OREANDA-NEWS. June 09, 2016. A new app for Pebble's Time smartwatches aims to tell you when you're happy, sad or in between, and how you may be able to improve your mood.

Launched on Thursday, the Happiness app is part of Pebble's goal to gauge more than just your health and fitness by also getting a sense of your emotional well-being.

The Happiness app pops up on an hourly basis to pose a few questions. You're asked to rate your mood and energy level as well as tell where you are, who you're with and which activities and tasks you've done over the past hour. Such activities include eating and drinking; exercising; socializing; working; attending meetings; and meditating. You can also chime in with your own custom responses.

At the end of a week, Pebble sends you a report via email detailing the results based on your responses. The goal is to determine how your activities, location, social time and other factors affect your happiness. Pebble promises that the data isn't shared beyond the app itself but says it may be used anonymously to improve the software. The app is compatible only with the Pebble Time, Time Steel and Time Round smartwatches. But it works with iPhones and Android phones, as do other Pebble apps.

Fitness bands and smartwatches have been gaining popularity among consumers. Ultimately, though, the key to these devices is apps. The more useful and diverse the number of apps available for a wearable device, the more that device can prove beneficial to existing users and attract new buyers.