Bearable vs How We Feel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bearable
This app helps you understand and manage your health by tracking symptoms, triggers, and treatments. It allows you to identify patterns and correlations to gain better control over chronic illnesses, pain, mood, and more. Securely store and analyze your health data to share with your doctor.
- Symptom tracking
- Trigger identification
- Medication and treatment logging
- Habit and activity tracking
- Health data correlation analysis
- Medical appointment preparation
- Data export and sync
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Feeling overwhelmed by your health? Bearable is the symptom tracker that helps you work out what makes your symptoms, pain, migraine and mental health better or worse, so you can feel more in control. Join over 2M patients & doctors using Bearable to manage symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication and mental health. FIND YOUR TRIGGERS Most people arrive with one question: what is making my symptoms worse? Log how you feel in a few taps a day, and Bearable shows the correlations between your symptoms and your sleep, food, weather, stress, medication and habits, so you know which triggers to avoid. NOT SURE WHERE TO START? No diagnosis or plan needed. Rate how you feel, add a symptom or two, and Bearable suggests what to log next as your symptom diary grows. PAIN, MIGRAINE AND HEADACHE TRACKER Record pain levels, where the pain is and how long it lasts. Log migraine frequency and severity, spot the warning signs before a migraine attack, see which migraine treatments help, and learn which triggers reliably set off your headaches. The pain tracker is used every day by people managing chronic pain, migraine, arthritis, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, joint pain and back pain. MENTAL HEALTH AND MOOD TRACKER See whether your mental health is changing over time, not just how today feels. Log mood, energy, stress, sleep and anxiety alongside what is going on in your life, and see how work, exercise, social plans and the weather shape your mental health. The mental health tracker is used by people living with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and OCD, and by anyone wanting a clearer picture of their mental health. CHRONIC ILLNESS, FATIGUE AND FLARE-UPS Log flare-ups, pain, crashes and good days to see what leads to each. Work out which activities drain you or give you energy, and give your doctor a clear record of how your chronic illness has changed. Built with people living with PoTS, EDS, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS and long covid. GUT, HORMONES AND CYCLE Log digestive symptoms, food and bathroom habits to find out which foods are behind your IBS or GERD flare-ups. See how your symptoms, pain, migraine and mood change across each phase of your cycle, useful for PCOS, PMDD, endometriosis and menstrual migraine. MEDICATION AND TREATMENTS Log medication, supplements and treatments, then see whether they are working for your pain, migraine or mental health and whether they cause side effects. The medication tracker also sets reminders so you never miss a dose or a diary entry. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE Symptoms, pain, migraine, mood, medication, exercise and diet in one health tracker, so you can find useful patterns instead of switching between apps. - Fully customisable: record exactly what matters to you - Insights that show what correlates with your symptoms - Reports that turn months of symptom, pain and mental health logs into actionable insights - Sync steps, sleep and heart rate from Apple Health and Fitbit - Reminders, secure export, restore across devices, dark mode PRIVATE AND SECURE Your health data is encrypted. Export or delete it from within the app at any time. We will never sell your data. MADE BY PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND Created by people who live with health issues themselves, shaped by thousands of members of the chronic illness community. Our aim is to make symptom tracking simple, even on days when fatigue, pain, migraine or brain fog make everything harder. WAYS PEOPLE USE BEARABLE Symptom tracker & health diary Migraine & headache tracker Chronic Pain tracker Mental health & mood tracker Chronic illness & flare diary IBS & IBD symptom tracker PCOS, PMDD & cycle tracker PoTS & EDS tracker Medication tracker & reminders GET IN TOUCH Questions or feedback support@bearable.app Website https://bearable.app Terms https://bearable.app/terms-and-conditions Privacy https://bearable.app/privacy-policy Insights from Bearable are not medical advice. Always consult your doctor before making medical decisions.
How We Feel
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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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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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: How We Feel at none against Bearable's 13. How We Feel also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 81%) and ratings volume (30K vs 6.3K). Bearable's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and chart position 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
Both are free to download. Bearable sells 13 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. How We Feel asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Bearable against 4.9 for How We Feel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6.3K and 30K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Bearable's written reviews are positive against 91% of How We Feel's.
Bearable ships an update weekly, How We Feel every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Bearable | How We Feel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.3K ratings) | 4.9 (30K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.0% of reviews | 91.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.3K | 30K — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #166 | #137 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 250 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bearable Ltd | The How We Feel Project, Inc. |
Customer experience
Bearable
How We Feel
User reviews
Bearable
From 6.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly customizable
- 🚀 Comprehensive health tracking
- 💡 Helpful for chronic illness management
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Integrates with Apple Health
Room to improve
- 🔒 Privacy concerns around data sharing
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 🔒 Requires account creation
- 💰 Premium features behind paywall
How We Feel
From 30K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
- 🤗 Helps with emotional awareness and regulation
- 💎 Comprehensive range of emotions to choose from
- 🎨 Visually appealing and aesthetically pleasing
- 🆓 Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases
Room to improve
- 🔍 Limited ability to add custom emotions
- 🔀 Difficulty expressing mixed or complex emotions
- 🕰️ Inability to log past emotions or edit timestamps
- 🐛 Occasional app crashes or bugs
- 🔒 Lack of password protection or app lock feature
Bugs and requests
Bearable
Reported bugs
2 issues- Logging out and switching devices causes data loss
- Customization options can be buggy
Requested features
5 requests- Improved sleep tracking
- Integration with more health data sources
- Menstrual cycle tracking
- iPad app version
- Easier food/nutrition tracking
How We Feel
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when accessing the 'Tools' section
- Exercise and sleep data incorrectly applied to past entries
- Editing past entries leads to a blank screen
- Inconsistent behavior when adding friends
Requested features
6 requests- Add ability to log multiple emotions at once
- Implement a body map to identify physical sensations
- Allow users to customize emotion categories
- Provide an option to export data or sync across devices
- Add a widget for quick mood check-ins
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- Integrate with health/fitness tracking apps
In-app purchases
Bearable
- Bearable premium$4.491 Month
- Bearable premium$6.991 Month
- Premium subscription7 Days trial$15.991 Year
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- Bearable premium7 Days trial$18.991 Year
- Bearable premium7 Days trial$22.991 Year
- Bearable Premium7 Days trial$23.991 Year
- Bearable premium3 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Bearable premium7 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Bearable premium14 Days trial$27.991 Year
- Bearable premium1 Month trial$27.991 Year
- Bearable premium7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Bearable premium7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Bearable premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
How We Feel
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bearable free?
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