How We Feel vs Daily Dot
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.
Daily Dot
Effortlessly track daily goals and build streaks with a simple, visual interface. See your year at a glance with a pixelated grid that lights up as you complete habits. Focus on what matters without complicated setup or overwhelming features.
- Visual year-at-a-glance habit grid
- Simple daily goal completion
- Flexible yearly, monthly, weekly views
- Customizable date ranges
- Clean dark interface with color themes
- No account creation required
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Per Day makes habit tracking effortless. No complicated setup, no overwhelming features — just tap each day you complete your goal and watch your progress unfold. SEE YOUR YEAR AT A GLANCE View your entire year as a beautiful grid of pixels. Each day you complete your habit lights up, creating a visual map of your consistency. It's simple, satisfying, and motivating. TRACK WHAT MATTERS TO YOU • Exercise or movement • Reading or learning • Meditation or mindfulness • Creative practice • Journaling • Sobriety or healthy choices • Any daily goal you want to build FLEXIBLE VIEWING OPTIONS Switch between yearly, monthly, or weekly views to see your progress at any scale. Set custom date ranges to track specific challenges or goals. BUILT FOR SIMPLICITY No accounts to create. No complicated statistics. No overwhelming dashboards. Just you, your goals, and a simple tap each day. BEAUTIFUL BY DEFAULT A clean, focused dark interface that looks great and stays out of your way. Choose from multiple color themes to make it yours. START TODAY Every journey begins with a single day. Download Per Day and make today the first pixel in your streak.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: How We Feel at Free against Daily Dot's $8.99. How We Feel also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (30K vs 1). On rating, 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
How We Feel is free to download; Daily Dot costs $8.99 up front. 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 Daily Dot. 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, Daily Dot every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | How We Feel | Daily Dot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $8.99 |
| 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 — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #104 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The How We Feel Project, Inc. | Troy Fields |
Customer experience
How We Feel
Daily Dot
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
Daily Dot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
How We Feel
No in-app purchases
Daily Dot
No in-app purchases









