Comparison

Being vs How We Feel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Being

This app provides a private and secure space to record your daily thoughts, feelings, and moods. It offers features like photo attachments, mood tracking, and categorization to make journaling a therapeutic self-care habit. Secure your entries with password and biometric locks.

Highlights
  • Private journaling
  • Attach photos
  • Track 12 moods
  • Categorize entries
  • Password and biometric lock
  • Journal journey charts
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Let Being be your best friend. It’s easy to use, gets insight in every aspect of your life, and you can capture your moods that reflect your emotional state. Simply share your thoughts and feelings daily. Try to turn your thoughts, expressions, and emotions into words. Moreso, Being lets you express your Journaling with moods. So journaling won't be boring. Journaling can be a powerful self care habit - this app will be therapeutic for your Being and release stress as you write down your mind. Oh, and you don’t need to worry, all your Journals are safe with Being. We respect your privacy; your Journal is yours and yours only. Nobody can read it, even us. Features: • Journal privately • Post pictures in Journal • Post pictures taken by camera in Journal • 12 moods to pick in Journal • Categorize each Journal • Completely secure: lock the app with password and unlock with Face ID/Touch ID • Share to your social media • Breakdown details of your Journal journey in chart, gradient, and calendar form • Gentle notification as a reminder for Journaling everyday • Customizable app icon privacy policy: https://mikecaesario.app/being-privacy-policy

About

How We Feel

Capture life's simple moments with a beautifully designed journal. Easily record thoughts, emotions, and gratitude with text and photos. Organize your memories and enjoy a private, ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Visual journaling with text and photos
  • Daily prompts and custom prompt creation
  • Photo Journey Board
  • Passcode lock for privacy
  • iCloud sync and backup
  • Ad-free experience
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Use Brighter to create a visual collection of the simple moments in your life. Capture those fleeting moments of the day: something beautiful you see, a simple revelation, an unexpected emotion, a moment of gratitude. Brighter is for the moments in between. It’s a simple, no frills journal, beautifully designed. Create an entry in seconds. Answer a prompt. Or make your own. Add some words and/or a photo. That’s it. Brighter is a simple, flexible tool to help you appreciate the little (and big) things in your life. ENTRY IDEAS: • Thoughts • Emotions • Reflections • Revelations • Gratitude • Moods • Anything FEATURES: - Simple, beautiful design with an array of soothing colors to choose from - Quickly create entries with text and photo - Daily prompts from an expanding library of prompts - Create your own custom prompts (premium feature) - Filter journal entries by prompt or by day, week, month, or year - A Photo Journey Board is automatically created from all the photos you add to your entries - Motivating quotes within the app - Daily reminders - Passcode lock for enhanced privacy - Access your boards from both iPhone and iPad via iCloud sync - Automatic iCloud backup - Unlimited journal entries (premium feature) - Unlimited quotes (premium feature) - No login or registration required - No ads of any kind - No data of any kind stored on our own servers. All data resides on your device and in your iCloud account. FREE TRIAL: Brighter is free to download and the trial version allows you: • 10 entries • 2 custom prompts • 1 daily reminder • 7 favorites (entries, photos and quotes) • 50 motivational quotes PREMIUM UPGRADE INCLUDES: • Unlimited entries • Unlimited custom prompts • Unlimited daily reminders • Unlimited favorites • Unlimited motivational quotes • iCloud Backup • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Being4 screens
How We Feel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Being at none against How We Feel's 5. Being also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). How We Feel's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. How We Feel sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Being asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Being ships an update every 4 months, How We Feel every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Being versus How We Feel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeingHow We Feel
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (25 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB51 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperMichael Caesariotreebetty LLC

Customer experience

Being

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

How We Feel

All ratings25 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Being

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

How We Feel

Subscriptions4
  • Best-Self Bundle: Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$11.991 Year
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  • Best-Self Bundle: Yearly$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Best-Self Bundle: Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Being free?
Being is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Being or How We Feel have ads?
Neither Being nor How We Feel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Being or How We Feel?
Being ships an update every 4 months, and How We Feel every 3 weeks. Most recently, Being was updated on October 24, 2026 and How We Feel on October 22, 2026.

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