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Log App vs Daylio

Daylio made mood tracking a two-tap habit, a face and a few activity icons, and it does that very well. Log App asks for a number out of ten, an optional energy score and a note, and treats the mood log like any other log with a goal, a heatmap and an AI summary. The difference is in how much you want to write down and what you want back.

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Facts about Daylio come from its public feature list as of September 2026 (daylio.net) and are kept general on purpose. If something has changed, tell us and we fix the page.

Side by side

Feature by feature

Feature	Daylio	Log App
Mood scale	Five mood levels shown as faces; premium lets you customise moods and colours (as of September 2026).	Mood and Energy as numbers out of ten. Rename or add variables, such as Sleep or Anxiety, in log settings.
Activities	Tap activity icons (work, sport, friends) with each entry; correlations between activities and mood.	Free-text tags and notes on each entry, plus a text variable if you want per-value stats. No icon picker.
Charts	Mood chart, mood count, activity statistics and a year in pixels.	Average and minimum per variable, a calendar heatmap, and an AI summary that reads recent entries and suggests a goal.
Reminders	Daily reminders at set times.	A reminder at the time you usually log, learned from your entries, plus an inactivity nudge.
Goals and streaks	Goals and streaks for habits and for logging.	A rolling goal such as five entries a week, with a streak and progress bar.
Privacy lock	PIN lock on the app (as of September 2026).	No in-app PIN. Data is on the phone first and synced only when you sign in.
Export	CSV and PDF export listed as a premium feature (as of September 2026).	Settings → Export data writes one CSV per log over the range you pick, and those files import back into the app.
Other logs	Mood diary, with goals for habits.	Mood is one log among many: sleep, symptoms, workouts, each with its own variables.
Attachments	Photos with entries (premium, as of September 2026).	Photos, sketches and voice notes on any entry; 25 free, more with premium.
Platforms	iOS and Android.	iOS beta via TestFlight, as of September 2026.

Who each one suits

Better for

Daylio is better if

You want the lowest-effort check-in possible, a face and a few icons, and nothing to type.
You like activity correlations ("mood is higher on days with sport") straight from the app.
You want a PIN on the app itself.

Log App is better if

You think of mood as a number and want an average, a minimum and a trend, not a count of faces.
You already keep other logs and want mood next to sleep or symptoms in one app.
You write a sentence most days and want that note searchable later.
You want an AI summary of the last weeks in plain language, without a report to interpret.

Switching

Moving from Daylio to Log App

Log App imports a CSV into any log: it reads the file on your device, works out the delimiter, the encoding and the date format, suggests what each column becomes, and shows you the entries before it writes any of them. So how much comes across depends on the export you can get out of Daylio — the steps below say what to do either way.

Install Log App and pick "Mood" during setup. The log has Mood and Energy out of ten and a goal of daily entries.
Map your Daylio faces onto numbers before you start (for example rad 9, good 7, meh 5, bad 3, awful 1) so your old and new entries mean the same thing.
Add a tag per activity you used to tap in Daylio. Tags are free text and searchable, so "sport" or "friends" works.
Daylio can export your history as CSV (premium). Import that file into the new log from the log's settings, where the app works out the date format itself, suggests what each column becomes, and shows you the entries before it writes them.

Questions

Frequently asked

Is Log App as quick as Daylio for a daily check-in?

Nearly. Tap plus, type a number, save. Energy and the note are optional. Daylio's icon picker is faster if you tap many activities per entry.

Does Log App show correlations between activities and mood?

Not as a chart. The AI summary reads your entries, tags and notes and describes what it sees, and a text variable with per-value stats gives you an average mood per value.

Can I import my Daylio history?

Yes, through Daylio's CSV export (a premium feature there). Import the file from the log's settings and check the preview; if the mapping was wrong, one tap undoes the whole import.

Is my mood log private?

Entries stay on your phone until you sign in, then they sync to your account. No one else sees them and there is no feed. Log App does not have an app PIN; use the phone's lock.

The short version

Daylio is the right tool if the two-tap habit is what keeps you logging. Log App suits people who want mood on a scale they can average, next to the sleep and symptom logs it probably correlates with. Neither is a medical device; both are records you keep for yourself.

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