Free · Private · Offline · iOS beta
Know your patterns.
Run your experiments.
Anagnori is a self-guided iOS app that turns evidence-based exposure therapy into values-driven self-experimentation. Name the loops that run your life, run deliberate experiments against them, and find out what you can handle. Everything stays on your phone. No account, no cloud, no catch.
Not a medical device. Not a replacement for clinical care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Watching rejection therapy videos
← Away from valuesReacting “wrong” — laughing or visibly scared — and being looked at weirdly.
We watch the videos without incident.
Silence was okay. Had comments but decided not to say them.
People won't notice me unless I'm loud or say something.
How it works
Four steps. No appointments.
Anagnori gives you the structure of evidence-based exposure therapy, without the clinic. You move at your own pace, offline, with no account required.
Name your values
Before anything else, Anagnori asks what kind of person you want to be. Choose from ~60 ACT-style values — Connection, Courage, Growth, Honesty — across six categories. Every pattern you work on gets tagged to the values it touches.
Name your patterns
Define the loops that keep running: the cue, the urge, the routine you fall into, and whether it moves you toward or away from the person you want to be. One pattern, many experiments over time.
Run an experiment
Pick a pattern. Predict what's about to happen and how intense it will get. Then do the thing. The predict / observe structure is the whole point: you find out, in your own data, that you can handle more than you think.
Debrief & learn
Record the peak intensity, what actually happened, and what you learned. Over weeks, the intensity curve flattens — that's habituation, and it's visible in your own chart.
The reframe
Same mechanism. Different posture.
Exposure therapy works. It's also drowning in clinical language that makes people feel like patients. Anagnori keeps the mechanism and rewrites every label so you get to be the scientist, not the subject.
The evidence
Self-guided exposure actually works.
Exposure and Response Prevention is the first-line treatment for OCD, generalized anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobias, and panic disorder. Self-guided versions have a growing body of evidence behind them.
Exposure therapy is recommended as first-line treatment by international clinical guidelines including NICE and the APA. Anagnori is designed as wellness and self-awareness support — not a diagnostic or treatment tool.
Principles
Built for the worst day, not the best one.
The median user of a mental-health app is having a bad day. Every design decision — from offline-first to WCAG AA contrast — starts from that.
Offline-first
The whole app works without an internet connection. Non-negotiable for a tool you reach for during an active exposure — you should never discover your app needs wifi in the middle of a panic attack.
No account required
Your patterns, experiments, and intensity ratings live on your device. No sign-up, no email, no cloud. An account will eventually be optional for cross-device sync. It will never be required.
Local encryption
All on-device data is encrypted at rest. No third-party analytics ever sees the text of what you're working through — only anonymized aggregate usage.
No medical claims
Anagnori is framed as wellness and self-awareness support. We actively encourage seeking professional care and surface referral resources on every major screen.
Crisis help, always one tap away
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is reachable from every screen without authentication. If you need human help, we want to be out of the way.
Evidence over features
Every workflow is traced back to a published ERP or ACT protocol. We don't ship interventions we can't point to a citation for.
Free · private · yours
No pricing page. No account. No catch.
Anagnori is a personal project, not a business. It's free because it costs me almost nothing to run — everything lives on your device, so there's no server to pay for, no database to protect, and no subscription to justify.
Your data stays on your phone
Patterns, experiments, intensity ratings, and reflections are stored locally and encrypted at rest. No cloud sync. No backup to a server. No database that could be breached, subpoenaed, or sold.
No account. Ever.
No email, no sign-up, no password to forget. Open the app and start. Delete the app and your data is gone with it — that's the whole design, not an afterthought.
Nobody reads what you write
No analytics SDK sees the text of your experiments. No language model is trained on your reflections. No therapist gets a copy. The only person reading your notes is you.
I built Anagnori because I wanted it to exist, not because I wanted to sell it. If that ever changes, I'll tell you plainly on this page. Until then — it's just free.
If you are in crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) or go to your nearest emergency room. Anagnori is not a crisis intervention tool.
Find professional support
We actively encourage seeking help.
Self-guided tools are additive, not replacements. These directories are always free to browse.
Psychology Today
Therapist directory with filters for anxiety and OCD specialists.
IOCDF Therapist Finder
International OCD Foundation directory of OCD-specialist therapists.
Open Path Collective
Affordable therapy sessions ($30–$80) for those without insurance.