# How We Feel vs The Mood Meter!

The clearest difference is update cadence: How We Feel at fortnightly against The Mood Meter!'s every 20 months. How We Feel also leads on ratings volume (30K vs 1) and chart position (#204 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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 The Mood Meter!. 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.

How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, The Mood Meter! every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

## The numbers

| Metric | How We Feel | The Mood Meter! |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | [4.9 (30K ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/how-we-feel/id1562706384/reviews) | **[5.0 (1 ratings)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mood-meter/id6740997925/reviews)** |
| Number of ratings | **30K** | 1 |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Ads | No | No |
| Update frequency | **Fortnightly** | Every 20 months |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | **#204** | — |
| Size | 199 MB | 6 MB |
| Requires iOS | **17.0** | 26.0 |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | [The How We Feel Project, Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1503942025) | [Ethan Marshall](https://appshunter.io/developer/1581284516) |

## What reviewers say

### How We Feel

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/how-we-feel/id1562706384)

**Currently charting:** #204 Top Free · Health & Fitness (US App Store)

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:** Apple Wallet, Vision Pro support

**In-app purchases:** none

**What reviewers like**

- 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
- 🤗 Helps with emotional awareness and regulation
- 💎 Comprehensive range of emotions to choose from
- 🎨 Visually appealing and aesthetically pleasing
- 🆓 Completely free with no ads or in-app purchases

**What reviewers complain about**

- 🔍 Limited ability to add custom emotions
- 🔀 Difficulty expressing mixed or complex emotions
- 🕰️ Inability to log past emotions or edit timestamps
- 🐛 Occasional app crashes or bugs
- 🔒 Lack of password protection or app lock feature

**Reported bugs**

- 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**

- 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


### The Mood Meter!

[App page](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-mood-meter/id6740997925)

**In-app purchases:** none


## Frequently asked questions

### Is How We Feel free?

How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

### Is The Mood Meter! free?

The Mood Meter! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

### Which has better reviews, How We Feel or The Mood Meter!?

The Mood Meter! is rated higher. How We Feel averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30K ratings, while The Mood Meter! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.

### Do How We Feel or The Mood Meter! have ads?

Neither How We Feel nor The Mood Meter! shows ads.

### Which is updated more often, How We Feel or The Mood Meter!?

How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, and The Mood Meter! every 20 months. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on October 25, 2026 and The Mood Meter! on October 24, 2026.

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*Compared by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/) from daily US App Store data. Review summaries are generated from verbatim App Store reviews.*