How We Feel 4+

An Amazing App & Project, 1 improvement

I have been absolutely loving this app, from the beginning the tone and language used is welcoming, warm, supportive and encouraging. I am a designer myself and I find the majority of apps are functional but devoid of character and this app maintains the ease of use (and even facilitates it) with a lot of character that makes reporting my feelings fun even when I’m not feeling like anything would be fun, the playfulness and abstraction in no way takes away from the experience and the human descriptions in the videos are so calm and purely helpful that they are not threatening the way self-improvement videos can be. They don’t make me feel bad for not having done a suggestion, just optimistic that I can see benefits from trying it.

My main point of improvement is that I have input a sizable number of check-ins on my iPad and others on my iPhone and although the two apps appear to be sharing the same identifier they don’t compile the data to get the full picture and that would be a huge improvement for me since I can’t easily compare the times that I am using one or the other. I looked for a way to export my data and import it to the other device(the long route) but I didn’t find anything, ultimately the best solution would be automatic sync. Keep up the great work!

A Simple Effective COMPLETELY FREE Wellness App

I love the simple design of How We Feel. The matrix of emotion words is really helpful and easy to use, I find it much easier to just open the app and log my emotions than to journal. The best part of the app is that all of the features are actually completely free, the lessons on understanding your emotions, de-stressing exercises, emotion word matrix, additional journaling features, and mood analysis are all free and there are no subscriptions to be seen. I really recommend How We Feel to anyone who already likes journaling and mindfulness, who is like me and is very bad at forming new habits, or just anyone who feels curious about understanding their own emotions better. The analysis tab lets you look at all your logged moods over time so you can start to see patterns emerge. Do you log being fatigued more often when you have a big project you’re working on? Do you log more positive emotions in summer and spring than winter and fall? Would also be useful for anyone starting on mental health recovery who would like to track their progress over time. Overall wonderful completely free app with tons of features you can use at your own pace.

Good, just missing some complexity

I am autistic and can struggle with labeling emotions in the moment, so this is a good way to center myself with that. However, I feel like there should be an option for a secondary emotion that you can add if there is one or if a feeling is more complex. Like if you’re feeling content and accepted in a moment and at the same time sad for all the time you didn’t get that. Or relaxed and unfocused in the moment and having a waxing and waning anxiety about the fact that that will come back to haunt you, but deciding not to care. Feelings are often more than one thing and only by taking in the whole picture can you get a full understanding of them. Heck, even with the options that are there, the fact that some form of grief isn’t an option is kinda wild even though that is it’s own thing? Or that there’s a humiliated option but not an embarrassed one? Or even like infatuated, flirty, flattered, romantic, or aroused, which is a spectrum of emotion that could technically fall under “compassionate” or “ecstatic” or something like that, but are also their own thing? Overall I think is this a fantastic starting point and I hope in the future they build in more features to capture a fuller range of the human emotional experience, creating a more precise tool for the people who use it.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for these suggestions. In the future, we'll add more emotions that you'll be able to access from the SEARCH menu. In the meantime, thank you so much for trying HWF and taking the time to write a great suggestion.