How We Feel vs Sixty Strong
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.
Sixty Strong
This app guides Christian men through a 60-day program to build physical fitness, spiritual growth, and stronger relationships. Users join teams for accountability and engage in daily practices like exercise, scripture reading, and prayer.
- 60-day habit-building program
- Team-based accountability
- Physical fitness challenges
- Spiritual growth activities
- Relationship building
- Progress tracking
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Sixty Strong is a holistic habit-building app designed specifically for Christian men, focusing on physical fitness, spiritual growth, and emotional connection. Over the course of 60 days, users join a team of up to 8 men for accountability and support as they engage in daily practices such as exercise, scripture reading, prayer, and relationship-building activities. With personalized challenge levels, progress tracking, and community-based motivation, 60Strong offers a unique approach to developing stronger bodies, deeper faith, and closer relationships, all while fostering personal and spiritual growth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: How We Feel at 30K against Sixty Strong's 27. Sixty Strong's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%) and device support (3 vs 1). 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
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 4.9 for Sixty Strong. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How We Feel has 30K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of How We Feel's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sixty Strong's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How We Feel | Sixty Strong |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (30K ratings) | 4.9 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30K — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The How We Feel Project, Inc. | Good Fight Creative Co. |
Customer experience
How We Feel
Sixty Strong
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
Sixty Strong
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
How We Feel
No in-app purchases
Sixty Strong
No in-app purchases









