# Sanvello: Anxiety & Depression — Therapy, Coaching, Self-Care

> Mental health toolkit with therapy, coaching, self-care, and community support. (iPhone/iPad app by Sanvello Health Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sanvello-anxiety-and-depression/id922968861 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sanvello Health Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/922968860)
- Category: Medical, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 22,791 App Store ratings · 51 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 147 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2015-01-28
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sanvello-anxiety-and-depression/id922968861/reviews.md

## What is Sanvello?

Whether you’re feeling anxious, lonely, overwhelmed, or just burned out, Sanvello will meet you where you’re at. Think of it as your feel-better toolkit, including therapy, coaching, coping techniques, meditations, and goal and mood tracking, designed by experts to help you feel better.  

Best of all, your Sanvello journey is customizable to you. The app checks in with how you're feeling so you can track your emotions and progress over time. As patterns are identified, Sanvello will provide customized tools, rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, to keep you on the path to feeling better. 

Take time for yourself by downloading Sanvello today. 
 

FREE ACCESS THROUGH HEALTH PLANS (U.S. ONLY): 
Over 40 million Americans have Sanvello Premium included in their health plans and Sanvello Therapy is in-network for 90 million. Check your plan instantly in the app. No insurance or outside the U.S.? No problem—many of our most popular tools and guides are free to ensure everyone can take care of their mental health, plus we have affordable self-pay subscriptions for that extra bit of support. 
 

SELF-CARE:  
Get started by checking in with your mood or taking one of our assessments to get your stress, anxiety, and depression scores. This establishes your baseline and helps us recommend personalized in-app activities to get you on the path to feeling better. Go on the “Braving Anxiety” Guided Journey with John Green, or “Feeling Better” with Kati Morton. Want to chart your own course? Explore our library of coping tools, thought reframing exercises, meditations, and more.  
 

COMMUNITY:  
You’re not alone: The Sanvello community is millions strong, and they find each other in the Sanvello community. Get a fresh perspective on anxiety, gratitude, and dozens of other topics by anonymously participating in active discussion boards and chat groups. 
 

THERAPY: 
Feel better in half the time of traditional therapy with Sanvello Therapy, which matches you with a licensed clinician—and includes a mental health coach and Premium access to self-care content at no-cost while you’re in therapy. Therapy is currently available in the U.S. in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI.  
 

COACHING:  
Face new challenges with help from someone you can trust. Sanvello Coaches provide direction, support, and motivation through 1:1 messaging—judgment free. Your coach is there to be your sounding board in achieving your goals. You also have an all-access pass to group coaching sessions—live classes that help you apply the concepts of CBT to real life—and all our self-care tools within the app. Sanvello Coaching is only available in the U.S. 
 

APPLE HEALTH: 
Sanvello integrates with Apple Health for tracking exercise, sleep, mindful minutes, and caffeine, and will also write Mindful Minutes back to Apple Health based on your meditation usage. 

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING & TERMS: 
Sanvello is free to download and use. The premium version of Sanvello allows for unlimited use of all tools and is available through many major health plans (“upgrade via insurance”) or through an auto-renewing subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the current period ends. Your Apple account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the price listed above. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your Apple account settings but refunds will not be provided for the unused portion of the term. If a free trial period is offered, it will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. 

Terms of Service: https://sanvello.com/tos/    

Privacy Policy: https://sanvello.com/privacy-policy/  
 
Help: https://help.sanvello.com or info@sanvello.com

## Key features

- Therapy with licensed clinicians
- 1:1 coaching and group sessions
- Mood and emotion tracking
- Guided self-care journeys
- Coping technique library
- Community discussion boards
- Integration with Apple Health

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Access - Monthly | $8.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Access - Lifetime | $199.99 | one-time |
| Unlimited Tracking | $1.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Sanvello?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Helpful for managing anxiety and depression
- 💡 Useful mood and habit tracking features
- 🚀 Engaging and intuitive interface
- 👍 Supportive community and resources
- 💡 Customizable and personalized experience

**Cons**

- 🐛 Occasional technical issues and bugs
- 💰 Premium features can be expensive
- 🔒 Concerns about data privacy and security
- 🤔 Difficulty navigating certain features
- 👎 Lack of offline functionality

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Login and sign-up process not working consistently
- Syncing issues between devices and app versions
- Compatibility problems with newer smartphone models
- Frequent crashes and freezes during use

**Most requested features**

- Offline mode for mood and habit tracking
- More customization options for the home screen
- Ability to privately message other users
- Integration with wearable devices and fitness trackers
- Expanded free content and features

## Recent user reviews (10 of 51)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sanvello-anxiety-and-depression/id922968861/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Consistent glitch, lost interest

*2024-02-23*

I mean at one point it was helpful. Calmed my anxiety& such. I get on today cause I have daily reminders, it won’t allow me. I need a phone number, okay cool. Why after I put my number it still won’t let me proceed to the next page. Numerous times it fails. So I delete the app uninstall it& go about installing it again. Redo it to log in, even reset my password. Reach the point where I have to put a number& it still doesn’t let me press next. Like the this app is literally causing me stress. Seems a bit much sure but my anger is NOT okay. So I’m already frustrated wanting to use this app to help me&  running around on my phone just creating more anger?? Deleted app& I will not get it again. I understand these things happen, but not everytime. I give up. It was nice for a little, not worth my short fuse getting sparked up over annoyances. I never had a problem with my other anxiety app, I just gave Sanvello a go because of the little anxiety exercises they had. I will be returning to my older app unfortunately. I don’t have any patience for this, I barley even like getting on my phone more than I need. But I mean hey, if it ain’t broke. Thanks anyway

### 5/5 — Pretty great!

*2023-01-30, version 8.56.0*

It’s hard for me to stick with, but when I have spare time…It really helps! I don’t really have more to say, except on more thing…it shows your anxiety score, stress score, and depression score which is really helpful. Anxiety is typically ON GOING stress that doesn’t go away for a while, which leads to not having motivation to do simple tasks. It’s similar to depression in a lot of ways, and there’s really only one thing to help which is deep breaths. Stress on the other hand, goes away after a bit. It is like a one time thing. Not stress itself but the thing you are stressed about is a one time thing. Like with anxiety (which I have) is something that you stress about almost every day. Like for me, one of the things is someone is going to break in to my house when I’m in bed. I’m not to worried because I still live with my parents. I am only a Teenager. But stress, anxiety, and depression are all similar in some ways. But if someone says “Well, everyone has anxiety SOMETIMES.” That is true, but for some people it’s a literal disability. So people who read this don’t say “Well everyone has anxiety SOMETIMES”.

### 5/5 — the best!

*2022-05-11, version 8.52.0*

I have mdd + psychotic features and severe anxiety, i always feels so out of touch with my emotions bc of my psychosis but this app has helped tremendously. i have tried so many mental health apps, and personally, I think this one takes the cake! Tracking my mood everyday, being able to choose my emotions and a space to describe what’s going on + the meditations when i’m losing touch help me connect with my emotions again. It’s changing a lot for me. i would love to have premium but i don’t have room for it in my budget. my only suggestion would be to maybe lower the cost? i love the app and would recommend even just the free version to anyone any day of the week! 
thanks for the help you are giving, it is truly making a difference in my life!

### 3/5 — Promising but…

*2022-01-19, version 8.44.0*

I was recommended this app by a professional and had high hopes, but was rather disappointed that immediately I was greeted with an upsell page that I was unable to close because I use a Pro Max iPhone.  Not a big problem, just closed the app and reopened to bypass… until I find that a lot of the interface bleeds into the screen corners when doing even the basics like logging the day.

I look at the reviews and see this has been mentioned before, and that the response was that it would be passed to the dev team for consideration. The pro max is NOT a new form factor.  Apple provides a whole set of tools to avoid this set of issues.  The last thing I want to see from an app (backed by UHG, which is NOT short on resources and capital) is an upsell push when the basics are neglected in UI design and the prior responses are generic tickets passed to the team to handle.  Unfortunately that makes this app a pass for me, and an absolute non starter for premium subscription consideration.  What a disappointment.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review, we apologize for the UI issue you've encountered on your device. If you're able, can you please contact us at info@sanvello.com with a screenshot of the problem so we can make sure we're addressing the correct issue? We appreciate you bringing this back to our attention and we'd like to make sure we get it resolved.

### 3/5 — Hard for me to understand this

*2021-10-23, version 8.39.0*

I like the concept of this app and it helps in a lot of ways but some things about it lose me.
1) it sends me a reminder to do my sleep goal or my hobby goal but when I tap on it doesn’t bring me to that section and I don’t know how to get to that section and doesn’t tell me how to get to that section so I don’t ever get those done
2) it tells me how was my week in random days. I rather it ask me how was my week Saturday evening or Monday morning when it’s fresh in my mind. And if it passed Monday morning and I have not responded STILL do not ask me how was my week wait till next Monday. On Tuesday morning however it’s ok to send a reminder that I didn’t get to give an update such as say “oops we didn’t get a response yesterday on how was your week last week. It’s ok you can let us know how was your week now or don’t worry about it we have a whole new week now to work on.” Something like that. But after that leave it alone until Saturday evening or Monday morning or leave a window open from Saturday evening to Monday morning for us to record how our pass week went. Then DON’T ask us after that except a reminder on Tuesday for a last chance and that’s it.
Fix those issues and it’ll b good to go.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review and feedback on the goal and mood reminders in the app. We will share this feedback with our development team for them to consider in future updates of the app. If you have any questions or additional recommendations, please contact us at info@sanvello.com, we'd be happy to help.

### 5/5 — Beginning some how.

*2021-07-15, version 8.31.0*

I like the question’s and I conjuring up words to reflect when I was thinking about my upsets. It gives me a door to better understand me and my thoughts.a better day on the horizons. Today and today and get your self a outlook that offers many good words based on clearing out some of the melancholy answers encountered through out my time. And let loose off passed down expression making for the that time and moment,,, but many things elude me and makes no point of self forgiveness. That what’s I seem to go through. Making my spirit land on to much of now. And there I am. My soul without the drive of the body.I shall like you and me. Hear to some since across my eyes separated and intact. Thank you dear God and much more.

### 4/5 — great way to start feeling better

*2021-06-07, version 8.29.0*

I love that Sanvello was available through my work’s healthcare, because otherwise I would not have tried it, so that’s definitely a plus that they make it easy to integrate with your insurance.

As far as assessments, I like them. They’re diverse enough to get me started without being overwhelming. As a dftba fan, I couldn’t help but love that they used John Green for one of the anxiety educational videos. Every other person or voice they use is soothing and not “over doing it.” I’m interested by the community feature, but I don’t use it as much as the activities. 

As far as UX, just a couple things: some buttons are not compatible with iPhone features, for example, the adjust volume slider is too close to the bottom of the screen, and so my phone thinks I want to swipe away from the app or close it. Also, sometimes the check ins don’t register and I have to start over or cancel them

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review and feedback, we're happy to hear setup was easy and that you're enjoying the Guided Journeys so far!!😊 I will be sure to share your UX recommendations with our product team for them to consider in future updates as well. Please email us at info@sanvello.com if you have any questions or additional feedback, we'd be happy to help!

### 5/5 — Life-Changing Advice

*2021-04-02, version 8.24.0*

For the past few months, my body has been in fight/flight/freeze mode on a consistent basis. My hands were always shaky, and my chest was so heavy and painful that it was hard to breathe. I was spiraling downwards and felt incredibly depressed. But then I began using this app. I have only been using it for three days, but I feel and see the difference. My breathing is deeper and steady, and the burden is almost lifted from my chest. I feel calmer and incredibly tired now, and I think that fatigue is from finally relaxing after being so very anxious for so very long. I cannot afford a therapist, so I never had any tools to manage my anxiety. This app has taught me those tools. I cannot recommend Sanvello enough.

### 5/5 — I cannot believe the impact on my mental health.

*2021-03-16, version 8.24.0*

This review is not bot-made, I just am so much better thanks to this app. When I started skipping hygiene, personal health, social health, and only being on screens, I convinced myself to make a change. And the first step was using Sanvello. My anxiety is getting so much better, and I’ve completely engaged in social activities and started dabbling in minimalism for my sake of OCD.
Next, the committee section. I have made so many allies and good advice givers here. The report section is top-notch, and I can find people with fellow interests without being afraid of internet bullying, homophobic people, and etc. I seriously don’t deserve the kindness here. 
Lastly, the shorts. I personally enjoy Garden Mark, where he talks about plans, moving on, and other things while you see him tending to his plants. It keeps me focused but also calm! 
The only thing I dislike is I’m not able to pay 10$ a month for more lessons. Please either lower the price or stop premium! People with mental health issues should have less expensive options! 
Overall, mostly fantastic app, and anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who has stress should get this app.

**Developer response:** Thanks for your review, we're very glad to hear that Sanvello has been beneficial for you!😊 Please reach out to us at info@sanvello.com so we can go over some of the options for getting your account upgraded to Premium. We can also answer any additional questions you may have about the app.

### 2/5 — Not calming?

*2021-03-12, version 8.23.0*

I don’t understand this app. It was recommended and covered by my employer so I tried it. First it makes me choose a theme. Stars seems nice! No, it spins at a pace that dizzied me and confused my brain. I quickly chose another. Lightning? That means constant flashing! Turns out none of the themes aren’t animated (at a weird rapid pace - if they were slow they wouldn’t bother me nearly so much.) So right off the bat, I’m frustrated. 

Then some of the text is barely readable against the background, for some reason? Black text against the theme background, in a few different screens. 

I get it that the lessons talk about the causes of anxiety, although apparently, according to this app, all of them are external? Let me tell you, my brain does a great job of giving me internal reasons to be anxious. But then it repeated it during the breathing exercise. I don’t want to think about the causes of my anxiety when I’m trying to clear my mind. Why even mention it there? I didn’t even make it three minutes into the seven minute relaxation because I kept getting angry at the relaxation exercise. 

I don’t know if it gets better at all, but just the basic stuff seems to frustrate me way more than relax me. These shouldn’t be roadblocks. Stick to lessons during lessons and relaxation during breathing exercises. Fix your visual stuff. Calm down the animations and make text readable.

## Frequently asked questions about Sanvello

### What does Sanvello do?

Sanvello is a mental health app that provides a feel-better toolkit designed to help users manage anxiety, depression, and stress. It offers a range of resources including therapy, coaching, coping techniques, guided meditations, and tools for tracking mood and progress.

### What are the key features of Sanvello?

Key features include access to licensed therapists and coaches, personalized self-care tools rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), guided journeys, mood and emotion tracking, a library of coping exercises, and an anonymous community forum for peer support.

### How much does Sanvello cost?

Many of Sanvello's most popular tools and guides are available for free. Premium access is often included with health plans in the U.S. For those without insurance or outside the U.S., affordable self-pay subscriptions are available for enhanced support. Therapy services may have additional costs depending on insurance coverage.

### Is Sanvello available outside the U.S.?

While therapy and coaching services are currently only available in the U.S., many of the app's self-care tools and guides are accessible to users worldwide. The app aims to ensure everyone can take care of their mental health regardless of their location.

### Can Sanvello track my progress and integrate with other health apps?

Yes, Sanvello allows you to track your emotions and progress over time, identifying patterns to provide customized tools. It also integrates with Apple Health to track exercise, sleep, and mindful minutes, and can write mindful minutes back to Apple Health based on meditation usage.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 8.64.0 — 2023-12-12

Security improvements

### 8.63.0 — 2023-11-01

Security improvements

### 8.62.1 — 2023-09-01

Adding more clarification text and guidelines around the MFA functionality.

### 8.62.0 — 2023-08-28

Introducing Multi-Factor Authentication via SMS - a valid phone number is required in order to authenticate.
Removed the ability to log in with Apple ID. Users who have used Apple ID to sign up will still be able to use the app after setting a Sanvello password.

### 8.61.0 — 2023-08-02

Removed the ability to log in with Google and Facebook. Users who have used Google and Facebook to sign up will still be able to use the app after setting a Sanvello password.
New premium subscriptions are no longer available for purchase.

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