around supplies, growing tired of trying to figure out (one of the thousands of ways) my template for the day, week, month,etc. Then what really tripped me up was that unless I decided to go back with some fancy algorithms of my own, I wasn’t getting the info I really needed. What I needed was to see, in a quick glance, how my weeks have gone compared to others, find out which activities seemed to have more of a effect on some weeks then others, what activities were helping or hindering my growth. Then comes Daylio and I stuck it out the whole year before giving this review and can I just say I’ll be purchasing the subscription again this year and again! Especially if they keep making improvements and coming up with even more algorithms then I could fathom! Thank you so much Daylio!

As someone with ADHD, a mood disorder, and severe anxiety, I’m on A LOT of pills and a lot of factors affect my mood. I’ve tried a lot of different ways to track my ups and downs for my own benefit and to help my shrink see if a medication is working - all of them were either difficult to keep up with, or they caused me to focus on negatives. That isn’t the case with Daylio. I’ve had bad days where I didn’t feel that great or productive, but after I opened DaylioJournal to add my daily entry and quickly marked down all that I had actually done with my day, it helped me to feel better. It’s easy to add in all the little things that help me feel like a real human person when I do them, and that’s pretty neat.

The only two things I would add is seeing how often two events or habits coincided (like I “felt productive” on days when I “cooked at home”, etc.) and to be able to put your events into groups like social, leisure, weather, school, and so on. I have grouped them, but it would be nice to even just be able to make a new row or a space in between different rows.
In the end though, these are two little things that don’t really affect the functionality of DaylioJournal , and I still highly recommend it.

I’ve been using DaylioJournal for just a week now and I’m surprised how helpful it has been. I have bipolar disorder so my moods are ever changing and this is the most simple way to view the ups and downs. This is the best mood tracking app I have come across and I definitely see myself using it consistently every day. It’s so quick and easy and only takes a few taps to enter your logs. You can also add a journal log if you want for any of the mood entries, which are great for viewing your whole state of mind at that time. I really like how you can enter multiple entries in a day and how the charts and colored emojis are set up- it keeps everything neat and easy to view without it getting too cluttered and confusing. The charts will be useful for me to closely monitor any drastic changes so I can hopefully prevent future mood episodes. And I LOVE how they show which moods are most often associated with certain activities and put them into categories like that. So you can see how the activities you do are affecting your mood and track the patterns. You can also input a goal you hope to achieve and for mine I put in “no caffeine.” So far I have not stumbled. Thank you for DaylioJournal!

This is my first ever review for an app- and I went to DaylioJournal Store to review, not even when asked to leave one- if that helps anyone determine how genuine this is.
I’ve had headaches and migraines that have gotten worse over the years- DaylioJournal has literally everything you could possibly need to document headaches, moods, literally anything!! And notes, and it’s all searchable. It’s THE BEST.
The default things give you a great start to getting set up- you will quickly get ideas on what to add that’s best for you. I am using it to track my moods, so I have things like “work”, “with friends”, “game night”, “girls night”, etc. I have “working” and “not working (but should be”- this has helped track my anxiety (when I procrastinate).
For my headaches, I have moods for the different severities. I have all different food and drinks as activities, and Daylio shows activities most linked with moods- my doctor was shocked when I pulled it up because it did all the work of “maybe this food is a trigger” for us!!
I really can’t gush enough. You can literally use this for moods, sleep, ailments, and weight and workout tracker- it can do it all.

About half a year ago I moved to a whole new country. My new friend started to notice I was usually negative and she always found me off in a dark corner crying. She thought, since I talked about her so much, that it was about me moving 5,000 miles away from the only person who truly understood me. (Regarding my friend now) She informed my father after it got worse and he got me a therapist. Up to this day, I still feel very uncomfortable opening up to anyone, let alone my therapist. One day, my friend was over at my house and she was on my iPad. She said maybe it would help me if I just jotted down some things that have happened each day and read through it a few days after, and that maybe it would help me see what’s been going on making me depressed. We were looking at journal/diary apps on my iPad. (Since all my journals and books are full of drawings and sketches) We found DaylioJournal, read the reviews and description, and though it was pretty good. Well it’s not pretty good...it’s amazing!! DaylioJournal has definitely helped me a lot with my depression and I use it every day! It is definitely worth the two taps you use to download it!

DaylioJournal works exactly how I need it to. I love a simple interface and easy usability which DaylioJournal has. You can make it as simple as possible of inputting your mood with any notes for the day. You can even change or add moods or emoticons or anything like that. You can also make it more in depth if need be. I only have one suggestion that would make this a five-star app for myself. And that would be if I could voice record. Because I actually do use it as a diary as well. I do go in and sometimes just only put the face with a small note or just the face I want. But some days I write a big old long paragraph for my own sake, my own memories, so I can go back and look at it and learn from it. But it would be amazing if I could voice record something very quickly. Now I do use speech to text but a lot of time it doesn’t always say all the right words, then I still have to go in and read it, and so on. I do a lot of my moods when I’m in the car ironically enough. So if you guys could please add a voice recording option in the notes section I think that would be the one thing to top it off for my sake. Hope you guys really actually look into that. Awesome app awesome job and thank you.

I’ve been using daylio for 882 days straight as a journal, and it’s easily the only app that has ever been this helpful in tracking my daily activities. the last 2+ years have been full of helpful updates, and i give big props to the developers for implementing all the new ideas people have had!
there are only 2 things i’ve found that would make DaylioJournal even more useful to longtime users. when exporting data into a excel or PDF, it doesn’t export the pictures - it would be fantastic if there could be some way to add the photos along with the rest of the data. secondly, i was recently disappointed to note there wasn’t an apple watch feature - even just being able to quickly tap moods and activities on the watch would make sure that users don’t forget a day (as that often happens when preoccupied).
either way, daylio is the best purchase i’ve ever made!! the analytics feature is so comprehensive, and the fact that you can search keywords to go back and look on past dates is awesome!!! please keep it up guys, you’re doing great!!

I always hated journaling because it took too much effort, so I started writing down 3 good things that happened each day on sticky notes just to help me ease into it. I eventually starts losing the notes so I decided to get DaylioJournal because I saw it on my friends phone. And WOW, I went from just jotting down a few things that happened each day to writing down paragraphs of everything that happened during the day and exactly how I felt. Because I’ve had DaylioJournal for almost 3 years now and I’ve never missed a day, I practically have a record of my entire college life and I know in the future I’ll have these entries saved so I’ll be able to go back and remember so many significant dates and memories.

DaylioJournal is SO easy to use and keeps everything so organized and is the only app where I didn’t hesitate to buy the premium version!! I don’t think I can express enough how amazing DaylioJournal has been for me and I HIGHLY recommend DaylioJournal to anyone and everyone who just want to be able to keep tabs on their own thoughts, feelings, and life in general!!

Okay, I’ve been using DaylioJournal for 2 weeks and it is far by the cutest “journal” app I’ve gotten. I put journal in quotes bc it is so much more than that. It’s a mood tracker and a very good one with the option to add more moods than just default. I’ve been looking for one for ages that isn’t expensive or requires too much creativity. Plus, having it on my phone where it can show me my progress in graphs and tables? It’s really visually friendly for those who like to see their progress and moods. It has achievements so I keep wanting to come back. It tracks my goals (you have to buy the subscription if you want more than 1 goal, sadly) and it keeps me on track. Plus, it’s a great and convenient place to vent when I have a bad work day or just want to talk into about something personal. Thankfully DaylioJournal doesn’t kill my battery and it’s overall something fun to use everyday. It’s friendly to those who don’t want to pay the subscription either, but it’s honestly so inexpensive you might as well to get the extra colors and goals if you plan on using DaylioJournal for a while.

I know DaylioJournal already has so many good reviews, but I still feel like it’s vastly underrated!
There’s already so much you can do for free, which is hard to find. And it makes it sooooo easy to track! A lot of apps are like this where they are customizable trackers, but it takes so long to do so it doesn’t even make DaylioJournal fun anymore.
DaylioJournal is meant to be customized at your own pace, and doesn’t need a full crazy set up just to get started. I love being able to log multiple times a day as well. I have a lot of anxiety and this makes is really easy to track the events, without having to relive them. Especially compared to a handwritten journal where it takes so much time to log every little thing, and having to relive the stress of the day isn’t fun.

DaylioJournal makes it so quick and easy. Being able to tap an emoji face and an icon labeled for a specific activity rather than write everything out is such a huge plus. I very much love DaylioJournal and highly recommend it! Especially for people on the go.

When I first got DaylioJournal, I felt a lot like there weren’t a ton of options and that it didn’t do much. The more I used it though, the more it proved to be really helpful. I have an anxiety disorder, depression, ptsd, and a generally stressful life. I have always tried to journal but would fall behind and feel it was tedious. DaylioJournal makes that really easy! Just add every mood and feeling that you think is important to track. I have ones like, “stressful outing” or “cried” or “ate fast food”, etc. you can make one for anything! I paid the extra 2.99 for more symbols, but it was great even without that. I’ve been using it for over a month now, I think, and I’ve managed to log everyday, sometimes more than once. DaylioJournal has “stats” that can be really helpful for tracking what you’re feeling a lot lately, what you’re doing mostly. I really recommend it! I usually add a little text “note” to my daily log, if I have the merge and that can help illuminate why I was feeling whatever way.

This is an interesting little app. I deal with low moods and anxiety so like having something to track what generally helps and what makes it worse. I really like the goal feature so I can set a reminder to write every day. It’s also nice to be able to customize your activities so you can keep the options limited to what’s relevant to you. The wide range of icons you can assign to activities is kind of fun to play around with.

The only reason I don’t give five stars is that the layout can be cluttered and overwhelming to look at. It would be nice to have the option to hide and/or rearrange sections of the stats screen so you only see what’s important to you. For instance, I really don’t care about achievements, overall activity count, etc, but this all clutters up the page. Also, the advanced statistics can be confusing. I’m not sure what confidence and next day influence mean. I tried to look at DaylioJournal faq but didn’t see anything to help guide on this.

Overall, though, there are some neat and helpful functions here for mood tracking. It’s worth a try!

Whenever I see my therapist, I always blank on what my week has been like or what moods I’ve been experiencing. While she suggested a different app, I came across this one and I couldn’t be happier for it. It’s simplicity is so comforting, and I know it’ll only take a few minutes for me to enter how I’m feeling. The fact that it shows monthly statistics as well as my most common mood and activities is so satisfying. It’s so nice to look at DaylioJournal and see exactly how I’ve been feeling over the past month. I have already recommended DaylioJournal to so many from loved ones to complete strangers. I also love the fact that I don’t have to comment on every entry, or that I have the ability to customize it to my exact moods and activities. The only things I wish it had more of was more color schemes, or a way to choose each specific color from a gradient. Also, I do wish there was more icons for the moods as well as the activities. But beyond satisfied with the current app (-: thank you, so so much.

DaylioJournal has really helped me become more self aware by paying attention to details that would normally escape me. I can quickly associate very specific events with certain moods, thanks to the statistics that DaylioJournal gives you. I was quick to customize and add very specific activities including having a good conversation or an argument. I even added little details like specific types of exercise, eating out, packing a lunch, etc to make sure that I am holding myself accountable to the choices I make in a day and the mood that I experience.

I cannot tell you how cathartic it is to log my activity and to see these associations, realizing that I’m in a better mood when I see my friends and exercise, versus being in a lousy mood when I eat out or watch tv. These are actionable observations - opportunities for me to choose the activities that I can see put me in a better mood.

I recommend DaylioJournal to anyone trying to get in a better headspace or me more mindful of their feelings and their choices.

I downloaded the free version of DaylioJournal and within an hour paid for the premium version. I highly recommend DaylioJournal even for people without mental illness and even for people who hate journaling. Understanding your moods alongside different activities on a daily basis is beneficial to everyone. I like being able to customize my specific activities and adding additional moods with the smiley faces. It doesn’t replace journaling entirely but it makes it way easier to quickly log feelings/activities throughout the day. Being able to add quick notes along with the mood/activity is fantastic because by the end of the day I don’t always remember why I was anxious at 11am. This helps me figure out patterns in my daily life to try and reduce anxiety/depression. The design of DaylioJournal is clean, easy to use and quick. I also enjoy how many setting options there are such as having DaylioJournal remind me at certain times of the day to log how I’m feeling.

I downloaded Daylio bc I wanted to keep more track of my life. Thought it would be interesting to read back on my life you know? And it was great. I didn’t journal everyday, sometimes I forgot. But it was great to get my thoughts out and then read them back later. I loved DaylioJournal and it was super cutely made. But today I was just doing stuff on my phone and something weird happened. So I have daylio send me a notification to journal so I don’t forget. I have it set at 7:00pm. So I get the notification and ignore it, knowing to journal later. So then I get the notification again. Then my phone started acting up and freezing and turning off and I kept getting the daylio notification. Then I just deleted DaylioJournal and everything stopped. Idk of this was my phones fault or daylio a fault. I do love DaylioJournal , but if DaylioJournal did that to my phone, then I don’t recommend. If there’s any way that could be fixed if there is something wrong, that would be greatly appreciated. I’m not sure if it just happened to me but I hope this gets fixed. Again, love DaylioJournal , but I don’t want it to kill my phone.

I have tried so many journaling apps over the year and even tried paper planners and journals. But, I use an electronic calendar for work/life, reminders on my phone, google tasks at work - I needed something that easy for my personal thoughts and feelings.
If you like using stickers in your paper planner, you will enjoy picking and naming the activities in DaylioJournal. It also encourages tracking by letting you just pick as simply as what mood you’re in.
I chose DaylioJournal to track medical issues/symptoms to report to my doctor and have found it to be so handy for that. I also love how you can look at your stats and earn badges (more badges, please!). Recently they rolled out goals and I’m liking that too. It’s also a one-time purchase vs. a subscription. Overall - a perfect combination of features!
FEATURE REQUESTS - would like to be able to record activities for a future date. Also more icons please! Especially for the holidays, you’re missing a lot!

DaylioJournal makes it so simple to keep track of my mental health. Love the ability to customize the moods and activities. I tend to forget things without reminders, so I also love the notification reminders to log. They have helped me stay consistent.

The most useful thing I’ve gained from DaylioJournal is the ability to see trends. Since I’ve started logging, I’ve been able to notice that certain activities correlate with a depressed mood. And some activities (like drinking coffee) tend to lead to anxiety for me.

The one feature that I wish would be added is the ability to add more than 5 colors (moods). Even though I customize the moods within colors, I’d love to have 7 or 10 options that show up on the graphs, giving me further insight into my mental health trends. Hopeful that this feature will be added in the future! Overall, however, this is a great app and was worth the money to upgrade. No regrets!

I used to bullet journal and part of that involves keeping track of my habits/mood. However, I don’t carry my journal everywhere so it was hard to keep up with my habit/mood tracker. Not until I found DaylioJournal! I love how simple the UI is and the ability to add more activities. I love the ability to see how many times I did a specific activity in a month. I also have ADHD so there will be some days where I forget to add something. Luckily for me, DaylioJournal allows you to add your mood for the day whenever you want. There’s also a note section you can add to your day. This allows me to quickly jot down my thoughts or whatever special going on that day. Although DaylioJournal has in app purchases, they don’t really pressure you to buy it. You can do so much without paying! I will most likely unlock the other features for $2.99 in the future since I love DaylioJournal. I can definitely see myself using DaylioJournal for a long time. :)

I love Daylio so much. It's so simple and very aesthetically pleasing. You can even pick your own color themes.
A couple things I would love to see would be
1) Being able to export entries as just mood and activity, or being able to toggle what info you wish to export. My written entries get really personal and this makes it difficult to try and share my log to my psychiatrist and therapist. I think this feature would really help them understand my patterns better without giving them unnecessary information.
And 2) Being able to see the line chart, but also have the ability to pick a period of time to view. I love seeing the chart. It's easy for a visual learner like me to understand. I just wish I could look at a larger period of time, like the last few months, or year even. Other than these things, what a wonderful job you have done with DaylioJournal. Thank you Daylio!

I love DaylioJournal and have used it at least daily from the beginning months in 2018 to these late months of 2019. I find it very insightful although I don’t have the paid version. I don’t like the goals thing as I find no need for it. I just wanna write my emotions and feel done, cuz I can get very emotional and stressed and need to let it all out and have a lot of emotions in general.
I like the new app colors but there is another reason why I’m not using paid. It’s because I screwed myself over in the settings and can’t remember the pin to allow in app purchases and am stuck there. Not even sure if it’s possible to set that back to without a password without being a pain.
Thank you app, and I wish the csv also had a time stamp of hours and years, and not just days and months. I guess once the subscription comes, I’m glad I recorded all my info down so I’ll have everything once I’m ready to move on.

I loved DaylioJournal a lot otherwise tho. I really did.