About this app

Essgefühl helps you understand emotional eating — without diets, restrictions, or calorie counting. Every check-in clears a little fog from your personal map. Sleep Mountains, Stress Gorge, Routine Plains, Social Coast, and Mood Forest reveal connections without judging them. Bo, your small expedition companion, stays beside you along the way. WHAT MAKES ESSGEFÜHL DIFFERENT • No calorie counting — awareness over control • No guilt — every check-in is judgment-free • No diet program — you learn to understand yourself • Private by design — your entries stay on your device HOW IT WORKS Before eating: A quick check-in asks how you feel and which body signals you notice. After eating: Reflect on how eating affected your mood. In the moment: When an urge appears, choose from 32 evidence-based coping strategies, including breathing, movement, and connection prompts. THE INNER EXPEDITION • A living map that grows through attention alone • Discoveries make personal patterns visible and lasting • Altitude stages celebrate consistency, never restriction • Gentle natural ambience and light haptic feedback in Explore • iOS widget for awareness and charted progress THREE PLACES, A SEAL, AND MORE • Today: see what you noticed today, try a small practice • Patterns: one observation from your last 14 days, your week in words, the next landmark ahead • Logbook: your complete history, month by month • More: Explore, with your map, the camp and Bo, plus the journal, the reading, gratitude and every setting The wax seal at the centre of the strip is your check-in — one tap away, from any screen. The strip stays with you wherever you are reading. Essgefühl does not grade what you eat: no points, no daily score, no streak that punishes you. It describes what you recorded — "Relaxed appeared in 4 of 9 entries" — and says plainly that this is not a diagnosis or a cause. The awareness figure in the widget and the monthly snapshot measures only how attentively you recorded your moments — never what you ate. A GUIDED JOURNEY (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) "A pause in Stress Gorge": seven short stages about noticing what you need, with reflections that stay on your device. The first stage is free; the rest unlock once, with no subscription. A separate reading pack ("Growth") goes deeper and is likewise a one-time purchase. MORE FEATURES • 32 Coping Strategies: Step-by-step guides for different emotions • Daily Journal: Reflect with guided writing prompts • Psychoeducation: 18 science-based articles — 14 free; four belong to the two one-time purchases • Weekly View and Monthly Reports: Notice changes over time • Gentle Reminders: morning and evening nudges, a weekly recap, and occasional quiet prompts — all local, all optional • Daily Provisions: a research-grounded thought in the optional morning reminder • Dark Mode: Easy on the eyes at any time of day PRIVACY Your check-ins, notes, and insights stay locally on your device. No advertising analytics, cloud accounts, or sale of personal data. You stay in control, including export and complete deletion. Essgefühl draws on research into emotional eating, intuitive eating, mindfulness, and self-compassion. It is not a medical device and does not replace professional advice or treatment.