Comparison

How We Feel vs P3TAL

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

P3TAL

This app helps you map your skincare journey as a connected graph, visualizing your routine history, product interactions, and reactions. Share your progress, get community feedback on your skin's appearance, and earn rewards for contributing knowledge.

Highlights
  • Map skincare journey as a knowledge graph
  • Visualize product and ingredient connections
  • Community voting on skin improvement
  • Post bounties for personalized recommendations
  • Earn community currency (dew) and build reputation
  • Discover products through user lineage
Features
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P3tal is a skincare knowledge community built around one idea: the people who know your skin best are people who have skin like yours. Unlike review platforms that aggregate opinions into star ratings, p3tal lets you map your skincare journey as a connected graph, showing not just what you use but how you got there, what failed, what replaced it, and why. Your routine has a history. P3tal makes that history visible, shareable, and useful to others. Map your routine as a knowledge graph Every product, ingredient, reaction, and discovery becomes a node. Connections between nodes carry meaning: this replaced that, this caused a reaction, this complements that. Over time your graph becomes a complete, auditable map of your skin journey, including the dead ends. Let the crowd tell you what they see Upload a gallery of photos across your treatment cycle. The p3tal community votes on whether your skin appears improved, broken down by texture, evenness, and overall appearance. No clinical claims. No algorithms. Just honest perception from people paying close attention. Perception is signal. Post bounties. Get real recommendations. When you're stuck, post a bounty with your skin profile, concerns, climate, and constraints. A guild of experienced curators responds with reasoned recommendations, each one backed by a visible knowledge graph showing exactly why they're suggesting what they suggest. You see the reasoning, not just the conclusion. Earn dew. Build reputation. Contribute to the community by curating routines, voting on galleries, and helping others through bounties. Earn dew, p3tal's community currency, and build a reputation that reflects the quality of your knowledge, not just your follower count. Discover through lineage Search for a product or ingredient and find the knowledge graphs behind it. See how other users arrived there, what path they took, and whether that path resembles yours. Fork their graph, prune what doesn't apply, and extend it with your own discoveries. P3tal is for people who want to understand their skin, not just treat it.

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
P3TAL4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: How We Feel at 30K against P3TAL's 1. How We Feel also leads on chart position (#153 vs unranked). P3TAL's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for How We Feel against 5.0 for P3TAL. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, P3TAL every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
How We Feel versus P3TAL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelP3TAL
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#153 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB314 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperThe How We Feel Project, Inc.Joachim Groeger

Customer experience

How We Feel

All ratings29,876 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews1,547 reviews
Positive91.1%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.8%

P3TAL

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

P3TAL

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

None

P3TAL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is P3TAL free?
P3TAL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, How We Feel or P3TAL?
P3TAL is rated higher. How We Feel averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30K ratings, while P3TAL averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do How We Feel or P3TAL have ads?
Neither How We Feel nor P3TAL shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How We Feel or P3TAL?
How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, and P3TAL every 5 days. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on October 16, 2026 and P3TAL on September 30, 2026.

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