How We Feel 4+

An emotional wellbeing journal

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

    • Free

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Description

A new feature for body sensation mapping!

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.

What’s New

Version 1.14.13

Introducing a way to build mind-body awareness when you check-in! When you add tags to your check-in, you now have the option to scan for physical sensations (heavy shoulders, fluttering stomach, tight chest). Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the download and import data file was not compatible with 24 hour date format

Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
23.3K Ratings

23.3K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Created in collaboration with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, How We Feel is a science-based mood journal designed to help you achieve a more balanced sense of well-being. Its daily check-ins help you fully explore nuanced emotions by guiding you through an elegant color-coded matrix complete with explanations.

Elykahn ,

An Amazing App & Project, 1 improvement

I have been absolutely loving this app, from the beginning the tone and language used is welcoming, warm, supportive and encouraging. I am a designer myself and I find the majority of apps are functional but devoid of character and this app maintains the ease of use (and even facilitates it) with a lot of character that makes reporting my feelings fun even when I’m not feeling like anything would be fun, the playfulness and abstraction in no way takes away from the experience and the human descriptions in the videos are so calm and purely helpful that they are not threatening the way self-improvement videos can be. They don’t make me feel bad for not having done a suggestion, just optimistic that I can see benefits from trying it.

My main point of improvement is that I have input a sizable number of check-ins on my iPad and others on my iPhone and although the two apps appear to be sharing the same identifier they don’t compile the data to get the full picture and that would be a huge improvement for me since I can’t easily compare the times that I am using one or the other. I looked for a way to export my data and import it to the other device(the long route) but I didn’t find anything, ultimately the best solution would be automatic sync. Keep up the great work!

flykitemindfind ,

This app is ALMOST there!

This -desperately- needs graphs. The data how it is, that’s fine, keep it, but bring in an option to use graphs and slightly more significant data analysis. It’s easy to do just correlations and stuff. I know you want to make the app user friendly, and not add something too complicated, but please add an option for those of us who want to double or triple the usefulness of this app for ourselves. Further, the AI reflection thing is huge, that’s a game changer! Fantastic feature. Now, what you need is a further feature that will analyze trends in your chats with the AI, trying to draw out possible connections that aren’t obvious unless an overview was taken of the conversations. And for this, add an “easy” version for folks who don’t care to get into the weeds about, and a more sophisticated analysis, maybe so certain words correlate with one another. For instance, allergies acting up and depression or anything like that to discover occurrences happening simultaneously that we might not automatically pick up on. This would be MUCH better than every time having to manually add tags, people skip those because they don’t have the time or possibly energy.

The possibilities to help people learn about themselves a whole lot more through a little extra sophistication are endless here. I’ll definitely change to 5 stars if see this stuff come in, not that one rating will change much. But for what it’s worth.

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The developer, The How We Feel Project, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

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