Comparison

How We Feel vs SayBright

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

SayBright

Cultivate a consistent daily affirmation habit with personalized messages. Choose from various categories, track your progress with streaks, and share uplifting quotes as beautiful social media cards. Stay motivated with reminders and home screen widgets.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily affirmations
  • 10 affirmation categories
  • Streak tracking and rewards
  • Shareable quote cards
  • Home screen widgets
  • Daily reminders
Features
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SayBright helps you build a daily affirmation practice that sticks. Every morning, SayBright greets you with a personalized affirmation from the categories you care about most: confidence, gratitude, self love, morning energy, and more. Swipe through beautiful cards, save your favorites, and share them as stunning quote cards on social media. DAILY AFFIRMATIONS Choose from 10 categories and 340+ carefully crafted affirmations. Each one is designed to feel authentic, uplifting, and actionable. BUILD YOUR STREAK Open SayBright daily to build your streak. Celebrate milestones at 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 180, and 365 days with special animations and rewards. SHARE YOUR LIGHT Generate beautiful, branded share cards from any affirmation. Share them to Instagram Stories, iMessage, or anywhere you want to spread positivity. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Keep affirmations front and center with home screen and lock screen widgets that update throughout the day. DAILY REMINDERS Set a daily reminder to never miss your affirmation practice. Choose your perfect time and let SayBright come to you. SAYBRIGHT PREMIUM Unlock all 10 categories, unlimited daily affirmations, home screen widgets, watermark free share cards, and an ad free experience. Subscription options: Monthly: $0.99/month Annual: $9.99/year Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://ramseysmith.github.io/SayBright/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://ramseysmith.github.io/SayBright/terms.html

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
SayBright4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: How We Feel at none against SayBright's 2. How We Feel also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (30K vs 3). SayBright's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating 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. SayBright sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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 SayBright. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How We Feel has 30K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, SayBright every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
How We Feel versus SayBright: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelSayBright
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#210 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe How We Feel Project, Inc.Graysmith Labs LLC

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%

SayBright

All ratings3 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

SayBright

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SayBright

Subscriptions2
  • SayBright Premium Monthly$0.991 Month
  • SayBright Premium$9.991 Year

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SayBright free?
SayBright is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, How We Feel or SayBright?
SayBright is rated higher. How We Feel averages 4.9 out of 5 from 30K ratings, while SayBright averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do How We Feel or SayBright have ads?
SayBright shows ads; How We Feel does not.
Which is updated more often, How We Feel or SayBright?
How We Feel ships an update fortnightly, and SayBright every 5 weeks. Most recently, How We Feel was updated on October 18, 2026 and SayBright on October 15, 2026.

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