Comparison

Dynamic Mind Practice vs How We Feel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dynamic Mind Practice

This app offers a deep relaxation mindfulness practice designed to alleviate fears, worries, anxieties, and sleep difficulties. It promotes calmness, positivity, focus, and mental clarity through a method developed over 50 years. Experience the benefits of stress release and improved consciousness states.

Highlights
  • Deep relaxation and stress release
  • Alleviates fears, worries, and anxieties
  • Improves focus and mental clarity
  • Aids in overcoming sleeping difficulties
  • Master jetlag with practice
  • Understanding brain wave states
Features
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The Dynamic Mind PracticeTM (DMP) is a deep relaxation mindfulness practice that has been found to relieve fears, worries, anxieties, physical tension and sleeping difficulties. It also helps us assists everyone who uses it to feel calmer, more positive and present, and creates the ability for us to think with increased focus and clarity. DMP is presented by Gita Bellin who has been teaching, lecturing and consulting internationally for sixty years. Gita and her team at Gita Bellin & Associates have been assisting people with the knowledge and skills that release stress. DMP has been shared with hundreds of thousands of people over 50 years, world-wide, by Gita and the many GBA teachers who have been trained to deliver the practice. DMP is being made available online for the very first time. Gita and her team wish to freely offer the Dynamic Mind Practice to anyone who would like to experience all the great benefits of doing this simple, yet powerful practice of deep relaxation and stress release. Gaining the skill of DMP is especially beneficial in overcoming all the current challenges that we are all facing, at this time. Within this App is an understanding and experience of the Dynamic Mind PracticeTM, including: how our brain waves link to our three major states of consciousness – waking, dreaming and deep sleep; a debrief and important explanation of how the DMP experience links with the Mastery of brain waves; the DMP Deep Sleep Practice; how to use the DMP to master jetlag; further information in regard to using the DMP in daily life.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Dynamic Mind Practice4 screens
How We Feel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: How We Feel at 30K against Dynamic Mind Practice's 4. How We Feel also leads on chart position (#146 vs unranked). Dynamic Mind Practice's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Dynamic Mind Practice 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 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Dynamic Mind Practice's written reviews are positive against 91% of How We Feel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dynamic Mind Practice ships an update every 3 weeks, How We Feel fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Dynamic Mind Practice versus How We Feel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDynamic Mind PracticeHow We Feel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.9 (30K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better91.1% of reviews
Number of ratings430K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#146 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB235 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGBA Knowledge FoundationThe How We Feel Project, Inc.

Customer experience

Dynamic Mind Practice

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

How We Feel

All ratings29,876 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews1,547 reviews
Positive91.1%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.8%

Bugs and requests

Dynamic Mind Practice

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

None

Dynamic Mind Practice

No in-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dynamic Mind Practice free?
Dynamic Mind Practice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dynamic Mind Practice or How We Feel?
Dynamic Mind Practice is rated higher. Dynamic Mind Practice averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while How We Feel averages 4.9 from 30K ratings.
Do Dynamic Mind Practice or How We Feel have ads?
Neither Dynamic Mind Practice nor How We Feel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dynamic Mind Practice or How We Feel?
Dynamic Mind Practice ships an update every 3 weeks, and How We Feel fortnightly. Most recently, Dynamic Mind Practice was updated on October 5, 2026 and How We Feel on October 15, 2026.

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