Feels on Wheels
A free feelings wheel and body sensations wheel, to help you find the word for what you feel.
What it's for
Naming a feeling precisely helps you understand it, and helps you tell other people about it. A feelings wheel starts from a few core feelings in the middle and gets more specific toward the edge.
The body sensations wheel works the other way in. It starts from what you notice in your body, like a racing heart or a tight jaw, and leads to the feelings that often come with it.
How to use it
Tap or click a feeling to narrow it down, and spin the wheel to see more. Open a word to read what it means and what you might notice in your body.
Switch between the two wheels at the top. Everything works with a keyboard and with a screen reader.
Private and offline
There are no accounts and no tracking. Nothing you choose leaves your device.
Once you've visited, it works offline. To keep it handy, install it from your browser's menu, or use Add to Home Screen on an iPhone or iPad.
Credits
Feelings wheels have a long history. This one draws on the work below. Its definitions and sensations are written in its own words.
- Gloria Willcox, “The Feeling Wheel”, Transactional Analysis Journal, 1982: the original feelings wheel.
- Geoffrey Roberts, “The Feel Wheel”, 2015: the seven core feelings and the words this feelings wheel is based on.
- Lindsay Braman, “Emotion-Sensation Wheel”, 2020: the idea of a feelings wheel that includes body sensations. This one turns hers inside out, starting from the body.
- feelingswheel.com: the interactive feelings wheel whose tap-to-trace idea inspired this one.
Made by
Lucas Polito. The ideas and every design decision are his. The code was written with AI (Claude Code and the Superpowers plugin), as an experiment in how quickly and how completely an app can be built that way, with a person deciding what makes it good to use.
Source and license
The source code is on GitHub. It's source-available, not open source: you're welcome to read, copy, change and translate it for anything non-commercial, as long as you give credit. Selling it, running ads on a copy or making a paid app from it isn't allowed. Read the license.
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