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

Nothing has happened yet, and you already know how it ends. Mendly logs that prediction the moment it shows up — one tap, no probability rating, no evidence log. Weeks later, the hourly pattern view turns a string of certain-feeling forecasts into an actual record of how often they came true.

The research

David Burns' 'Feeling Good' lists fortune telling as a specific subtype of 'jumping to conclusions' — predicting a negative outcome and treating the prediction as an already-established fact, with roots in Aaron Beck's earlier concept of arbitrary inference. Mendly's tap-to-log is built for the exact moment the forecast fires, before the day supplies the actual result.

— David Burns, Feeling Good, 1980

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Quiz

What's your fortune-telling pattern?

Question 1 of 4

When do you catch yourself predicting a bad outcome?

“The confidence in a fortune-telling thought was never evidence for it. Confidence is just what a prediction feels like from the inside, whether or not it's accurate — which is exactly why it needs a record outside your head to be checked.”

Features

One-tap logging

One tap marks the thought — no typing, no prompts. The friction is so low it actually works mid-meeting, mid-walk, mid-spiral.

Hourly patterns

See when your inner critic is loudest. Morning spirals? Late-night overthinking? Your data, your story.

Weekly reports

A gentle summary of your week. Not a grade — just a window into your patterns.

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Apps like MindLift ask you to challenge the prediction with evidence as you log it — useful, but redundant if you already know how to do that and it hasn't changed how certain the forecasts feel. Mendly logs the prediction and lets the outcome, not an in-app exercise, supply the counter-evidence.

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Common questions

Do I have to track whether the prediction came true?
No, but it adds the most useful layer. Logging when predictions occur already shows how often you're forecasting a bad outcome. Noting later whether it happened — even loosely — turns that into an accuracy record instead of just a frequency count.
Is this a CBT app?
No. There's no probability-rating worksheet. Mendly logs the prediction and shows you the pattern — the evidence-weighing CBT does explicitly happens implicitly, through your own accumulated data.
What's the difference between this and the anxious-prediction tracker?
They're closely related. The anxious-prediction tracker is built around anticipatory anxiety generally; this page is specifically for the named cognitive distortion — the 'I already know how this ends' certainty, independent of whether anxiety is driving it.
What does the free trial include?
The full app, no restrictions, for 7 days. After 7 days you choose monthly ($7.99) or annual ($59.99, about $5/month). Cancel anytime via your Apple subscriptions — no emails required.
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