How We Feel 4+
An emotional wellbeing journal
The How We Feel Project, Inc.
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- Free
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Description
How We Feel is a free app created by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists to help people better understand their emotions and find strategies to help them navigate their emotions in the moment. Conceived in conjunction with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence and based on the work of Dr Marc Brackett, How We Feel helps people find the right word to describe how they feel while tracking their sleep, exercise, and health trends using HealthKit in order to spot patterns over time.
Founded as a science-based nonprofit, How We Feel is made possible by donations from people who are passionate about bringing mental wellbeing to the widest possible audience. Our data privacy terms are clear and easy-to-understand: all of your data is kept on your device unless you opt-in to send an anonymized version of your check-ins to be used in research to help more people.
Whether you are downloading this app in order to build better relationships, make your emotions to work for you, not against you, improve how you handle stress and anxiety or simply to feel better, How We Feel will help you identify patterns through daily HealthKit tracking and find emotional regulation strategies that will work for you. The How We Feel friends feature allows you to share how you feel with the people you trust most in real time, strengthening your most important relationships.
Filled with step-by-step video strategies you can do in as little as one minute on themes like "Change Your Thinking" to help you address negative thought patterns with cognitive strategies; "Move Your Body" to express and release emotions through movement strategies;"Be Mindful" to gain perspective and minimize the negative impact of misunderstood emotions with mindfulness strategies; "Reach Out" to build intimacy and trust, two important tools for emotional wellbeing, with social strategies.
What’s New
Version 1.4.3
We’re grateful for your feedback and support, everyone! Thanks for being part of the How We Feel community.
Fixes:
- Surprise! We fixed an issue so surprise notifications are now being sent again.
- Fixed a survey issue that stopped people from advancing to the next question.
- Fixed an issue where the app was crashing when taking a photo on iPad.
Ratings and Reviews
Thank you so much for this app- its been a saving grace 💕🥹
This app has been the best thing for me in my life right now & I truly mean that. I can’t thank the creators & all people involved in making it happen enough- thankyou so so so much ❤️ Having come off antidepressants for the past year, struggling with the loss of many friendships & family members due to my emotional roller coasters whilst tapering, feeling very alone & isolated- this app has been a life saver 🥹 I haven’t been able to afford therapy due to taking time off from my usual well paid job & the fact that this app has been available for free, I really feel so lucky to have had it to utilise for venting to, as this is something I’ve needed so much all of last year- someone to listen & empathise. And then the short videos that you can watch & learn from on how to deal with your current emotions- they are so useful 💕
I’ve made a donation to the app because I really feel like its helped in saving my life.
I would 100% recommend it to anyone needing mental support.
Thank you 🙏 ❤️🥹
Beautifully Designed and Genuinely Insightful
How We Feel is beautifully designed and smooth in a way that makes logging a mood or emotion (with surprising nuance) both quick and enjoyable. The many emotion words to choose from lend an extra layer of depth compared to most competitors. The included lessons section is a great starting point to understanding more about your emotional life and how to manage it, too. The option to add additional details in a check-in like voice notes and photos is nice as well. I love the donation-based model as well; I hope it succeeds! This is the best mood tracking app I’ve used so far and definitely the one I’ll be sticking with for the foreseeable future 😊
Amazing but one suggestion
This is my favourite app. It analyses what things, places and times affect your mood, has a simple and user friendly but thorough and in-depth interface for checking in, and even a friend option where you can share how you’re feeling. The mediations/strategies and lessons are really helpful and easy to understand too, and all of it is completely free, which is so nice of the developers for some of us who are kind of lower class. I told my therapist about it yesterday!
One suggestion or ask though is that there be an “okay” or neutral emotion in the check ins though, because a lot of the time when I check in I’m not actually feeling unpleasant but I have to choose meh or tired because none of the pleasant emotions like good or calm are what I’m feeling either, I’m just okay, not feeling much of anything. Thankyou so much for this app though, I love it, and hope the devs are doing well.
App Privacy
The developer, The How We Feel Project, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- The How We Feel Project, Inc.
- Size
- 94 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.4 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 The How We Feel Project, Inc.
- Price
- Free