FeelTally
Why I built it
I wanted a record of how days actually felt, over time, that did not require writing an entry. A film got me thinking about the way a person’s feelings accumulate across a life — and about how little of it anyone ever keeps a record of.
The problem
Mood tracking usually means journalling, which asks a lot of someone on a bad day. The days worth capturing are often the days you least want to sit down and write about.
What it does
One tap to record how a day felt. That is the whole interaction. Over time it builds a private, personal record of mood across months, which is a different thing from a mood-tracker app’s streak — it is a series you own, and it installs to your phone like any other app.
What it looks like
Where it is now
Live and in my own testing. It is a client-only app: no backend, no account, no shared database, so nothing about how your days went leaves your device.
Who it might interest
Anyone who has tried a mood tracker and given up because it wanted an essay. Also anyone who would like the data about their own state to exist somewhere they control.