How We Feel

How We Feel

An emotional wellbeing journal

30K ratings
1546 reviews
#148 in free Health & Fitness
📚 Education
💪 Health & Fitness
Free

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • April 18, 2022
  • October 2, 2026

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This app helps users understand and manage their emotions with science-based strategies. It tracks sleep, exercise, and health trends to identify patterns and offers guided exercises for stress, anxiety, and relationship building. Share your feelings with trusted friends to strengthen connections.

✓Emotion identification and tracking
✓Sleep, exercise, and health trend monitoring
✓Science-based emotional regulation strategies
✓Guided video exercises (mindfulness, movement, cognitive)
✓Real-time emotion sharing with trusted friends
✓Pattern identification for emotional wellbeing
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What's New in How We Feel

1.17.15

October 2, 2026

Tooltips helping users navigate the new layout.

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Top Free

📉 148-2

Health & Fitness

This app dropped -2 positions in Health & Fitness chart.

Last updated on October 8, 2026.

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User reviews

This App Has Changed My Life

A therapist recommended this app to me years ago, and over time I’ve gotten in the habit of using it at least a couple times a week. Ive noticed I instinctively open the app whenever I’m going through a hard time, and use it as a sort of “journal”.
Seeing the data change over time is absolutely fascinating and incredibly helpful for me to see. I’ve learned things about my emotional health that I never would have known about otherwise, and can use that knowledge to recognize patterns and (thanks to the AI function) identify harmful thinking traps!
I also love that you can invite your provider to be able to view your entries, which would be so useful for people in therapy!
Thank you, HWF.

(And it’s FREE?!👏🏻🙌🏻)
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update idea

i was on another app that also does what this app does, but it didn’t have as many emotions so i switched. as someone who does daily and monthly reflections, i appreciated that the other app had an option to view all of my emotions for the month at once. i’d like to see if a page that puts the emotions i put down for every day of the month is possible with this app.
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Great for Quick Check Ins

I have utilized this app as a personal and honest check in for myself to help reflect on how I am feeling and managing my emotions throughout the day. It is also really helpful to be able to add a journal entry so that I can track what is causing that emotion. This has been great to reflect back during my therapy sessions. I have recommended this app to friends as a great tool.
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Simple and effective

While the color scheme is a little loud, it is an altogether well designed app. The UX/UI seems targeted for a smaller screen than my own, but a reasonable stop gap has been implemented allowing for the expansion to use the whole screen. Still a little apprehensive about what is happening in the background as some of this information may be intimately personal, but overall a thorough design and implementation. Kudos.
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Reported Bugs

4 issues

App crashes when accessing the 'Tools' section

Bug

Exercise and sleep data incorrectly applied to past entries

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Editing past entries leads to a blank screen

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Inconsistent behavior when adding friends

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Requested Features

6 requests

Add ability to log multiple emotions at once

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Implement a body map to identify physical sensations

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Allow users to customize emotion categories

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Provide an option to export data or sync across devices

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Add a widget for quick mood check-ins

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Integrate with health/fitness tracking apps

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FAQ

What does How We Feel do?

How We Feel is a free app designed to help users understand and manage their emotions. It provides tools to identify how you feel, track health trends like sleep and exercise, and offers science-based strategies for emotional regulation. The app aims to help users navigate emotions, reduce stress and anxiety, and improve relationships.

What are the key features of How We Feel?

Key features include emotion identification and tracking, monitoring of sleep, exercise, and health trends via HealthKit to spot patterns, and access to step-by-step video strategies for cognitive, movement, mindfulness, and social approaches. It also allows users to share their feelings in real-time with trusted friends.

Is How We Feel free to use?

Yes, How We Feel is a free app. It is a science-based nonprofit made possible by donations. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements.

What kind of strategies does the app offer?

The app offers various guided video strategies, each taking about a minute to complete. These include 'Change Your Thinking' for cognitive strategies, 'Move Your Body' for emotional release through movement, 'Be Mindful' for gaining perspective, and 'Reach Out' for building intimacy and trust through social strategies.

How does the app handle user data privacy?

The app's data privacy terms are clear and easy to understand. All your data is kept on your device unless you explicitly opt-in to send an anonymized version of your check-ins for research purposes. This research helps to advance mental wellbeing for a wider audience.