A little context for how you feel.
A private mood journal for yourself and someone you care about. Record a mood, its intensity, and the context around it. Come back to the moments over time, from an ordinary Monday morning to a weekend that felt different.
Why we built it
A difficult afternoon tends to stay with you. The calmer mornings, the late lunch, the walk home can fade together. We wanted a small place to record those moments while they were still fresh.
Orbit starts with something you noticed. The context can be as brief as a place or a few words. As entries accumulate, the journal gives you a record to return to, with enough detail to remember what a day was like.
A few small observations make a day easier to remember.
Choose whose journal you are logging in, pick one of eight moods, set its intensity from one to five, and tap Log. Orbit records the time. On Mac, the same quick entry is available from the menu bar.
Keep a place label and hours since the last meal alongside an entry. Add a note or edit those details later in History. Optional location access can help label places and attach Apple Weather conditions to new entries.
Browse earlier dates in the mood log, or give each mood its own row in the time-of-day and day-of-week charts. Each tick is a recorded entry: its position within a day shows when it happened. Explore the other views by month, place, meals, and recorded weather.
The journals are stored on your device. Export your entries as JSON or CSV, import an Orbit JSON export, and manage your entries in the app. iPhone and Mac keep separate journals; there is no automatic sync.
Design choices
Keep observations about yourself and someone you care about in separate profiles. Names are for display. The other person does not need an account, and the profiles are not a sharing feature.
A busy Tuesday and a quiet Sunday deserve their own space. The charts preserve individual entries, with mood and intensity carried by color. They give you a way to revisit what you recorded and decide what deserves a closer look.
Logging works without location access. Optional weather requests use a rounded location; setting a saved place can send an address or pin to Apple Maps. Orbit stores the journal locally, and your device backups may include it. No Orbit account, analytics, or automatic cloud sync.
The particulars
Read how Orbit handles your information, find help with the journal, or review the terms before its App Store release.
Coming soon for iPhone and Mac. We’re preparing Orbit for the App Store; get in touch with a question about the journal.
