feelune trains you to notice the emotional mixtures stirred up by
what you read — and to name what is there. Two to five emotions
at once, every passage. The vocabulary grows the feeling.
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01 · what you train
Most people use eight emotions to describe everything they feel.
Fine. Tired. Stressed. Okay. Good. Bad. Happy. Sad.
Between those blunt categories lives almost the entire interior weather of being alive — the small ache of missing someone who is sitting next to you, the steadiness after a hard thing ends, the particular hush of an afternoon that carries no name.
The psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett calls this skill emotional granularity: the ability to make fine distinctions between feelings. Her research is unglamorous and persistent — people who can tell grief from melancholy from longing recover faster from stress, make steadier decisions, and get sick less often. Vocabulary isn't a label for something already there. The vocabulary, slowly, grows the thing itself.
feelune is built around a single move: read something, notice the emotions it stirs up, name them. Three pages support that one move. Swipe to move between them.
The vocabulary
All 36 emotions as named bubbles. Tap to read what each one means. Pick a few to assemble a mixture and feelune will find a passage that fits.
The practice
A short passage on top. The emotion dial below. Sense what stirs in you, find that emotion in the dial, drag up to set its intensity. Submit when the mixture feels right.
What grows
Your portrait, drawn from every passage you've named. Not how often you felt happy — how many emotions you can now distinguish, and which mixtures keep returning.
03 · the comparison
Read the same passage as the writer. Notice the difference.
Every passage in feelune was read and rated by someone before you. After you submit your own mixture, you can flip between three views of the same scene.
Mine
What I just named in the passage.
Author
What the writer named when they composed it.
Everyone
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Everyone
The mixture other readers most often found here.
The same words can be read three different ways. There is no correct answer — the contrast is the practice. Over time you start to notice what you bring to a passage that no one else does.
04 · the practice library
Thousands of passages. Written by readers.
feelune ships with curated text in four languages — over 4,000 scenes in English alone. But the most interesting passages are written by other readers, who name the mixture they put into the writing and hide it from the next person.
The next reader names what they find. They don't see the writer's answer until they're done. Then both mixtures sit side by side, in the same shape, in the same colors — and the gap between them is the lesson.
Not a feed. No comments. No followers. No likes. Just exercises one reader writes for another.
05 · why this exists
I built this for my daughter.
In April 2026, with an AI reading companion, I was working through a small stack of books on cognition, emotion, and the architecture of consciousness. One was Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions Are Made. The idea that stayed with me: emotion is not an instinct to be discovered. It is a distinction, learned through words.
Two things followed. I realized I was the person with only a handful of names for the whole weather inside me. Then I noticed my eight-year-old daughter, already arriving at moments where she was feeling something real and looking for a word that had never been given to her. She wasn't missing the feeling. She was missing the name.
feelune is the tool I wanted her to grow up with — not to tell her what to feel, but to give her vocabulary, one passage at a time, until her inner life becomes something she can say out loud.
There is a second reason. In an age where AI handles most of the knowledge work, what humans still uniquely give each other is empathy: being truly felt by another person. You can only give that if you can feel it yourself first. feelune is also a tool for that.
Built on Dr. Barrett's research. Thank you, Dr. Barrett.
06 · what stays out of the way
$6.99 once — no subscription, ever.
No analytics SDK. Your ratings stay on your device unless you choose to publish a passage.
No streaks, no badges, no leaderboards. Granularity grows quietly or it doesn't grow at all.
No AI analyzes you. The model isn't watching what you feel.
Works offline. Every screen, every passage.
07 · begin
Start with one passage.
Read it. Notice what stirs. Name the mixture. Then look at what the writer named — and at what you brought that they didn't.
