The Observing Ego is a private, on-device mood tracking app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, built by Casey Simon, Psy.D., MFT (licensed in Oregon and California), with input from fellow clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists. It solves a problem every counselor knows: clients cannot reliably reconstruct weeks of mood from memory, so between-session data arrives as "it was kind of a hard month." The app keeps an honest record, and the client hands you a clean "Show Your Doc" PDF at the start of session: mood trends, screening-score trajectories, medication adherence, and on-device correlations, with a Clinical Flags section that surfaces discussion-worthy items first.

Clients track feelings with real granularity on a validated affect model, log medications and habits, and take eight validated screening instruments scored to published thresholds: PHQ-9, GAD-7, WHO-5, DERS-16, SCS-SF, C-SSRS, ASQ, and STIPO-R. Every instrument is labeled a screening tool, not a diagnosis, before and after. Correlations are shown as "associated with," never causal, and only surface after at least 7 data points. What the app deliberately is not: no AI advice, no diagnostic conclusions, no gamification, no social feed, no server, no analytics. Data stays on the client's device or syncs through their own end-to-end-encrypted iCloud. The Stanley-Brown safety plan, crisis resources, and the 988 Lifeline are always free and never behind the paywall.

Free to download on the App Store. Premium is $4.99 per month or $44.99 per year after a 7-day free trial, and safety features stay free regardless of subscription. 

The Observing Ego is a screening and self-monitoring tool, not a diagnostic or treatment service.