eMoods alternatives: four mood trackers worth a look in 2026

eMoods has been a steady bipolar tracker for years, and plenty of people log in it happily. But if you are reading this, something is missing for you — maybe a watch app, widgets, sleep pulled in automatically, or a sync setup that feels current. Here are four alternatives worth a look, with honest trade-offs for each.

What to keep from eMoods

Before switching, name what eMoods got right, because not every alternative clears the same bar. Its core design decision was separating the axes: depressed mood, elevated mood, anxiety, and irritability logged as distinct values. That choice is grounded in how clinicians measure these things — mania has been rated on its own scale since 19781978 precisely because it does not live on the same axis as depression.

If bipolar disorder is why you track, hold onto that requirement. Two of the four apps below meet it; two trade it away for other strengths.

MoodSync

MoodSync is the closest fit for someone who liked eMoods' clinical structure but wants a more modern iOS experience. It keeps the four separate axes — depression, elevation, irritability, and anxiety, each on a 0–3 clinical-style scale — and adds the pieces eMoods users most often go looking for: an Apple Watch app, Home and Lock Screen widgets, and Apple Health sleep autofill that fills in your sleep hours and backfills missed nights. Sleep is one of the most consistent early signals in bipolar disorder2008, and MoodSync plots it on the same chart as mood by default. Data stays on device with optional sync through your own private iCloud — no MoodSync account or server in the path. The app is free to download; a Pro tier ($4.99/month or $29.99/year) unlocks deeper views like Year in Pixels, and CSV export stays free for everyone. The full MoodSync vs eMoods comparison covers where eMoods still wins.

Daylio

Daylio is a polished general-purpose mood diary built around two ideas: a single 1–5 face-based mood and a rich activity-tag system. If your tracking needs have genuinely shifted from bipolar-specific charting toward a light daily diary, it is pleasant to use and easy to keep up. The trade-off is the one that matters most for former eMoods users: one mood scale cannot separate depression from elevation, and sleep and medication live as tags rather than charted values. Choose it for the diary and the tags, not as a like-for-like eMoods replacement.

Bearable

Bearable comes from the chronic-illness world: configurable symptoms, factors, and a correlation engine that connects them. If mood is one thread in a bigger health picture — pain, fatigue, GI symptoms, energy — it is arguably the strongest tool on this list, and sleep can be plotted against the factors you choose. The cost is setup: bipolar-relevant axes are something you configure yourself rather than the default, and the app's breadth makes daily logging heavier than eMoods' quick scales. Best for trackers with multi-condition needs and patience for configuration.

How We Feel

How We Feel is a free, research-informed app for building emotional vocabulary: you place yourself on a pleasantness-by-energy grid and name the feeling with increasing precision. It is genuinely good at that job. It is not a bipolar tracker — no separate depression and elevation scales, no medication log, no sleep charted against mood — so it works better as a companion practice than as the place your clinical record lives.

How to choose

Start from the reason you are leaving. If eMoods' bipolar structure still fits and you want it with a Watch app, widgets, sleep autofill, and private iCloud sync, MoodSync is the direct successor. If your needs broadened to whole-body symptom tracking, look at Bearable. If they lightened to a general diary or an emotions practice, Daylio or How We Feel will serve you better than any clinical tracker.

Then run the two-week test: pick one, log daily, and look at what the chart tells you. Whichever app still has your data in it after two weeks is the right alternative.