Feeling Wheel vs Ember
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Feeling Wheel
This app helps you identify and understand your emotions using an interactive categorized wheel. Log your moods, track your emotional history with visual charts, and gain personalized insights to enhance self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
- Categorized emotion wheel
- Mood logging
- Visual mood history charts
- Emotional pattern discovery
- Personalized insights
- Self-awareness enhancement
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Struggling to find the right word for how you feel? The Feeling Wheel app helps you pinpoint your emotions by displaying them in intuitive categories. Enhance your emotional intelligence and self-awareness by identifying, recording, and reflecting on your feelings with ease. Why Choose Feeling Wheel? - Pinpoint Your Emotions: Our categorised feeling wheel makes it simple to find the emotion that truly matches your state of mind. - Master Emotional Awareness: Understanding your emotions helps you move through difficult emotional states and fosters self-awareness. - Track and Reflect: Log your moods effortlessly and revisit your emotional history to discover patterns and insights. - Visual Mood History: See your emotional journey through charts and summaries that make it easy to spot trends. - Personalized Insights: Gain a better understanding of your emotional triggers and progress over time. How It Works: - Select Your Feeling: Use the interactive emotion wheel to find the emotion that best describes how you feel. - Log Your Mood: Record your mood with just a few taps, adding notes if you wish. - Review Your Journey: Access your mood history and visualize your emotional trends through intuitive charts. Whether you are managing stress, building emotional resilience, or just exploring your feelings, Feeling Wheel is your companion on the path to self-awareness. Start tracking your emotions today and discover the power of naming your feelings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ember
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Ember Understand your emotions. Test your assumptions. Build healthier patterns. This is your safe space, and yours alone. Everything stays on your device. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking, no analytics. Completely private by design. Name what you feel Emotions are harder to manage when they feel vague and overwhelming. The interactive feeling wheel helps you identify exactly what you are experiencing, choosing from 78 feelings across seven core areas. Naming a feeling is the first step to understanding it. Reframe in the moment We often believe the first story our mind tells us. When difficult feelings arise, we guide you through questions that help you examine that story and find a more balanced perspective. This is not about forcing positivity. It is about seeing the full picture. The more often you practise, the more natural it becomes. Test your predictions We all make predictions that hold us back: "It will go badly", "I won't cope", "People will judge me". These feel completely true, and they stop us from trying. Experiments let you write down what you expect, set a timeframe, and record what actually happens. Over time, you build up real evidence about how things go, not just how your mind says they will. Plan small steps When we feel low, we stop doing the things that help us feel better. The less we do, the worse we feel. Activity planning breaks that cycle. Schedule small, manageable activities across four life areas: achievement, connection, enjoyment and meaning. The motivation often follows the action, not the other way around. Prepare for tough moments Difficult moments are harder when they catch you off guard. Create coping plans tied to specific triggers and emotions, so you have a strategy ready before you need it. Get to know your parts Sometimes we feel pulled in different directions at once. Part of you wants to try, but another part holds you back. We help you name and understand those different parts of you, each with their own wants, fears, and ways of showing up. The better you know them, the more compassionately you can respond when they take over. See your patterns Track your emotional landscape over time with reports that reveal which feelings come up most and how your awareness grows. Ground yourself when it's urgent When a moment feels overwhelming, choose box breathing to slow your nervous system with a guided four-second cycle, or use the 5–4–3–2–1 technique to reconnect with your senses. Both are available from any screen, one tap away. Light and Dark theme Pick the colour scheme that suits you best Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gavangh.com/ember/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ember at every 2 days against Feeling Wheel's weekly. Ember also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Feeling Wheel sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Ember sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Feeling Wheel ships an update weekly, Ember every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Feeling Wheel | Ember |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (132 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 132 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Natasha Wilson | Gavan Grenville-Hunt |
In-app purchases
Feeling Wheel
- Pro Plan - Monthly Access$2.991 Month
- Pro Plan - Annual Access7 Days trial$17.991 Year
Ember
- Ember Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Ember Premium7 Days trial$19.991 Year









