Mood Landscapes

Mood Landscapes turns the feelings you record into a landscape you can walk back through. You log a feeling by drawing a single stroke. Four strokes, learned in about a minute: a rising line for joy, a slow sweep down for sorrow, a short flick for anger, an inward curl for fear. Draw one and something grows — a bioluminescent flower, a still pool with reeds, a bramble, a bank of fog closing in. Every day is one screen. Swipe back through them and the landscape continues, day after day, as far as you have gone. Tap anything that grew to see when it happened. FOUR STROKES, NOT A QUESTIONNAIRE Drawing takes a second and asks nothing of you beyond the gesture. How hard and how fast you draw sets how strongly it reads — the shape says which feeling, the vigor says how much. The app shows you what it understood, and one tap corrects it if it read you wrong. It is a small vocabulary you learn, not a test you pass. NOTHING GROWS UGLY No feeling makes your landscape worse. Fog and brambles are drawn with the same care as flowers. The only thing that leaves the map bare is not logging — and a day you skipped is simply a clearing, not a failure. There are no streaks to break, and nothing withers if you stay away. YOUR MIND, YOUR PHONE There is no account and no sign-up. The app opens straight to your landscape. It has no networking code at all. Nothing you log is transmitted anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party code. Your entries sit on your phone and travel in your ordinary iPhone backup. You can export a copy as a file whenever you want one. OPTIONAL, AND GENUINELY OPTIONAL Connect Health and the app will save each feeling as a State of Mind entry and show your step count beside your days. Decline, and everything else works exactly the same. Set one daily reminder at a time you choose, or none. It skips days you have already logged, and never mentions how long it has been. IF YOU PREFER NOT TO DRAW A four-button picker with an intensity slider records exactly the same thing, and is offered automatically if VoiceOver, Switch Control, or AssistiveTouch is running. A plain chronological list of everything you have logged is always available. Mood Landscapes does not diagnose, treat, or give advice. It is a place to put down how you felt, and to look back at it later.