How We Feel
What is How We Feel?
How We Feel is a free Health & Fitness app created by scientists, designers, engineers and therapists, conceived with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence and based on work by Dr Marc Brackett. It helps users find the right word for how they feel and tracks sleep, exercise and health trends through HealthKit to spot patterns over time. It also offers step-by-step video strategies, some doable in one minute, on themes such as changing thinking, moving the body, mindfulness and reaching out.
Pricing. How We Feel is free to download on the App Store.
Good for
- Spotting patterns between mood and sleep, exercise or health data via HealthKit
- Finding strategies to handle stress and anxiety in the moment
- Sharing how you feel with trusted people through the friends feature
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Why this app is in S tier
How We Feel scores 96 out of 100: rating 97, rating count 86, App Store search rank 99, update recency 100. The four parts are averaged with no weights, and S tier follows from that score within this list. The full explanation, as data.
Description
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 using HealthKit 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 terms are clear and easy-to-understand: all of your data is kept on your device unless you opt-in to send an anonymized version of your check-ins to be used in research 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 through daily HealthKit tracking and find emotional regulation
Compare in Mood Tracking
| Measure | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier | S | S | S |
| Score | 96 / 100 | 96 / 100 | 95 / 100 |
| Rating | 4.9 ★ | 4.8 ★ | 4.8 ★ |
| Ratings | 30.1K | 62.1K | 29.4K |
| Latest ratings · 180d | 4.3 ★ · 20 reviews | 4.0 ★ · 20 reviews | 3.9 ★ · 20 reviews |
| Last update | 18d ago | 3d ago | 2d ago |
| Price | Free download | Free + IAP | Free + IAP |
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Questions about How We Feel
Is How We Feel free to download?
The App Store lists the price as free. The app is made possible by donations from people supporting mental wellbeing. In-app purchases: Not stated on the App Store.
What happens to my check-in data?
The listing says all of your data is kept on your device unless you opt in to send an anonymized version of your check-ins to be used in research.
Does the app use Apple Health data?
Yes. It uses HealthKit to track sleep, exercise and health trends alongside check-ins so users can spot patterns over time.
Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download.
What is How We Feel good for?
How We Feel is built for spotting patterns between mood and sleep, exercise or health data via healthkit, finding strategies to handle stress and anxiety in the moment, sharing how you feel with trusted people through the friends feature. It sits in the mood tracking list on AppTierList.
Is How We Feel worth it?
How We Feel is S tier, ranked #3 of 22 mood tracking apps with a score of 96 out of 100, from a 4.9 App Store rating across 30,072 ratings. It is in the list's top tiers; 2 apps rank above it.
How does How We Feel compare to Daylio Journal?
How We Feel is S tier at 96; Daylio Journal is S tier at 96. They score the same. How We Feel is free to download, Daylio Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases.
How often is How We Feel updated?
How We Feel was updated 18 days ago, which counts in its favour.
All the facts
- List
- Mood Tracking
- Tier
- S (Best in class)
- Score
- 96 / 100
- Rank in list
- #3 of 22
- Ranking certainty
- settled
- Price
- Free download
- App Store rating
- 4.9 out of 5
- Number of ratings
- 30,072
- Recent reviews
- 4.3 from 20 in the last 180 days
- Current version
- (18 days ago)
- App Store data read
- App Store category
- Health & Fitness
- Good for
- Spotting patterns between mood and sleep, exercise or health data via HealthKit, Finding strategies to handle stress and anxiety in the moment, Sharing how you feel with trusted people through the friends feature
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Size
- 235 MB
- Age rating
- 4+
- Languages
- 2
- Maker
- unclaimed
- As data
- JSON · why it ranks here
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