In closed testing on Android · iPhone and iPad soon after

Barometer

A mood log that turns ten seconds a day into a report your doctor can read.

Ask to join the test Try the two dials
  • No internet permission
  • No account
  • Four-digit passcode
  1. How’s your mood, 1 to 10?
  2. Mood: Low. Energy: Fast.
  3. A low day with the engine racing.
  4. Stats counts every day. Nothing averaged.
  5. Two weeks before a change. Two weeks after.
  6. Lay a trigger over a dial. Conflict days, framed in pink.
  7. Your daily notes. Your gratitude journal.
  8. A report for your psychiatrist.
  9. Skipped days stay blank.
  10. Dark or light.
  11. A four-digit passcode.
  12. Barometer. Four dials, not one number. No internet permission. No account. No ads.

Mood and energy sit on separate dials, so a low day with the engine racing shows up as exactly that. Tap a rung on each, or two if the day moved.

Energy

  1. Shut down
  2. Drained
  3. Low
  4. A bit low
  5. Steady
  6. A bit high
  7. High
  8. Fast
  9. Hypomanic
  10. Manic

Mood

  1. Extremely low
  2. Very low
  3. Low
  4. A bit low
  5. Neutral
  6. A bit up
  7. Up
  8. Very up
  9. Hypomanic
  10. Manic

Four dials. Twenty-three feelings. Forty-two triggers. Nothing uploaded.

Mood’s card opened on paper: a bar of 25 days sorted by answer, the same days in order under it, then the key, every rung’s color beside its name and its count of days
Tap a dial: every rung named and counted.

The whole idea

One number flattens a mixed day

Most mood apps ask how you feel on a scale of one to five. A day that was low and wired at once has no answer on that scale. Barometer keeps mood and energy on separate dials, with anxiety and irritability beside them.

If the day turns, tap the dial again. Barometer keeps both answers and never averages them.

  • Ten rungs for mood and energy
  • Answer twice if the day turns
  • About ten seconds

What you log

Every answer is a tap. Nothing is required.

Four dials

Mood and energy, ten rungs each. Anxiety and irritability, five.

Sleep, three ways

How the night felt, how long it ran, and whether the day ended up back in bed.

Medications

Daily, weekly, monthly, or as-needed. Log skipped doses or new medications with a tap.

Feelings and triggers

23 feelings and 42 triggers. Hide any, or add your own.

LAST NIGHT’S SLEEP answered: Rough, 7 to 9 and Short, and an Edit square
Last night. How it felt, how long, any nap.
MEDICATION: As usual and Not as usual, and a line that an as-needed medication is not part of the question
Your medications. One question a day.
WHAT SHOWED UP: a grid of painted feeling tiles, Grateful, Motivated and Rested lit
How you felt. Tap every one that fits.

Optional, and off until you switch them on: a gratitude journal, two lines a day that never print; Cycle start, one more tile, marked on the printed grid; and Relationship Mode, a second part of the day for a partner, below.

The Relationship Mode row on Dials: Drinks, Fights and Work, each a bar of days in its own colors with its key above and the same days in order under it
The Relationship Mode row on Dials: drinks, fights and work, counted in color.

Relationship Mode

Two of you, one log

Drinks, work, what was around for them, and how they seemed on a particular day. When there’s a fight: what it was about, mutual frustrations, and how it was potentially repaired. Facts only, never a verdict.

  • Off until you switch it on
  • Its own four-digit code
  • Prints only as counts

What it shows

Then the days add up to a shape

A week, three months, or everything.

Tap a dial for more information, or see the fourteen days before or after a medication change.

Mood’s calendar on paper: one square a day in the dial’s colors, week by week, with some days split corner to corner in two colors; above it, 25 days, 4 answered twice
Every day, on its square. Tap a dial for its calendar; a day answered twice is split corner to corner.
Around a dose change: Mood’s fourteen days before as one bar and the fourteen after as another, each with its days in order under it
Around a medication change. Fourteen days either side. No arrow, no verdict.

Two looks

Dark felt, or light paper

Match your phone, or pick one in Customize.

The log in the Dark look: energy and mood as rows of painted tiles on dark felt, A bit up lit on mood and Mild on anxiety
Dark
The same log in the Light look: the same tiles on paper, A bit up lit on mood and Mild on anxiety
Light

The report

Paper a psychiatrist can hold

Preview every page, then save it as a PDF: short, for the appointment, or the whole stretch. In color or black and white.

Printed page in black and white: four weeks as a grid, the dials as numbers, each feeling marked y on its days Printed page in black and white: on the same day, every dial counted, what was around most The summary page in color: every dial across twelve weeks as one bar with its counts, then four weeks at a time, then the medication changes

Preview every page on the phone before you save it.

The whole app

Built to be trusted.

all of it

Barometer

In closed testing on Android · iPhone and iPad soon after

  • Four dials: mood, energy, anxiety and irritability
  • Sleep three ways, and medications on their own schedules
  • 23 feelings and 42 triggers, plus your own
  • What was around, comparison features, medication changes, and an optional gratitude journal
  • A printed report, short or full, in color or black and white
  • Dark or light mode, and optional increased text size
  • A backup file you keep, and an optional four-digit passcode
  • An Emergency link on the home screen
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What it won’t do

On purpose. The restraint is the design.

  • No streaks, and nothing to keep up
  • No scores. A rung is a reading, not a grade
  • No reminders or notifications of any kind
  • No averaging a day you answered twice
  • No predictions and no diagnosis
  • No subscription. You buy it once
  • No account and no internet permission: nothing leaves your phone unless you share it

Before you ask

Questions people ask

Is this a diagnosis, or a treatment?

Neither. It is a log. What it produces is a record you can hand to someone, not an assessment of you.

Is it only for bipolar disorder?

No. It is for anyone whose mood and energy don’t always move together. The dials are built so a low day with the engine racing has a place to go; the rest of the app works the same for anyone.

What do I give my doctor?

The short report: the whole stretch on one page, the days around each medication change, and your notes. Or the full report: four weeks at a time, the days as a grid and the numbers. Preview it, then save it as a PDF or print it.

What if I miss days?

Nothing happens. Every count divides by the days that answered, so gaps never read as zeros.

What about a day that changes halfway through?

Tap the dial again. The day keeps both answers, and nothing is averaged.

Can anything I log leave my phone?

Only if you share it. Barometer has no internet permission, so Android will not let it send anything, and its cloud backup is off. It works the same in airplane mode.

What if I get a new phone?

Make a backup file in Customize and keep it somewhere safe. Barometer never copies your record anywhere itself, so a new phone starts empty until you restore that file.

Can I lock it?

Yes. Set a four-digit passcode in Customize and it asks every time you come back to the app. Relationship Mode can have a second code of its own. It is a lid against someone picking up your phone, not encryption, and we cannot see or reset it.

Can I see it working before I log anything?

Yes. Until you have a week of your own days, Stats offers example data in order to explore all features.

Can I make the text bigger?

Yes, in Customize, up to half again as large. It scales the whole app, not only the labels.

Is there a light look?

Yes. Customize offers Match phone, Dark or Light. Dark is the felt you see here; Light is paper.

Can I track my partner too?

If you want to. Relationship Mode is off until you switch it on. It adds a second part to each day: taps for how a partner’s day seemed to you, and free-form boxes for the two of you, from what a fight was about to how you repaired it, with two more for joint therapy.

Which phones does it run on?

Android 7.0 and up, in portrait. iPhone and iPad after the Android release.

Barometer is a log, not a clinician. If you are in crisis, reach a professional or a crisis line: in the United States, call or text 988 at any time, and findahelpline.com lists lines elsewhere.

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Barometer

Ten seconds a day, and a report your doctor can read.

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