Tappily vs FreeCBT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tappily
Engage in game-like activities designed to enhance mental well-being. This app helps users organize thoughts, cultivate positivity, and manage mental health challenges through interactive exercises and daily reflections.
- Game-like activities for mental health
- Stay organized
- Think positively
- Overcome mental health challenges
- Daily reflections
- Reduce anxiety and stress
- Incorporate gratitude and self-love
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Self care for your mind. Therapist recommended. Tappily uses game-like activities to help users stay organized, think positively, and overcome mental health challenges. No need to keep track of a journal and pen. Tappily is here for you on the go. It’s conveniently made so you can always reflect on your past thoughts, organize tasks, or take note of something good that just happened. Tappily uses beautiful animations to make your experience as positive and happy as possible. Be prepared to reduce anxiety and stress, create positive perspectives, and incorporate gratitude, self-love and self-care into your daily life. **COME SAY HI** We'd love to hear about your Tappily experience. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any feedback or questions: • Email - team@tappilyapp.com ** TAPPILY PREMIUM ** Unlock Tappily and transform your mind! • Unlimited activities • Unlock daily activities to help you stay consistent • Access your activities on any device Tappily offers auto-renewing subscriptions, including a free trial: • $4.99 / month, billed annually as one payment of $59.99 (7-day free trial) • $7.99 / month, billed every month as one payment of $7.99 (3-day free trial) Your free trial will convert to an auto-renewing paid subscription unless you cancel the subscription in your iTunes Account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the trial or the current subscription period. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, until you cancel. Note that deleting the app does not cancel your subscription. If you subscribe before your free trial ends, the rest of your free trial will be forfeited as soon as your purchase is confirmed. These prices are in US Dollars (USD). Pricing in other currencies and countries may vary and actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on the country of residence. Read more about our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy here: • Terms of Use: https://app.termly.io/document/terms-of-use-for-website/05ca077f-41c4-42d5-b6ae-cb43e977ce11 • Privacy Policy: https://app.termly.io/document/privacy-policy/5926637c-776f-44d1-9f56-f11f5c5ea361
FreeCBT
This app provides a digital thought diary to practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). It helps users identify and challenge negative automatic thoughts, retrain their brains, and ultimately improve mood and behavior. It's an open-source tool for self-help and as a companion to traditional therapy.
- Thought diary
- Challenge automatic thoughts
- Identify cognitive distortions
- Train alternative thoughts
- Open source
- CBT self-help tool
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FreeCBT is an open source thought diary for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the "gold standard" of psychotherapy and is widely considered to be one of the most effective, evidence backed treatments for depression, anxiety, and panic. If you go into just about any therapist or psychiatrist, CBT will likely be one of the first treatments they try. FreeCBT is a companion and self-help app for one of the most common formats of CBT. You may have heard it called "the three column technique" or "catch it, check it, change it." Your brain is really good at making you feel exactly what you're thinking. Often, we find ourselves thinking "automatic negative thoughts" that lead us to fume on something that may not be true. That can cause us to feel depressed or anxious. CBT helps you record "automatic thoughts," challenge them with cognitive distortions and then train your brain with an alternative thought. If you do it enough, you can change your thoughts, your moods and your behavior. FreeCBT, a fork of Quirk, is open source under the GPL. You can find the code on Github at: https://github.com/erosson/freecbt
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FreeCBT at none against Tappily's 2. FreeCBT also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (96% vs 84%). Tappily's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tappily sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. FreeCBT asks for nothing beyond the download.
FreeCBT holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 68 and 170 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Tappily's written reviews are positive against 96% of FreeCBT's.
Tappily ships an update monthly, FreeCBT every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tappily | FreeCBT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (68 ratings) | 4.7 (170 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews | 96.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 | 170 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dalton Technologies, Inc. | Evan Rosson |
Customer experience
Tappily
FreeCBT
Bugs and requests
Tappily
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
FreeCBT
Reported bugs
5 issues- Swiping from distortion page selects/deselects distortions unintentionally
- App update deleted all past user entries
- Keyboard covers answer input area on some screens
- Swipe navigation doesn't work properly on certain screens
- Inconsistent touch response during navigation
Requested features
12 requests- Dark mode option
- Analytics to track thoughts and patterns over time
- Export feature to share entries with therapist or notes app
- Cross-device synchronization
- Bottom navigation bar
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- Ability to tag or categorize thoughts by topic
- Filter and view thoughts by category
- Evidence section with for/against columns
- Worst case scenario section with probability assessment
- More detailed examples for alternative thought step
- Additional cognitive distortion options (jumping to conclusions)
- Better help documentation and explanations
In-app purchases
Tappily
- Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
FreeCBT
No in-app purchases









