MoodLog vs Daylio vs Bearable (2026): An Honest Head-to-Head

This is a fair, detailed comparison of three mood trackers that approach that problem differently. Daylio is the category default — the fastest, simplest way to log a mood. Bearable is the deepest — a full health-and-symptom tracker for people managing chronic conditions. And MoodLog takes the newer bet: that in 2026, an AI should read your patterns and tell you what it sees, instead of leaving you to squint at a heatmap. All three are good at what they do, and we'll say so plainly. But if what you want is insight rather than just a log — without paying $5–7 a month or making an account — MoodLog makes a strong case.

They're Not Quite Solving the Same Problem

Before the feature list, it's worth naming what each is really built for, because it explains everything else.

Daylio is a speed-first mood logger. Its whole design is the two-tap entry: pick a mood face, tap a few activity tags, done — most entries take under 30 seconds. Over time it builds correlations and its beloved "Year in Pixels" view. It's brilliant at making logging effortless, which is the single biggest predictor of whether you'll keep doing it. What it deliberately doesn't do is interpret much for you — it shows the data; you draw the conclusions.

Bearable is a health-tracking powerhouse. It goes far beyond mood into symptoms, pain, fatigue, sleep, medication, and hormones, correlates all of it, connects to wearables, and exports clean reports for your doctor or therapist. If you're managing a chronic physical or mental health condition, nothing on this list matches its depth. That power comes with more setup and more to log.

MoodLog is an AI-first mood tracker. It keeps the check-in simple, then uses AI to actually analyze your patterns — surfacing what's driving your mood, prompting reflection, and summarizing your week — rather than handing you raw charts to decode yourself. It's betting that the useful part isn't the data, it's the interpretation.

None of these is "best." A speed logger, a health tracker, and an AI analyst serve different people. But if you've ever looked at a month of mood dots and thought "okay… now what?", that's the gap MoodLog is built for.

Pricing — The Real Numbers

Here's what each actually costs in 2026.

Daylio

• Free version: genuinely generous — many users never upgrade.
• Premium: $4.99/month or $35.99/year (advanced stats, unlimited goals/custom moods, backups, PIN lock).

Bearable

• Free version: strong, tracks unlimited metrics.
• Premium: $6.99/month or $34.99/year (frequently discounted to ~$18.99/year); deeper insights across moods, symptoms, sleep.

MoodLog

• Free: daily mood check-ins, mood history, streak tracking, pattern view, and a few AI analyses to try. No account required.
• Pro: $2.99/month — a monthly AI-credit allotment for unlimited mood analysis, AI journal prompts, wellness tips, and weekly reports.

The headline: MoodLog's Pro is the cheapest of the three — a dollar or two a month less than Daylio or Bearable — and it's the only one whose paid tier is fundamentally about AI insight rather than more charts or more metrics. If what you want is an app that interprets your mood data for you, you're paying less to get it.

Logging and Tracking

Here's where Daylio and Bearable each earn real credit.

Daylio wins on speed, and it's not close. The two-tap log is the gold standard — so fast it's hard not to keep the habit. If your only requirement is "log my mood in five seconds and show me a clean monthly view," Daylio is purpose-built for exactly that, and its Year in Pixels gives you a full year at a glance. MoodLog's check-in is simple too, but Daylio owns the "lowest possible friction" category outright.

Bearable wins on depth. If you want to track mood alongside medication, sleep, symptoms, pain, and hormones — and correlate them all, with wearable integration and therapist-ready exports — Bearable is in a class of its own here. MoodLog is a focused mood tracker, not a whole-health tracker, and it doesn't try to be. For someone managing a chronic condition, that difference is decisive in Bearable's favor.

MoodLog's tracking is deliberately lean — daily check-ins, history, streaks, and pattern views — with one honest limitation worth stating: its history views run up to 90 days, so it doesn't offer Daylio's long, year-spanning visualizations. It's built around the check-in and the AI reading of it, not around exhaustive metric-logging or multi-year charts.

AI Insights — Where MoodLog Pulls Ahead

This is MoodLog's real differentiator, and it runs the other way.

Daylio and Bearable both give you excellent statistics — correlations, averages, trends — but the interpretation is on you. You see that your mood dips correlate with poor sleep; you decide what that means and what to do. MoodLog uses AI to do that interpretive layer: it analyzes your logged moods and patterns, generates reflective journal prompts tailored to what you've been feeling, offers wellness suggestions, and produces weekly summaries that read like insight rather than a spreadsheet. A few of these are free to try; Pro ($2.99/mo) opens them up.

Whether that's worth it depends on what you want from a tracker. If you enjoy reading your own charts and drawing your own conclusions, Daylio's stats are all you need. If you'd rather the app tell you "your mood has been steadier on days you logged a morning walk — want to keep that going?", that's the thing MoodLog does and the others don't.

Privacy

All three respect your privacy more than the average app, which is worth acknowledging. Daylio and Bearable both store data on your device with optional encrypted cloud backup. MoodLog is device-based and — notably — requires no account or signup at all to start, so there's no email or profile to create. The honest nuance: MoodLog's AI features process your entries to generate insights, so if total offline isolation is your priority, a purely local stats tracker like Daylio's free tier is the more conservative choice. If "no signup, nothing to create, just open it and go" is what you want, MoodLog delivers that.

Where Daylio and Bearable Still Win

A comparison that pretended MoodLog beat everyone would be worthless. It doesn't:

• Daylio — unmatched logging speed, the Year in Pixels long-term view, a massive and mature user base, and years of refinement. For pure, frictionless daily mood logging, it's still the one to beat.
• Bearable — the depth champion. Symptoms, medication, sleep, hormones, wearable sync, and therapist exports make it the clear choice for anyone tracking mood as part of managing a real health condition.
• Both are more established than MoodLog, with longer track records and larger communities.

MoodLog, by contrast, is newer, leaner, and focused. It doesn't match Daylio's logging polish or Bearable's health-tracking breadth — and if either of those is your priority, that app is the better tool.

Who Should Use Which

Choose MoodLog if:

• You want an app that interprets your mood data, not just charts it.
• You'd rather not create an account or sign up.
• You want AI insights and reflection prompts at the lowest price.
• $35–36/year for a mood tracker feels like more than you want to spend.

Choose Daylio if:

• Your top priority is the fastest possible daily log.
• You love the Year in Pixels long-term visualization.
• You want the most established, battle-tested mood logger.

Choose Bearable if:

• You're tracking mood alongside symptoms, medication, sleep, or a chronic condition.
• You want wearable integration and therapist-ready exports.
• Depth matters more to you than simplicity.

The Bottom Line

But both leave the interpretation to you, and both cost $35–36 a year for their best features. MoodLog's bet is that the valuable part of mood tracking isn't the chart, it's understanding what the chart means — so it puts AI analysis, reflection prompts, and weekly insight at the center, free to start, with no signup, and a Pro tier that costs less than either alternative.

If you want the fastest log or the deepest health tracker, Daylio or Bearable is your answer. If you've ever tracked your mood faithfully and still not known what to do with it, MoodLog is free to try with no account, and you'll know within a week or two whether the AI insight is the piece you were missing.