Support

Feels is a private, on-device tracker for how you feel — emotions, body and mind sensations, and the notes you want to bring to your sessions. Everything stays on your phone. There is no account and nothing to sign up for.

Getting in touch

Email ross.pringle@gmail.com. It is a one-person project, so replies take a day or two — but every message is read. If you are reporting something that went wrong, saying which device and iOS version you are on helps a lot.

Back up your data — please read this one

Because Feels keeps everything on your device and nowhere else, deleting the app deletes your data, and no one can recover it — not even us, because we have never had a copy.

Open the ⋯ menu and choose Export backup to save a .json file wherever you keep things — Files, iCloud Drive, email to yourself. Import backup on the same menu restores it, including your custom words. Worth doing before you change phones or reinstall.

Common questions

Where is my data? On this device only. Feels makes no network requests and has no server, no analytics, and no tracking.

Can I sync between devices? Not automatically — that would mean a server. Export a backup on one device and import it on the other.

A word I use is missing from the wheel. Search for it, and when nothing matches you will be offered the chance to add it — it gets grafted onto the wheel under a core and secondary you choose, and it stays there.

What brought it on — can I add my own? Yes. On the What brought it on? step, tap ＋ Add your own and give it an emoji and one or two words. It joins the list for every future entry, and it is yours — nothing you add is seen by anyone. While that form is open, your own tags show a small × to remove them; the built-in ones stay, because past entries refer to them. If you add a tag that already exists, Feels uses the existing one rather than making a duplicate, so your Moods counts stay honest.

Who are People on the Care tab? The family, friends and others who come up in your entries — a name, the relationship and an emoji. Once you have added someone, the What brought it on? step offers them under Who was there?, and their page on Care lists the entries you tagged them in and the feelings that come up most often around them. It is a count of your own log, nothing is inferred. Like everything else it stays on your device; there is no share button on a person's page, because these are notes about someone else.

What is Learning on the Skills tab? A place for the books, articles, podcasts and posts that are helping, with your takeaways. Each takeaway has a 🎯 that turns it into a skill to practise, the same way a session's homework does. Add screenshots of a post and the text is read on your device and kept as text; the pictures are not stored, and nothing is uploaded. On the web version reading pictures is not available, so paste the text instead. Links open in your browser when you tap them; Feels never fetches a page or a preview.

What are Skills? Somewhere to keep the thing your provider asked you to practise, so it does not stay in the session. Add one under Skills (or from a session's To practise before next time note), say how often you want to try it, and its card on the Skills tab shows how the week is going. Tapping ✓ Log banks it straight away, then offers the wheel so you can name what came up while it is still fresh — and if you skip that part, the practice still counts. There are no streaks and nothing turns red; a missed day simply rolls over.

Why am I not getting reminders? Reminders need iOS notification permission, and Feels only asks once — usually when you create a skill. If you made the skill before reminders existed, or the prompt was dismissed, the Skills tab shows a Turn on reminders row you can tap. If iOS has already used up its one prompt, that row will point you to Settings › Notifications › Feels instead. Reminders are scheduled on your device, so they work with no signal and nothing is sent anywhere. On the web version there are no scheduled reminders at all — iOS web apps cannot do it without a server, and Feels does not have one — so you get the on-screen practice card instead.

How do I share a session with someone? Open the session and tap ↗︎ Share to send it as plain text — Messages, Mail, wherever you like. You get an editable message before it sends, which matters: session notes often name other people. Nothing is shared unless you tap Share, and only the one session you opened goes with it.

Why can't I see Needs (the 💬 button at the top)? It runs on Apple's on-device model and needs an Apple Intelligence–capable device on iOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings. On any other device the button is simply absent.

Does Needs send what I type anywhere? No. The model runs on your phone, the same as everything else in Feels. Conversations are held in memory only and are discarded when you close the app, unless you tap Save.

If you need help now

Feels is a personal journal and mood tracker. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice. Always talk to your doctor or clinician before making decisions about your health, treatment or medication. If you're in crisis or an emergency, get help now.

Feels is not a crisis service. If things feel unsafe, please contact someone who can help:

US & Canada — call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline)
UK & Ireland — 116 123 (Samaritans, free, 24/7)
Australia — 13 11 14 (Lifeline, 24/7)
New Zealand — 1737 (free call or text, 24/7)
Emergency — 999 (UK) · 911 (US) · 112 (EU) · 000 (AU) · 111 (NZ)
Anywhere else — findahelpline.com

If you have a doctor or therapist, you should call them too.

Privacy & Terms

The full policy lives on the legal page.