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How We Feel: Understand Emotions

by The How We Feel Project, Inc.

How We Feel helps you understand your emotions and find strategies to navigate them. Track sleep, exercise, and health trends to spot patterns. Share how you feel with trusted friends and strengthen relationships.

My Full Experience

How We Feel is a free app designed to help you better understand your emotions and discover effective coping strategies. Developed with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence, it assists you in identifying and articulating your feelings while tracking sleep, exercise, and health data via HealthKit to reveal patterns over time. This science-backed nonprofit prioritizes your data privacy, keeping everything on your device unless you choose to contribute anonymized check-ins for research. Whether you aim to build stronger relationships, harness your emotions, manage stress and anxiety, or simply feel better, How We Feel empowers you to recognize patterns and implement personalized emotional regulation techniques. The friends feature facilitates real-time sharing with loved ones, enhancing your connections. Access step-by-step video strategies, such as "Change Your Thinking" for cognitive techniques, "Move Your Body" for emotional release through movement, "Be Mindful" for gaining perspective, and "Reach Out" for fostering intimacy. Start using How We Feel to **understand emotions** and improve your overall wellbeing. This app is perfect for anyone looking to improve their **emotional intelligence** and build stronger relationships. Track your **mental wellbeing** and **understand emotions** with this app.

Key Features

  • Track your sleep, exercise, and health trends using HealthKit to spot patterns.
  • Share how you feel with trusted friends in real time.
  • Access step-by-step video strategies for emotional regulation.

Why Users Love It

Improve emotional intelligence
Strengthen important relationships

Perfect for: Individuals seeking to understand and manage their emotions, improve relationships, and enhance overall wellbeing.

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Current Rank

#38

Best Rank

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Average Rank

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User Reviews

ammamis
Aug 7, 2025

I’ve been using this app for a week now and I love it. I’ve tried other mood tracking/journaling apps before and they’ve either been too overwhelming or too basic. This app is the perfect in between. I appreciate the variety of emotions to choose from instead of just having a small assortment like I’ve seen in many other apps. I appreciate how each emotion is explained and tools are given to help with that emotion. I love being able to have deeper reflections with AI. I love how all of it is encompassed in a smooth aesthetically pleasing interface. I have never written a review on an app but this one deserves it 👏🏽 The app I’ve been looking for I’ve been using this app for a week now and I love it. I’ve tried other mood tracking/journaling apps before and they’ve either been too overwhelming or too basic. This app is the perfect in between. I appreciate the variety of emotions to choose from instead of just having a small assortment like I’ve seen in many other apps. I appreciate how each emotion is explained and tools are given to help with that emotion. I love being able to have deeper reflections with AI. I love how all of it is encompassed in a smooth aesthetically pleasing interface. I have never written a review on an app but this one deserves it 👏🏽

aexalli
Sep 8, 2025

Tldr; it’s free, just try it, I promise. This app is legitimately the best journaling app I’ve ever used. It’s incredibly intuitive and easy to use so it doesn’t require much mental energy the way other apps can be exhausting. It’s simply designed so it’s easy to look at, it’s calming to even just open the app. I find myself going to it without the reminders just because it’s genuinely so helpful for me to clear my head. The AI journal prompts and the different settings for it are all amazing and so helpful to process emotions without the fear of judgement or overwhelming someone else. The physical sensation tracker is the most impressive part of the whole app in my opinion, as someone with chronic pain being able to track my symptoms has not only been helpful to see what triggers flare ups but also has been helpful for my mental health having somewhere to go to track pain that others have no way of seeing. Anyway, sorry for the long review, this is an amazing app. autistic adult with chronic pain Tldr; it’s free, just try it, I promise.This app is legitimately the best journaling app I’ve ever used. It’s incredibly intuitive and easy to use so it doesn’t require much mental energy the way other apps can be exhausting. It’s simply designed so it’s easy to look at, it’s calming to even just open the app. I find myself going to it without the reminders just because it’s genuinely so helpful for me to clear my head. The AI journal prompts and the different settings for it are all amazing and so helpful to process emotions without the fear of judgement or overwhelming someone else. The physical sensation tracker is the most impressive part of the whole app in my opinion, as someone with chronic pain being able to track my symptoms has not only been helpful to see what triggers flare ups but also has been helpful for my mental health having somewhere to go to track pain that others have no way of seeing. Anyway, sorry for the long review, this is an amazing app.

Jshavhaixn
Sep 7, 2025

Helpful to start a journaling practice, do check ins, and body scans Amazing tool Helpful to start a journaling practice, do check ins, and body scans

Mrsiphone
Sep 6, 2025

This app really helps me identify what I am feeling- and maybe even WHY I am feeling it. I love the little bits that I learn along the way - about myself and how the brain works! Great self-care app! This app really helps me identify what I am feeling- and maybe even WHY I am feeling it. I love the little bits that I learn along the way - about myself and how the brain works!

Mac_Daddy_Attack_Alicious
Aug 9, 2025

Best thing about this app is that it is incredible with several awesome features and it’s completely free! No in-app purchases, no advertising, no try to get you to buy this or that. It focuses on tracking your emotions and gives you so many tools to help manage stress, anxiety, etc… The AI tool is great as well because it analyzes all the data you input and can make recommendations based on it. I’ve been amazed by this app and use it multiple times a day. It’s already proven very useful in my life and I highly recommend it to everyone! Worth Every Cent I Didn’t Have To Pay For It! Best thing about this app is that it is incredible with several awesome features and it’s completely free! No in-app purchases, no advertising, no try to get you to buy this or that. It focuses on tracking your emotions and gives you so many tools to help manage stress, anxiety, etc…The AI tool is great as well because it analyzes all the data you input and can make recommendations based on it. I’ve been amazed by this app and use it multiple times a day. It’s already proven very useful in my life and I highly recommend it to everyone!

App Details

Developer

The How We Feel Project, Inc.

Platform

ios

Rating

4.9

Last Updated

9/12/2025