Anyone use a good app for mood/pain tracking?

[Milestiba]

Was checking out available apps for pain tracking, mood tracking, and suicide prevention/depression in general. Anyone out there find anything they really like? I am not so much interested in the community involvement as the actual tracking and logging so as to show a doctor or therapist when I eventually get insurance. I already have a couple meditation apps, but don’t want to clog up my phone too much and I am not a “shopper”. I hate trying out a billion things to find what I need. It is not fun to me - which has some folks convinced I am not really a woman. I just want to get it and go. I get too irritated and upset with too many choices... so if anyone has recommendations and review... perhaps I could work from a smaller pool of options.

Thanks in advance.

[Dragon]

You prompted me to go looking and I'm not impressed. I have a Win 10 PC and Laptop as well as an Android Tablet and Cell - My biggest problem with them is that most of the ones I looked at were being 'marketed' by groups who have a patent interest in 'mental health'. Not that that's a bad thing all by it's lonesome - for the people who have, essentially, minor depression and can easily cope in the normal day to day world then these would probably work just fine. While I live in a depressed state - that I can admittedly ignore since there's little to trigger me - I wonder how well these would do for those of us who do live in states that border on a norm of minor depression to major depressive episodes.

I might want to track where I am on a day to day basis. But I'm not interested in having something tell me that if I do thus and so that I can bring myself out of my depression. That seems to be a lot to ask of an app ... "Oh, I'm sad because my boy friend left me!" (( watch that kind of stuff, Al!! )) and having the app suggest that I need to get out and socialize more - when I'm an anti-social person to begin with doesn't seem like a lot of help. (( BTW, I'm not gay, I just typed the first piece of non-sense that popped into my mind! ))

[Abzilla]

I've used an app called ToadKing before to track mood / energy level / anxiety. It's a very basic app - but you can use it to send your information to others. However, you can only track once / day so as you say it doesn't help when your mood is fluctuating quickly.

I looked through a lot of apps when I started tracking mood and this was the one I settled on mostly because of its simplicity - and it's free.

[UnicornSmudge]

@Abzilla @"Milestiba" @Dragon
Hi guys! Late to the party but i used to use this rrally neat app called "eMoods". I just found it again, and it's updated so I'll have to see how the navigations have changrd but it already seems way more customizeable than before. I remember emailing the guy who made the app (like 4 yrs ago) with a suggestion and he was so nice abt detailing to me all the changes he wanted to make!
So really, thanks for writing this thread because I forgot abt this app too.
I think theres a feature to send the data to your email also, there used to be so that you could get the data to your doc/shrink
I have android phone but i think it should be available to iphone users as well.
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Edit:
The new app has some paid festures(this is new) that would be annoying not to have, like adding personalized rating scales (for pain or anything else - they have some hings already), and timestamped notes, although I suppose you can jisg write in times.on the free notes section.. it is cheap, like $10/year.. But i am poor! Lile, really broke right now so I only buy green peppers because the red ones are like $1.50. I think most of us aren't wealthy by a long shot (if you are, great!).
And I would rather donate to here, which is way more helpful and I log all of that stuff here anyway basically.

[Dragon]

eMoods looks interesting but one thing in their FAQ's raises an eyebrow ...

What happens when my patronage expires (Android) or I cancel (iPhone)?
The installed app still retains all of your data which is forever available on monthly reports and CSV exports.

er... excuse me, what is this patronage thing? I see nothing about on the rest of the web site, nor can I find it on their blog page ... it suggests that at some point you'll be unable to continue to enter data (Why??) but that what you have entered will still be available ... good, I guess, but if you can't update it ....

What irritates me that if, as @UnicornSmudge says, it now has paid features - why don't they make it a little more obvious??? Okay, it's mentioned in the terms but everything on the front page says "Free"!!!!

[UnicornSmudge]

@Dragon
Good point. Thanks for checking it out! I think what it means is, the paid features (timestamped notes, extra scales) wilould be unavailable after your subscription ends unless you re-up (i think it's like a 6 month and a year option), but if you decide not to pay for a new subscription at the end of that time you cam still access the data recorded on those features during the period you paid for