Youper
AI emotional health assistant that pairs conversational check-ins with CBT-based exercises and mood tracking.
About
Youper is an AI therapy app that talks users through their emotional ups and downs with short guided conversations. After a two-minute onboarding it asks how you feel, helps you name the emotion, and suggests a technique drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, or acceptance and commitment therapy. Daily mood check-ins feed a tracking view that maps emotional patterns over time.
The app is free to download with a limited free tier, and full access runs about $69.99 a year in the US after a trial. Youper states that more than 80 percent of users feel better after a single conversation and that it was created with doctors and therapists. It is explicit that it does not provide diagnosis or treatment and positions itself as a complement to professional care rather than a replacement.
What it can do
- Conversational AI check-ins
- CBT, DBT, and ACT-based exercises
- Mood tracking with trend views
- Personalized emotional-health goals
- Shareable progress summaries for therapists
- Free tier with sampling access
Setup
Download the iOS or Android app, answer a short onboarding questionnaire, and start a first check-in.
Prerequisites
Smartphone; no account or referral needed for the free tier.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 5/10
Scored 5/10 (TIER metrics, metrics-v1). Evidence: independent 2026 reviews confirm the conversational CBT/ACT approach, the mood-tracking loop, and the $69.99/year premium pricing; company copy confirms the 80-percent-feel-better claim and the no-diagnosis disclaimer. Strengths: long-running product, clear CBT grounding, generous free tier, honest about limits. Docked for: (1) headline efficacy figures are vendor-reported with no peer-reviewed RCT found; (2) closed app with no published clinical outcomes data. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 5.0/10
- · 80% feel-better-after-one-conversation claim is vendor-reported; no peer-reviewed RCT found
- · Vendor is explicit the app is not a diagnosis or treatment tool
- · Independent 2026 reviews confirm feature set and $69.99/year US pricing
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.