Comparison

How We Feel vs Hearapy

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

Hearapy

This app uses scientifically researched 100Hz vestibular stimulation via AirPods to prevent motion sickness. A single 60-second session synchronizes conflicting sensory signals, reducing nausea and restoring comfortable travel.

Highlights
  • 100Hz pure sine wave vestibular stimulation
  • Optimized for AirPods Pro and Max
  • 60-second focused sessions
  • Intuitive neumorphic interface
  • Taptic Engine haptic feedback
Features
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60 seconds. No pills. No patches. Hearapy's 100Hz tone works through your AirPods to stop motion sickness before it starts. Hearapy delivers a scientifically-backed 100Hz pure sine wave through your AirPods to stimulate the otolith organs in your inner ear — calibrating your balance signals and relieving motion sickness before it takes hold. Based on advanced research in vestibular stimulation, a single 60-second session applied before or at the start of travel provides lasting relief HOW IT WORKS Motion sickness occurs when your eyes and inner ear send conflicting signals to your brain. Hearapy's 100Hz vestibular stimulation helps synchronize these signals, reducing the disorientation that causes nausea. FEATURES • Pure 100Hz sine wave generated in real-time — no pre-recorded audio files • Optimized for AirPods Pro and AirPods Max with Active Noise Cancellation • 60-second focused session with live countdown • Calm, neumorphic interface designed for users who already feel unwell • Taptic Engine micro-vibrations synchronized with the audio wave WHEN TO USE IT Put on your AirPods, open Hearapy, and run a session before you board — or at the first sign of discomfort. One minute is all it takes. SAFETY NOTICE Hearapy is not a medical device or treatment. Consult a doctor before use if you have a history of epilepsy, severe inner ear disorders, or active vertigo attacks. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hearapy.carrd.co/#privacy

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
Hearapy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: How We Feel at none against Hearapy's 2. How We Feel also leads on ratings volume (30K vs 1). Hearapy's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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. Hearapy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. How We Feel asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Hearapy. 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, Hearapy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
How We Feel versus Hearapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelHearapy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe How We Feel Project, Inc.Osman Tufekci

Customer experience

How We Feel

All ratings30,090 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews1,559 reviews
Positive91.1%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.9%

Hearapy

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

Hearapy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Hearapy

Subscriptions1
  • Hearapy Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime$7.99

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hearapy free?
Hearapy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, How We Feel or Hearapy?
Hearapy is rated higher. How We Feel averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30K ratings, while Hearapy averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do How We Feel or Hearapy have ads?
Neither How We Feel nor Hearapy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, How We Feel or Hearapy?
How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, and Hearapy weekly. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on October 26, 2026 and Hearapy on October 6, 2026.

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