MoodSync for people with bipolar disorder

Generic mood diaries miss the patterns that matter most for bipolar — episode shape, sleep changes, medication response.

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.

And on the days when opening the phone feels like too much — mid-episode, that is most days — the Apple Watch app logs the same quick mood from your wrist, one tap on the complication. Home and Lock Screen widgets keep your streak visible, so a hard week doesn't quietly turn into a blank one.

See sleep and mood together

Sleep is one of the most consistent early signs of mania. In a systematic review of early symptoms, sleep disturbance was the most robust early symptom of mania, and manic prodromes lasted more than 20 days on average2003. 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

Daily smartphone self-monitoring in bipolar disorder was tested in a six-month randomized trial and did not reduce symptoms2015 — the value is in what you and your clinician do with the record. 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, CSV export is free for everyone — no subscription needed.