Best Mood Tracking Apps for Bipolar Disorder (2026 Guide)

A note before the list, because this topic deserves one: this is a guide to tracking tools, not medical advice. If you live with bipolar disorder, your care team’s preferences beat anything written here, and if a mood chart is part of your treatment, talk to them before changing how it’s kept. Organizations like the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance also offer free tracking tools worth knowing about.

With that said: app quality varies wildly for this use case, general-purpose trackers get recommended for jobs they can’t do, and honest sorting helps. Here’s ours. (Disclosure: we build MoodKit, and you’ll notice it does not get the top spot here. Facts checked August 2026; US pricing.)

Why bipolar tracking is its own category

One happy-to-sad slider quietly assumes mood is one dimension. Bipolar-spectrum tracking usually needs more: depressed and elevated symptoms charted separately (they can co-exist in mixed states), irritability and anxiety alongside, sleep as a first-class signal, medication changes marked on the chart, and output a psychiatrist can scan in the thirty seconds an appointment allows. As one r/bipolar member put it while comparing apps: the specialist tools capture “the extremes of the day,” general trackers capture the everyday.

1. eMoods — the clinical standard

eMoods (4.8★, ~4.2k ratings) is built around exactly the model above: separate depressed/elevated scales, irritability, anxiety, sleep hours, med logs with change indicators, and the PDF report clinicians actually ask for. Data stays on-device, and Pro costs about $9.99 a year, pricing that feels almost like a public service.

• Best for: episode charting that feeds treatment.
• Watch out for: a dated interface, one entry per day, no Apple Health. (Alternatives, weighed carefully.)

2. Bearable — episodes plus everything else

Bearable (4.8★) suits people tracking bipolar symptoms alongside other health signals: custom symptom scales with severity, medications, energy, sleep, and 30+ correlation reports, with doctor-ready exports. Its 1–10 mood scale plus custom symptoms can approximate dual-dimension charting.

• Best for: co-occurring conditions; one system for all of it.
• Watch out for: effortful check-ins, required account, subscription-only. (Full comparison.)

3. Bipolar UK Mood Tracker — charity-built basics

UK charity Bipolar UK offers a free, award-recognized mood tracker app covering daily mood, sleep, medication, and emotions, designed specifically for bipolar self-monitoring. Simple, focused, and backed by an organization with no upsell agenda.

• Best for: a free, bipolar-specific starting point.

4. MindDoc — the regulated option

MindDoc (4.7★, ~29k ratings), from the Schön Klinik group, is a Class I medical device in the EU with clinically validated question-based check-ins three times a day and a shareable assessment report. It’s depression-and-anxiety centered rather than bipolar-specific, but its structured screening approach appeals to people who want clinical rigor.

• Watch out for: rigid question flows, English and German only, and development that has visibly slowed.

5. MoodKit — the daily-texture layer (not an episode chart)

Our own app, placed here with plain limits: MoodKit has no separate elevated/depressed scales, no medication tracking, and no clinician report, so it is not an episode-charting tool and we won’t pretend otherwise.

What some people use it for, alongside proper charting: the everyday layer. Multiple timestamped check-ins per day, activities and Apple Health sleep/exercise/steps ranked by their measured effect on mood, weekday rhythms, and gentle streaks with banked freezes for the weeks when showing up is hard. Sleep’s relationship to next-day mood, in particular, is something MoodKit measures directly. Everything stays on-device, no account, no AI.

• Best for: understanding daily drivers, beside (never instead of) clinical tracking.
• Watch out for: paid after trial ($39.99/yr or $79.99 Lifetime); iPhone/iPad only.

6. Apple Health — free infrastructure

State of Mind logging (iOS 17+) records daily mood and momentary emotions with end-to-end encryption, and Health ships standardized screening questionnaires plus sleep charts. Not bipolar-specific, but free, private, permanent, and a sensible archive under any app above (how it all connects).

Choosing, with your care team in the loop

1. If a clinician reads your chart: eMoods first, Bearable second. Ask which format they prefer; the answer may decide for you.
2. If you’re self-monitoring: start free (Bipolar UK, Apple Health) and add depth when you know what you need.
3. Watch sleep no matter what. It’s the signal most of these apps and most clinicians care about; pick a tool that treats it seriously.
4. Be suspicious of big claims. Apps that promise to predict or manage episodes are overpromising. Tracking informs conversations; it doesn’t replace them.

For the science on what tracking can and can’t do, our research review covers the evidence honestly.