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 won't lie, I very much enjoy this app since I've found it. it's definitely an interesting alternative to Dailyio. however it's missing a major feature that makes it hard to recommend (hence -2 stars): there's no 'Restore.' you guys have the backup feature, which is great. but for a journalling/mood-app, it's kind of imperative to have a way to restore the app from the csv files... you'd likely also get more concerts with such a feature (w/ a guide on structuring data from other apps)

Well designed, free, and absolutely no bs. Its what it says on the tin and is exactly what I wanted and a bit more. The self-analysis with organized data is especially helpful. Sometimes the emotions can be a little constraining, there's no 'other' function, but it allows me to try and figure out for myself the closest equivalent. 10/10, will donate to the project. May even try and see if I can join up on the project side as well, who knows.

This app is UH-MAZING! I have a cocktail of mental and emotional stuff I'm finally working through. The layout here is engaging, fun, and aesthetically pleasing! I like the emotion wheel/ puzzle piece concept. As someone with high functioning autism, I really love the puzzle-esque aspect. And so much is done for you! Which, in my opinion, is something one wants in a mood tracking app. Used Dalyio for over half a decade and I still could not recommend it to the degree I already can with this!

What's new

This version includes bug fixes and performance improvements! We are eager to share the following updates:
New
- Added a custom date and time picker.
- Added infinite scroll to the sleep and exercise pickers.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented updating the date and time of check-ins.
- Fixed a bug that displayed the incorrect date when viewing past check-ins.
- Fixed a bug in the streak counter.
Fixed a typo on the Friends tab.