CBT Reviews: Is It Legit?

CBT-i Coach
CBT-i Coach
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Customer Experience

Positive experience46.7% of reviews
Neutral14.5% of reviews
Negative experience38.8% of reviews

~ Based on 227 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about CBT

Is CBT Safe?

CBT-i Coach appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for CBT is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 12,872 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,790 App Store ratings for CBT.

Is CBT Legit?

CBT-i Coach appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for CBT is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great app

Use this app quite often

App is too BRIGHT

Good app but it is too BRIGHT. The last thing I need before bedtime or when I am trying to do the exercises at 3am is BRIGHT BLUE LIGHT drilling into my eyeballs. It defeats the whole purpose. Make the pages DARK, please

Keeps me on track

This app allows me to track or trace what helps and what doesn’t and keeps me on a routine, which is very important.

Très utile

Cette application est très utile a m’a réellement aide à améliorer mon sommeil (app. suggérée par mon médecin.

Entries for the time period chosen.

I don’t like when app goes backwards to the previous month. When entries are missed within a period of time, go to the next month and stop taking the patients back. Who can remember the details anyway?

Instructions would have been helpful.

On day 2 when I started, the info was the same as day 1, and I thought hadn’t started my second entry correctly, so I flew through the screens. Then I found out that I had reported day 2 much like day 1. Actually, I got 2 hours more sleep on day 2, but I don’t think I can go back and fix it.

Great one concern

Diary format is easy to use. If I wake up at night, as I often do, I don’t see a way to specify if I got out of bed (as advised) then returned when sleepy or if I lay awake in bed. App seems to assume I stayed in bed. This seems like s critical distinction. Maybe I just don’t understand how to record it. Still a critical issue.
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Used for anxiety and sleep issues

My behaviour Analyst recommended this app to help with night and day routine. I will tell you what! I had no idea what muscle tension across body meant until I used muscle relaxation tool on this app. Like the concept itself was absurd to me, i thought that’s something extremely stressed out people had. I realized my body existed in a fight mode whole day after I felt how a relaxed body was supposed to feel.

Not just the muscle relaxation, the app also got some breathing exercises, that put me to sleep in 20 minutes most of the time, you just really gotta listen to the instructions.


The only issue I find is, i wish some of these audio, especially the bed time stories had more series and lengthy ones.. over time my mind started wandering cos I know the content line to line by now, lol
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Great App!

I love this app! The first night I used it, after I turned it off I was asleep in five minutes. I am going to use it in the day time also for chronic pain. Thanks so much!

Stayed up late 1.5 x 1/2 ambien

Good

Great app

Takes a little effort to set it up to what you want it to do but it is great to help you track how and what you do and how it impacts your sleeping. Awesome tool

Freezes

So far it freezes regularly and has to be reopened

Amazing

My bronchiectasis flare ups started 5 months ago. I kept going to urgent care and saw two pulmonologist . After 6 rounds of antibiotics, three X-rays and a CT scan. About a month ago, Through YouTube I learned the most important thing to do to treat bronchiectasis was to clear your airway every day. So through ChatGPT, I found this app autogenetic drainage to help clear my airway. I started slow 2 minutes a day and started seeing results so I decided to be more aggressively and now do this breathing exercise at 6 minutes morning and night. Amazingly my flare up is 95% gone. I don’t hear any rattling and almost no coughing. I’m slowly getting back to my old activities! Thank you Autogenetic Drainage!!!!
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Good app

Super was my doctor tracks my none sleep schedule

Thankful

I’m getting some better sleep now that I’m using the app 🤗

CBT-I Coach

I’ve used this app for years and like it. Simply don’t understand how they calculate the efficiency rating when we make our periodic review inputs.

Extra options needs some love and so does exporting

Additional questions needs work :

When you add an entry to the sleep diary the app allows you to add extra options to track. You can create your own additional questions but here are a few needed features:
1. Sort questions . User should be able to move questions added later in the process to the top or to move them at their convenience.

2. Yes/No questions with comments. The predefined extra options like “ Did you use a sleeping pill “ bring up a text box after selecting yes. Do the same with user added questions.

Export feature needs work:

Reading a single sheet excel is quite difficult for a provider. Specially with all the additional questions. Either make it multi sheet and use the dates to separate additional questions or offer additional formats like pdf or JSON.
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Response from developer

Thank you for your detailed and insightful feedback regarding the additional questions, user added questions, and the export feature. We have passed your feedback forward to the product team for review. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact our team at mobilementalhealth@va.gov.

A wonderful app

I’ve used quite a few different sleep tracking apps and CBTi Coach is the best one. It’s the easiest to use and the most thorough and I’m able to easily upload my diaries to my sleep professional. Great job and thank you for making this freely available.

Good sleep

I have learned that a good nights sleep takes planning.

Awesome

Just a few minutes on the app and I learned so much about sleep