MoodSync for people with bipolar disorder
Generic mood diaries miss the patterns that matter most for bipolar — episode shape, sleep changes, medication response.
Why MoodSync for people with bipolar disorder
If you live with bipolar disorder, most mood diaries were not built for you. One face per day. Sleep in another app. Meds as a tag. None of that catches the shifts that move your week.
MoodSync is built for the second person.
Built for the patterns that hit you
If any of these sound familiar, MoodSync is for you:
- Bad sleep throws me off
- Hard to stay on meds
- Mood shifts come from nowhere
- Can't tell anxiety from elevation
- I forget what happened last week
- Hard to explain to my doctor
The app is designed around exactly these.
A daily flow you can keep
The required field is a one-tap mood. That alone, for a month, is more than most apps capture. On the days you want detail, expand the entry: separate 0–3 clinical scales for depression, elevation, irritability, and anxiety. Clinical depression rating has used a few-point ordinal scale since the 1960s1960, and mania has been measured the same way since 19781978 — MoodSync borrows the same compact-ordinal idea so the numbers stay stable from week to week.
See sleep and mood together
Sleep is one of the most consistent early signals of a mood shift in bipolar disorder. Disrupted sleep often precedes mania and depression by days, not hours2008. MoodSync plots sleep hours next to your mood scales, so a stretch of 4-hour nights doesn't need a spreadsheet to find — it's right there on the same chart.
Bring a clear month to your appointment
Smartphone self-monitoring has been studied in randomized trials in bipolar disorder2015. A clear month of mood, sleep, and meds — scrolled through together with your clinician, on your phone, at the visit. If they want the raw data, Pro users can also export a CSV.
Take it further
Sources
- Young RC, Biggs JT, Ziegler VE, Meyer DA (1978). A rating scale for mania: reliability, validity and sensitivity, British Journal of Psychiatry. link
- Hamilton M (1960). A rating scale for depression, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. link
- Harvey AG (2008). Sleep and circadian rhythms in bipolar disorder: seeking synchrony, harmony, and regulation, American Journal of Psychiatry. link
- Faurholt-Jepsen M, Frost M, Vinberg M, et al. (2015). Smartphone-based self-monitoring in bipolar disorder: an RCT, JAMA Psychiatry. link