Comparison

DBT Coach vs Dopamine Menu + App blocker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

DBT Coach

Learn and practice Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to manage emotions, build resilience, and improve relationships. This app offers expert-created lessons, interactive exercises, and progress tracking to support personal growth and emotional well-being.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive DBT skills library
  • Interactive video lessons and animated guides
  • AI-powered personalized skills coach
  • Intuitive diary card for mood tracking
  • Progress visualization and clinician sharing
  • Guided meditations and self-reflection questionnaires
  • Crisis support hotlines
Features
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Transform Your Life with Evidence-Based Skills. Feel more in control. Build resilience. Transform overwhelming emotions into actionable skills. DBT Coach is the most comprehensive DBT app available - trusted by over 3 million users. WHY DBT COACH WORKS Real Results: Most users show measurable improvement within 90 days. Our evidence-based approach combines DBT expertise with engaging, memorable content. Learn Skills That Stick 100+ expert video lessons 60+ animated skill guides Interactive exercises that reinforce learning Effortless Progress Tracking: Your intuitive diary card makes daily tracking simple. Visualize patterns, celebrate wins, and share seamlessly with your therapist - no more weekly emails. WHAT'S INSIDE - Comprehensive, beautifully designed DBT Diary tracking which lets you control what you want to track, how much detail (context) you want to provide. Additional context lets you to see advanced analytics - your patterns, progress, risk and provides recommendations. - Ability to share in graphical format as well as the traditional (tabular) diary card format - Complete DBT Skills Library Master Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation, Distress Tolerance, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. - Each skill includes videos, exercises, and real-world guides. 1,000+ Guided Meditations World-class teachers across mindfulness, crisis management, sleep, and self-compassion themes. - Smart Analytics and Insights Discover connections between skills practice and emotional well-being with data-driven insights. - Motivation System Earn achievements, track streaks, and celebrate milestones as you build your practice. 100+ Interactive Worksheets Practice exercises linked to lessons. - Review history to see your progress. - Crisis Survival Toolkit Quick access to distress tolerance skills when you need them most. - Therapist Integration Share diary cards, exercises, and progress with your clinician in real-time through our companion platform. - Beautiful Design Dark mode, customizable tracking, and intuitive interface. WHO IT'S FOR - Dealing with stress or emotional overwhelm - In DBT therapy and need a companion tool - Committed to personal growth and wellness WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT - Comprehensive: Complete DBT curriculum coverage - Clinically rigorous: Expert-reviewed, cited in journals - Visual and engaging: Video, animation, and interaction - Therapist-connected: Seamless clinical care integration - Proven effective: Real outcomes, real data SUBSCRIPTION Free trial available $11.99/month or $59.99/6 months (save 17%) Cancel anytime in settings Auto-renews unless turned off 24 hours before period ends Payment charged to account at confirmation IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER DBT Coach is an educational and self-help wellness app. It is NOT a medical device and does NOT provide medical diagnoses, treatment plans, or prescriptions. All content is psychoeducational in nature, designed to teach general Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) coping skills. The AI coach feature is a skills coaching tool, not a licensed therapist or medical professional. This app complements - not replaces - professional therapy. For best results, use alongside a qualified mental health provider. If you are in crisis, please contact emergency services or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You deserve support that meets you where you are. Download DBT Coach and take the next step toward a life worth living. Privacy: https://www.resiliens.com/privacy Terms: https://www.resiliens.com/terms

About

Dopamine Menu + App blocker

This app provides a personalized menu of enjoyable activities to combat doomscrolling and executive dysfunction. Organize your hobbies by duration and energy level, with smart reminders and home screen widgets to help you choose what to do in seconds.

Highlights
  • Personalized activity menu
  • Categorize by duration and energy
  • Home screen widget
  • Smart reminders
  • Customizable categories and activities
  • Exportable menu
Features
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Your apps stay locked until you've done something you actually love — and taken a photo to prove it. Built for ADHD brains, works for everyone! It's not a willpower problem. Your phone is engineered to be the fastest dopamine within reach, and every brain loses that fight. So Dopamine Menu doesn't ask you to fight. It asks you to swap. HOW IT WORKS Build your menu — the things you'd rather do than scroll. Read ten pages. One song, eyes closed. Walk to the corner. Guitar, badly. Lock the apps that eat your evenings. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube — your pick. When you reach for them, your menu shows up instead. Your own words, on top of the app. Do one thing. Take a photo of it. The apps unlock — for 15 minutes. Watch the score. "It tried 47 times today. It got through 2." WHY IT WORKS You can't delete a craving. You can redirect it. Cut the scroll and you leave a hole the phone will fill; swap it for something you enjoy and your brain still gets its hit — nothing to resist. Deciding the swap in advance is what psychologists call an if-then plan; across 94 studies, it roughly doubled follow-through. The photo just makes it real. WHAT YOU GET The Shield — the apps you choose stay locked until you've done something from your menu and shown the proof Your menu on your home screen — no deciding in the moment; you already decided Wins — every photo builds your wall. "I won against the algorithm 23 times. And I can prove it." The scoreboard — how many times the algorithm tried, how many times it got through, and which apps tried hardest Your time, back — the hours you spent on your book, your walk, your guitar, counted Share the proof — one tap turns your wall into a poster (blur your photos if you like) PRIVACY, FOR REAL Your photos never leave your phone. No account, no upload, no cloud. Dopamine Menu can't see what you do inside other apps — Apple's Screen Time framework keeps that on your device, where it belongs. FREE AND PRO Free: unlimited menu, soft blocking, wins, the wall, sharing. Pro: the Shield that actually holds, home-screen widgets, unlimited menus, the weekly recap. Built for anyone whose evenings keep disappearing — ADHD brains, chronically online humans, and everyone who used to have hobbies. Get your time back. No willpower. Just a better plan. — Dopamine Menu Pro is available as an auto-renewing subscription ($2.99 per week or $44.99 per year) or a one-time lifetime purchase ($79.99). Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple ID settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when — FREE TO TRY To access all features, subscribe via Apple Pay, managed through your Apple account. No account required. Your data stays on your device. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ — A NOTE FROM US We built this app because we needed it ourselves. Your guitar exists. Your sketchbook exists. That walk you keep putting off exists. You just need a reminder that they're there. The internet is full of apps that want your attention. This one wants to give it back. That's all this is. A menu. Your menu.

Screenshots

DBT Coach1 screens
Dopamine Menu + App blocker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: DBT Coach at none against Dopamine Menu + App blocker's shown. DBT Coach also leads on ratings volume (1.7K vs 1). Dopamine Menu + App blocker's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 69%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DBT Coach sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Dopamine Menu + App blocker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dopamine Menu + App blocker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DBT Coach has 1.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of DBT Coach's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dopamine Menu + App blocker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DBT Coach ships an update fortnightly, Dopamine Menu + App blocker every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
DBT Coach versus Dopamine Menu + App blocker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDBT CoachDopamine Menu + App blocker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.7K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.7K — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperResiliens Inc.Damien Doumer

Customer experience

DBT Coach

All ratings1,729 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.2%
Written reviews323 reviews
Positive68.7%
Neutral9.6%
Negative21.7%

Dopamine Menu + App blocker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

DBT Coach

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • 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

Requested features

5 requests
  • 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

Dopamine Menu + App blocker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DBT Coach

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Family Monthly Subscription$19.991 Month
  • Six Month Subscription3 Days trial$59.996 Months
3 purchases

Dopamine Menu + App blocker

Subscriptions2
  • Full Dopamine Menu$3.997 Days
  • Full Dopamine Menu Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dopami Menu (Lifetime deal)$24.99

Questions

Is DBT Coach free?
DBT Coach is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dopamine Menu + App blocker free?
Dopamine Menu + App blocker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DBT Coach or Dopamine Menu + App blocker?
Dopamine Menu + App blocker is rated higher. DBT Coach averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.7K ratings, while Dopamine Menu + App blocker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DBT Coach or Dopamine Menu + App blocker have ads?
Dopamine Menu + App blocker shows ads; DBT Coach does not.
Which is updated more often, DBT Coach or Dopamine Menu + App blocker?
DBT Coach ships an update fortnightly, and Dopamine Menu + App blocker every 4 days. Most recently, DBT Coach was updated on October 26, 2026 and Dopamine Menu + App blocker on October 26, 2026.

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