Tidecard
Tidecard
Rate emotions, urges, and distress on a real 0 to 10 scale, tag the skills you used, and bring an honest card to session.
Coming soon to theApp StoreTidecard is a diary card for people doing dialectical behavior therapy. Open the card, rate what you feel, and close it again. Each emotion, urge, and moment of distress is logged on a full 0 to 10 scale, not a flat yes or no, so the picture you bring to session is honest.
Real days are messy, and the card is built for that. You can log the same feeling several times in one day, each with a real timestamp, and tag the skills you reached for along with how much they helped. Before your appointment, a weekly summary shows the week at a glance.
Tidecard is a private self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not give clinical advice or diagnoses and is not a substitute for therapy — it exists to make the paper diary card easier to keep, alongside the care of a licensed professional. Nothing you write leaves the device unless you choose to share it.
Emotions, urges, and distress are rated on a full 0 to 10 scale instead of a checkbox, so intensity is part of the record.
The same emotion can be logged several times per day with real timestamps, because real days work that way.
Tag the DBT skills you reached for and rate how much they helped. The skills list is built in, so it works offline.
Read a clean summary of your week before your appointment, so session time goes to the conversation, not reconstruction.
Email a clean, one-page PDF of your card in a few taps. Sharing is always your choice.
The whole card can sit behind Face ID or Touch ID. There is no account, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Rate the emotion, urge, or distress you are feeling on the 0 to 10 scale. It takes seconds, and you can do it as many times a day as you need.
Pick the skills you reached for from the built-in list and note how much they helped.
Before session, read the weekly summary — what came up, how strong it was, and which skills you leaned on.
Email a clean one-page PDF of your card to your therapist in a few taps. Until then, everything stays on your device.
A diary card is the daily self-monitoring sheet used in dialectical behavior therapy. You record emotions, urges, and distress each day, plus which skills you practiced, and bring the card to your session so you and your therapist can review the week accurately. Tidecard is that card in app form — faster to fill in, harder to lose, and easy to share as a PDF.
Yes. Tidecard puts the full diary card on your iPhone and iPad: 0 to 10 ratings for emotions, urges, and distress, skills tagging, a weekly summary, and a one-page PDF you can email to your therapist. It works offline, needs no account, and locks behind Face ID.
The cards that get filled in are the ones that take seconds. Tidecard is designed around that: open, rate what you feel, close. Because entries take moments and can happen any time something comes up — not just at a scheduled review hour — the habit is much easier to keep than a paper sheet.
A checkbox says an emotion happened; a 0 to 10 rating says how strong it was, which is what actually changes week to week in therapy. Intensity data shows whether distress is trending down or a particular skill is helping. Tidecard uses the full scale for every emotion, urge, and distress entry.
Yes, and that matters. Anger at 8 in the morning and anger at 2 in the evening are two different data points, not one average. Tidecard lets you log the same feeling multiple times per day, each with its real timestamp, so the card reflects the day you actually had.
Tidecard generates a clean, one-page PDF of your card that you can email in a few taps, print, or show on your phone in session. Nothing is shared automatically — the export is always something you initiate.
The built-in skills list covers the standard DBT skill areas — mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. You tag which skills you reached for and rate how much they helped, so over time you can see which ones are pulling their weight.
In Tidecard, only you. Entries are stored on your device, there is no account to create, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. You can put the whole card behind Face ID or Touch ID, and the only way anything leaves the device is if you export a PDF yourself.
Yes. The skills list is built in and everything is stored locally, so the card works with no signal at all — on a subway, in a rural area, or with the phone in airplane mode.
No. Tidecard is a private self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose any condition, give clinical advice, or substitute for treatment. A diary card's whole purpose is to support work with a licensed professional — the app just makes that record easier to keep.
SUDS stands for Subjective Units of Distress Scale — a simple 0 to 10 self-rating of how distressed you feel right now, with 0 meaning fully calm and 10 the most distressed you have been. It is widely used in DBT and other therapies. Tidecard uses this kind of 0 to 10 scale for distress moments so you can capture spikes as they happen.
Tidecard works on both iPhone and iPad, so you can fill in the card on whichever device is at hand. Many people log on the phone during the day and review the weekly summary on the iPad before session.
The diary card that takes seconds to fill and arrives at session as a clean PDF.
Coming soon to theApp Store