# DBT Coach — user reviews > 315 indexed App Store user reviews of DBT Coach by Resiliens Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 1,694 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dbt-coach/id1452264969/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dbt-coach/id1452264969.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,367 · 4★ 161 · 3★ 44 · 2★ 42 · 1★ 80 ## What do users think of DBT Coach? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Excellent interface and packed with skills and tools - 👍 Intuitive and easy to use - 🌟 Helpful for managing BPD, anxiety, and depression - 📚 Comprehensive DBT content and lessons - 💻 Seamless integration with therapist's app - 🗓️ Useful daily diary card and tracking features **Cons** - 💰 Expensive subscription, especially for those with limited means - 🔒 Paywall blocks access to important features like crisis support - 🐛 Frequent bugs, crashes, and login issues - 🔄 Constantly logging users out, requiring re-authentication - 📝 Editing and customization options are limited - 🔇 Audio issues with some video lessons **Commonly reported bugs** - Diary card entries not saving properly - Inability to log food or physical activity - Apple Health integration not working - Certain meditations and lessons not functioning - Inconsistent performance and unexpected crashes **Most requested features** - Allow more customization of diary card and tracked items - Improve stability and reduce bugs - Offer more affordable subscription options - Add ability to share diary entries with multiple providers - Improve navigation and make the app more user-friendly ## Newest reviews (15 of 315) ### 2/5 — The monetization is disgusting. *2026-08-05, version 6.4.2* I got this app thinking it would help me because my mental health has taken a severe turn and I cannot afford therapy or a doctor. I googled what free options could help me instead just to get this app where literally everything I wanted to use that would’ve helped me was behind a paywall. To capitalize off of people needed help is disgraceful and made me feel 10x worse. ### 3/5 — Patronizing *2026-07-18, version 6.4.1* Voice for the crisis mode is a robot woman and is annoying-sounding and super patronizing. It makes it hard to follow a program being talked down to like that by a soulless robot. Get a real, grounding voice please. Makes me angry and feel even more invalidated during a crisis. I can even do it for you guys ### 2/5 — Not suitable for BPD *2026-06-27, version 6.4.0* Not suitable for people with invalidation history. Made for numbers ("scientifically-proven"), not for people. Lacks deeper understanding of DBT Therapy principles. ### 4/5 — Diary card is too limited *2026-06-27, version 6.4.0* It would be better if you could log an emotion more than once a day. For example if I feel intense anger more than once in a day and use different skills to deal with it, I should be able to document that. ### 4/5 — Easy and cute *2026-05-23, version 6.1.3* .i obviously wish there was more content for free ### 5/5 — Great DBT Supplement *2026-05-22, version 6.1.3* Hugely helpful on the day to day to supplement my DBT therapy that I did and also supplementing my EMDR and parts work now. The app tools are way better than computer or written worksheets. Thank you for making this app and I highly recommend it! ### 4/5 — Exactly what I needed, with room to grow! *2026-05-20, version 6.1.3* I have been going through a lot and needed somewhere easy to put everything my therapist suddenly wanted me to start paying attention to. That feeling was overwhelming enough on its own, and then your app showed up in a search through the App Store, so I downloaded it immediately. My only wish as a brand-new user — I literally started last night — is for a bit more guidance for someone who has never even heard of most of the skills available. For example, which skills build on other skills, which ones are best to start with, which ones are easiest for most people to use, etc. My only other issue is the food section, which I’ve seen is a work in progress. Food tracking is a large part of my personal struggles, so I’m going to try to stick it out by adding custom items each time until that section is more fleshed out. I’m hoping that with consistency, this skill set and this app will help, because I really need something to help me keep going right now. ### 4/5 — Great Tool *2026-05-16, version 6.1.3* Helps me to use and practice DBT skills anywhere and at any time. The only drawback is that there is a paywall to access most tools and skills. ### 5/5 — Great app so far *2026-04-29, version 6.1.3* There's loads of content and I'm finding it really easy to navigate. ### 5/5 — 10/10 solo unas mejorías *2026-04-24, version 6.1.3* Que donde se pone otros se pueda más bien un + para que tú elijas el nombre de la conducta y puedas poner un dibujo que ya venga hecho, tipo como en la app bring del súper jajaja que así puedes poner títulos tú… no sé si me expliqué. También que la descripción de las emociones si salgan en el resumen y en el informe… y la impulsividad se mide más bien en el nivel de impulso por ejemplo para cometer alguna acción, y pues ya súper bien lo de los comportamientos. ### 3/5 — Handy to have *2026-04-22, version 6.1.3* Has helped me learn about myself, my emotions and essential DBT skills. The downside? It logs you out multiple times, it doesn’t save draft if you leave the app and return to it. No consistent system in making the diary entities, if you go into the diary entry to edit it, you get the option of filling out details on urges and how you acted on them but when filling it for the first time, it is not reflected. I’m using the paid versions. ### 5/5 — Life changer *2026-04-17, version 6.1.3* DBT Coach has changed my life for the better. I love how the Diary Card Entry is configured. I love the Breathing options. I love the Meditation feature; they are well curated and very good. Diya the AI is helpful, as is the Data generated. ### 3/5 — miss when it didnt use ai *2026-04-11, version 6.1.3* i had the paid version of this a few years back and recommended it to a lot of ppl. revisiting it recently as it was one of the few tools that worked for me, but now there is ugly ai art everywhere 😭😭 it ai generated a dear man script for me but it reads very disingenuous ### 5/5 — Saving my life *2026-03-26, version 6.1.2* This app is worth every penny of the monthly subscription. It is literally saving my life, my children’s lives from chaos, and my marriage. ### 2/5 — MUY MUY ÚTIL *2026-03-21, version 6.1.2* Spoiler: edite mi reseña, paso de 5 estrellas a 2. ——— Vine a editar esta reseña porque después de unos días mi opinión cambió. Pagué la suscripción y 1) el chat que tienen, “Diya”, funciona pésimo. Estás manteniendo un diálogo y de la nada dice no tengo acceso a conversaciones anteriores, por lo que lo que estabas contando RECIÉN, ya no está registrado. Por ende no sirve. Imagínate esto en un momento de desborde de alguien más encima. Es casi insoportable mantener un diálogo. Estás contando que te pasó y nuevamente dice y qué pasó, etc. Te repite las mismas preg una y otra vez, no avanzas. No, es terrible. Por lo menos a mí me aumentó la emoción y frustración que estaba sintiendo en ese momento. 2) no puedo abrir ninguna habilidad estando en ese chat “Diya”. La idea es que converses y te sugiera una habilidad para ese momento, pero cada vez que pasa y aprieto el botón, se cierra. De hecho pedí el reembolso de la app a AppStore. 3) súmale que hay habilidades en español, otras en inglés ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Really clunky *2026-08-19, version 6.4.5* So the coach will talk to you and offer you skills. They are not always a good match for what you’re going through and the coach will get stuck in that loop. It will also offer skills that are highly inappropriate for the problem at hand ### 1/5 — Wiped everything *2026-08-19, version 6.4.5* Well I WAS enjoying the app until yesterday when out of nowhere it logged me out and completely wiped my account. 2 months of entries gone. Awesome. I don’t even want to use it anymore because I lost all of my entries. ### 1/5 — subscription plan to access BASIC resources?,?? *2026-06-26, version 6.4.0* having great resources out there and putting them behind an insanely priced paywall. this has to be a joke. nothing is accessible anymore. anything to increase profit! ### 1/5 — Would be 5 stars but *2026-06-20, version 6.1.3* I'm getting a lot out of this app, but Diya, the AI coach, every 3rd text is telling me to finish my diary for the day. It's like I can't talk to the ai coach or read what is telling me to do because it keeps interrupting itself to tell me to complete my diary. What would be a helpful conversation completely exhausts me by making me figure out how to exit that prompt to get back to what we were actually talking about that could help me in the moment. But even telling it to stop asking doesn't help. And none of the support buttons or contact buttons in the app work to try to fix it. ### 1/5 — Buggy and unstable *2026-03-29, version 6.1.2* I wanted to like this app. I really need something like this, but the AI coach is buggy and too sensitive. Then a lot of the screens just get stuck and you can’t get out of a video or out of a section. I didn’t get very far. I only used it for about 10 minutes, but that was enough to feel uncomfortable using it because it was so buggy and didn’t make me feel safe or confident that it would be able to support me the UX and the whole experience needs an audit and then it might be a really amazing app. ### 1/5 — extrem fehlerbehaftet *2026-02-10, version 6.0.7* Diese App hat so dermaßen viele Bugs, man kann sich nicht mal registrieren deswegen. ### 1/5 — Can’t sign up *2026-01-31, version 6.0.7* This seems like it would be a very helpful app. Unfortunately, it will not let me sign up. When I hit create account a box just pops up & says “loading… please wait” but then that immediately goes away & no matter how many times I hit create account account, it won’t let me. ### 1/5 — Full of AI slop *2026-01-18, version 6.0.6* Disappointed with how my heavily ai is used in this app. So much ai slop and then majority of the skills are behind a paywall. Diary cards also take way too long to write on here, and you can’t even see what you’re typing because it’s covered by the keyboard. I like some of the UIUX but overall I was disappointed. ### 1/5 — Very buggy *2025-12-30, version 6.0.1* Some items just don’t work. Would not accept password despite adhering to rules, could not slide the emotion scale to specific number. Too arduous to use ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work. *2025-12-20, version 5.2.6* It doesn’t work. Pages won’t load. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hell yeah *2026-08-27, version 6.4.5* Very well done. I only wish you could enter your own urges and behaviors or at least that there be more options. ### 5/5 — Couldn’t recommend more *2026-08-23, version 6.4.5* This app has been incredibly useful for me in the last month I’ve used it. Adding it to other support I have, it’s helped me with a large life transition that otherwise would feel unmanageable. Even just practicing the skills when I don’t necessarily “need them” has helped me remember this tool is here and helps. I couldn’t recommend this app more. Side note: The video portion could be developed more during the urge surfing. Right now it’s an awful ai video haha but skill application is powerful. ### 5/5 — Helpful *2026-08-21, version 6.4.5* I like it so far ### 5/5 — Has helped me a lot *2026-08-20, version 6.4.5* I like the videos. I feel like they do a good job of explaining each skill, even though they are AI generated and feel a little more impersonal than I’d like. All the content is really helpful. And the daily diary card has become an important part of my routine. There’s also a AI chat tool that’s useful, but again, the AI aspect makes it feel impersonal. Overall, this app has been worth the money. ### 5/5 — Great *2026-08-19, version 6.4.5* Cool ### 5/5 — Great *2026-07-23, version 6.4.2* This app is great to have around when I am not in consistent therapy I enjoy each lesson and feel more regulated during use it’s not a solution to what I deal with but it is a good crutch ### 5/5 — Great *2026-07-20, version 6.4.1* Cool ### 5/5 — My Daily Diary Card! *2026-06-06, version 6.1.3* So grateful to have this app to remind of intentionally using these life saving skills! ### 5/5 — Diary card is too limited *2026-05-30, version 6.1.3* It would be better if you could log an emotion more than once a day. For example if I feel intense anger more than once in a day and use different skills to deal with it, I should be able to document that. ### 5/5 — Me ajudou na constância *2026-05-24, version 6.1.3* O app é muito bom! Bem sempre eu conseguia ficar com o cartão diário físico e isso acabava atrapalhando os meus registros. Agora, além de conseguir registrar todos os dias, eu ainda aprendo sobre várias estratégias e registro com mais detalhes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*