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LogQuest
Should you track your feelings? The honest answer is: it depends. LogQuest weighs the real evidence for (spotting patterns, sharing with a counsellor) and against (rumination, streak-guilt, false precision, surveillance), shows how mood-tracker apps are designed to optimise for the app not for you, and explains why every feelings app here is a MAP, not a LOG - it keeps nothing. A science of feelings, not therapy. Ages 15-18.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 25 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
#5c6b8a Characters who teach
Meet the cast
LogQuest is for ages 15-18 - no illustrated cast; the 'crew' are the parts of deciding whether to track your feelings, and each part IS one honest half of that decision. Datum is the data-literacy guide who holds the whole question and asks, 'should you track this - and if so, how, why, and who for?' - the answer is never a plain yes. Signal is the honest reason FOR: a tracker can surface a real pattern you would miss (your mood dips every Sunday, lifts after a run), most useful when you share it with a person who can help. Rumination is the honest risk AGAINST: checking in on how bad you feel, day after day, can deepen a low mood instead of lifting it. Snapshot is the one-entry note - the least-bad form of a log (on-device, no streak, no cloud), the closest thing to a healthy tracker. Prior is false precision - the warning that a mood rated '6 out of 10' looks scientific but a feeling is not a measurement, and the number can crowd out the messier truth. LogQuest keeps nothing you feel - it teaches the decision, it does not run a tracker.
Datum
the data-literacy guide who holds the whole question. Datum asks, 'should you track this - and if so, how, why, and who for?' - the honest answer to a mood tracker is never a plain yes, it depends on the design, the reason, and you.
Signal
The honest reason FOR - a tracker can surface a real pattern you would miss (a Sunday-night dip, a lift after exercise), and is most useful shared with a person who can help. Signal's act IS the genuine upside, kept honest.
Rumination
The honest risk AGAINST - checking in on how bad you feel day after day can DEEPEN a low mood rather than lift it. Rumination's act IS the warning that for someone already circling, a tracker can feed the low.
Snapshot
The one-entry note - a plain, private, on-device log with no streak and no cloud, the least-bad form of a tracker and the closest to a healthy one. Snapshot's act IS showing that a record can serve you instead of the app.
Prior
False precision - the reminder that a mood rated '6 out of 10' LOOKS scientific but a feeling is not a measurement; the number can crowd out the messier truth. Prior's act IS refusing to trust a score just because it has a digit.
What's inside
Learning goal
Should you track your feelings? The honest answer is: it depends. LogQuest weighs the real evidence for (spotting patterns, sharing with a counsellor) and against (rumination, streak-guilt, false precision, surveillance), shows how mood-tracker apps are designed to optimise for the app not for you, and explains why every feelings app here is a MAP, not a LOG - it keeps nothing. A science of feelings, not therapy. Ages 15-18.
Mentored by Datum — no data leaves the device.
How LogQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages