Is How We Feel safe to use?

How We Feel integrates 9 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, and Other Data. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does How We Feel need?

How We Feel requests 7 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), and Face ID.

What data does How We Feel collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, How We Feel collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, Identifiers, and Other Data. It collects Contact Info and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does How We Feel have?

How We Feel integrates 9 third-party SDKs. 2 for analytics and 7 for infrastructure. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does How We Feel use Google SDKs?

Yes. How We Feel includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Analytics, Google App Measurement, and Firebase Firestore. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does How We Feel access your location?

Yes. How We Feel requests location access. The developer states: "Your Location will be used to gather weather data for your check-ins.".

Does How We Feel access your camera or microphone?

How We Feel requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Take a photo for your check-in personal journal or for your profile picture shared with friends". Microphone access is for "Add audio notes to your check-ins for your personal journal". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does How We Feel run in the background?

Yes. How We Feel registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to How We Feel?

Other health & fitness apps include 75 Days Challenge , 75 Hard , Calo , AllTrails , MenuFit , and BetterHelp . Each app takes a different approach to health & fitness and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Health & Fitness · Privacy report

How We Feel

Free · ★4.9 · The How We Feel Project, Inc.

Is How We Feel safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. How We Feel is built with more third-party tracking code than 13% of the health & fitness we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 109 health & fitnessModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical health & fitness: 6

Data the app links to you3 types · little

typical health & fitness: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

How We Feel links 3 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data How We Feel ties to your identity.

Contact InfoIdentifiersOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among health & fitness.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one health & fitnes app. How We Feel sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 9 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2analytics

7standard libraries

2 of the 9 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement

Standard libraries7 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v1.15.8, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 109 health & fitness in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.