Task Schedulers With Mood or Energy Tracking (2026)

Last updated: 2026-09-29

Quick answer: Lifestack is the only app here that documents moving tasks based on your energy. It estimates an energy curve from your sleep and places tasks in the high points. Structured lets you tag each task with how draining it is and warns you when a day goes over budget. Tiimo, TickTick and Routinery let you record mood, but none of them publishes a way for that record to change your schedule.

Typing a mood into a planner is the easy part. The harder question is whether the app does anything with it, and that's where these five split. Lifestack reads your sleep and rearranges the day. Structured hands you a points budget and leaves the rearranging to you, while Tiimo, TickTick and Routinery keep the record for you to look back on.

We read each app's help center and store listing and wrote down only what they state. Where the documentation is silent, the table says "Not published."

Energy peaks: does scheduling around them work?

The evidence for putting hard work at your personal peak is real but mixed. A 2025 systematic review in Chronobiology International looked at 65 studies of chronotype and cognitive performance in healthy adults. Across more than 80% of the studies, chronotype by itself had no main effect on performance.

A timing match did show up. In 29 of 64 studies of adults aged 18 to 45, people did better at their optimal time of day, mostly on attention, inhibition and memory tasks. That's under half. In older adults the match appeared in 10 of 12 studies, especially on tasks that lean on fluid reasoning. The authors also note that task complexity and lighting changed the effect, which is one reason an energy-aware planner can guess wrong on a given day.

Mood and energy also connect to whether a routine sticks at all. A preregistered reanalysis in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin followed 254 people for six months with monthly surveys and tested 10 possible drivers of habit strength. Six were significant. Feeling energized and feeling pleased while doing the behavior both went with stronger habits, and perceived difficulty went with weaker ones. It's an association from data collected during the pandemic, and it cannot tell you which came first.

Task schedulers compared: what each one does with mood or energy

Apps are listed alphabetically. Routinery is our product and sits in the same columns as the others.

"Not published" means we could not find a statement either way in the app's public documentation.

Lifestack: your sleep sets the energy curve

Lifestack starts from sleep. Its help article on the Energy Score says the algorithm uses your wake time and sleep quality to draw an "energy wave" for the day, and you get a score depending on where you are on it. It also sorts you into a morning, hybrid or night chronotype from past sleep data and moves the peaks to match. The AI planner then puts demanding tasks into those windows.

You don't need a wearable for any of this. Lifestack's health data page calls connecting a device optional, and you can type sleep and activity in by hand or use the phone's own health app.

Lifestack's feelings check asks about energy. With the Energy Feedback notification turned on, Lifestack asks "How energized do you feel right now?" after events and during each energy zone, then nudges your energy for a short period. We did not find a separate mood log in its documentation.

Structured: you price each task in Energy Points

Structured's Energy Monitor is off by default, and you switch it on under Features in settings. After that, every task and event gets an energy level. There's relaxing, which gives points back, then neutral, then low, medium and high drain. The help article works out points roughly per 30 minutes, so an hour of high-drain work costs 6 Energy Points and three hours of low-drain work costs 3.

The monitor sits above your timeline and turns green, orange or red as the day fills. The default daily limit is 20 points. Structured's own guidance suggests 36 to 42 for an average person and 18 to 22 if your energy is limited, for example by illness. Those numbers are the vendor's own recommendations, and Structured says it developed the tool with researchers and medical professionals at the Dutch institute Breinstraat.

The article does not describe Structured moving tasks for you. When a day goes red, its advice is to copy tasks to another day or drag them into the inbox. You cannot put energy levels on all-day or inbox tasks, and the monitor isn't on Structured Web yet, though Structured's Android page lists it.

Tiimo: mood check-ins on iPhone

Tiimo's check-ins are about mood, and they're iOS only. The mood tracking page describes logging how you feel through the day and seeing it next to your schedule, with Apple Health sleep and activity data alongside.

Tiimo leaves the next step to you. The page talks about noticing patterns and adjusting your routine, and it does not describe Tiimo moving tasks on its own. It also does not say whether check-ins need Tiimo Pro, and we could not confirm that anywhere else.

TickTick: mood lives in the habit log

TickTick attaches mood to habits. Its habits help page says you can record your daily mood and a log entry when you check in, which helps when you review how a habit went. You can turn Habit Logs off from the bottom of the Edit Habit screen.

We did not find anything in TickTick's features page, App Store listing or help pages about scheduling tasks by energy or mood. The mood note stays with that habit's record.

Routinery: a mood note at the end of each routine

Routinery asks how you felt once a routine is done. When the step-by-step timer finishes, a screen opens with mood options and space to write. We're listing this as company-confirmed, because our App Store listing and What's new page do not describe it.

The rest of the app runs on your plan. You schedule routines by day of the week and time of day, and the timer walks you through each step. We searched our public documentation for energy, mood and journaling and found nothing that uses your mood to change when a routine runs. If you want the schedule itself to react to how rested you are, Lifestack is built for that. For a manual daily budget, use Structured's Energy Monitor.

How to choose: decide who does the adjusting

• You want the app to plan around your sleep: Lifestack. It's the one app here that documents placing tasks by predicted energy.
• You'd rather set the budget yourself: Structured's Energy Monitor, which is free and works on Apple devices and Android.
• You mainly want to see mood next to sleep and activity: Tiimo on iPhone, with Apple Health connected.
• Your mood tracking is really about habits: TickTick's habit log keeps the note with the check-in.
• You want each routine guided step by step, with a note at the end: Routinery, knowing it won't reschedule anything on its own.

Getting started: two weeks of logging before you trust the pattern

Pick one signal and log it at the same moments each day. Energy after lunch and mood at the end of your evening routine is plenty. Two weeks gives you enough days to see whether a pattern repeats, though the right length depends on how varied your weeks are.

Then test one change. If you seem sharper in the morning, move one demanding task earlier for a week and see what happens. The chronotype review found the timing match in under half of the studies of younger adults, so your own log is the better guide.

If you'd like one place for all three, our earlier roundup covers apps that track habits, tasks and moods in one app. If energy is the thing that's short on most mornings, our low-energy morning routine checklist is written for those days. And if Structured's timeline is close but not quite right, we compared Structured alternatives for daily routines separately.

Frequently asked questions: mood and energy scheduling

What is the best task scheduler with mood or energy tracking?

It depends on who you want doing the adjusting. Lifestack is the only app in this comparison whose documentation describes scheduling tasks by energy. It draws an energy curve from your sleep and places demanding work in the high points, and you can correct it by answering how energized you feel. Structured takes a manual route. You tag each task with an energy level and its Energy Monitor warns you when the day passes your limit. Tiimo, TickTick and Routinery record mood, but they do not publish a way for that record to change your schedule.

Do I need a wearable to use Lifestack's energy scheduling?

No. Lifestack's help center calls connecting a wearable optional. On an iPhone you can set a sleep schedule in the Health app, and on Android you can connect Google Fit or Samsung Health. You can also enter sleep and activity by hand inside Lifestack. The Energy Score starts from your wake time and sleep quality, so it needs sleep data from somewhere, but a watch or ring is not required. You can adjust the estimate by answering its "How energized do you feel right now?" prompts, which you turn on through the Energy Feedback notification setting.

How does Structured's Energy Monitor calculate points?

You give each task an energy level, and Structured works out points from that level and the task's length, roughly per 30 minutes. Its help article gives examples. Low drain is 1 point for 30 minutes and 3 for 180 minutes, and high drain is 3 points for 30 minutes and 9 for 180 minutes. Relaxing tasks give points back. The default daily limit is 20 points. Structured suggests 36 to 42 for an average person and 18 to 22 if your energy is limited. The monitor is free, but it is not available on Structured Web yet.

Is it worth scheduling hard tasks at my energy peak?

It can help, though the research is mixed. A 2025 review of 65 studies found no main effect of chronotype in more than 80% of them. A match between chronotype and time of day showed up in 29 of 64 studies of adults aged 18 to 45, mainly on attention and memory tasks, and in 10 of 12 studies of older adults. So try it on one or two demanding tasks and keep a log. Your own notes will show whether the peak you planned around holds up.

Can a mood tracker change my daily schedule automatically?

Among the five apps here, none documents using a mood log to reschedule tasks. Lifestack adjusts its energy estimate from your answers about how energized you feel, which is close, though it measures energy and not mood. Tiimo shows mood check-ins beside your schedule and Apple Health data, TickTick stores mood in the habit log, and Routinery records mood when a routine ends. Any schedule change still comes from you. If you want mood to drive changes, set a rule for yourself, such as moving one demanding task after two low-mood days.

About this guide. Written by the Routinery editorial team. Routinery is our product, and it's in the comparison under the same columns as the other apps. Its mood feature is marked company-confirmed because we haven't documented it publicly. Competitor facts come from each app's official help center, product page or store listing, checked on 2026-09-24. Prices are US store or pricing page prices on that date.

References: sources cited above

• Chauhan S, Vanova M, Tailor U, et al. Chronotype and synchrony effects in human cognitive performance: A systematic review. Chronobiology International, 28 April 2025. 65 studies. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40293205/
• Bürgler S, Milyavskaya M, McMillan G, Burns RJ, Lally P, Gardner B. What Makes a Habit? Investigating Potential Determinants of Habit Formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29 April 2026. N=254, 6-month longitudinal reanalysis. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42053513/