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

Just started so still formulating a solid opinion. Seems to have a fair amount of resources. It vibrates when making selections. This is unpleasant sensory wise and it would be nice if there were a clear way to turn this off. I checked in the settings and the FAQ, but couldn't find anything regarding the vibration.

Wonderful application, and quite useful for those that are going through their personal mental health journey. My only gripe is that the recent update shifted a lot of elements towards the top of the app. But, for those with widened status bars (to account for larger hole-punch cameras), some of the UI elements will be ever so slightly underneath the status bar, and therefore impossible/harder to tap. This is particularly noticeable when reacting to a friend's post.

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

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!
Introducing a dynamic weather graph in the Analyze tab, the ability to increase and decrease the font size in journal entries, and updated Reframe tools.
Fixes
Fixed an issue that prevented account creation
Fixed an issue with the data download and import