Henry's Big Feelings App

A gentle emotional wellbeing app for children, guided by Henry the Hedgehog and his woodland friends.

Meet Henry the Hedgehog — and bring his big feelings, brave moments, and calm-down tools into everyday life.

Henry's Big Feelings App is designed for parents and carers to use alongside children aged 5 to 11, building on the themes from the Henry's Heartwise Adventures book series. Where the stories spark conversation, the app gives children (with a grown-up alongside them) a hands-on space to name their feelings and find their calm.

Guided by Henry, Owl, and Squirrel, children can explore how they're feeling and choose from a set of gentle, evidence-based tools to help them settle, regulate, and feel understood, including breathing exercises, grounding activities, and calming techniques rooted in approaches used by child wellbeing professionals.

The app also includes a dedicated space for children processing grief and loss, with tools designed to help families talk about big goodbyes with warmth and honesty.

What's inside:

A feelings check in where children pick how they're feeling right now, paired with Henry, Owl, and Squirrel as gentle guides throughout. There are calming and regulation tools including breathing exercises, grounding activities, and soothing techniques for moments of worry, anger, or overwhelm, alongside a grief and loss support space with age-appropriate tools for talking about loss and big change. A parent and carer guide sits throughout the app to help grown ups support the conversation, and every tool is designed for co-use, with children and the adults who care for them exploring it together.

Why parents love it:

Because emotional wellbeing isn't a one-off conversation, it's a habit. This app turns Henry's gentle lessons into something children can return to again and again, building the language and tools to understand their feelings, one small step at a time.

Perfect for: parents, carers, and educators supporting children through everyday emotions, new situations, friendship worries, or harder conversations about loss and change.

A companion to the Henry's Heartwise Adventures book series by Mike Howells.

How to access your app

After purchase, you'll receive an email with a link to Henry's Big Feelings App. No download or app store needed it opens straight in your phone or tablet's browser. For the best experience, we recommend adding it to your home screen so it opens just like a regular app. Full instructions for iPhone, Android, and computer are included in your welcome guide.

Please note: This app and all its content (characters, illustrations, and written material) are © Mike Howells. Your purchase grants you a personal-use licence to access and use the app for yourself and your family. It does not include rights to reproduce, redistribute, resell, or share the app or its content with others outside your household.