Complex Feelings vs Inner Giraffe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Complex Feelings
Explore your emotions and needs through abstract icons. Track your feelings and identify what you require to feel better. Includes a mini-game to help release stress by pushing away negative emotions.
- Abstract icon representation of feelings and needs
- Track common feelings and needs over time
- Filter tracking data by time of day
- Mini-game for stress release
- Connect feelings with specific needs
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How do you feel now? Are you in need of something to make you feel better? Pause for a moment to explore your feelings. "Complex Feelings" represents feelings and needs with abstract icons. Touch them to reveal their meaning. Select your current feeling, and connect it with a need. The app keeps track of your pairs of feelings and needs over time, and you can easily check your most common feeling, or what do you need most. Or even filter by time of the day. And to release some stress, there's a mini game where you have to literally push negative feelings aside, and avoid being crushed by them.
Inner Giraffe
This app helps users practice self-empathy using principles of nonviolent communication (NVC). It provides a convenient way to learn and practice new communication skills, especially for those who grew up in challenging environments.
- Self-empathy practice
- Nonviolent communication (NVC)
- Convenient learning tool
- Vocabulary practice
- Empathy skill development
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Practice self empathy with nonviolent communication (NVC). For those of us who grew up in a dysfunctional environment, learning to communicate with empathy is like learning a new language, and practicing new vocabulary is part of the journey. This app is designed to make the practice as convenient as possible.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Inner Giraffe at Free against Complex Feelings's $1.99. Inner Giraffe also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). Complex Feelings's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 5). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Inner Giraffe is free to download; Complex Feelings costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Inner Giraffe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Complex Feelings has 34 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Complex Feelings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Inner Giraffe's.
Complex Feelings ships an update every 4 months, Inner Giraffe fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Complex Feelings | Inner Giraffe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.3 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Gavilan | Edwin Liu |
Customer experience
Complex Feelings
Inner Giraffe
In-app purchases
Complex Feelings
No in-app purchases
Inner Giraffe
No in-app purchases
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