Pixy Help Center

Pixy is a free mood tracker and mood journal for iPhone and Android. You rate each day on a 7-step color scale, and Pixy paints it into a calendar, so a whole year of moods fits on one screen.

A mood tracker is a short daily log of how you feel. One entry tells you little. After a few weeks, the entries show patterns: good and hard stretches, and the activities, people, and sleep that tend to come with them.

Once a day is enough to see patterns. Log more often on days when your mood swings. A daily reminder helps you keep the habit.

Install Pixy from the App Store or Google Play and open it. There is no sign-up. The calendar is the home screen: tap the + button to log your first mood.

Pixy is completely free, needs no account, shows no ads, keeps your entries on your phone, and is open source. It focuses on a quick daily check-in and your year in pixels, not on AI, coaching, or health integrations.

Yes. Logging, the calendar, statistics, reminders, export, and import all work without an internet connection. Only sending feedback and opening the feature board need one.

Pixy is built by Moritz Meyer, an independent developer. It is open source, and users shape what comes next by voting on features in Settings > Feedback > Vote Features.

Tap the + button on the calendar, pick one of 7 moods, and tap Save. Emotions, tags, sleep, and a note are optional steps after the mood.

Yes. Add as many entries per day as you like. The calendar colors each day by the average of its entries, and the day view lists every entry.

Tap the day in the calendar, tap the menu button on the entry, and choose Edit or Delete. A deleted entry cannot be restored, unless you have an older export.

Scroll back in the calendar and tap an empty past day. A check-in opens for that day. To change the date or time of an entry, tap the time at the top of the check-in.

Pixy uses a fixed 7-step scale: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Neutral, Not so good, Very Bad, and Terrible. You cannot add or rename moods. Emotions and tags let you describe the day in more detail.

Pixy lists 72 emotions, each with a short description. Pick as many as fit. The basic view shows 30 common ones plus your most used, and More shows the full list.

Tags track what fills your days: activities, places, people, anything. Create them in Settings > Check-in > Tags or straight from a check-in. You can have up to 50 tags in 18 colors.

Use the note step at the end of a check-in. Tap "Write about your day" and type. A note can hold up to 10,000 characters, and search finds it later.

Yes. Pixy asks "How did you sleep?" once a day, on a 5-step scale from "Not at all" to "Great". Statistics show a sleep quality chart next to your mood.

Open Settings > Check-in and turn steps on or off: sleep, emotions, tags, note, and questions. Mood is always on. With every other step off, a check-in is a single tap.

Not yet. Pixy entries hold a mood, emotions, tags, sleep, and a text note. Photos are in testing and not available in the store version.

No. Pixy has no goals, habit checklist, or streak counter. You can log habits as tags, and statistics show how often you used each tag.

Partly. Pixy has no medication, symptom, or cycle tracker, but you can create tags for them, such as "Headache" or "Period", and filter the calendar by tag.

No. Pixy notes are plain text, without writing prompts, templates, titles, or formatting. The check-in itself gives structure: mood, emotions, tags, and sleep before the note.

No. Pixy does not record your location or the weather, and it never asks for location access. Log them yourself with tags such as Home, Work, Travel, or Rainy.

An entry belongs to the date and time set at the top of the check-in. If you log after midnight about the day before, tap the time at the top of the check-in and pick yesterday's date. Days in Pixy start at midnight.

A year in pixels is a grid with one small square per day, colored by your mood. After a few weeks you see good and hard stretches at a glance. In Pixy, open Statistics > Year Report > Year in Pixels.

Tap the Filters icon at the top right of the calendar. Type a word to search your notes, or pick moods and tags. Matching days stay colored and a list of entries appears below.

Statistics show your last two weeks as highlights, plus a report for every month and year: mood trend, mood count, sleep, most felt emotions, most used tags, and your year in pixels.

Not directly. Pixy does not calculate correlations between tags and mood. It shows tag peaks and your most used tags, and you can filter the calendar by a tag to see the moods of those days.

Yes. Every card in Statistics has a share button. It creates an image you can save, send, or post. Only the image leaves your phone.

Open Settings > Appearance > Colors and tap a color scale. Pixy offers 3 scales. Every past entry switches to the new colors right away.

Yes. By default Pixy follows your phone's setting. To choose yourself, open Settings > Appearance > Theme. Each tap switches between System, Light, and Dark.

No. Pixy has no favorites, bookmarks, or On This Day view. To look back, scroll up in the calendar to the same day last year, or search your notes with Filters.

Open Settings > Reminder, turn on Reminder, allow notifications, and pick a time. Pixy reminds you once a day and skips days you already logged.

Most often notifications for Pixy are off in your phone's settings. Pixy also skips the reminder on days you already logged. Opening Settings > Reminder reschedules all reminders.

Not yet. iPhone widgets for 4 weeks, a month, or a year in pixels are in testing. In the store version they may appear in the widget gallery but show "Not available". Android has no Pixy widget.

No. Pixy has no Apple Watch or Wear OS app. If your watch mirrors phone notifications, the daily reminder shows there too, but you log the entry on your phone.

Export a backup file yourself: Settings > Data > Export > JSON, then save it to iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or another safe place. Pixy has no automatic cloud backup today.

Export a JSON file on your old phone, then import it on the new phone in Settings > Data > Import. This also works from iPhone to Android and back.

Not at the same time. Pixy does not sync between devices. You can move your entries to another device with a JSON export and import, but import replaces what is there instead of merging.

Open Settings > Data and tap JSON or CSV under Export. JSON is a full backup you can import again. CSV opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.

Export a CSV file in Settings > Data > Export > CSV, then open it in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets. Each row is one entry with date, time, mood rating, emotions, tags, note, and sleep.

No. Pixy has no PDF export or print view. Export a CSV and print it from a spreadsheet, or share statistics cards as images.

Yes, with Pixy Switch. It converts the export of your old app into a Pixy file in your browser, and you import that file in Settings > Data > Import. It supports Daylio, Bearable, Day One, How We Feel, Apple Journal, and 16 more apps.

First check the calendar filters: an active filter hides days. If entries are really gone, restore your latest JSON export in Settings > Data > Import. Pixy keeps no copy on a server.

Partly. Pixy has no clinician portal or PDF report, but you can show your calendar and statistics on your phone, share statistics cards as images, or send a CSV export.

Only on your phone. Pixy has no account and no server that holds your entries. Your mood, emotions, tags, and notes never leave the device unless you export them.

No. Pixy works without an account, email address, or sign-up. Open the app and start logging. There is no login, so there is also no password to forget.

No. Your entries stay on your phone, so the developer cannot see them and other apps cannot read them. Anyone who can unlock your phone can open Pixy, so lock it if you share your phone.

Anonymous usage data and crash reports, never your entries, notes, or tags. In the EU, the UK, and Switzerland, usage data is off until you allow it. Turn it on or off in Settings > Privacy > Behavioral Data.

No. Pixy shows no ads, contains no advertising trackers, and does not sell or monetize your data. Your entries never leave your phone.

Yes, with your phone's built-in app lock. On iPhone, touch and hold the Pixy icon and choose Require Face ID. On Android 15 and later, move Pixy into your Private Space.

Pixy has no in-app PIN or password. If your phone asks for one before Pixy opens, it is your phone's own app lock. Use your phone's passcode.

Open Settings > Data, tap Delete all my data, and confirm. Pixy erases every entry, tag, and setting on the phone. This cannot be undone.

There is no account to delete. Pixy works without sign-up. To remove everything, use Settings > Data > Delete all my data, or delete the app.

Yes. The code of the Pixy app is public on GitHub under the MIT license. Anyone can read how it works and how it handles your data. Open it from Settings > Pixy is open source.

No. Pixy has no AI features. There is no chatbot or AI analysis, and your entries are never sent to an AI service. Statistics are plain counts and charts calculated on your phone.

No. Pixy has one journal per app, without profiles or separate journals. Each person should use Pixy on their own phone, which also keeps entries private.

Your entries are protected by your phone's built-in storage encryption, which works when the phone is locked with a passcode. Pixy adds no extra in-app encryption, and nothing is sent to a server.

Yes. Every feature in Pixy is free on iPhone and Android. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads, and no account.

Pixy has no subscription or in-app purchase, so there is nothing to cancel, restore, share, or refund. Every feature is free for everyone on the device.

Yes. Pixy is on the App Store for iPhone (iOS 16.4 or later) and on Google Play for Android (Android 7.0 or later). Both versions have the same features.

Partly. Pixy installs on iPad, where it runs as an iPhone app in portrait. There is no Mac, Windows, or web version, and no sync between devices.

No. Pixy does not read from or write to Apple Health, Google Health Connect, Fitbit, or other apps. Everything you log stays in Pixy.

Pixy is translated into 31 languages, from Arabic to Vietnamese, and follows your phone's language. To switch, change your phone's language. There is no language picker inside the app.

Partly. The calendar, mood choices, and buttons have labels for VoiceOver and TalkBack, animations respect Reduce Motion, and Settings > Appearance > Colors offers a colorblind-friendly scale.

Pixy follows your phone's settings for time format (12 or 24 hours), first day of the week, and language. It has no separate font size setting in the app.

Update Pixy to the latest version, restart your phone, and make sure the phone has free storage. If Pixy shows "Your entries could not be loaded", your data is still on the device: export it from that screen and contact support.

Open Settings > Feedback > Report Bug. Describe what happened, add your email if you want a reply, and tap Send. Feedback needs an internet connection.

Open Settings > Feedback. Vote Features shows the public board where you can vote on ideas, and Request Feature sends your own. Settings > About > What's new lists every update.

No. Pixy is a self-reflection tool, not therapy or a medical device. If you are in crisis or think about hurting yourself, call your local emergency number or a crisis line right away.

Updating Pixy keeps all your entries. Deleting the app deletes them. Before you uninstall or reinstall, export a JSON file in Settings > Data > Export and import it afterwards.