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

Session recall is filtered by what a client remembers and what feels worth mentioning. Mendly closes that gap: clients tap once to log a thought between sessions, and a weekly report shows the therapist when and how often it actually happened — a record neither party has to reconstruct from memory alone.

The research

A meta-analysis found homework compliance accounts for roughly 10% of the variance in CBT treatment outcomes — a measurable, modifiable effect most therapists can't observe directly without a client's self-report. Mendly's weekly report is that self-report, generated automatically from real-time logs instead of end-of-week recall.

— Kazantzis, Whittington and Dattilio, 2016

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Quiz

What's your therapy-homework pattern?

Question 1 of 4

What usually happens to homework between sessions?

“Homework compliance research keeps finding the same thing: the tool that actually gets used beats the tool that would help more if it were used. A between-session log only has clinical value on the days a client can bring themselves to open it.”

Features

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.

Milestone badges

16 badges that celebrate your awareness, not your perfection. First Catch, Streaks, Early Bird, Voice Found — each one earned.

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Apps like MindLift ask clients to complete a full CBT thought record between sessions — useful when a client has the bandwidth, and the first thing skipped when they don't. Mendly's single-tap log is more likely to survive a genuinely bad week, which is often the week with the most useful data in it.

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Common questions

Can I see my client's Mendly data directly, or does it stay with them?
The log stays with the client. There's no therapist-facing portal — clients export their own data as a CSV or discuss the weekly report directly in session. Mendly is a client-controlled tool, not a clinical monitoring system.
Will a client with low motivation actually keep using it?
The design bet is that friction, not motivation, is usually the reason between-session tools get abandoned. One tap is a lower bar than most clients fail to clear even on a bad week, which is different from asking them to want to do it.
Is Mendly a substitute for structured CBT homework?
No. It's a lightweight complement — a timing record, not a thought-restructuring exercise. If a client is doing structured homework already, Mendly can run alongside it for the moments that happen too fast for a worksheet.
What does the free trial include?
The full app, no restrictions, for 7 days. After 7 days it's $7.99/month or $59.99/year. Cancel anytime through Apple's subscription settings — no email required.
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