About MyFeelings

Most mood trackers ask how bad it is, on a scale of one to five. Almost none help you say what it is. We think that is backwards: the number is easy and the word is the part that changes anything.

Why a wheel and not a score

A score records that a day was hard. A word records what kind of hard it was, and that is the difference between a chart and something you can act on. "Bad" covers being let down, being left out and being exhausted, which need three different responses from you and from the people around you.

So the app starts with 7 feelings and lets you move outward only as far as you honestly can. That is a small enough set to choose from on a bad morning. All 121are enough to find the word that actually fits, once you want it. Nobody has to reach the outside ring for a check-in to count.

What we are trying to be useful for

The ordinary case, not the crisis: the week you cannot explain, the argument that keeps replaying, the flatness that arrives without a reason. Naming a feeling precisely is a small skill that gets better with practice, and it makes the rest of the conversation — with a partner, a friend, a therapist — start further along.

It is not therapy and it does not pretend to be. Tracking describes a pattern; it does not explain or treat one. The guide to using the wheel is honest about what a label cannot tell you, and every feeling page says plainly when something is worth taking to a professional instead.

How the content here is made

Every feeling page is written to the same shape: a definition, how it differs from its neighbours, what the body tends to do, what helps, and when to get support. Each cites its sources, and each is reviewed by a named clinician before it is published. Where research is genuinely unsettled, the pages say so instead of picking a side.

Six of the wheel's seven cores are Paul Ekman's basic six, and the seventh — Bad — comes from the app's own vocabulary rather than from him. The shape that expands them outward follows the method of Gloria Willcox's The Feeling Wheel (1982). It is one map of emotional vocabulary rather than a claim about which emotions exist —how many emotions are there covers why no two models agree on the count.

Where we are

MyFeelings is made by a small team based in the United Kingdom. If you want to reach us about the app, the content, or a correction to something on this site, thecontact page is the way. We would rather hear that a page is wrong than leave it wrong.