
Sorting responses by date and color gives a nuanced look at the user's emotions under different conditions and over time. The emotion history section is similarly clever. Unfortunately, some of the built-in quotes and strategies are a little basic, so kids may want to supplement with their own ideas. And the definitions help kids expand their vocabulary as well as determine if they've picked the right description for their mood. Even the visual metaphor alone is interesting, since you can learn something from the spectrum of words and how they relate to one another. Exploring the grid of words is surprisingly fun as dots expand and contract with a tap. The Mood Meter was built by prominent researchers on emotional intelligence, and each simple feature is clearly included to maximize the user's self-reflection and assessment. Kids explore their own emotional triggers in a visually appealing, engaging tool for tracking emotions. Read the developer's privacy policy for details on how your (or your kids') information is collected, used, and shared and any choices you may have in the matter, and note that privacy policies and terms of service frequently change. If kids invite others, or accept a friends' invitation, they can share their own mood meter or follow their friends' meters. If kids use an email address to sign up for an account, their mood recordings end up in the app's reports section, where they can explore the different emotions they've posted over time. Within the "shift" section are several built-in images, quotes, and tips, and it's easy to import a photo or text. Kids can use it to record their emotional states, comment on the situations that led to those feelings, and choose to "stay" and record that state or "shift" and view inspiring images, quotes, and tips that help them shift a negative mood in a positive direction. I hope you enjoy the app and share it with your friends, family, and colleagues.Parents need to know that The Mood Meter helps kids name, describe, and react to their emotions.
MOOD MEETER ANDROID
It’s currently only available on iOS (but will available on Android soon). Two other cool features include a mini course on emotions and a reporting feature to help you understand your emotional patterns over time. This app includes an updated Mood Meter (now with 144 words!) and was designed to help you gain greater insight around the causes and consequences of your feelings and learn research-based strategies to help you regulate your feelings to achieve greater well-being. Together, Ben with volunteers from Pinterest, and I with a team at Yale, including Robin Stern and Zorana Pringle decided to build How We Feel.


Six years later, I had the pleasure to collaborate with Ben Silbermann, co-founder and president of Pinterest on a new version of the app. That’s when Robin Stern and I worked in collaboration with hopeLab to create the first Mood Meter App, which was released in 2013. Soon after, people started asking for a way to track their feelings and moods over time so they could gain greater insight about their emotional lives. In the early 2000s, David and I reworked the Mood Meter which became the signature tool of RULER, the evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has now been adopted by over 3,500 schools across the globe. My colleague David Caruso first used the tool to help people recognize emotions. In my book, Permission To Feel, I describe the Mood Meter, a tool to build greater emotional awareness that was built based on decades of research on the circumplex model of emotion.
