Eye Contact: Social Anxiety

Eye Contact is a practice tool for building comfortable eye contact and easing everyday social anxiety, one graded exposure drill at a time. If holding someone's gaze feels intense, awkward, or exhausting, this app turns that feeling into a skill — small, repeatable reps that start at 3 seconds and build toward a real, relaxed conversation. Most confidence advice stops at "just relax" or "just be yourself." Eye Contact goes further: a graded ladder of gaze-holding drills, an AI roleplay partner for real conversation practice, and a scenario library built from the situations that actually make people nervous — interviews, first dates, networking events, new coworkers, and everyday small talk with strangers. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Gaze drills on a graded ladder — hold eye contact for 10, 20, 30, 45, or 60 seconds against a rotating stimulus gallery, from a warm smile to a skeptical hiring-manager stare • Choose your stimulus setting — friendly faces, professional settings, strangers, and date scenarios, each with its own gaze angle and intensity • AI roleplay partners — practice a full conversation with a job interviewer, a first date, a new coworker, or a stranger at a networking event, complete with natural opening lines • Scenario library by category — interview, date, networking, workplace, and casual small-talk openers you can study, practice, and reuse in real life • Daily micro-challenge — one small, doable exposure goal every day, mark it done and keep your streak alive • Streak and best-hold tracking — watch your longest streak and personal-best gaze hold time build over weeks, not just one session • Bite-sized coaching tips — short lessons on softening your gaze instead of staring, the triangle technique, starting with 3 seconds, graded exposure, small-talk formulas, and handling silence without panic WHY EYE CONTACT • Built on graded exposure — the same well-supported principle behind most anxiety-reduction training, gamified into a duration ladder • Real conversation practice, not just staring at a screen — the AI roleplay partner responds like an actual interviewer, date, or coworker, so you rehearse the whole interaction, not only the gaze • A scenario library grounded in real situations — openers and reps for the exact settings that trigger social anxiety, not generic confidence slogans • Progress over perfection — a broken streak is data, not failure; 70% comfort and finished beats waiting to feel 100% ready • A private space to practice — rehearse the hard conversation before you have it, with no one watching but you WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone whose gaze drifts, palms sweat, or mind goes blank the moment eye contact starts to feel like "too much" • People preparing for a specific nerve-wracking moment — a job interview, a first date, a networking event, or a first day with new coworkers • Shy or introverted people who want a structured, low-pressure way to build social confidence and communication skills • Anyone who wants to practice small talk, opening lines, and holding a natural conversation with more charisma and less overthinking Each drill takes less than a minute, so building this skill never has to compete with the rest of your day. Eye Contact meets you at whatever rung of the ladder feels manageable today, then nudges you one step further tomorrow. Eye Contact is a practice and coaching tool for a common feeling — it is not therapy, diagnosis, or a substitute for professional mental health care. If social anxiety feels connected to something bigger, a licensed professional is the right next step. Download Eye Contact and start turning eye contact, small talk, and social confidence into a skill you actually practice. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy