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 autistic and alexithymic and I have really enjoyed this app so far. My husband and I are communicating better and I am better emotionally regulated. I do wish that the explanations for some of them didn't point you to others (troubled >worried >troubled). Overall this app is excellent for emotional intelligence and well being. Edit: I just found the add emotion button and now I can have 2 at a time and it blends the colors! Plus there's way more emotion options in the search function.

Overall great with minor improvements. It's nice to have plenty of emotions to choose from, videos that help validate and teach grounding and emotional regulation techniques, and inspirational quotes... The 2 things I would like to see: GRIEF! There's no option for grief. Just sadness and loneliness but those don't capture heartbreaking loss! Also it would be nice to be able to add your own affirmations! Edit: 5 stars because they have the features. I just couldn't find them. Thank you dev team

It is fine, but often I don't want to include lots of information regarding the feeling. It also does not some major feelings, like distracted. I just want to be able to select feeling I feel that day without assigning a story, time, etc. or have to skip past those every time. This app is neat, but has way too much to go through every time

What's new

We’re thrilled to announce the release of our newest app version, packed with features to improve the experience! Thanks to your valuable feedback, we've also identified and fixed performance issues.

New!
Added suggested/recommended tools on the check-in card and Tools tab!
Added two new tool categories to the Tools tab

Fixes
App crash due to values > 24 hours
Reminder time range was incorrect
Filter on the Analyze tab did not persist
Keyboard blocking step count entry field