Comparison

ShakeItOff vs EMDR Therapy

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

Head to head
About

ShakeItOff

This app guides users through Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) to help resolve trauma, anxiety, and stress. It facilitates neurogenic tremors, a natural bodily response for releasing tension and promoting calm and resilience. Learn and perform 7 exercises with video instructions.

Highlights
  • Trauma resolution guidance
  • Anxiety and panic relief
  • Neurogenic tremor induction
  • Stress tension release
  • 7 guided exercises
  • Video instructions
Features
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The app Shakeitoff with the TRE® exercises can help you resolve your traumata, overcome anxiety, compulsions and panic, and find calm, confidence and serenity serenity. This app helps you trigger neurogenic tremors, a self-healing reflex of our body, an innate ability to release tension and stress reactions. The word "neurogenic" means that it is a physical reaction that you cannot consciously induce or control. Neurogenic tremors release the tension your body has built up from strong internal feelings and external influences. You become calmer, serener and more relaxed. Neurogenic tremors make you more resilient, more resistant to stress, and also gradually make pain disappear. Ancient healing traditions have used the power of involuntary trembling for thousands of years. NeuroZittern offers the following functionalities: Knowledge - Background information about TRE. How to - Basic instructions on how to perform the exercises. Exercises - Detailed description of the 7 exercises with additional video instructions. The 7 TRE exercises trigger neurogenic tremor. Poem by the Inuit shaman Uvavnuk: The great sea has set me in motion, Set me me in motion, Moving me as the weed moves in a river. The arch of sky and mightiness of storms Have moved the spirit within me, Till I am carried away Trembling with joy.”

About

EMDR Therapy

This app simulates EMDR therapy using advanced digital techniques. It guides users through bilateral stimulation with visual, auditory, and vibration cues to help process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact. Recommended by mental health professionals, it aims to aid recovery from trauma, depression, PTSD, and anxiety.

Highlights
  • Simulates EMDR therapy techniques
  • Bilateral stimulation (visual, auditory, vibration)
  • Guided processing of distressing memories
  • Aids recovery from trauma and anxiety
  • Customizable settings for user preference
Features
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This application uses many advanced digital technics and simulates EMDR therapy. EMDR is a technique recommended by psychotherapists and Psychologists. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched psychotherapy method proven to be effective and help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences which are including depression, PTSD, panic disorders, anxiety. The American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs/Dept. of Defense, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and the World Health Organization among many other national and international organizations recognize and recommend EMDR therapy as an effective treatment. First, put on your headphones, think of a traumatic and disturbing event. Follow the ball in the EMDR tool, focus on the transition of sounds in your left and right ears, and feel the vibrations. Thus, the effect of traumatic disturbing events that will provide the data flow between the right and left brain as in REM sleep will decrease. Focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories. While you bring the details of that memory to mind, This tool will guide you through a series of side-to-side eye movements, auditory (with direction), and vibrations. As you learn to process the memory and related feelings it brings up, you’ll gradually be able to reframe that memory in a more positive light. Use three types of BLS: visual, auditory (with direction), and vibrations and modify your settings to suit your preferences. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro in the 1980s that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories such as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In EMDR, the person being treated recalls distressing experiences whilst doing bilateral stimulation, such as side-to-side eye movement or physical stimulation, such as tapping either side of the body. According to the theory behind the approach, traumatic and painful memories can cause post-traumatic stress when you don’t process them completely. Then, when sights, sounds, words, or smells trigger those unprocessed memories, you re-experience them. The 2013 World Health Organization (WHO) practice guideline states that EMDR "is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are the result of unprocessed memories. The treatment involves standardized procedures that include focusing simultaneously on spontaneous associations of traumatic images, thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations and bilateral stimulation that is most commonly in the form of repeated eye movements. This re-experiencing leads to the emotional distress and other symptoms recognized as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMDR aims to reduce symptoms of trauma by changing how your memories are stored in your brain. In a nutshell, an EMDR therapist does this by leading you through a series of bilateral (side-to-side) eye movements as you recall traumatic or triggering experiences in small segments, until those memories no longer cause distress.

Screenshots

ShakeItOff4 screens
EMDR Therapy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: EMDR Therapy at Free against ShakeItOff's $4.99. EMDR Therapy also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (89% vs 64%). ShakeItOff's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

EMDR Therapy is free to download; ShakeItOff costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShakeItOff holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of ShakeItOff's written reviews are positive against 89% of EMDR Therapy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShakeItOff ships an update every 3 months, EMDR Therapy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
ShakeItOff versus EMDR Therapy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShakeItOffEMDR Therapy
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better4.3 (15 ratings)
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews88.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings515 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#144 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB108 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichele De LorenziAhmet Emre Kilinc

Customer experience

ShakeItOff

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral9.1%
Negative27.3%

EMDR Therapy

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ShakeItOff

No in-app purchases

None

EMDR Therapy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShakeItOff free?
ShakeItOff costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is EMDR Therapy free?
EMDR Therapy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShakeItOff or EMDR Therapy?
ShakeItOff is rated higher. ShakeItOff averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while EMDR Therapy averages 4.3 from 15 ratings.
Do ShakeItOff or EMDR Therapy have ads?
EMDR Therapy shows ads; ShakeItOff does not.
Which is updated more often, ShakeItOff or EMDR Therapy?
ShakeItOff ships an update every 3 months, and EMDR Therapy every 4 days. Most recently, ShakeItOff was updated on October 27, 2026 and EMDR Therapy on October 24, 2026.

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