This is about Maya. She logged her mood for twenty-one days. What she learned surprised her. And quietly, this is what MoodGenius does.
A mood tracker that turns your logs into one clear weekly insight. For people who feel ‘off’ and want patterns, not platitudes.
Maya had been feeling off for a month. Not depressed, not exactly. Just fogged. She'd journaled, cut caffeine, tried a meditation app. None of it told her why.
After fourteen entries, MoodGenius wrote her a sentence. It wasn't profound. It was specific.
Maya moved her bedtime. Not every night. Four of seven. The app tracked everything else without her thinking about it. The next Sunday's read surprised her.
MoodGenius didn't fix Maya's mood. It turned her mood from weather, something that happens to you, into weather with a forecast. The difference is everything.
Four decades of research shows mood follows sleep, movement, sunlight, and reflection in ways that are stubbornly consistent. MoodGenius surfaces your personal version of that pattern.
Sleep loss weakens the prefrontal–amygdala circuitry that regulates emotion. Next-day reactions get bigger, not smaller.
In the SMILE trial, aerobic exercise matched sertraline on remission of major depression after sixteen weeks.
In a UK Biobank cohort of over 400,000 adults, every additional hour spent in outdoor light was linked to lower odds of major depressive disorder.
A meta-analysis of 146 randomized trials found expressive writing reliably improves psychological and physical functioning, with effects emerging in as few as four days.
Free: mood log, charts, basic summaries.
Paid: weekly reads, recommendations, deeper correlations.
iOS only. Available now.
MoodGenius is a self-insight tool, not a medical device, diagnosis, or treatment. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, please reach a trained person now — in Australia call Lifeline 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14; in the US/Canada call or text 988; in the UK call Samaritans 116 123.