Comparison

How We Feel vs PMA Stoic Pro

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

PMA Stoic Pro

Features
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PMA Stoic Pro is a premium emotional clarity and reflection app designed to help you slow down, think clearly, and navigate daily life with greater calm, resilience, discipline, and self-awareness. Blending Stoicism, psychology, emotional intelligence, and Positive Mental Attitude (PMA), PMA Stoic Pro creates a calm and supportive space for reflection, emotional processing, and mindful daily growth. Whether you are experiencing stress, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, burnout, heartbreak, anxiety, or mental fatigue, the app helps you regain clarity through structured reflection and emotionally grounded guidance. FEATURES • Guided Stoic reflections • Emotional reframing engine • Voice and text reflection input • Mood and emotional tracking • Guided journaling experiences • Calm breathing and grounding exercises • Personalized reflection journeys • English, Spanish, and Portuguese support • Dark Mode, Light Mode, and System Mode • Private and secure reflection experience Designed with a calm, minimal, and psychologically intelligent approach, PMA Stoic Pro helps create space between emotion and reaction — encouraging greater awareness, balance, and emotional resilience without pressure, noise, or toxic positivity. Not therapy. Not crisis support. A calm space to think clearly again. Privacy Policy: https://pmascience.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

How We Feel4 screens
PMA Stoic Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: How We Feel at none against PMA Stoic Pro's 3. How We Feel also leads on chart position (#125 vs unranked). PMA Stoic Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. PMA Stoic Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. How We Feel asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
How We Feel versus PMA Stoic Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHow We FeelPMA Stoic Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings30K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#125 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size199 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThe How We Feel Project, Inc.PMA Science LLC

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

PMA Stoic Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

PMA Stoic Pro

Subscriptions2
  • PMA Stoic Pro Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • PMA Stoic Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • PMA Stoic Pro Lifetime$79.99

Questions

Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PMA Stoic Pro free?
PMA Stoic Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do How We Feel or PMA Stoic Pro have ads?
Neither How We Feel nor PMA Stoic Pro shows ads.

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