MoodSync for anxiety tracking

Anxiety is rarely a single moment. It's a pattern. Tight mornings. Restless nights. Days where everything feels louder than it should. A mood diary with one face per day flattens that. MoodSync gives anxiety its own scale, separate from your daily mood.

The anxiety scale

MoodSync gives anxiety its own 0–3 scale (none, mild, moderate, severe), separate from depression and elevation. The clinical GAD-7 screen also uses a compact 0–3 range2006 — small ranges force you to commit and stay stable across weeks, where a 1–10 slider drifts.

Anxiety alongside the rest

Anxiety often travels with low mood. The PHQ-9 depression scale, also used in the same kind of clinical screening, runs in parallel with anxiety screens2001. MoodSync logs depression and anxiety as separate axes — so a low day with a 3 on anxiety reads differently from a low day with a 1.

Why sleep and meds matter for anxiety, too

Sleep and anxiety travel together for many people: short or fragmented nights tend to land alongside higher-anxiety days, and an anxious week often shows up in the sleep log first. Ambulatory assessment — logging in real time on a phone — has been shown to add signal that retrospective interviews miss2013. MoodSync charts sleep and medication adherence on the same view as your anxiety scores so you can see whether the pattern holds for you.

Where to read next

• Step-by-step: how to track moods day to day
• The two-layer mood scale
• Why sleep and meds belong in the same view
• How MoodSync compares to Daylio