How We Feel 4+

An emotional wellbeing journal

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

    • 4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
    • Free

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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 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.

What’s New

Version 1.14.11

We're feeling *delighted* to share our latest improvements and bug fixes with you.

- Added autoscrolling to the next tags section when you tap on a tag
- Fixed unexpected behavior when entering very large numbers for Health Data (Steps, Cups of Water, etc)
- Fixed a bug where Weekly Review notifications could not be disabled via settings
- Fixed a bug where pressing backspace did not correctly delete the placeholder text when adding a custom emotion description.
- Fixed the share modal showing the incorrect number of friends when a friend is removed
- Fixed a crash when you have backgrounded the app while in the middle of writing a journal entry.
- Fixed an issue where Weekly Review does not use check-in tags

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1.3K Ratings

1.3K Ratings

Editors’ Notes

This science-based mood journal aims to help you achieved a more balanced sense of wellbeing, via daily check-ins and a colour-coded matrix to help explore your emotions.

AlienaElloise8 ,

This app is a life saver (I don’t normally write reviews)

I’m taken back by this app. It is a lot more than you would expect. Hitting rock bottom I’ve been searching various ways to overcome this, searching online, speaking to medical professionals, working through previous therapy e.g dbt, cbt, schema focus therapy which obviously have benefits and some included within this app, although independently are nothing quite like what this app has been able to offer. The layout, easy use and evidence based techniques offered in this app are a rarity. I’ve noticed significant benefits so far and this has provided me with an immense amount of hope for the future.

A big thank you to the creators! I’m grateful to have come across “how we feel”.

SP.- ,

Great app with 1 annoying issue

I would highly recommend this app to anyone. The only issue i have found with it is that if you add exercise to a evening check in to say you are feeling great now you have done the exercise, then it changes the exercise for the morning check in too? Which is annoying because i might be feeling sad in the morning but then once i have done exercise feel much better. This causes the “how exercise makes you feel” section to be incorrect as it would say that exercise makes me feel bad when in fact it makes me feel better. The same problem applies to sleep too as if you take a nap and sleep more it changes it for all of the previous check ins too. If this issue could be fixed so that exercise and sleep are only set for that specific check in then this would be perfect. Other than those issues it is such a good app literally!

App Privacy

The developer, The How We Feel Project, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Other Data

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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