Comparison

SilverCloud Health 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

SilverCloud Health

Access a wide range of interactive programs and tools designed to support mental and behavioral health. Improve wellbeing, manage stress, anxiety, and depression with evidence-based content and expert-developed strategies.

Highlights
  • Interactive mental health programs
  • Tools for stress and anxiety management
  • Evidence-based content
  • Mindfulness meditations
  • Breathing and relaxation exercises
  • HealthKit integration for mindfulness minutes
  • Apple Watch app for sleep and exercise tracking
Features
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*** SilverCloud is provided by a healthcare service that you must be eligible for. Please check with your health service to see if they offer SilverCloud. *** SilverCloud - Digital CBT SilverCloud provides a wide range of supportive and interactive programs, tools and strategies for managing mental and behavioral health issues. These programs cover topics such as anxiety, depression, general wellbeing, stress, anger management, improving sleep, communication skills and much more. Clinical insight and experience is at the heart of SilverCloud's program development process. The evidence-based programs have been researched and written by subject matter experts. Tools The programs also offer a broad variety of interactive tools including a journal, a mood monitor, goal setting, audio meditations and many more. These tools aim to empower users to proactively manage and improve their mental and behavioral health. SilverCloud programs can be used with guidance and personalized feedback from a coach or as a self-guided experience (without a coach), depending on the service you are supported by. If you have a coach, they will review your progress and any messages that you choose to share with them each week. During their review, your coach will reply to your messages and queries, while offering guidance on your next step towards thinking and feeling better. HealthKit Integration If you grant access to HealthKit when prompted, time spent in the app will be recorded as mindfulness minutes and will be available for viewing in Apple's HealthKit. Watch App The included Apple Watch App also retrieves step count and sleep data, allowing you to observe how your mood may be related to sleep and exercise.

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.

Screenshots

SilverCloud Health4 screens
How We Feel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: How We Feel at 91% against SilverCloud Health's 15%. How We Feel also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). SilverCloud Health's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

How We Feel holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: How We Feel has 30K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 15% of SilverCloud Health's written reviews are positive against 91% of How We Feel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SilverCloud Health ships an update every 3 months, How We Feel fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
SilverCloud Health versus How We Feel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSilverCloud HealthHow We Feel
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (22 ratings)4.9 (30K ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.2% of reviews91.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2230K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#209 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB235 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSilverCloudThe How We Feel Project, Inc.

Customer experience

SilverCloud Health

All ratings22 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative40.9%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive15.2%
Neutral19.6%
Negative65.2%

How We Feel

All ratings29,758 ratings
Positive97.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews1,539 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative4.7%

Bugs and requests

SilverCloud Health

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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

In-app purchases

None

SilverCloud Health

No in-app purchases

None

How We Feel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SilverCloud Health free?
SilverCloud Health is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is How We Feel free?
How We Feel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SilverCloud Health or How We Feel?
How We Feel is rated higher. SilverCloud Health averages 3.2 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while How We Feel averages 4.9 from 30K ratings.
Do SilverCloud Health or How We Feel have ads?
Neither SilverCloud Health nor How We Feel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SilverCloud Health or How We Feel?
SilverCloud Health ships an update every 3 months, and How We Feel fortnightly. Most recently, SilverCloud Health was updated on August 13, 2026 and How We Feel on September 27, 2026.

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