Coach Dory vs How We Feel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coach Dory
This app helps you navigate challenging life moments by suggesting personalized self-care strategies. It learns what works best for you, tracks your progress, and offers rewards for consistent self-care. Join thousands of users who are reducing stress and thriving under pressure with tailored support.
- Personalized self-care recommendations
- Daily check-ins
- Customizable play reminders
- Progress tracking and streaks
- Reward system for self-care
- Learns user preferences
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Go Bigger. Never burn out. The scientifically proven system for ambitious founders and executives. 10x your performance, thrive through anything, and never burn out when you run your life on the Optimal Pace Protocol. We guarantee it. Stop guessing. Know exactly how hard you can push yourself, and how far you can go. Standing on the foundation of our five-year study of 10,000 high-pressure high-achievers, the protocol decodes the path to building your performance capacity so you can thrive through anything. They want you to slow down. We'll show you how to go faster, 10x your performance and never burn out. With over 10,000 members, Dory is the #1 high-performance community for executives and entrepreneurs. Massive efforts become effortless with the Optimal Pace Protocol. Our protocol tools include everything you need to start chasing your dreams, 10x your performance and never burn out. Our mastermind sessions provide accountability for when you're in the trenches and burnout is on the horizon. And our guides provide high-touch expert guidance to prevent burnout fast when you're already at your limit. Real results. No burnout. Just proof. "The major value I discovered in the protocol was learning new ways to manage my mindset. There's such a range of helpful activities. After using it for a couple of days, my performance score increased and became even easier to improve over time." - Michael in Denver, Doctor of Psychology "The protocol is founded on the central concept of pace, a fundamental physiologic principle, relevant to all facets of life. For those who appreciate brief, quantitative sessions, this platform is the ideal choice. Staying near your Optimal Pace enables you to achieve greater ambitions." - SR in Boston, MD, Neurologist, Neuroscientist "The protocol has helped me to set a stronger mindset, establish balance within the day, develop habits to be more productive, and equally become more conscious of what habits create more or less productivity. It's making me a better person at home, in the office and everywhere in between." - Wayne in Dubai, Public Company CEO Push harder. Never burn out. High-pressure high-achievers like you need specialized tools, so you can stay in the game long enough to see your wildest dreams come true. We're not going to let burnout break your brilliant brain. Not on our watch. Optimal Pace is Power You control your destiny when you know your Optimal Pace. Everyone who burns out is guessing at their Optimal Pace, and they guessed wrong. Measurable, trackable, and predictable Always know where you stand with clear Performance and Capacity metrics you can trust, track, and improve. Clinically proven results Achieve 10x Performance and prevent burnout—guaranteed. Results you can measure in a month. Impact you'll feel in weeks. Specifically for high-achievers The system stands on the foundation of our five-year study of 10,000 high-pressure high-achievers that decoded the path to building performance and capacity. Three membership speeds Choose Protocol, Mastermind, or Guide. Each membership gets you to 10x Performance and prevents burnout at the speed you need. Confidence in community Figure it all out faster in our supportive community of high-achievers who are ready to show you the way. Burnout is a choice. You can choose to run straight into the dream-crushing wall of burnout that’s coming, or you can choose to build your capacity to thrive through pressure so you can stay on your path and see your wildest dreams come true. This is the moment you choose the path that shows the world how brilliant you really are, or you fall victim to the path straight to burnout. This time, the path to never burning out is measurable, trackable and predictable. Working with Dory is free. Paid plans are available and unlock additional tools and community connection features. Terms of use: https://www.thrivewithdory.com/agreements/terms-and-conditions
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 Coach Dory's 6. How We Feel also leads on ratings volume (30K vs 20) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Coach Dory's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Coach Dory sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. How We Feel asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Coach Dory against 4.9 for How We Feel. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How We Feel has 30K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Coach Dory's written reviews are positive against 91% of How We Feel's.
Coach Dory ships an update monthly, How We Feel fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coach Dory | How We Feel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better | 4.9 (30K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 30K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 235 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Founders First System, LLC | The How We Feel Project, Inc. |
Customer experience
Coach Dory
How We Feel
Bugs and requests
Coach Dory
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Coach Dory
- Starter Subscription$2.991 Month
- Premier Subscription$18.991 Month
- Free Trial & Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- Annual Subscription$95.991 Year
- Annual Premier Subscription$95.991 Year
- Full Access Subscription$98.991 Month
How We Feel
No in-app purchases









