Mental — last updated: September 2026
Please read this first
Mental is a self-help wellbeing tool. It is not a medical device, not a diagnosis, and not therapy. It does not provide medical advice and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. Nothing in the app — no mood score, trend, correlation or milestone — is a clinical assessment of you or of anyone.
If you are in crisis or in immediate danger, do not use an app. Contact your local emergency number or a crisis line in your country now. Mental cannot detect that you are at risk, cannot alert anyone, and has no one on the other end.
Mental lets you record how you feel, keep a journal and a few small habits, and practise well-known self-help techniques: guided breathing, the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise, a gratitude entry, and a CBT-style thought record. It also shows patterns across what you have recorded.
These techniques are widely used and widely written about. Mental's versions are a plain implementation of them for personal use; the app is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supervised by any health service, clinic, professional body or practitioner.
Nothing in this app is medical, psychological, psychiatric, therapeutic or legal advice, and using it creates no professional or clinical relationship of any kind. Do not use it to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition, and never use it to decide whether to start, change or stop any medication or treatment — that is a conversation for your doctor.
If your mood is low for a sustained period, if it is affecting your daily life, or if you have thoughts of harming yourself, please talk to a qualified professional. An app is not a clinician.
Streaks, averages, trends, mood charts, factor correlations, weekday shapes, habit rates and milestones are all calculated by our own software from what you typed. They describe your entries and nothing more.
A correlation shown in the app is not a cause. "Work days run lower" means the days you tagged "work" averaged lower than the rest — it is a description of a small, self-selected sample, not evidence about your life, your job or your health. Treat every figure as a prompt for reflection, never as a conclusion.
The app and its content are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will improve your wellbeing in any way.
Mental deliberately stores everything on your device and nowhere else. That is the privacy guarantee, and it is also the trade-off: we hold no copy of your data, so we cannot recover it for you. If you lose or reset your phone, delete the app, or delete your data in the app, it is gone permanently. Export a backup from Settings if your entries matter to you. We are not liable for lost entries.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for any loss or damage of any kind arising out of or connected with your use of this app — including any decision you take after reading something in it, any deterioration in your health or wellbeing, any lost entries or data, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damage — whether or not we were advised such damage was possible.
Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, it is limited to the amount you actually paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim, which for most users is zero. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.
Mental is licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use. Do not use it unlawfully, attempt to disrupt it, or copy, resell or redistribute the app or its content without permission. Do not present the app or its output as a clinical assessment of anyone, including yourself.
Mental Plus is offered two ways: an annual auto-renewing subscription and a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices vary by country and store, so the current price is always shown on the Mental Plus screen before you buy.
Payment is charged to your App Store or Google Play account when the purchase is confirmed. The annual plan renews automatically for the same period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends; the renewal charge is taken within the 24 hours before that date. You can manage or cancel it in your store account settings — not in the app. The lifetime option does not renew and is not a subscription.
Plus unlocks the remaining breathing patterns and longer sessions, thought records, your full searchable history, the deeper insights, and unlimited habits. It does not change the nature of the app: it is still a self-help tool and still not medical care. Refunds are handled solely by the relevant store under its own rules — we cannot issue them.
Everything that helps in a difficult moment stays free: check-ins, emotion words, notes, habits, box breathing, grounding, gratitude, and export.
We may change, suspend or discontinue the app or any part of it at any time, without notice and without liability. These terms may be updated; continuing to use the app after an update means you accept the revised terms.
By using Mental you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please stop using the app and remove it.