Comparison

How We Feel vs Cough App

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

Head to head
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.

About

Cough App

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The Cough App is an innovative solution for tracking cough frequency, designed to provide continuous and accurate monitoring through seamless integration with a wearable device. We prioritise your privacy. All data is encrypted and securely stored, ensuring your personal health information remains confidential.

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
Cough App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: How We Feel at #128 against Cough App's unranked. How We Feel also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, Cough App monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
How We Feel versus Cough App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelCough App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#128 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe How We Feel Project, Inc.Hyfe Inc.

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

Cough App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

None

Cough App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cough App free?
Cough App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do How We Feel or Cough App have ads?
Neither How We Feel nor Cough App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How We Feel or Cough App?
How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, and Cough App monthly. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on November 5, 2026 and Cough App on October 30, 2026.

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