How We Feel

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

About this app

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 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 policy puts you in control of how your data is stored and shared. Data is stored on your device unless you choose to send your data to an alternative storage solution. Data is only accessible by you unless you choose to share it with others. Data is not used for research unless you opt-in to contribute an anonymized version of your data for research studies designed 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 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.

Ratings and reviews

I love this app very much, it has helped me vent less to others, and doomscroll less. I'm much more mindful of how I'm feeling and what to do with my emotions. You should add a 'Neutral' emotion. One thing that's a bit upsetting is that you can't save your data to the cloud, and the terms of service say the app could randomly take away your access to data at any time, meaning I could lose my data out of nowhere or if I lose my phone. Overall, though, great and useful app. I recommend the widget!

I really like this app. I like the breadth of emotions readily available to choose from, as opposed to something like Daylio where I have to come up with all of the emotions (and must pay to have more than 5 default). However I wish there were a "neutral" mood category. Also I think the analysis tab should have more charts available, and maybe have them all use a percentage format instead of some having the weird disc-bar graph thing. Not useful. Some of the analyses aren't useful at all either

Great app in general. Lovely interface, readily understandable analytics, and great for keeping track of your emotions when you're going through something or learning what causes you to feel. One thing I would suggest is the limit on the number of emotions you can pick per check-in, which irks me as a quite emotional person; I'd like it to be at least 3, but the ideal option would be 4 or 5. I would also like the cycle tracking and physical sensation options to be available on my current device.

What's new

A small update to fix a few duplicate mood images