Wellbeing Reviews

Daily check-ins are great at catching the weather — how today is landing, what this week looks like. Some changes, though, move on a longer timescale. That’s where MoodFire’s wellbeing reviews come in: short, optional questionnaires inspired by recognised measures such as GAD-7 and PHQ-9, offered on a gentle cadence so you can watch the slower tides as well as the daily weather.

One important thing first: MoodFire does not diagnose anxiety, depression or any mental-health condition. The reviews exist to support reflection and self-awareness — a steadier read on your trends, nothing more.

How the cadence works

When you first set up MoodFire, you’re offered a brief four-question baseline drawn from the same family of measures [3]. After that, an anxiety review (inspired by GAD-7 [2]) is offered roughly monthly, and a low-mood review (inspired by PHQ-9 [1]) is offered on its own monthly rhythm, deliberately offset by a week so the two never stack.

These instruments are short on purpose — seven and nine questions respectively in their original forms — and decades of research support their usefulness for tracking how anxiety and low mood shift over time [1] [2].

Quiet by design

Review prompts appear only as a calm banner on the home screen. Never a push notification. Tap “Later” and MoodFire waits at least 24 hours; defer three times and it backs off entirely for two weeks. You can also switch wellbeing reviews off altogether in My Account, and the toggle takes effect immediately.

Your trajectory, over months

Each completed review adds a point to your Wellbeing trajectory — a simple chart on Mood Trends showing the last six months, with shaded bands for context. Alongside your daily Insights, it answers the question the daily data can’t: is this month actually different from three months ago, or does it just feel that way today?

If things feel heavy

If your answers suggest things are feeling particularly difficult, MoodFire doesn’t throw up a score and leave you with it. It routes you to a calm support screen with crisis resources localised to your country, and encourages reaching out to a qualified professional. No individual answer is logged for that decision, and no third party is notified — it’s simply a door, opened gently, that you can choose to walk through.

Private, encrypted, and yours

Your individual answers stay on your device in encrypted storage and are processed only with your explicit consent. Your full review history is included in your personal data export, and in the simplified “Share with your therapist” report — a clean PDF of your recent patterns that you can choose to send before a session. Nothing leaves your phone unless you press send.