Five faces can’t tell overwhelmed from disappointed, or a flicker from a flood. Feels gets you to the exact word and how strongly it hit in four taps — so what you look back on is true, not averaged.
What you just did by hand, in the real app. No blank page, nothing to write unless you want to, no streak to keep. Thirty seconds, and today is on the record.
Journals fail at eleven at night, in front of a blank page. Feels never asks you to write. It asks one easy question at a time — roughly, where are you? — and each answer narrows the next, so you arrive at the precise word without ever having to search for it. Change your mind at any step, and the button says your pick back to you before anything is written.
Ask most trackers how last month went and you get a line chart and a 6.4. Feels gives you the month as colour: each day is the colour of what you felt, as bright as it was strong, and a day with four feelings is drawn as four — a good evening never gets averaged into a bad morning. The heavy Sundays and the good weeks show up at a glance, and any day opens to the words behind it.