How We Feel 4+
An emotional wellbeing journal
The How We Feel Project, Inc.
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- Free
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Description
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 1.13.8
This update is all about stability and quality of life improvements.
New:
- Check-ins are now automatically saved as you are creating them. This means if you’re typing a long journal entry and get distracted by a phone call, your hard work will no longer be lost!
- Your first friend request can now be auto-accepted by the recipient, making it even easier to connect with friends!
- Added the ability to start Reflect directly from the journal editor!
Fixes
- Fixed an security issue with Biometric/Passcode locking
- Fixed an issue where reflections were not saved if you pull down to dismiss the reflect modal
- Improved the tap target to bookmark reflect takeaways
- Fixed an issue where reflect takeaways didn’t sync to the check-in card immediately
- Fixed an issue on the Analyze tab where some of the dates in the weekly or monthly date selector were cut off.
Ratings and Reviews
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.
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!
Simple but effective
I love love this app. I share it with my friends and family. I love the ease - 4 choices to start, definitions of each emotion, and minimal typing the whole way. Unless you want to type a description of your moment, all aspects that are tracked are pre labeled buttons like “home” “mom” and “resting.” Those buttons are customizable and you can delete ones that dont apply to you. Navigating the emotion page is so user friendly, hope it doesnt change. I also appreciate how you dont need to log certain things like what you were doing, or how much exercise you had. The exercise log is very discreet for those of us who are sensitive to even small pressures to work out.
My only suggestion is to be able to go back and edit the time of day an entry is. Sometimes when I am working, I want to log my emotions. I cant because Im not allowed to have my phone on me, but I want to be able to log it after work and then edit the time so it reflects when that emotion happened. I think that same idea could be helpful in a variety of situations, like not wanting to make an entry around certain people, not realizing how you were feeling until later, etc
Developer Response ,
Thanks for using How We Feel! This is a great suggestion. We'll make this change in a future version.
Events
App Privacy
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.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- The How We Feel Project, Inc.
- Size
- 172.9 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 The How We Feel Project, Inc.
- Price
- Free