Moodkit App Reviews

Mood Kit is a great tool to have with you. It is so easy to use. The thought tracker has helped me thru some really challenging situations. I find it incredibly practical and easy to use and it successfully helps me keep negative thoughts in check. I highly recommend it

I just purchased this app after reviewing the ratings and reviews and I am excited to use it. However, I have a 2016 12.9 inch iPad and the presentation is portrait. I use an attached keyboard to type and I need the app to present in landscape format. Is there a way to change this setting? Thank you!

Simple tool with many components. Great for overall tracking and tracking progress with therapy and with medication trials or changes.

The functionality on this app is amazing. Very powerful. But the UI is lacking. It’s a bit complicated to use. And it doesn’t take advantage of the full screen on iPhone X.

This app has been a big help at least in getting a load off my chest. Would recommend

Seems research based. I like the teaching component to help me interpret and understand cog. B. T

Love the mood tracking, and the thought checker. A powerful tool to see what gaps there are in your thinking, and how to gain a better perspective.

Although I do daily journaling, I find I have learned so much about myself and my moods by using the ap to rate and explain them in the notes section. I’ve even shown my doctor the chart in response to his question about how my mood has been in the past weeks.

I downloaded this app in Fall 2012 and still use it now (January 2016). Whenever I'm upset, I use this app. It's like a portable therapist. It's helpful to see what thought distortions I'm using. It's helpful to identify and rate my moods before and after I process a thought and check the facts. I journal a lot, too. It's a great app. I highly recommend it.

Love this app!!!

I like the variety of activities offered in this app. I also like the convenient way the journal is tied to the activity descriptions, so I can easily make entries. Good mix of CBT and positive psychology.

This is a very small range of emotion (primarily negative. I have often needed a greater emotional range. I have been using customization feature but it still leaves me without the emotion. I would find it helpful if there was a customizable feature to fill in the apprise feelings. Then it would definitely by a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️!

I've been dealing with Persistent Depressive Disorder for a number of years now, and this app helps keep me motivated to improve my life and correct my distorted thinking.

Very nice app! Many proven therapeutic techniques have been woven into the various excersies. It also has some nice mood tracking functionally.

Wow. I’ve been using this app for years on and off. It helps me work through feeling with my students, my children, and myself. I rank it up there with meditation for calming effects. Also love the reminders. Suggestion: computer version or access to the program online. I would pay an upgrade fee for that accessibility. I’m older and don’t like typing on the “phone “

I have been using this app for about 3 months. I really like the graphing of my moods so I can see at a glance how I have been along with the notes I write. This has really helped me understand why I have moods and how I can change them for the better. I have never been good at keeping a diary but this is so much better.

I'm an MD w/ hx of bipolar II, and I treat depression in clinic daily. I really like the combo of tools here. They seem to be well in line with what medicine knows about depression (eg exercise helps, regular sleep cycles are critical, CBT works as well as meds for moderate depression, etc). The design/UI is clean and intuitive.

Pales in comparison to other available apps. If I could ask for my money back, I would. No analytics to speak of, no real insights, just a series of tasks "designed" to help you improve your mood over time as you create helpful habits for yourself. Yes, this is probably based on sound CBT practices, but basically a checklist is not worth $5. Avoid this and look at mood analysis and correlation apps. Most of them are cheaper, or even free.

The "thoughts" section was exactly what I needed to slow down my own spirals and the commitments had great tips which made things I knew I wanted to do be a bit easier. The only thing is that you need to keep track of your commitments. I haven't found a way to have it remind you yet. But I could be mistaken.

I've used this app to improve my own mood long-term and I'm also using it with my kids. I've learned a lot and it's helped me recognize distortions in my thinking I was never fully aware of.

Unlimited mood entries per day with a detailed mood chart showing daily averages, ranges, and one-tap access to mood notes right from the chart. Fully customizable journal templates and mood improvement activity "cards." Thought checking tool with a detailed distortion list. Fully exportable journal and data. CBT toolkit in your pocket.

I was excited to get this app and take a more active role in charting my moods etc. However, as someone in eating disorder recovery, I was dismayed to see the diet section reinforce the restrictive behaviors of my eating disorder. I hate that I wasted $4.99 on an app I can’t even use due to its pervasive diet message triggering thoughts and urges to engage in ED behaviors.

Update: for the last few months I've been using the thought checker nearly every day, and I have noticed a change in how I respond to upsetting events, so hey, it works. Overall I like this app. The big weakness is that the mood tracker only lets you do one mood per day. Also, some of the journal questions come across as cheesy or annoying or just unhelpful. However, other ones are direct and helpful, and I've already created a couple templates of my own that I think will be useful. I like the thought checker: it's brief and convenient but also to the point. I like having the long list of suggested feelings and the option to pick more than one, and it's more convenient to have a list of distortions there rather than pulling out a piece of paper and having to go by memory when on the run. I also appreciate that there's an option to say there's no distortion but still a better way of looking at things. I've only looked at a couple of the activities but the apparent variety is impressive. And again, the convenience factor is amazing.

I could find no other way to contact the software administrators other than through this review process. OK. So be it. Why are the forced choice moods from which I must choose, unanimously negative? Is it inconceivable I might want to record a positive mood? You need a "contact us" option.

This app has helped me put my emotions into perspective. It has helped me to recognize my cognitive distortions and also validate my feels. I highly recommend this app.

I love the thought checker and cognitive distortion list. I like being able to go back and add to them and to look for patterns.

Just started using this app but it looks phenomenal. Will be recommending to many!

This app has helped me understand myself better, and deepen my relationships with those around me.

Very clean, well-worded interface. It's wonderful.

My therapist gives me paper work to check cognitive distortions but I lost interest after a few days. I tend to ruminate and sometimes can spend days researching something. That’s my crisis mode. My PTSD is very hard to manage but this make everything all In one place and it’s straight to the point. On paper, they would be scattered and forgotten for months until I found it again and repeated this same cycle. Thank you so much!!!

This app has made it much easier to do my cognitive therapy work - from thought records to journal entries. It's also secure so I dont worry about the information. Highly recommended!

I love this app, but every time I leave it while writing a journal often times it will crash or completely erase what I've written down if I leave the app and come back, which, after so many times becomes really infuriating. If you guys could do something about this I gladly raise the rating 😊

This app has been a complete life changer for me. I've been using the app for several years as I struggle with depression and generalized anxiety disorder. Granted, sometimes when you are so emotionally worked up, you forget the resource is here, but when I do remember, I stop, use it, and am able to re-process my thoughts and realize the distributions. I then always feel better.

As someone recovering from a pretty nasty bout of depression/anxiety, I was looking for a tool to keep me from slipping back into unhealthy patterns. This works great! It gives you a place to go to chart your ups and downs, and helps you think through your logic when you feel like your reactions might be a bit off. I've found it an invaluable tool.

For people with mood disorders, this app is FANTASTIC because, among reasons, it can help your psychiatrist to more precisely understand your mood history and prescribe or adjust your meds appropriately. It is not only invaluable to the psychiatrist, but also to the patient. GET THIS APP!!! UPDATE: 4/1/2016 Can't find this I the app store anymore when I wanted to add it to my new iPad Pro. Major disappointment. UPDATE: 9/5/16: I have decided to stop using this app because I cannot print anything to give to my psychiatrist. The lack of being able to print is a deal breaker.

And I'm already feeling better along with a psychiatric medicine and CBT with my therapist.

I rarely take the time to write reviews, but as both a mental health clinician and someone who suffers from major depressive disorder and anxiety, I'm so impressed by the practical utility of this app, first in probing the myriad ways that chronic distress undermines our real-world well-being, and second because of the myriad targeted, concrete & evidence-based strategies it suggests to flip the tables and improve our moods through simple shifts in conscious thought & action. Also love the personal commitment framework as practical strategy for real-life application. Only quibble is that the daily mood & thought journaling interfaces are clunky-looking and not nearly as intuitive as a handful of otherwise mediocre & shamelessly pricey mood tracking & CBT apps on the market. I also wished that this somehow integrated with iOS' 'health' app, which I already use for diet & activity tracking. Were developers to redress those two issues, I hesitate to speculate what I actually might pay for the result.

The repeated prompts are still happening. I'd love it if we could save journal entries as drafts if we have to leave the app.

It’s not at all what I expected. I thought there’d be more to work with. It’s so disorganized and cheaply made. There are better CBT apps out there. I used it for 3 days and found nothing in it that I didn’t already know or that was helpful in any way. You’d be better off buying a self-help book and a real journal to write in. Better yet, just see a therapist so that you get some real help. There goes a wasted $5.

Great app, will help me manage and decrease my depression long term

The 'though checker' part of the app is extremely helpful for me and helps me really reflect on my negative thoughts annnd on my anxious thoughts. The self reflection aspect has made me feel better numerous times and I've only had the app a few days

I mostly use the thought checking tool and the mood rater. But just those have had a huge impact on keeping my mood up. Including keeping me from having an actual mental break-down one day and giving me the time to get to a psychologist. I couldn't praise this app enough.

This app can help you deal with life's quirky situations that everyone goes through. Psychiatrists will give you the same exact thought checker sheets. This app gives you a great spot to keep track of your thoughts, so you can make meaningful progress in mindfulness. I recommend this app when the situation calls, it has helped me get through nights when I don't have someone around to talk to about stuff.

It’s always good to be able to be self-reflective-“know thyself”-in ways that matter. MoodKit does just that; it allows you to track the inordinate beats in your life, either caused by oneself or experienced as suffered from daily events. Thanks for a very practical and meaningful kit of psychological tools which can be used to administer self-healing.

Mood tracker seems to be a great app for self monitoring and then it provides ideas to help with areas of concern. I would rank it a solid 5/5 if there was area to monitor sleep. There are great sleep aids. Thank you. My biggest issue is being charged for an in app purchase and I was unaware of the purchase or what I purchased. This is an app for people who have some area of need psychologically or mentally. Some may be more serious than others. I think it would be helpful if there was a bold clearly delineated notice that a person was starting a purchasing process as well as a “ are you sure you want to spend 4.99 per month box. It would be great to have a buyers remorse box too (LOL). Thank you very much for this program and it’s a solid 5/5 if you give a little more thought about your target audience and the types of issues different people cope with on a variety of levels such as accessing your wonderful program. I am recovering from a brain injury and I am relearning many things that are difficult for me like understanding things on-line purchasing and other financial things. Until a few months ago my partner was dealing with these types of things for me.

I'm definitely happy with this purchase. This app has very similar functions to other cognitive behavior therapy apps available; however, while it may not be as "pretty" or intuitively constructed, it has an amazing and diverse list of resources available and doesn't have an outrageous monthly fee. Further, I like the way it allows you to reframe thinking patterns and then reevaluate your feelings in order to see the benefits immediately. I can see myself continuously using this application to have more positive and stress-free thoughts.

I don't want to go into details about the app. I will say that it has improved my overall mood, productivity, ability to deal with others and myself. AMAZING PURCHASE!! ❤️❤️❤️

Had helped me tremendously.

I use the mood check in as a reminder to take medication, keep track of fluctuating moods, and remind myself to be present and thoughtful. The thought distortions list is helpful and I especially like the suggestion for things things to do like running, meeting friends, etc with a follow up to see if it helped.

Haven’t done the activities yet but the thoughts is invaluable. Wish that once thoughts session have been saved it disappears. It says it’s saved but all the data remains and there’s no way to start a new session without hitting the back button which makes you feel like something is wrong with this process.

I come and go from using mood kit because honestly the barebones interface is to get into. A daily dashboard showing the last time each mode was used or a launch window recommending a mode might make the app easier to engage with. However, the basic CBT principles shine through and the thought distortion mode is worth the price alone. It really helps when I hit a depressive low but I'd like something I could engage more proactively than reactively.

Love the thought checker!

This is the best app I have ever used. Surprisingly extensive and useful tools, supportive environment, excellent training for improved lifestyle and wellness.