Comparison

Delay vs Conicia

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

Head to head
About

Delay

This app helps you practice techniques to manage OCD urges and discomfort. It offers guided sessions, grounding exercises, and tools to help you sit with challenging thoughts and let them pass naturally. Track your progress and gain insights into your urge patterns.

Highlights
  • Practice Timer for guided sessions
  • Urge Scenario Library
  • 15+ Practice Tools (thought labeling, urge surfing)
  • Quick Urge Logging
  • Progress Tracking and Streaks
  • Pattern Insights
  • Daily Reminders
Features
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Delay - Practice Not Responding to OCD Urges Living with OCD can be exhausting. The constant urges, the rituals, the "what ifs" that won't stop. Delay is a self-help app that helps you practice techniques inspired by Exposure & Response Prevention (ERP). Instead of fighting your thoughts, you'll learn to sit with discomfort and let urges pass naturally - at your own pace. HOW IT WORKS When an OCD urge strikes, open Delay and start the timer. Choose how long you want to practice - even 2 minutes counts. The app supports you through the discomfort with calming messages, grounding exercises, and gentle encouragement. FEATURES Practice Timer - Delay your response to urges with guided sessions Urge Scenario Library - Browse common OCD-related situations across many subtypes 15+ Practice Tools - Thought labeling, urge surfing, grounding, and more Quick Urge Logging - Track urges by type and intensity Progress Tracking - Build streaks and view your practice history Pattern Insights - Discover when urges tend to peak Daily Reminders - Stay consistent with gentle notifications Dark Mode - Easy on your eyes, day or night SUBSCRIPTION Choose the plan that fits how you want to commit: • Annual: $59.99 per year, with a 1-week free trial (best value) • Monthly: $9.99 per month, with a 1-week free trial • Weekly: $2.99 per week, with a 3-day free trial Payment is charged to your Apple ID account when the free trial ends. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your device Settings. IMPORTANT Delay is a self-help tool only. It is NOT a substitute for professional mental health care, therapy, diagnosis, or medical treatment. This app does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. If you are struggling, please seek help from a licensed mental health professional. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://jadetradeapp.com/delay/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://jadetradeapp.com/delay/privacy-policy

About

Conicia

This app provides self-help tools and lessons for managing Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). It offers techniques for handling urges, unhooking from thoughts, and guided exercises to understand and confront OCD patterns. The app also includes a journal to track urges and compulsions, and optional features for clinicians to monitor progress.

Highlights
  • Urge surfing for managing immediate urges
  • Thought unhooking exercises
  • Loop management tools
  • Audiobook mode for lessons
  • Guided writing exercises
  • OCD journal for tracking patterns
  • Weekly check-ins for progress monitoring
Features
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OCD's tricks are predictable. That's the good news. Once you can see them, you have something to act on. Conicia is self-help for OCD from Weston Scott Fisher, MD, a psychiatrist who has specialized in OCD for more than a decade. Start free: the first lesson, three tools for hard moments and an OCD journal. No chatbot, no ads. Open it and it asks one question: what do you need right now? - OCD is loud. Practices for not acting on it, right now. - I have time to work on it. Your next lesson, read or listened to. - OCD got me earlier. Log it in the journal, and the pattern shows. TOOLS FOR HARD MOMENTS - Urge surfing: stay with an urge without acting on it. You set the length. Ocean sound, no timer on screen. - Unhook from a thought: write it down, put it on a leaf, and watch the stream carry it. Nothing is saved. - Caught in a loop: when you cannot stop going over it, two minutes of cards that help you set the question down unsolved. Not an answer. A way to stop circling. THE LESSONS Short lessons, a few minutes each, in Weston's own words: how OCD works and what it has you doing, what sets it off, facing what it has you avoiding, where the doubt really starts, living alongside OCD, and staying well. Draws on exposure and response prevention (ERP), inference-based CBT, and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), not just one. Read them, or listen: Audiobook mode plays lesson after lesson with your screen locked, and you can keep a chapter's audio on your phone for a flight or the subway. THE EXERCISES Guided writing exercises from the lessons: map your triggers, take stock of your safety behaviors, build your exposure ladder from easiest to hardest, write the alternative story, plan your response to a slip. Your answers are saved to your account. THE OCD JOURNAL Catch OCD in the act. When it shows up, log what set it off, what it pushed you to do, and what you did instead. A minute per moment, in three short steps. Each week you see the urges you did not feed and the time compulsions took. Week by week, the pattern shows. THE WEEKLY CHECK-IN Five questions, about a minute, once a week. How OCD has been this week, in one chart over time. For tracking, not diagnosis. IF YOU WORK WITH A CLINICIAN Connecting is free and your choice. Your clinician can follow your progress, assign readings and exercises that fit you, open the parts meant to be done together (guided exposures, the medication lessons), leave you voice notes for hard moments, and open your app with you in session, on one screen. WHO MADE IT Conicia is two people: Weston, a psychiatrist who has specialized in OCD for more than a decade, and a product manager who has OCD. No AI chatbot anywhere in it. No reassurance on tap. No streaks, no badges, no feed. Short practices you use and leave. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No ads, no ad trackers, and no third-party analytics companies in the app - What you write is encrypted, and access is limited and audited - Optional Face ID lock - Delete your account and its data from inside the app, any time WHAT IT COSTS - Free with an account, for good: your first lesson, the three tools for hard moments, and the OCD journal. - The full program: $20 a month or $144 a year, and your first 7 days are free. We email you before the first charge, and you can cancel in two taps in the app. GOOD TO KNOW - Conicia is educational and self-management only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, and it is not for the diagnosis or treatment of any condition, including OCD. Talk to your clinician before making decisions about your care. - Conicia is not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7). In immediate danger, call 911. Outside the US, findahelpline.com lists free helplines worldwide. - A Conicia account is required. Reading, exercises and tools work offline. - Clinician-connected features are available in the United States.

Screenshots

Delay4 screens
Conicia4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Conicia at none against Delay's 3. Conicia also leads on ratings volume (14 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Delay sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Conicia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Delay against 5.0 for Conicia. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Delay ships an update weekly, Conicia every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Delay versus Conicia: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelayConicia
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings314 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB66 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperJadeTrade Marketplace LLCConicia Inc

Customer experience

Delay

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Conicia

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Delay

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Conicia

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delay free?
Delay is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Conicia free?
Conicia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Delay or Conicia?
Delay and Conicia are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 14 ratings respectively.
Do Delay or Conicia have ads?
Neither Delay nor Conicia shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Delay or Conicia?
Delay ships an update weekly, and Conicia every 5 days. Most recently, Delay was updated on November 5, 2026 and Conicia on November 6, 2026.

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