FreeCBT
Evan Rosson Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touch
FreeCBT is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by Evan Rosson. Rated 4.7/5 from 169 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 30, 2025.
- Rating
- 4.7
- 169 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 35 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 30
- 2025 · v2.4.0
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About FreeCBT
FreeCBT is an open source thought diary for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the "gold standard" of psychotherapy and is widely considered to be one of the most effective, evidence backed treatments for depression, anxiety, and panic. If you go into just about any therapist or psychiatrist, CBT will likely be one of the first treatments they try. FreeCBT is a companion and self-help app for one of the most common formats of CBT. You may have heard it called "the three column technique" or "catch it, check it, change it." Your brain is really good at making you feel exactly what you're thinking. Often, we find ourselves thinking "automatic negative thoughts" that lead us to fume on something that may not be true. That can cause us to feel depressed or anxious. CBT helps you record "automatic thoughts," challenge them with cognitive distortions and then train your brain with an alternative thought. If you do it enough, you can change your thoughts, your moods and your behavior. FreeCBT, a fork of Quirk, is open source under the GPL. You can find the code on Github at: https://github.com/erosson/freecbt
Ratings & reviews
4.7
169 ratings
What’s new
Version 2.4.0 · Updated October 30, 2025
- Added and updated several translations contributed by FreeCBT users: Hindi, Russian, Bulgarian, Norsk Bokmål, and German. Thank you! - If you've set up a FreeCBT passcode lock, it's now more secure: you'll need to enter your code after switching to another app, instead of only when the app was fully closed. - A few other technical updates.
App privacy
The developer, Evan Rosson, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics
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