How We Feel

Name: How We Feel
Author: The How We Feel Project, Inc.

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An emotional wellbeing journal

How We Feel: mood journal that tracks sleep and exercise

By Irfan Rosli

News editor

Mood words to find the one that fits how you feel
Sleep, exercise and health logs shown as trends over time
In-the-moment strategies for handling hard feelings
Entries kept on your device unless you send them elsewhere
Optional, anonymized research sharing you switch on yourself
Free, funded by donations to a science-based nonprofit

What How We Feel is for

How We Feel is an emotion journal made by scientists, designers, engineers and therapists. The developer says it was conceived with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence and draws on the work of Dr Marc Brackett. Its aim is to help people put a name to what they are feeling.

The developer describes it as a nonprofit project supported by donations, and lists the app as free. It suits people who want a daily record of their emotional state and some structure for thinking about it, alongside the basic health data they already track.

Finding the right word for a feeling

The core of the journal is picking a word for how you feel. The developer says the app helps you find the specific term that fits, rather than settling for a general label like good or bad. Over time, a record of those words gives you a history of your emotional state.

This is the part of the app built around emotional vocabulary, which the developer ties to Dr Brackett's research on emotional intelligence.

Logging sleep, exercise and health trends

Alongside mood entries, the app tracks sleep, exercise and other health trends. The developer says this is so you can spot patterns across weeks and months rather than looking at a single day in isolation.

Seeing sleep and activity next to your emotional record is the feature that connects the journal to general wellbeing. The listing does not say how the patterns are calculated, so the trends are only as useful as the data you log.

Strategies for hard feelings in the moment

The app also offers strategies for navigating emotions as they happen, not only a record of them afterwards. The developer presents these as tools to use when a feeling is strong, so you have something concrete to try in that moment.

Because the strategies are meant for in-the-moment use, they sit alongside the journal rather than replacing it.

Where your entries are stored and who sees them

By default, entries are stored on your device. You can choose to send your data to an alternative storage solution instead. The developer says only you can access your data unless you decide to share it with someone else.

Research use is off unless you opt in. If you do, you contribute an anonymized version of your data to studies that the developer says are designed to help more people. Sharing for research is a separate choice you make, not a default.

What's new

Oct 1, 2026

What's new

Today tab: Your check-ins, friend reactions and suggested tools are now in one place, on a new home screen for your day.
Calendar tab: Your history and your insights are now together in one tab. Tap the bubbles to filter your charts and see how you have been feeling over time. You can now also see your trends over time.

About this APK

The build we hold is How We Feel 0.0.433 (APKS split bundle) for Android 10 and up.

Version: 0.0.433; 433
Requires Android: 10+
Target Android: 16

Package ID: org.howwefeel.moodmeter
Format: APKS split bundle
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