Your own version

Your own Daylio-style mood diary on your iPhone

Daylio made the two-tap diary popular: pick a mood, pick what you did. If you want your own scale, your own activities and charts that answer your questions, describe them to Borel. It writes a private mood diary in Swift, which you try in your browser and keep on your iPhone, behind Face ID if you like.

Updated . Borel isn’t connected to Daylio.

A prompt to start from
“A private mood diary. Each evening I rate the day from 1 to 10, tap the activities I did from my own list with emoji, and add a photo or a line of text. A year grid shows one coloured square per day. A stats screen compares my average mood on days with and without each activity. Lock it with Face ID and remind me at 9 pm.”

About Daylio

What people like about Daylio

In our words, from what Daylio says about itself.

  • A day logged in a couple of taps: a mood, the activities, a note if you want one.
  • Year in Pixels, one chart for the whole year with a dot for every day.
  • Stats that link activities to moods, and a lock with a PIN or Face ID.

Daylio is free to download and mentions premium features, but its site shows no price for them.

Made for you

What your own mood diary can do

What the prompt above builds, and what you can change by asking Borel in plain words.

  • Your words for a day

    Five faces, three colours or a scale from 1 to 10, named the way you talk about how things went.

  • Activities you really do

    Your own list, from "long lunch" to "called Mum", sorted into groups you choose.

  • Questions only your diary answers

    Average mood on days you trained against days you didn't, or Mondays against Fridays.

  • An evening nudge

    A reminder at the hour you pick, skipped on days you've already written.

Said plainly

How it's different

  • It's not a medical or therapy tool and won't tell you what your moods mean.
  • There are no achievements or badges unless you ask Borel for them.
  • It doesn't write to the Health app's mood log.
  • Your app isn't Daylio and won't look or work like it: it has only what you ask Borel to build, and none of Daylio's own content.
  • Your data stays in your own app: on your iPhone by default, or in your app's own database in Borel's cloud if you add accounts.

How to get yours

From the prompt to your home screen

  • 1

    Start from the prompt

    Change anything in it first: names, rules, screens. Borel asks what it needs to know, then writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI.

  • 2

    Use it in your browser

    It opens in a live iPhone simulator streamed from Borel's Mac, at no cost. Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month.

  • 3

    Keep it on your iPhone

    With Pro, from $20 a month, Borel Companion installs it with a free Apple ID, up to 3 apps at a time, and renews each one every 7 days while it runs.

How to make a mood tracker appThe screens it needs, what it keeps, the iPhone features it can use and what to ask for next.See the guide

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Ask for a grid of 365 small squares coloured by each day's rating, and Borel draws it in SwiftUI from your entries.

Yes. Apple's photo picker lets you attach a picture without giving the app your whole library.

Yes. Ask for an export button that writes your entries to a CSV or text file you can save in Files.

No. By default your entries never leave the iPhone. Adding accounts moves them to your app's own cloud database.

Make your own mood diary

Start from the prompt on this page and change it until it's yours. Borel builds it while you watch.