The Best CBT Apps of 2025

The app also offers a couple of meditations that are good for beginners or those who have never meditated before. Our team enjoyed MidShift’s array of interactive exercises, including the “coping cards” feature which provide mantras that you can read to yourself when you feel your anxiety creeping in.

Activities range from exercise to chores to socializing, all designed to help you refocus your mind away from your depressed state. You can even add your own activity and customize the list.

Our team was impressed with the safety planning feature for those who experience thoughts of self-harm. The app allows you to fill out your safety plan with warning signs, coping strategies, reasons to live, and contacts. You can also quickly navigate to the crisis section and find the number to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

MoodTools, a useful toolkit of resources, is a great way to use essential CBT skills to help cope with depression.

While Online-Therapy.com doesn’t have a mobile app for download, the platform works seamlessly on both mobile and desktop web browsers. Therapy sessions are available through video, phone, or live chat.

Learn more about this unique therapy option in our full review of Online-Therapy.com.

We think Youper’s A.I. chatbot works well as a tool to guide you through CBT activities and adds a more personalized touch to how you might interact with this content. Our team thought Youper was the best CBT focused option out of all of the AI therapy apps available today.

Read our full Youper review for more details.

Clarity allows you to choose which journal feels right to you at that time and complete it in the app. After four consistent days of data, Clarity will help analyze patterns and themes in your mood.

We think Clarity is ideal for those newer to CBT skills and need a lot of scaffolding to learn. There are daily prompts that walk you through the entire CBT thought process and there are a few extra features, like meditations.

To find out how journaling with CBT methods can help you, read more in our in-depth review of Clarity.

Some unique features of the Happify app are the in-app games, with names like “Negative Knockout” and “Uplift” which ask you to face your negative thoughts and focus on the positive. Happify also has unique learning materials created for dealing with racial stress and discrimination, which sets its content apart from many other mental health apps in this space.

To learn more, take a look at our full Happify review.

A unique thing that our reviewer enjoyed about CBT-i Coach is that there are plans you can create in advance for nights you cannot sleep. This is a great tool for those who struggle with insomnia due to PTSD or other reasons. While CBT-i Coach is fairly bare-bones in terms of features, it functions exactly as it was meant to. It offers good educational information on sleep habits for completely free.

You can customize the look and feel of the app using different colors and themes, although some are in-app purchases. One interesting feature of What’s Up? that our team loved is its catastrophe scale, which allows you to drag a slider left or right across the screen to help you visually see how serious your issues are or feel at the time.