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Understand what you feel.Recognize the thoughts that hold you back.Build emotional intelligence.

If you use Daylio and want to go deeper into what you feel, try MindLogs. A guided seven-step mood journal to sort out your thoughts, spot patterns and learn to handle your emotions. Start free.

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MindLogs Analytics screen: the detected patterns of the week, with the thinking traps that showed up
Thinking Trap Detected

All-or-nothing thinking

Why MindLogs

MindLogs is a Daylio alternative for people who want to understand their emotions and thoughts, in English or Spanish. Its guided journal helps you explore what happened and how you read it, recognize thinking traps and find other ways to handle what worries you.

  • MindLogs screen, step 2 of 7: the specific feeling within love and its intensity, 8 out of 10

    Understand what is behind what you feel.

    MindLogs guides you to connect your emotion with what happened and what you thought. Seven steps to sort out your experience and get to know yourself, by typing or dictating.

  • MindLogs Analytics screen: the detected patterns of the week, with the thinking traps that showed up

    Recognize the thoughts that hold you back.

    MindLogs helps you identify possible thinking traps in your entries and suggests reflections and concrete actions, so you can question what hurts you and handle the situation with more perspective.

  • MindLogs calendar: your week in emotions, one emoji per day, and your recent entries

    Follow your progress day by day.

    Browse your emotions in the calendar and open your entries to remember each experience. The emotional summary shows how your mood changes and which emotions repeat.

How it works

7 simple steps to make sense of your thoughts

MindLogs guides you to identify and process your emotions step by step.

  1. 💛

    01Emotion

    Choose what you feel from 6 basic emotions.

  2. 🎯

    02Feeling

    Identify the specific feeling within that emotion.

  3. 🧍

    03Body

    Locate where you feel that emotion in your body.

  4. 📍

    04Context

    Describe the context in which the emotion comes up.

  5. 💬

    05Situation

    Explain what happened to make you feel this way.

  6. 💭

    06Thought

    Identify the thought linked to the emotion.

  7. ⚡

    07Reaction

    Describe how you reacted or want to react.

MindLogs step 1: choose from six basic emotions
Step 1Emotion
MindLogs step 2: the specific feeling and its intensity
Step 2Feeling
MindLogs step 3: body map to locate the emotion
Step 3Body

The difference

Other apps are just journals.MindLogs reveals your thought patterns.

MindLogs looks for your cognitive distortions: the mental shortcuts you take without noticing that end up reinforcing exactly what hurts. Then it suggests a concrete way out.

MindLogs Analytics screen: the detected patterns of the week, with the thinking traps that showed up
  1. 01

    Reads your entries

    MindLogs looks at all your information together.

  2. 02

    Finds the pattern

    The specific distortion behind that thought.

  3. 03

    Suggests a way out

    A reflection or an action you can take today.

Features

Everything you need to build your emotional intelligence.

  • Guided 7-step journal

    A structured process that helps you identify and process your emotions step by step.

  • Instant feedbackPremium

    Get personalized analysis of your thought patterns and suggestions to improve.

  • Regular reportsPremium

    Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports on how your emotions evolve, powered by AI.

  • Mood calendar

    See your emotional state day by day in a calendar of emojis and colors.

  • Streaks

    Stay motivated and consistent with a milestone system.

  • Shareable cards

    Celebrate your progress with personalized cards you can share with anyone.

Insights and progress

Track how your emotional well-being evolves.

MindLogs turns your entries into reports you can read at a glance so you can see how your emotional intelligence grows.

  • Emotional summary

    Which emotions dominated each period.

  • Regular reports

    Weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly, with practical suggestions.

  • Progress over time

    Compare periods to see how your emotional well-being changes.

A pattern you can see is a pattern you can change.

MindLogs Analytics screen with the week's emotion breakdown and the share of each emotion

Science and privacy

Journaling builds your emotional intelligence.And no one else will read it.

  • 14

    Scientific studies

    Our method is backed by 14 peer-reviewed studies on expressive writing and emotion regulation.

  • 100%

    Data on your device

    Your journal never leaves your phone. No external servers, no third-party access. Your privacy is complete.

  • AES-256

    SQLCipher encryption

    Every entry is encrypted with the highest security standard.

Reviews

Here's what people say about MindLogs.

  • I open it on the subway on my way home from work. Putting my worries into words means I get home feeling refreshed.

    Laura S.

  • I used to think journaling was for other kinds of people. But this is like having a guide that makes you reflect when you feel you can't keep it together.

    David S.

  • The first time it flagged "mind reading" it really stung. But now I can even tell when other people fall into that loop.

    Clara N.

  • It took me a week to get into the habit, and at first the body step didn't seem necessary. Now it's the one I use most, and it has helped me anticipate and handle my emotions better.

    Andrea H.

  • It's helping me improve my emotional intelligence, because I've realized how many unfounded thoughts we have.

    Elena R.

  • I write at night before bed. The regular reports help you take life much more calmly and optimistically.

    Daniel M.

Daylio and MindLogs: two ways to understand yourself

Daylio lets you log your mood and activities, add notes and view statistics. MindLogs centers on a guided journal that explores the link between what you live through, think and feel.

If you want guidance to go deeper into your experiences and reflect on your thoughts, MindLogs may be a good fit.

When you want to understand what affects you

Logging how you feel lets you notice changes. To explore what is behind them, you can stop on a specific situation: what happened, how you read it and what you felt.

MindLogs walks you through that reflection and helps you recognize possible thoughts that affect your well-being, so you can start questioning them and consider other ways to respond.

How MindLogs works

Its journal organizes each experience in seven steps:

  1. Emotion. Identify how you feel.
  2. Feeling and intensity. Name the emotion and how strongly you feel it.
  3. Body. Notice where you feel it.
  4. Context. Remember where you were and who you were with.
  5. Situation. Describe what happened.
  6. Thought. Put into words how you read it.
  7. Reaction. If you want, explain how you responded.

You can write or dictate by voice. With Premium, you get instant feedback and regular reports to spot thought patterns and work on your well-being and emotional intelligence.

What you get when you try MindLogs

  • A guide to put things into words, with specific questions that help you sort out what is going on.
  • Reflections on your thoughts, to explore the thinking traps that may be affecting you.
  • Mood tracking, with a calendar and summaries to follow your progress.
  • English and Spanish, so you can write in your own words.
  • Privacy, with your entries stored encrypted on your phone.

Who it may suit as a Daylio alternative

For people who want to pay more attention to their thoughts. For people who prefer questions that help them go deeper. And for people who want to collect experiences and reflections to talk about in therapy.

Start with the free plan and see whether this way of logging your emotions works for you.

MindLogs is an emotional well-being tool. It does not replace care from a mental health professional.

Plans

See everything MindLogs can do for you.

Free

$0

Basic plan without insights.

  • 3 entries a day
  • Mood calendar
  • Streaks and milestones
  • Shareable cards
  • Data encrypted on your device
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Premium

$59.99/year

Just $1.15 a week

  • 10 entries a day
  • Instant feedback on your entries
  • Weekly, monthly and yearly reports
  • Personalized challenges
  • Everything in Free
How is MindLogs different from Daylio?

Daylio lets you log your mood and activities, add notes and view statistics. MindLogs guides you through seven steps to explore your emotions and thoughts, and gives feedback that helps you recognize thinking traps and consider other ways to handle what worries you.

Is MindLogs available in English and Spanish?

Yes. MindLogs is fully available in English and Spanish, including the guided questions, the feedback and the reports. Write in whichever language feels most natural to you.

Is MindLogs free?

The free plan lets you log up to three entries a day. Premium adds instant feedback on your emotions and thoughts, plus regular reports that help you spot patterns and build emotional intelligence.

Where is my data stored?

Your entries are stored encrypted on your phone and you don't need an account to start. Your journal is private, so you can write openly about what you think and feel.

Is MindLogs a therapy app?

MindLogs is an emotional well-being tool for getting to know yourself and reflecting on what you go through. It can complement therapy, but it does not replace care from a mental health professional.

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Log the why, not just the how.

Download MindLogs on the App Store or Google Play. The free plan includes the seven steps, the mood calendar and streaks. No account, no card.