juli: Mood & Health Tracker

I originally saw this marketed as something to help with managing mental illness. Then when I downloaded it I saw you could also put in chronic pain as something you would like help with. I do suffer from chronic pain, but my intention was to use this for the mental illness part. Depression, anxiety, etc. But all this thing seems to care about is my chronic pain it’s all the chat bot talks about and nothing about the mental illness stuff. I input a day and night medication reminder, and that’s all it does is ask me if I took those. The way your website talked about this and the reviews you would think this would be Woebot level types of technology breakthrough. This is just a bland bored mood tracker that a sticky note pad and my phone alarm already accomplish. I’m disappointed. It’s been a week now I’m still waiting for it to do more than just the medication reminder and ask me all sorts of unproductive questions about my pain level.

In all honesty I don’t typically write reviews, but it’s the least I could do after the developers made this absolute godsend. Before this app I downloaded so many more ‘mainstream’ well known apps for tracking mental health and general well-being, and it was either too time consuming filling it all out (I’m a horrible procrastinator) or you have to pay for a premium to get the other 3/4 of the app. Juli isn’t like that. It’s easy to use, a simple bit efficient interface, and just really convenient. You can connect it to other trackers on your phone so data transfer is never a issue (knock on wood) and there’s even these things called “daily dares” in which you get 4 (maybe 5) ‘dares’ a day that you can complete to get these orange circles. It doesn’t shame you if you are unable to complete them either! They present it in a fun and basic manner, and the dares change every day. This app made me do exercise. That’s how efficient it is. Now if you notice in the title I put (almost). There’s a reason for that, and it’s the diary function. I don’t mind much at all about how it’s set up (you check in in the evenings with the message interface) but the one thing that irritated me a little was the date. They have you fill in a journal entry for the previous day (yesterday). At 9:30 at night (or any time really) I’m barely able to remember what happened today, much less yesterday. I wish it was set for the entry to be for the current day, or at least the ability to change the date easily in the journal entry logs after. This is the apps only fault in my opinion, but it’s one that would greatly improve the experience if you were to fix it. TLDR: Great app, diary functions a bit hard to edit and has you put in entries for the previous day instead of the current. If you’re on the fence for this app, I still highly recommend it.

it's great and easy to use. i love that i can see a graph of my moods. it also monitors mania symptoms and helps give you a warning if you maybe are manic based on the moods tracked. on too of that, juli will give me an assessment every two weeks to check my mania and depressive symptoms as well. a very nice feature! theres also a journal, medication reminders, and a check in with juli reminder, but you can do it any time. the only issue ive found is that i want to remove some additional trackers from my dashboard but they havent gone away after refreshing and force closing the app after i switched them off. could be a glitch or maybe takes time to go away, not sure but also no big deal. i would also like it if you could log how youre feeling alone without having to answer any other questions. im still exploring the app so maybe im clueless and will figure it out in time but either way, i would recommend! i cant wait to see how the app improves!