Frequently Asked Questions

MoodGrade is a comprehensive mood tracking and journaling app that helps you understand your emotional patterns. You log daily check-ins with your mood (choosing from 52 distinct emotions), sleep quality, energy levels, and optional journal notes. Over time, MoodGrade identifies patterns and correlations in your data to help you build better self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Getting started takes less than a minute. Create a free account on moodgrade.com, then complete your first mood check-in by selecting your current emotion from our 52-emotion wheel, rating your energy and sleep, and optionally adding a journal note. You can also install MoodGrade as a PWA (Progressive Web App) on your phone for a native app-like experience with offline support.

Yes. MoodGrade works as a web app at moodgrade.com and can be installed as a PWA on both iOS and Android devices. The PWA provides a full-screen, app-like experience with offline support, push notifications for reminders, and instant loading. You get the same features across all platforms with your data synced seamlessly.

Yes, a free account is required to sync your data across devices and enable features like cloud backup, insights, and data export. You can sign up with your email or Google account. The free tier gives you unlimited core mood tracking, journaling, medication logging, and reminders.

MoodGrade offers a granular emotion wheel with 52 distinct emotions organized across the full emotional spectrum. This includes nuanced states like serene, nostalgic, restless, overwhelmed, grateful, melancholic, energized, and many more. This level of granularity helps you move beyond simple 'happy' or 'sad' labels and develop a richer emotional vocabulary, which research shows improves emotional regulation.

MoodGrade's AI analyzes your mood entries, sleep data, energy levels, and journal notes to surface meaningful patterns and correlations. For example, it might identify that your mood consistently dips after poor sleep on weekdays, or that journaling in the morning correlates with higher afternoon energy. These insights are generated privately and your data is never used to train external AI models.

Yes. MoodGrade includes a built-in medication tracker that lets you log medications, dosages, and adherence alongside your mood entries. This helps you and your healthcare provider understand how medication routines relate to your emotional baseline over time. You can set reminders for each medication to maintain consistency.

Absolutely. Every mood check-in includes an optional journal area where you can write freely. On days when writing feels difficult, MoodGrade offers AI-assisted reflection prompts tailored to your current mood and recent patterns. These prompts help you start writing without defaulting to generic wellness statements. Your prompt history is saved so you can revisit past reflections.

Yes. MoodGrade has a flexible reminder system that lets you set custom notification times for daily mood check-ins, medication doses, and journaling sessions. Reminders work through the PWA notification system, and you can configure quiet hours to avoid disturbance during sleep or focus time.

Privacy is foundational to MoodGrade. Your data is stored on our private cloud infrastructure that we operate and audit ourselves. All data is transmitted over HTTPS and protected by authentication and role-based access controls. We never sell your personal journal data, never share it with third parties, and never use your private entries to train AI models. You can export or delete your data at any time.

No. MoodGrade does not sell, share, or monetize your personal data in any way. We use privacy-focused analytics (Plausible) for public marketing pages only. Your mood entries, journal notes, medication logs, and personal health data are never accessed for advertising purposes. Our business model is based on optional premium subscriptions, not data harvesting.

Yes. Free users can delete their data at any time. Premium users can additionally export their full mood history as CSV or PDF files. Exported files are generated on demand and are not stored permanently on our servers. If you delete your account, all associated data is permanently removed from our systems.

Yes. MoodGrade's core features are completely free with no time limit. Free tracking includes unlimited mood check-ins with all 52 emotions, journal notes, sleep and energy logging, medication tracking, reminders, streaks, and challenges. Premium unlocks additional features like advanced AI insights, long-range trend analysis, and data export as PDF or CSV.

MoodGrade Premium adds advanced insight layers with deeper pattern analysis, long-range trend reviews spanning months or years, data export in PDF and CSV formats, cloud sync and backup, and priority support. Premium is available as Monthly ($4.99/month), Yearly ($34.99/year), or Lifetime ($49.99 one-time payment).

Yes. You can cancel your monthly or yearly subscription at any time. After cancellation, you retain premium access until the end of your current billing period. Your data is never deleted when you downgrade. Lifetime plans never expire and include all future updates.

Yes. MoodGrade is built as a Progressive Web App (PWA) with full offline support. You can log mood check-ins, write journal entries, and track medications even without an internet connection. Your entries are saved locally and automatically synced to the cloud when you reconnect. This makes MoodGrade reliable for use on planes, in remote areas, or whenever connectivity is limited.

On Android, visit moodgrade.com in Chrome and tap 'Add to Home Screen' or use the install prompt that appears. On iOS, open moodgrade.com in Safari, tap the Share button, then 'Add to Home Screen'. MoodGrade will install as a standalone app with its own icon, full-screen mode, and offline capability. No app store download required.

No. MoodGrade is a wellness tracker and journaling tool designed to support self-awareness and emotional reflection. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or therapy. We encourage users to share their mood data and insights with their therapists or healthcare providers as a conversation starter, but MoodGrade does not provide clinical assessments or treatment recommendations.