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 am thoroughly impressed with this app. Its well- designed interface & wealth of features & information make it an invaluable tool. Incredible learning resources: breathing techniques, lessons, detailed analysis, & more! And without registration, no ads, and completely free! 🌟 *I read in a previous review that only one emotion can be added. You can add additional emotions to your check-in: the second step (when adding a description). In the top right corner of the screen, there is a + :)

5/5, but a couple of suggestions. The time limit of the voice recordings of 5 minutes, sometimes I have more to say but it gets cut off. Also, the ability to edit the voice memos or add more than one voice memo to a feeling card would be really useful, because sometimes i have something new to add but have no choice but to delete the first voice memo. Other than that, sometimes I have a feeling that isn't any of the ones already on the app and the ability to add your own feelings would fix that.

I LOVE THIS APP. I have legitimately learned how to increase my resistance and emotional intelligence from using it. I am constantly recommending it to people. My only complaint is that they could add some more feelings to select from. There's 144 in the main menu they show you and more you can search for, yet there's still times when I think of one that I can't find in the app. At least we should be able to add custom ones. There's enough options for 5 stars, though!

What's new

We're thrilled to announce the release of our newest app version, packed with interactive tools to enhance your emotional wellbeing! Thanks to your valuable feedback, we've also identified and fixed performance issues. We are eager to share the following updates:

New
New! A library of emotional regulation tools available when you need them. Save your favorite tools to your toolbox for quick access!

Fixes
Fixed an issue where shared check-ins were not visible.