PureCBT vs Hair Pulling Tracker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PureCBT
This app provides evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. It offers guided exercises, mood tracking, and educational lessons, with premium features available through a one-time purchase. All data is kept private on your device.
- Thought Records
- Mood Tracking
- CBT Journal
- Guided Programs
- Behavioral Activation
- Sleep Log
- Core Beliefs Work
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PureCBT brings the full power of cognitive behavioral therapy to your iPhone. Whether you're working through anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, or everyday stress, PureCBT gives you the same evidence-based tools used in clinical practice — structured, guided, and completely private. CORE TOOLS — FREE - Thought Records — The gold standard CBT exercise. A guided 7-step wizard walks you through identifying automatic thoughts, examining evidence, spotting thinking traps, and building balanced perspectives. - Mood Tracking — Daily check-ins with emotion tagging, notes, and trend charts so you can notice patterns and track progress over time. - CBT Journal — Reflect on your day with clinically-informed prompts tailored to your focus area. Tag entries by emotion and revisit them anytime. - Progress Dashboard — See your mood trends, emotion patterns, thinking trap insights, and consistency streaks at a glance. - Introductory Lessons — Learn the foundations of CBT with 10 illustrated lessons covering the Five-Part Model, identifying moods, goal-setting, and more. - Dark Mode & App Lock — Protect your most private thoughts with Face ID and a personal PIN. UNLOCK PREMIUM (one-time purchase) Go deeper with the full CBT toolkit: - Guided Multi-Week Programs — Structured courses for anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and sleep, designed as progressive weekly curricula. - Full Lesson Library — Unlock all 49 illustrated lessons spanning thinking traps, behavioral experiments, core beliefs, and long-term strategies. - Behavioral Activation — Schedule meaningful activities and track how they affect your mood. A core technique for overcoming depression and low motivation. - Sleep Log — A CBT-i style log that calculates sleep efficiency and shows your 7-day trends. - Core Beliefs Work — Use the downward arrow technique to uncover and reshape the deep beliefs beneath your automatic thoughts. - Anxiety Hierarchies — Build exposure ladders and log your progress through feared situations, step by step. - iCloud Sync — Keep your data in sync across iPhone and iPad through your private iCloud account. - CSV Data Export — Export your mood entries, thought records, and journal for review with your therapist. PRIVACY BY DESIGN All data stays on your device. No servers, no accounts, no sign-ups. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Optional iCloud sync uses only your private iCloud container — we never see your data. Your mental health journey is yours alone. BUILT ON SCIENCE PureCBT is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy as developed by Aaron T. Beck and refined through decades of clinical research. The sleep tools follow CBT-i principles established by Charles Morin. Every lesson, exercise, and program is based on peer-reviewed evidence. PureCBT is not a substitute for professional mental health treatment. If you are in crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
Hair Pulling Tracker
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BFRB Tracker is a self-monitoring tool built around Habit Reversal Training (HRT) techniques for hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting. Log an urge or an episode in seconds, watch your own pattern build over weeks, and reach for a stimulus-control plan or a competing response the moment you notice an urge starting. A broken streak isn't a failure here — it's data. BFRB Tracker exists to make your own pattern visible: when urges happen, what tends to trigger them, and which response actually helps you ride one out instead of acting on it. FREE • Log an urge or episode — record intensity and context in seconds, any time of day • Streak tracking — a reset is treated as data, never as failure • Starter competing-response techniques — a fist clench, a stress-ball squeeze, cold water on the hands, and other first-line responses • Starter stimulus-control tips — change your environment ahead of high-risk situations • 30-day progress view — your logging streak and pattern trends over the last month • Recent entries list — scan back through your last several logged urges and episodes • Crisis Resources — real support, always free, no purchase required PRO (auto-renewing subscription, in-app purchase) • Weekly AI pattern summary — a plain-language read of what your own logged data says about this week • Full competing-response library — every technique, for every behavior type • Full stimulus-control planner — every planning tool, not just the starter tips • Unlimited progress history and data export • Ad-free — no banners or interstitials Free-tier techniques can also be unlocked one at a time by watching a short ad, with no subscription required. WHY BFRB TRACKER • Built around Habit Reversal Training — the same clinical model used in professional BFRB treatment, adapted into a self-monitoring tool • Logging takes seconds — urges and episodes get recorded in the moment, not reconstructed later • Free to start — the core log, streak tracking, and starter techniques cost nothing; the full library, planner, and AI pattern summary are part of Pro • No judgment in the data — every entry, including a reset streak, is just information about your own pattern • Private by design — your episode log stays on your device WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone who pulls hair, picks skin, or bites nails and wants to understand their own pattern • People already familiar with Habit Reversal Training who want a log built around it • Anyone who wants a stimulus-control plan and a competing response ready before the next urge hits • People who want a private way to track urges without judgment • Anyone who has tried to describe their pattern to a therapist and realized they had no actual log to bring to the session BFRB Tracker is a self-monitoring tool, not a diagnosis, treatment, or substitute for professional mental-health care. If you're in crisis, the app's Crisis Resources page connects you to real support right away, at no cost. The free urge log and starter technique library get you started; Pro adds the full library, planner, and weekly pattern insights. Download BFRB Tracker and start seeing your own pattern. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PureCBT at none against Hair Pulling Tracker's shown. Hair Pulling Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. PureCBT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hair Pulling Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | PureCBT | Hair Pulling Tracker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yazeed Alaudah | MEHMET CANKER (TR) |
In-app purchases
PureCBT
- PureCBT Premium$14.99
Hair Pulling Tracker
- BFRB Tracker Pro monthly$4.991 Month
- BFRB Tracker Pro annual$29.991 Year









