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🍃 DBT Diary Daily
The digital DBT diary card your therapist already knows.
DBT Diary Daily replaces the paper diary card used in Dialectical Behavior Therapy — and every abandoned, crashing app that tried before it. Fill in your card in under three minutes. Track your emotions, log the skills you practiced, record your target behaviors, and export a clean PDF to share with your therapist. Everything stays on your device. Nothing goes anywhere else.
What it’s for
DBT diary cards are a standard tool in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Patients fill one out every day between sessions — rating emotion intensities, noting which skills they used, and tracking specific behaviors they’re working to change. Therapists use the completed card to guide the session.
The problem is the paper version gets lost, forgotten, or left at home. And the apps that claimed to solve this either disappeared from the App Store, stopped working after iOS updates, or kept charging subscriptions for a broken product.
DBT Diary Daily is a straightforward replacement. It follows the same four-section structure as the standard Linehan card so it integrates naturally into an existing therapy workflow. Your therapist will recognize the PDF the first time you share it.
What’s inside
Daily entry — Collapsible sections for emotions, skills, behaviors, and notes. Tap through your card, auto-saves as you go. Navigate back to any previous day to review or edit.
Emotion tracking — Rate up to 10 emotions and urges on the standard 0–5 clinical intensity scale. Add your own labels or use the defaults. Fast segmented controls instead of sliders — rated and done.
Skills logging — All 30 standard DBT skills across all four modules. Tap any skill to log that you used it today. See at a glance which modules you’re drawing from.
| Module | Color |
|---|---|
| Mindfulness | 🟢 Teal |
| Distress Tolerance | 🔴 Rose |
| Emotion Regulation | 🟡 Gold |
| Interpersonal Effectiveness | 🟣 Lavender |
Behavior tracking — Log target behaviors to increase or decrease, with intensity ratings. Fully customizable to match what you’re working on with your therapist.
Weekly summary — Emotion trend charts, skill usage breakdown, and behavior patterns across the full week. A clear picture of how the week went before you walk into session.
PDF export — One tap to generate a landscape US Letter PDF in the standard diary card format. Share by email, AirDrop, or Messages. Pre-fills your therapist’s email address if you’ve saved it.
Privacy — Face ID and Touch ID protection. All data stored locally using SwiftData. Zero network calls. No account. No analytics. No cloud.
Download
No subscription. No account required. Works entirely offline.
Pages
| 🌐 Website | dbt-diary-daily.github.io |
| 🔒 Privacy Policy | Privacy Policy |
| 💬 Support | Support & FAQ |
| 📋 DBT Diary Card | Landing page |
| 🎯 DBT Skills Tracker | Landing page |
| 📊 DBT Mood Tracker | Landing page |
Disclaimer
DBT Diary Daily is a personal productivity tool, not a medical device. It is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact a qualified healthcare provider or call a crisis line in your area.
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