Nuance: Name Your Emotions
Adrian Cabala Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Nuance: Name Your Emotions is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Adrian Cabala. Requires iOS 13.0. Updated April 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 27 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Apr 20
- 2026 · v1.0
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About Nuance: Name Your Emotions
Nuance gives you language for what you feel — not just a face or a number. Instead of picking from 5 emoji, you navigate a 3-level Emotion Wheel: 42 precisely named emotions, each described so you can tell anxious from overwhelmed, content from serene. Every check-in adds one pixel to your Year in Pixels: a calendar grid colored by your dominant mood. Log multiple entries in a day and the cell splits to show them all. Months of emotional patterns, visible at a glance — no subscription required to scroll back. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS - Full history visible and searchable, free forever - One-tap export to JSON or CSV in Settings - No account required to start — your entries live on your device - iCloud backup is opt-in, never mandatory KEY FEATURES Emotion Wheel — 42 Named Emotions Joy, Love, Peace, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust — each branches into 3 secondary emotions and 2 tertiary leaves. Every leaf includes a one-line body-felt description to help you identify what you actually feel. A first in this category. Year in Pixels A calendar grid where each day fills with the color of your dominant mood. Multiple entries per day split the cell. See your emotional patterns across months without a paywall. Mood Diary with Context + Full-Text Search Add context chips and notes to each entry. Search across your entire history by emotion, tag, date, or keyword — free, always. No Ads, Ever Not a premium promise. Free and paid tiers both: zero banners, zero interstitials, zero ads after saving. Face ID / Touch ID Lock Biometric lock ships free. Your journal stays private, even on a shared device. WHAT MAKES NUANCE DIFFERENT Most mood trackers offer a scale or a handful of faces. Nuance offers vocabulary. It teaches you the difference between disappointed and disheartened, then shows you which of the 42 emotions you reach for most — and which ones you have never named yet. PERFECT FOR - Anyone who has felt limited by 5 basic emoji - People building emotional literacy or practicing mindfulness - Journalers who want both quick logs and long notes - Anyone who values privacy and will not accept ads in a mental health app Download Nuance and start naming how you actually feel.
App privacy
The developer, Adrian Cabala, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Alternatives to Nuance: Name Your Emotions
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| Nuance: Name Your Emotions | – | Free | April 20, 2026 | |
| (Not Tracking) Emotions | – | Free | Apr 4, 2026 | Compare |
| Feelwheel: Emotion Journal | – | Free | Sep 23, 2026 | Compare |
| RunThink | 5.0 / 5 (4) | Free | Sep 19, 2026 | Compare |
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