How We Feel 4+

An emotional wellbeing journal

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

    • 4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
    • 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 1.7.0

We're thrilled to announce the release of our newest app version! This version includes a collection of mindfulness strategies that can be used to help you gain perspective and minimize the negative impact of misunderstood emotions. Thanks to your valuable feedback, we've also identified and fixed performance issues. We are eager to share the following updates:

New
New! Mindfulness strategies added to the Tools tab!
New! Added haptics to breathing exercises!
New! Crop photos that you add to check-ins, your Best Selfie, and Grateful Moments.
New! A feedback component on our Tools tab allows you to give direct feedback on our tools.
New! Quicker 'quick save' when you tap and hold an emotion on the Mood Meter.

Fixes
Fixed a some text being cut off during the onboarding flow on the iPhone SE.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

Aaron :):) ,

Great! But I have a recommendation.

This is great, but if it’s possible, I think it would be very useful to create a widget that I can add to my Home Screen on iPhone. I would love to be able to check in and maybe even see some stats/data that way, as well as going into the app to do it! :)

Tiika ,

Only thing missing is widgets

I suggested an improvement and it was included in the next update, I’ve never had that fast a response in an app. Widgets would help me check in more regularly but when I do I appreciate the summaries

lilyhamvai ,

100% Reliable.

As a teenager you don’t really get a lot of time to focus on yourself and your mental and emotional well-being, but this app is so good for that purpose. Especially the timed reminders!! This helped me out a-lot because with other apps I’ve downloaded, it was a pattern of delete them because I never used them or notifications weren’t available.

I think as a suggestion maybe adding more emotions would be really great, there are so much already but there’s also times where you don’t know what your feeling nor how to explain it.

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Along with this, I love the descriptions it gives on each emotion! Really useful.

Definitely recommend for ages 10yrs-20yrs!

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

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