How We Feel 4+

An emotional wellbeing journal

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

    • 4.9 • 92 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 1.9.1

We're rolling out a simplified, customizable check-in experience! Now, it should be even easier to add a second emotion to a check-in, change the date or time of a check-in, and customize your check-in experience with the information that matters to YOU! Thanks to your valuable feedback, we've also identified and fixed performance issues that some users experienced.

New features
New! A simplified, customizable check-in experience.
New! Added haptics to breathing exercises.
New! Updated sort order for tags and also enabled long-press to edit or delete tags.

Fixes
Fixed an issue on the Analyze tab where check-ins were attributed to the incorrect days
Fixed an issue where quotes were not searchable via the tools search page

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
92 Ratings

92 Ratings

mw__mw ,

Wonderful tool to understand oneself.

Been using the app for some time and cannot be more than pleased with my experience. The process of recording moods is quick and simple.
I might have one feature request that would help with contextualizing entries even more and that is an option to allow the app to access screen time and therefore map the moods in the context of how one uses the phone, what apps one’s on etc.
Besides that, the app truly fulfills all I could imagine. Kudos to the dev team and everyone else involved you're doing an amazing job!

This is Vi ,

Just perfect!

There’s so much I’d want to say about this app but I already vented to my friends about it and made a few download it hah. It’s just so well made and helps me with self awareness and self management. Plus the fact that I can see how my friends are doing multiple times a day is just priceless, makes me feel much more connected. Also, love the quote from one of the educational short videos: "If you can name it, you can tame it."

Damned_Sweeney ,

Doesn’t work

Help, the app stopped working suddenly and I don’t know what to do! I checked updates but I have the newest version and yet it doesn’t work… (description: as soon as I try to open it, it shuts down after less than a second, I can’t access anything at all!) I don’t know where to report it - I tried “report a problem” here in App Store but it’s not possible since it’s a feature made for paid apps only. I tried to find support on the official website but couldn’t find any contact, only a download link. I’m now DESPERATE and extremely UPSET, I need this app, I used it many times every day, it was the best mood tracker I’ve ever used, the only that really worked for me and it helped me so much! I NEED IT BACK!

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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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