About Present Sense: CBT DBT Journal
Therapy tools for anxiety, panic, OCD, PTSD, overthinking & more, matched to how you actually feel. No account. No login. Just open the app and start. You don't need to know what CBT, DBT, or EMDR is. You don't need to...
Therapy tools for anxiety, panic, OCD, PTSD, overthinking & more, matched to how you actually feel. No account. No login. Just open the app and start. You don't need to know what CBT, DBT, or EMDR is. You don't need to research which technique to use when. Tell Present Sense how you're feeling, and it matches you to an exercise that actually helps. Over time, the app learns what works for you and shows you more of it. HOW IT WORKS - Pick a distress state, or choose a feeling across 4 quadrants - Get matched to evidence-based exercises from CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR, somatic, grounding, breathwork, mindfulness, and MBSR - Track what helps. Present Sense remembers what worked and recommends it next time PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal stays on your device, optionally synced through your private iCloud. No account required. No ads. We can't read your data even if we wanted to. HELP NOW. OR EVERY DAY. When anxiety or panic hits, tap one of 20 distress states and get an instant matched exercise. Grounding, breathing, bilateral stimulation, guided de-escalation. No scrolling. No setup. When things are calm, build a daily practice with morning intentions, evening reflection, gratitude, and free journaling. EVIDENCE-BASED TOOLS 50+ exercises across major therapeutic modalities: - CBT - Thought Records, Thought Distortions, Worry Tree, Exposure Hierarchy, D.A.R.E. - DBT - D.E.A.R. M.A.N., A.C.C.E.P.T.S., Radical Acceptance, Opposite Action, Wise Mind, T.I.P.P. - EMDR-inspired - Butterfly Hug, Safe Place Visualization, Container Exercise - Self-Compassion - Self-Compassion Break, Inner Critic Reframe, How Would You Treat a Friend? - Grounding - 5-4-3-2-1, Feet on the Floor, Object Grounding, Cold Water, Categories - Breathwork - Box Breathing, 4-7-8, Coherent Breathing, Physiological Sigh, with guided breath pacers - ACT - Leaves on a Stream, Thanks Mind - Somatic - Pleasant Sensations, Somatic Tracking - Mindfulness - Body Scan, Mindful Breathing, Wandering Mind, Noting Each guided activity ends with a journaling prompt to build self-awareness and pattern recognition. SEE WHAT'S WORKING FOR YOU (Premium) Present Sense quietly tracks what helps you most. After a few check-ins, you'll see: - What's working for you - Mood patterns and weekly trends - Emotional pattern insights EVERYDAY MINDFULNESS - Turn ordinary moments into practice like drinking water, walking, washing dishes, commuting. No extra time required. FREE INCLUDES - Feeling tracking, daily intentions, dark mode, 38 activities, gratitude, journaling, notifications, and the Help Now toolkit. Most of the app is free. PREMIUM ADDS - Advanced CBT, DBT, somatic & self-compassion tools - Feeling analytics and generated insights - Unlimited custom reminder notifications - Data export to CSV (share with your therapist) - Home screen and lock screen widgets WHY IT WORKS Mindfulness rewires your brain through repetition. Present Sense fits that work into real moments throughout your day, until the skills become reflexes you can reach for under stress. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS - Monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions available - Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period - You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings Privacy Policy: https://base11studios.com/present-sense-privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Name how you feel. Get the right tool. Track what works.
Version History - UI updates for simpler navigation - Behind-the-scenes improvements to recommendations - Performance and stability improvements 7.5 1d ago - Activity flows adjusted to make more inputs optional for faster completion - Fixed notification deep links so tapping a reminder takes you straight to the right activity - Lots of recommendation engine improvements to get you the right tool faster - Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes - Improved navigation and recommendations to make finding your next activity easier 7.4 3d ago Evening Reflection: a new end-of-day space for guided gratitude and reflection journals, including How Was Your Day?, Rose, Thorn, Bud, Daily Examen, and Wins of the Day Check in faster with mood quadrants: pick how you feel by energy and pleasantness, then add a specific feeling if you like Redesigned Insights tab: your moods over time, the patterns behind hard moments, and which activities help most New Journey tab: a calendar of your days, your week in review, and your journal history in one place Make it yours: tell us what you want and what you're working through, and we'll tailor what we suggest Redesigned tab bar for moving between Home, Insights, Journey, and Explore Favorites: pin the activities and reflections you use most for one-tap access Clear Your Head: a new full-screen journal for emptying a crowded mind New animation for Leaves on a Stream Affirmations and Inspiration are now separate tiles Improved activity search and discovery Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes 7.3 May 19 - New Help Now chips: tap a situation like "Racing mind," "Panicking," or "Hard on myself" to jump straight into a coping tool that fits the moment which activities are actually helping you, and personalized suggestions adapt to your history - More activities are now free for everyone, including Worry Tree, Thought Record, 4-7-8 Breathing, Radical Acceptance, and Wise Mind - New Activities: Progressive Muscle Relaxation activity to help you physically discharge tension + Mindful Everyday Moment to bring peace to things you're already doing - Redesigned navigation makes it easier to move through the app - Simplified the activity experience, including a new "Mindful Everyday Moment" option - Refined onboarding to help new users get started faster - Performance and stability improvements to keep the app running smoothly 7.2 May 11 - Refreshed look and feel across the entire app. - 3 new free activities: Feet on the Floor, Box Breathing, and Leaves on a Stream - 5 new premium activities: Cold Water, Categories, Object Grounding, 4-7-8 Breathing, and Coherent Breathing - Physiological Sigh and Focused Breathing now include a guided breath pacer to help you follow along - Easier navigation within activity flows with a next step button always within reach - Activities are now tagged across multiple tools, making it easier to search and discover what you need 7.1 Apr 26 Tons of new free content: - 14 everyday mindfulness activities are now free! Drink water, stretch, walk in a park, sit outside, and more - Full dark mode support - free for everyone! - Daily intentions are now free for everyone! (was a premium feature) And much more: - Added feelings tracking with insights, recommended activities based on your feeling, and more! - Loads of new insights to glean on the Insights page (was Profile) - Settings moved to home screen for easier access - Comprehensive activity search and new groupings for easy discovery - Added 16 new tools including CBT, DBT, Self-Compassion, and more! - Premium users can export their data in multiple ways, to back it up or share with others like a therapist - Customization of the home screen to show only what you care about - Now easy editing of what activities show in "Daily Practice" and "Help Now" to customize your experience - Premium users get unlimited custom reminder notifications for any activity - Onboarding activities to introduce new users to the process! - Track feeling intensity before and after activities to see how they help - Bug fixes, UI polish, and refinements 7.0 Apr 15 - Smoothed out a few bumps with cloud syncing - Refinements to the iPad experience 6.1 12/28/2025 11 New Activities - Powerful techniques for managing stress and difficult moments including S.T.O.P., T.I.P.P., Self-Compassion Break, Safe Place Visualization, Container Exercise, 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding, Thanks Mind!, Calm Breathing, and Pleasant Sensations, and more! 2 Fresh Activities - Significant updates to Boredom and Chronic Pain: they now guide you through an exercise. Better Activity Organization - Activities are now organized into clearer categories: Skills, Routines, Meditation, Reflection, and Coping. Customizable S.O.S. Section - Choose which activities appear in your S.O.S. shortcuts and Everyday section for quick access when you need them most. Auto-Save & Resume - Your progress is automatically saved - if you exit an activity, you can pick up right where you left off. More Free Activities - Several activities (like "6 breaths" and "Stressed out") are now available to everyone. 6.0 12/27/2025 Our biggest update since launch 7 years ago! - Full history is now available to all users for free! - iCloud syncing added to protect your journal entries and daily intentions across all your devices - Added 4 new daily intentions: Be patient, Be kind, Be playful, and Practice self-compassion - Added 3 new activities: Free journal, Butterfly hugs, and Worry tree - New S.O.S. section on home page with quick access to calming activities + more activities coming soon! - Refined prompts to clarify intent of journal experience - You can now skip straight to journaling for activities you already know how to do - Improved timer controls for activities and everyday experiences - Many minor enhancements and bug fixes 5.0 11/30/2025 - Minor enhancements and bugfixes - [premium] You can now journal on yesterday's daily intention if you missed it - [premium] Added 3 widgets for home and lock screens - quotes, affirmations and daily intentions 4.1 11/25/2025 - Rebuilt from the ground up - now all native code + support for iOS 26! - iCloud backup to help prevent data loss. - New historical activity view with task editing. - Improved usability and bug squashing 4.0 11/11/2025 Updates for iOS 13. 3.6 09/21/2019 - Setup different times for notifications on weekdays and weekends. - Make notifications silent for less interruption. 3.3 04/30/2019 - New premium task for 'Choose your own' so you can journal about anything. - Add free trial. Try premium today! - Usability enhancements to navigation buttons. 3.2 01/18/2019 - Premium users can now set a daily intention. Pick from 18 of ours or use your own, and see your intention throughout the day. Finish the day by journaling about your experience. - New - "Everyday" task tracker on the home screen with Mindfulness Practice, 3 Things You're Grateful For, and Daily Intention - All users can now access the foundational exercises even after the tutorial. Find them under the Search page. - Bug fixes! 3.0 01/02/2019 - Daily Affirmations! Use positive statements to empower yourself. - Set a timer on the journaling page to frame your practice. - Deliver affirmations via system notification to get your day off right! - Improved text entry on journaling pages so you can enter your observations easier. 2.0 12/22/2018 - Stay focused with new daily reminders to find your mindful moments! Find in the settings. - Squashed bugs for better usability 1.3 12/03/2018 Squashed some minor bugs! 1.1 07/11/2018 1.0 07/07/2018
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Present Sense: CBT DBT Journal since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-17 02:51:27.
The latest version is 7.5 and it was updated on 2026-06-22 20:32:09. See below the changes in each version.
Present Sense: CBT DBT Journal version 7.5
Updated At: 2026-05-29
Changes: Version History - UI updates for simpler navigation
- Behind-the-scenes improvements to recommendations
- Performance and stability improvements 7.5 1d ago - Activity flows adjusted to make more inputs optional for faster completion
- Fixed notification deep links so tapping a reminder takes you straight to the right activity
- Lots of recommendation engine improvements to get you the right tool faster
- Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes
- Improved navigation and recommendations to make finding your next activity easier 7.4 3d ago Evening Reflection: a new end-of-day space for guided gratitude and reflection journals, including How Was Your Day?, Rose, Thorn, Bud, Daily Examen, and Wins of the Day
Check in faster with mood quadrants: pick how you feel by energy and pleasantness, then add a specific feeling if you like
Redesigned Insights tab: your moods over time, the patterns behind hard moments, and which activities help most
New Journey tab: a calendar of your days, your week in review, and your journal history in one place
Make it yours: tell us what you want and what you're working through, and we'll tailor what we suggest
Redesigned tab bar for moving between Home, Insights, Journey, and Explore
Favorites: pin the activities and reflections you use most for one-tap access
Clear Your Head: a new full-screen journal for emptying a crowded mind
New animation for Leaves on a Stream
Affirmations and Inspiration are now separate tiles
Improved activity search and discovery
Performance and stability improvements, plus bug fixes 7.3 May 19 - New Help Now chips: tap a situation like "Racing mind," "Panicking," or "Hard on myself" to jump straight into a coping tool that fits the moment which activities are actually helping you, and personalized suggestions adapt to your history
- More activities are now free for everyone, including Worry Tree, Thought Record, 4-7-8 Breathing, Radical Acceptance, and Wise Mind
- New Activities: Progressive Muscle Relaxation activity to help you physically discharge tension + Mindful Everyday Moment to bring peace to things you're already doing
- Redesigned navigation makes it easier to move through the app
- Simplified the activity experience, including a new "Mindful Everyday Moment" option
- Refined onboarding to help new users get started faster
- Performance and stability improvements to keep the app running smoothly 7.2 May 11 - Refreshed look and feel across the entire app.
- 3 new free activities: Feet on the Floor, Box Breathing, and Leaves on a Stream
- 5 new premium activities: Cold Water, Categories, Object Grounding, 4-7-8 Breathing, and Coherent Breathing
- Physiological Sigh and Focused Breathing now include a guided breath pacer to help you follow along
- Easier navigation within activity flows with a next step button always within reach
- Activities are now tagged across multiple tools, making it easier to search and discover what you need 7.1 Apr 26 Tons of new free content:
- 14 everyday mindfulness activities are now free! Drink water, stretch, walk in a park, sit outside, and more
- Full dark mode support - free for everyone!
- Daily intentions are now free for everyone! (was a premium feature)
And much more:
- Added feelings tracking with insights, recommended activities based on your feeling, and more!
- Loads of new insights to glean on the Insights page (was Profile)
- Settings moved to home screen for easier access
- Comprehensive activity search and new groupings for easy discovery
- Added 16 new tools including CBT, DBT, Self-Compassion, and more!
- Premium users can export their data in multiple ways, to back it up or share with others like a therapist
- Customization of the home screen to show only what you care about
- Now easy editing of what activities show in "Daily Practice" and "Help Now" to customize your experience
- Premium users get unlimited custom reminder notifications for any activity
- Onboarding activities to introduce new users to the process!
- Track feeling intensity before and after activities to see how they help
- Bug fixes, UI polish, and refinements 7.0 Apr 15 - Smoothed out a few bumps with cloud syncing
- Refinements to the iPad experience 6.1 12/28/2025 11 New Activities
- Powerful techniques for managing stress and difficult moments including S.T.O.P., T.I.P.P., Self-Compassion Break, Safe Place Visualization, Container Exercise, 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding, Thanks Mind!, Calm Breathing, and Pleasant Sensations, and more!
2 Fresh Activities
- Significant updates to Boredom and Chronic Pain: they now guide you through an exercise.
Better Activity Organization
- Activities are now organized into clearer categories: Skills, Routines, Meditation, Reflection, and Coping.
Customizable S.O.S. Section
- Choose which activities appear in your S.O.S. shortcuts and Everyday section for quick access when you need them most.
Auto-Save & Resume
- Your progress is automatically saved - if you exit an activity, you can pick up right where you left off.
More Free Activities
- Several activities (like "6 breaths" and "Stressed out") are now available to everyone. 6.0 12/27/2025 Our biggest update since launch 7 years ago!
- Full history is now available to all users for free!
- iCloud syncing added to protect your journal entries and daily intentions across all your devices
- Added 4 new daily intentions: Be patient, Be kind, Be playful, and Practice self-compassion
- Added 3 new activities: Free journal, Butterfly hugs, and Worry tree
- New S.O.S. section on home page with quick access to calming activities + more activities coming soon!
- Refined prompts to clarify intent of journal experience
- You can now skip straight to journaling for activities you already know how to do
- Improved timer controls for activities and everyday experiences
- Many minor enhancements and bug fixes 5.0 11/30/2025 - Minor enhancements and bugfixes
- [premium] You can now journal on yesterday's daily intention if you missed it
- [premium] Added 3 widgets for home and lock screens - quotes, affirmations and daily intentions 4.1 11/25/2025 - Rebuilt from the ground up - now all native code + support for iOS 26!
- iCloud backup to help prevent data loss.
- New historical activity view with task editing.
- Improved usability and bug squashing 4.0 11/11/2025 Updates for iOS 13. 3.6 09/21/2019 - Setup different times for notifications on weekdays and weekends.
- Make notifications silent for less interruption. 3.3 04/30/2019 - New premium task for 'Choose your own' so you can journal about anything.
- Add free trial. Try premium today!
- Usability enhancements to navigation buttons. 3.2 01/18/2019 - Premium users can now set a daily intention. Pick from 18 of ours or use your own, and see your intention throughout the day. Finish the day by journaling about your experience.
- New - "Everyday" task tracker on the home screen with Mindfulness Practice, 3 Things You're Grateful For, and Daily Intention
- All users can now access the foundational exercises even after the tutorial. Find them under the Search page.
- Bug fixes! 3.0 01/02/2019 - Daily Affirmations! Use positive statements to empower yourself.
- Set a timer on the journaling page to frame your practice.
- Deliver affirmations via system notification to get your day off right!
- Improved text entry on journaling pages so you can enter your observations easier. 2.0 12/22/2018 - Stay focused with new daily reminders to find your mindful moments! Find in the settings.
- Squashed bugs for better usability 1.3 12/03/2018 Squashed some minor bugs! 1.1 07/11/2018 1.0 07/07/2018
Present Sense: CBT DBT Journal version 6.1
Updated At: 2025-12-28
Changes: - Smoothed out a few bumps with cloud syncing
- Refinements to the iPad experience
Present Sense: CBT DBT Journal version 3.6
Updated At: 2019-09-21
Changes: Sep 21, 2019 Version 3.6
Updates for iOS 13.