Complex Feelings vs NVC Guide
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.
NVC Guide
Learn Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to express yourself honestly and listen empathetically. This app guides you through the four key steps of NVC: observation, emotion, need, and request, helping you craft effective statements for conflict resolution and express gratitude.
- Nonviolent Communication framework
- Conflict resolution guidance
- Expressing emotions and needs
- Formulating requests
- Gratitude journaling
- Tracking met needs
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At its core, Nonviolent Communication is about communicating honestly and receiving empathetically, a way of communicating that “leads us to give from the heart” (Rosenberg). For conflicts, this app will walk you through the four key parts: observation, emotion, need, and request. This app will walk you through these four key steps to create statements that you can use with the person you are in conflict with. Did you know that this app can also help you write meaningful gratitudes? It be used to express gratefulness in a way that explains what underlying need was met. This app can function as a gratitude journal, keeping track of your daily met needs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NVC Guide at Free against Complex Feelings's $1.99. NVC Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Complex Feelings's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 2). 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
NVC Guide is free to download; Complex Feelings costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NVC Guide 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Complex Feelings ships an update every 4 months, NVC Guide weekly. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Complex Feelings | NVC Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Weekly — 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 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Gavilan | Giselle Jhunjhnuwala |
Customer experience
Complex Feelings
NVC Guide
In-app purchases
Complex Feelings
No in-app purchases
NVC Guide
No in-app purchases
