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Mendly adapts to how your mind works. Each page below is written for a specific pattern — find yours.

A catastrophizing tracker for when you know you're catastrophizing and can't stop

Mendly tracks catastrophizing thoughts on iPhone with one tap — no CBT worksheet, no reframing required. See when worst-case thinking peaks. Free 7-day trial.

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A cognitive distortions tracker for when the worksheet is too much friction

Mendly logs cognitive distortions on iPhone without a thought record. One tap. Hourly patterns. For people already in CBT. Free 7-day trial.

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A comparison-trap tracker for the scroll that ends worse than it started

Mendly tracks the exact moment comparison turns into self-criticism on iPhone. One tap, no digital-detox lecture. See when it happens most. Free trial.

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A conflict replay tracker for the argument that keeps happening after it's over

Mendly tracks the argument replay on iPhone — after the conflict is resolved, before you've stopped rehearsing it in your head. One tap. Free 7-day trial.

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A deadline anxiety tracker for the dread that grows the closer the date gets

Mendly tracks deadline anxiety on iPhone as the date closes in — one tap per spike, no productivity system or task list required to use it. Free 7-day trial.

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A decision anxiety tracker for the choice that shouldn't take this long

Mendly tracks decision anxiety on iPhone — the small choices that spiral just as hard as the big ones. One tap, no pros-and-cons list required. Free 7-day trial.

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A first date overthinking tracker for the replay that starts the second you get home

Mendly tracks first-date overthinking on iPhone — the car-ride replay, not the date itself. One tap, no analysis, no text draft to obsess over. Free 7-day trial.

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A job interview overthinking tracker for the replay that starts before you're even hired

Mendly tracks job interview overthinking on iPhone — the pre-interview spiral and the post-interview replay. One tap, no rehearsal script. Free 7-day trial.

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A labeling thoughts tracker for the single word that replaces the whole story

Mendly tracks self-labeling thoughts on iPhone — 'I'm an idiot' instead of 'I made a mistake.' One tap, no relabeling exercise. Free 7-day trial.

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A mental filter tracker for the one bad detail that discolors the whole day

Mendly tracks mental filtering on iPhone — the single negative detail that colors everything else. One tap, no gray-area worksheet. Free 7-day trial.

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A mind-reading thought tracker for when you're already sure you know what they meant

Mendly tracks mind-reading thoughts on iPhone — the certainty you know exactly what someone else is thinking. One tap, no worksheet. Free 7-day trial.

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A morning anxiety tracker for the dread that arrives before anything has actually gone wrong

Mendly tracks morning anxiety on iPhone before the day starts. One tap in the moment. Hourly patterns show when dread peaks. Free 7-day trial.

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A negative self-talk tracker app that doesn't try to fix you

Mendly is a negative self-talk tracker for iPhone. One tap to log a thought. Optional voice note. No journaling, no reframing exercises — just awareness. Free 7-day trial.

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A panic attack trigger tracker that logs what your mind was doing before the panic arrived

Mendly tracks the thought patterns before a panic attack, not just symptoms. One tap. No distress scales. Free 7-day trial.

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A people-pleasing tracker for the yes you said before you'd decided

Mendly tracks the moment you say yes before you've decided you mean it — one tap, no confrontation-avoidance exercises or scripts. Free 7-day trial.

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A perfectionism app that tracks the inner critic behind the high standards

Mendly tracks the self-critical thoughts behind perfectionism on iPhone. See when they spike. No exercises, no reframing. Free 7-day trial.

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A performance anxiety app for the 48 hours before it matters

Mendly tracks performance anxiety thoughts on iPhone in the lead-up to high-stakes events. One tap, no exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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A public speaking anxiety tracker for the fear that outranks almost everything else

Mendly tracks public speaking anxiety on iPhone before and after the podium — the pre-talk dread and the replay. One tap, no breathing script. Free 7-day trial.

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A rumination tracker for when mindfulness hasn't stopped the loop

Mendly tracks rumination on iPhone without asking you to meditate through it. One tap. No breathing exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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A self-criticism app your therapist can actually reference in your next session

Mendly is a between-session self-criticism tracker for therapy clients. Weekly reports, hourly patterns, one-tap logging. Free 7-day trial.

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A self-doubt tracker for the voice that shows up whenever something matters

Mendly tracks self-doubt on iPhone when the stakes are high. One tap. Hourly patterns. No exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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A self-esteem tracker that shows when the dips happen, not just that they do

Mendly tracks self-esteem fluctuations on iPhone. Weekly reports for therapy or coaching. Hourly patterns. Free 7-day trial.

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A self-sabotage thought tracker for the excuse you build before you've even tried

Mendly tracks self-sabotage thoughts on iPhone — the excuse-building before you've even tried. One tap, hourly patterns, no motivation talk. Free trial.

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A shame spiral tracker for when it's not about what you did anymore

Mendly tracks shame spirals on iPhone — when a mistake stops being about the mistake and becomes about you. One tap. No self-worth exercises. Free trial.

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A should-statements tracker for the rule that shows up before the reasoning does

Mendly tracks should-statement thoughts on iPhone — the 'I should already know this' voice. One tap, no rewriting the rule required. Free 7-day trial.

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A social anxiety tracker for the replay that starts after you leave the room

Mendly tracks post-social anxiety thoughts on iPhone — in the car, the next morning. One tap, no journaling. Free 7-day trial.

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A stress thought tracker for when the event is over but the thoughts aren't

Mendly tracks stress-related thoughts on iPhone after the stressor has passed. One tap, hourly patterns. No exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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A Sunday scaries tracker for the dread that has a start time you could set a clock by

Mendly tracks the Sunday scaries on iPhone — the specific hour dread arrives, not just that it does every week. One tap, no ritual required. Free 7-day trial.

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A therapy progress tracker your client's therapist can actually reference

Mendly gives therapy clients a between-session log their therapist can reference — one tap, weekly pattern reports, no homework to grade. Free 7-day trial.

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A thought diary that works in three seconds, not thirty minutes

Mendly is a thought diary for iPhone that takes one tap. No prompts, no blank pages — just a log of what your mind did. Free 7-day trial.

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A thought loop app for the kind of thinking that knows it's circular and keeps going

Mendly tracks thought loops on iPhone. One tap when the loop starts. Hourly patterns show when loops run hardest. No exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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A thought spiral app for the two seconds before the thought takes root

Mendly captures thought spirals on iPhone at spiral speed. Voice note, one tap. No breathing exercises required. Free 7-day trial.

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A tracker for the anxious predictions that almost never come true

Log the fear. See later how often it was actually right. Mendly tracks anxious predictions on iPhone with one tap. Free 7-day trial.

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A tracker for the feeling that no result ever quite closes

Mendly tracks the 'not good enough' feeling on iPhone — the one that survives good results too. One tap, hourly patterns, no worksheets. Free 7-day trial.

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A tracker for the running commentary about your body you never signed up for

Mendly tracks negative body-image thoughts on iPhone — the running commentary, not the mirror. One tap, no calorie or weight tracking anywhere. Free 7-day trial.

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A worry tracker that shows you when dread runs on a schedule

Mendly tracks recurring worry on iPhone — the Sunday scaries, the pre-appointment dread. One tap, hourly patterns. Free 7-day trial.

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An anxiety thought tracker for the spiral that starts before anything goes wrong

Mendly tracks anticipatory anxiety thoughts on iPhone before meetings, calls, and difficult conversations. One tap. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for compulsive thoughts when telling yourself to stop has never worked

Mendly tracks compulsive thoughts on iPhone without asking you to stop them. One tap. Voice note. Hourly patterns. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for fortune-telling thoughts — the ones that treat the future as already decided

Mendly tracks fortune-telling thoughts on iPhone — predicting a bad outcome as fact before it happens. One tap, no reframing required. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for late-night overthinking that interrupts the loop before sleep

Mendly tracks late-night overthinking on iPhone. One tap logs the thought. Voice note captures it. No journaling, no exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for people whose AI therapy chatbot just disappeared

Woebot shut down in 2025. Mendly isn't a new chatbot — it's a one-tap way to keep the check-in habit alive without a conversation. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for the replay that starts right after you mess up

Mendly logs the replay that starts after a mistake — one tap, no self-forgiveness script required. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for the spiral that starts when they haven't texted back

Mendly logs the spiral that starts when a text goes unanswered — one tap, no rereading required. Free 7-day trial.

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An app for the thinking that only comes in total-success or total-failure

You already know the term all-or-nothing thinking. Mendly tracks when it fires — no worksheet, no gray-area exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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An email anxiety tracker for the inbox dread that starts before you've opened it

Mendly tracks email anxiety on iPhone — the reread-before-send spiral and an unopened inbox's dread. One tap, no filter setup needed. Free 7-day trial.

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An emotional reasoning tracker for the feeling that insists it's a fact

Mendly tracks emotional reasoning on iPhone — the moment a feeling gets treated as proof. One tap, no worksheet, no reframing. Free 7-day trial.

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An impostor syndrome app for when you've read the articles and still feel like a fraud

Mendly tracks impostor syndrome thoughts on iPhone. You know what it is — track when it spikes. One tap. Hourly patterns. Free 7-day trial.

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An inner critic tracker for when you can name the voice but can't turn it off

Mendly tracks the inner critic on iPhone. You know what it sounds like — track when it shows up. One tap. Free 7-day trial.

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An intrusive thoughts tracker for thoughts that aren't about OCD — just the ones that stick

Mendly logs intrusive thoughts on iPhone with one tap. No OCD tools, no clinical exercises — just awareness tracking. Free 7-day trial.

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An overthinking tracker that shows your mind's pattern, not just its noise

Mendly tracks overthinking episodes on iPhone with one tap. See when your mind runs hardest. No journaling, no exercises. Free 7-day trial.

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Burnout doesn't announce itself. Mendly logs the thoughts that do.

Mendly tracks the work thoughts that follow you home — the signal burnout is building before exhaustion does. One tap, hourly patterns. Free 7-day trial.

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Daylio's stats page was the best part — Mendly starts there

Loved Daylio's stats page but not the paywalled exports and upgrade prompts? Mendly logs a thought in one tap and keeps the pattern view unlocked. Free 7-day trial.

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For when a mood score doesn't tell you what you were actually thinking

You've logged your mood for months and still don't know why it dips. Mendly tracks the thought, not just the number. Free 7-day trial.

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For when Finch's self-care bird started feeling like one more thing to take care of

Finch's self-care pet is sweet until feeding it feels like a chore. Mendly logs the actual thought behind the check-in, one tap, no bird required. Free 7-day trial.

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For when the CBT app's structure became the reason you stopped opening it

Structured CBT exercises help — until the structure itself becomes the barrier. Mendly captures the thought in one tap, no worksheet required. Free 7-day trial.

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For when the full CBT thought record is the reason it doesn't get done

Mendly captures the thought a full CBT record asks for, minus the five fields. One tap, hourly patterns, a shareable card for session. Free 7-day trial.

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Moving, changing jobs, ending a relationship — the anxiety doesn't need the change to be bad

Mendly tracks the anxious thoughts that come with any big life change, good or bad. One tap, hourly patterns, no journaling required. Free 7-day trial.

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Not a journaling app — the thing you use instead, when journaling asks too much

If journaling didn't stick, Mendly is the alternative — one tap, no blank page, hourly pattern insights. Free 7-day trial.

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The thoughts new parents don't tell anyone they're having

Mendly privately logs the intrusive, anxious thoughts most new parents have and rarely mention to anyone — one tap, no judgment built in. Free 7-day trial.

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The version of grief nobody warns you about is the replaying

Mendly tracks the specific thoughts that keep returning after a loss — not a grief journal, just a record of when the mind keeps going back. Free 7-day trial.

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When meditation made the racing thoughts louder instead of quieter

Guided meditation doesn't work for every anxious mind — sitting still can make racing thoughts louder. Mendly gives them somewhere to go. Free 7-day trial.

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