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MoodSync

Visit prep view

  • Walk through your last month on your phone — mood, sleep, meds
  • Tap any day for the full record (mood scales, sleep hours, meds, notes)
  • Pro: one-screen Insights summary and CSV export for the clinician

The visit you have looked forward to all month is fifteen minutes long. Most of it gets eaten by "how have things been?" A diary in your head says "OK, I think." A diary on your phone says: this is what the last four weeks looked like.

What you bring

Open MoodSync. Hand over the calendar. Scroll back four weeks together — colored pills for each day, tap one for the full record (mood scales, sleep hours, meds toggle, notes).

If you have Pro, the Insights tab is the one-screen summary: 2-week trend, your best and hardest day, weekday-vs-weekend sleep, mood-with-meds vs without, and any prodrome warning. Each card cites the research behind it.

That is the prep. The chart is on your phone, the appointment is in front of you, and the conversation starts from a real month instead of a half-remembered one. (Pro also exports a CSV from Settings if your clinician wants the raw data.)

Why this works

Smartphone-based self-monitoring has been studied in randomized trials in bipolar disorder2015. Daily entries captured in the moment carry signal that retrospective recall loses2013. The trackers people stick with are the ones that take seconds — and the chart you scroll back through is what makes the visit specific.

What to read next

Sources

  1. Faurholt-Jepsen M, Frost M, Vinberg M, et al. (2015). Smartphone-based self-monitoring in bipolar disorder: an RCT, JAMA Psychiatry. link
  2. Trull TJ, Ebner-Priemer U (2013). Ambulatory assessment, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. link
  3. Hamilton M (1960). A rating scale for depression, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. link
  4. Young RC, Biggs JT, Ziegler VE, Meyer DA (1978). A rating scale for mania: reliability, validity and sensitivity, British Journal of Psychiatry. link