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Therapy tools for anxiety, panic, overthinking, and the hard moments.

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Present Sense turns a hard feeling into a tool that helps, right now, and over time tells you what actually works for you. When anxiety spikes, the mind races, or the night will not quiet down, you open the app, name how you feel, and within a couple of taps you are doing something that helps. No account, no setup, no scrolling a feed.

It is a skills app, not a mood tracker. Every exercise is a real, evidence-based intervention drawn from CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, and somatic and grounding traditions, picked to match the feeling you are in. After each one, Present Sense quietly asks whether it helped, and uses your answers to learn which tools work best for you, for which feelings, at which times.

Most sessions take ninety seconds. The tools are short on purpose: grounding, breathwork, reframing, and regulation for the acute moment, not a twenty-minute meditation you have to schedule. On the calmer days, a daily practice of intentions, gratitude, and reflection keeps the toolbox familiar for the next time you need it.

Key Features

  • Name a feeling, get a matched tool: tell the app how you feel and it recommends an exercise built for exactly that, in one tap.
  • 60+ evidence-based exercises: real interventions from CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, grounding, somatic work, breathwork, and MBSR, not generic tips.
  • Built for the acute moment: most tools run 30 seconds to 3 minutes, made for panic, racing thoughts, and sleepless nights.
  • Help Now and Daily Practice: a fast path for the bad days, and a gentle daily ritual of intentions, gratitude, and reflection for the regular ones.
  • Insights that learn what works for you: the app tracks which tools actually move your felt state and tells you, “here is what helps when you are anxious.”
  • Hundreds of affirmations and inspirations for self-worth, confidence, and calm.
  • Private by design: no account required, stored on your device and backed up through your own private iCloud. No ads, no data selling.

Screenshots

Name how you feel and get a matched exercise Help now, or every day 5-4-3-2-1 grounding in two minutes Catch the thought and reframe it with guided CBT Insights that show what is working for you

Who it is for

For the overstimulated parent who needs sixty seconds to reset. For the anxious overachiever whose brain will not turn off. For the OCD sufferer in between therapy sessions. For the meditation dropout who needs real tools, not timers. Present Sense is not an AI chatbot, not a streak-driven meditation app, and not a mood journal. It is the thing you reach for when something is hard, and a quiet record of what helped when you did.

Technologies Used

  • SwiftUI
  • SwiftData
  • CloudKit (private iCloud sync)
  • StoreKit (Subscriptions)
  • Mixpanel

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