How We Feel vs Becoming
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Becoming
This app helps you build positive daily routines and achieve personal growth. It offers intuitive tools for habit formation, task management, and learning, guiding you towards a more fulfilling lifestyle.
- Habit formation
- Task management
- Habit stacking
- Curated learning content
- Intuitive interface
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Become a better version of yourself with Becoming Are you ready to transform your daily routines into stepping stones for personal growth? With Becoming, your journey towards a better version of yourself is just a tap away. Our app is designed to simplify the process of habit formation, allowing you to focus on what truly matters - becoming the best you can be. Why Choose Becoming? - Become You: Cultivate a life filled with positive habits. Our intuitive interface helps you incorporate good practices into your day, setting you up for a positive life. - Create Stacks: Build your success one habit at a time. Our 'habit stacking' feature lets you organize and tackle your goals systematically. - Be Productive: Manage your tasks with ease and say goodbye to stress. Becoming offers a seamless way to keep your to-do list under control. - Learn as You Go: Enhance your journey with curated content. Read insightful articles right within the app to fuel your motivation. Join Us in the beginning Phase Becoming is currently at the beginning of its journey, which means we're tirelessly working to polish every corner, introduce thrilling new features, and create the ultimate habit-tracking experience for you. But we can't do it without your valuable input! As we grow and evolve, your feedback is the guiding light that shapes the future of Becoming. Whether it's a feature you'd love to see or a user experience tweak, we're all ears. Share your thoughts and help us tailor Becoming to your personal journey of transformation. Let's Grow Together Download Becoming today, and take the first step towards a stress-free and fulfilling lifestyle. As we continue to develop and enhance the app, we invite you to become a part of our community. Your journey to self-improvement is important to us, and we're excited to support you every step of the way. Download Becoming now and let's build a brighter future, one habit at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: How We Feel at 30K against Becoming's 1. How We Feel also leads on chart position (#159 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for How We Feel against 5.0 for Becoming. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How We Feel has 30K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | How We Feel | Becoming |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (30K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #159 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The How We Feel Project, Inc. | Daniel Arden |
Customer experience
How We Feel
Becoming
Bugs and 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
Becoming
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
How We Feel
No in-app purchases
Becoming
No in-app purchases









