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.
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Cool Emotion Logging Tool
My therapist recommended this app as a quick way to note down and reflect on my emotions at different times of the day. It does this! It also helps that it looks slick and is satisfying to interact with.
Not part of review: One suggestion I have is the random times of day for notifications is really cool, but it’d be great to be able to set the range for those times. So I could avoid being notified when I’m asleep. You can pick specific times to avoid this but I think the random range of time is more useful in capturing a more natural reaction if that makes sense.
Thanks for the tool!
Wellbeing
The wellbeing App is brilliant
Gods gift to apps
Love love love
Tracking Feelings
Downloaded this app at the beginning on the recommendation from a podcaster . Finding it interesting so far
Very well done app
Seeing an app in 2024 does blew my mind. No in apps, no creepy data scraping, no pushing to subscribe to newsletters. Who ever designed this app big congrats. Give them a raise and pls try to keep them in your team no matter what.
I loved the fact that the app wasn’t asking me grab my health data even before using it. ux done right. Giving users a chance to look around before asking data. In fact I actually went into settings and turned it on by myself. I love how humble the ux is.
Although I find the friend section a bit shallow and unnecessary but that’s just me. If I’m dreading something, that’s the last thing that announce it. You know…
Love this app but
This app helps me recognise my emotions but the only issue is when i now add a feeling the app crashes and closes before asking if i want to share with my friends. is this because i update it everyday and there’s too much on it? is there any way this can be fixed as i use this app more than 4 times a day:)
So thankful for this app!
I just want to say what a great app this is. I am able to learn about my emotions, keep a log and be guided by simple yet engaging videos. The design is appealing, it’s easy to use and on top of everything, it’s free! I’m super grateful and would highly recommend it.
Amazing!
Probably the best app ever for mental health. Really helps to monitor and check how you are feeling and has great exercises to help fix mindset!
Utterly amazing
Ten stars!!! I downloaded this for my son who has suspected autism. In exploring it for him I found a hugely valuable tool for myself. I feel so incredibly grateful to have found it. My son and I are able to communicate about his emotions (and mine) better and even after only a few days this awareness has given him more calm and control over himself. This app is deeply helpful and therapeutic. The short videos that get offered are brilliant as are the breathing exercises and I just want to extend my enormous thanks to everyone involved in this app for making something so valuable to humans and for making it free. It’s a gift and I’m thankful to you all for making our lives a little better.
widgets!!!
Love this app . have been using it for years since before you could log two feelings properly and all , and i have one suggestion.
lockscreen and/or home screen widgets to keep it easy to log how your feeling / see how you’ve been would be so so so helpful! they don’t have to be peak and revolutionary, just the ease of access would help sm . love the app tho <333
