Can a mood tracking app improve your mental health? Gareth Dauncey, creator of Mood shares his story and explains the benefits of daily mood tracking.

Just like with this podcast and my own mental health journey, our own mental health challenges frequently inspire and motivate us to find ways to help others going through similar issues. My guest on this episode has done exactly that through the creation of a super simple app to track your mood each day, simply called Mood.

Gareth Dauncey is a Welsh architect who used his passion for simple, clean design to create a highly visual way to track his own mood each day as he navigated his own mental health challenges. Through a series of serendipitous events including meeting his co-founder at the DO Lectures in Wales, Gareth's colorful paper based mood tracking tool morphed into an iPhone app which has been championed by Ruby Wax and her Frazzled Cafe organisation amongst others.

Listen to hear more about Gareth's own story and how spending a few minutes each day tracking your mood can help manage your own mental health.

You can download the app here. For every paid download, Mood will donate one free subscription to an organization that supports mental wellbeing.