five minutes a day.
patterns over months.

the tap. one second to record a mood.

no friction. open JotMood, choose a color from your palette, close it. that's the whole interaction on a day you don't have time for anything else.

the gratitude prompt. small, daily, not performative.

one line. the cashier who smiled. the way light fell at 4pm. we don't grade it. you don't have to mean it every day. you just have to come back to it.

the pattern. over a month, JotMood quietly notices.

tuesdays are heavier. the week before your period is tender. the third quarter at work pulls a certain color out of you. the AI reads only your own entries, and shows you only what's already there.

still comparing? the gratitude journal app, honestly — what's free, what isn't, and what Day One, Daylio and Finch each do better than us. coming from a particular app? the full comparisons go line by line: Daylio, Reflectly and Finch.

want the evidence rather than the pitch? gratitude journaling: the research, honestly gives the effect sizes with the low-certainty rating their own authors gave them, and do streaks help or hurt? reports the trial that argues against our own design.

will i be guilt-tripped if i miss days?

no. there are no streaks, no red marks, no badges to lose. when you come back after a week away, we just ask what happened. that's the whole greeting.

is my journal private?

entries are encrypted in transit and at rest, and sync to your own account behind row-level security. we never sell them, and product analytics never sees journal content. the one exception is the weekly or monthly insight: when you ask for it, that period's entries go to our AI provider to write it. want a copy of everything? ask from profile and we'll send it. want it gone? deleting your account deletes the lot.

will the AI judge me?

it doesn't judge — it notices. when you ask for it, it reads only your own entries and shows you patterns you might have missed. it runs only on that tap, so if you never ask, it never runs — and the journal works exactly the same.

what about the days i forget to write?

they stay blank. blank is information too. a string of blank days often becomes the thing you want to ask about later — and we won't pretend they didn't happen.

can i use it on the days i'm doing well?

yes. JotMood isn't a tool for crisis — it's a tool for ordinary weeks, where most of life happens. the bright days matter to the pattern as much as the stormy ones.