Under the quiet oak live six gentle companions. Choose the one who gets to know you, remembering what you're working on between conversations. Give them a name of your own if you like. They guide your daily DBT practice, and they're right there in the hard moments too. The crisis kit is always free.
Not a bot buried in a menu. The companion you choose and bond with for everyday practice is the same warm presence you can talk to when things get hard.
Pick one of six gentle companions, each with its own temperament. Name it, and make it yours.
Work through guided exercises like STOP, TIPP, and paced breathing with your companion beside you — and log a one-minute diary card.
The same companion is one tap away in chat. And the Crisis Survival Kit — 988, 741741, your local lines — is always free and works offline.
Six soft nature-spirits — Willow, Sage, River, Sol, Stone, and Fern — all at home under the quiet oak, each a different way of showing up. The same companion guides your practice and stays with you in the hard moments.
Warm and quiet. Starts with your body — feet on the floor, one slow breath — before anything else.
Calm and plainspoken. Explains what's actually happening, so the thing stops being a mystery.
Curious and easy to talk to. Asks before assuming — more of a conversation than a lesson.
Warm and low-light, never peppy. Finds the one true thing you already did, without talking you out of the hard part.
Unhurried and immovable. Sits with it instead of reaching for a fix, and says the least of any of them.
Soft and permission-giving. Takes the obligation off you first, before anything else gets discussed.
Switch whenever you like — every companion keeps its own history with you, so nothing is lost by trying another.
Tap a companion to see how they'd answer. These are real replies from the app — nothing here was written for this page.
Every companion knows the same DBT skills. What changes is how they bring them.
Tell your companion as much or as little as you like about what you're navigating. It carries that as context — the words it chooses, what it already knows not to ask you twice — so you never have to start from scratch.
Tap once and talk — hands-free, like a real conversation. Your companion listens and answers in a warm spoken voice, so on the nights you can't face typing, you don't have to. Switch back to text whenever you want.
STOP, TIPP, paced breathing and a body scan — each one recorded in your companion's own voice, so you can put the phone down, close your eyes and just follow along.
Faithful to the DBT model, built warm by design — the opposite of clinical.
Pick the one whose temperament fits you — grounding, clear, flowing, hopeful, steady, or tender — give it a name, and it becomes a presence you actually know. Your AI guide, for daily practice and the hard days alike.
All four modules — Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness — in small, plainspoken steps, with your companion to walk you through any of them at your own pace.
A real DBT diary card — mood, emotions, urges, and the skills you reached for — in under a minute. Tap it in or just speak it aloud, as light or detailed as you like, and look back gently over time.
STOP, TIPP, paced breathing, and a body scan — guided step by step, and your companion can talk you through them out loud, in its own voice.
988, 741741, and your local lines — never behind a paywall, and it works offline. Some things should never be gated.
No sign-up, no account to create. Your diary and practice live on your device — we keep no diary on our servers. No ads, no third-party trackers on your diary or chat.
Warm, plainspoken screens built for hard moments — not a clinical dashboard. Quietoak follows your device's Light or Dark setting; tap below to see every screen either way.
Your companion won't push a skill every time. Often it just wants to understand — asking what's going on, validating, and giving you room to vent. When something might genuinely help, it brings a guided exercise right into the chat, never buried in a menu.
Your talks are saved, so you never start over. Your companion carries what matters between conversations — and on a day you need something different, you can switch to another companion and pick right back up.
Recovery isn't a straight line — so Quietoak counts the quiet wins. The urges you rode out, the days you showed up, the skills you reached for: gathered up and shown back to you, gently, never as a scoreboard.
When something goes the way you didn't want, chain analysis walks you back through it link by link — what sparked it, what you were already carrying, and each thought, feeling and urge in between. Not to relive it. To find the one place a skill could have changed it.
The Crisis Survival Kit is never behind Plus and works offline: 988 (call or text, US), 741741 (text HOME), and your local lines, resolved to your region. Your companion also watches each message for signs you're in danger and surfaces real help right in the chat — even if our AI is down. If you're in immediate danger, call your local emergency number.
The skills, the diary card, all six companions, and the crisis kit are free. Plus adds the extras — and crisis support is never paywalled.
Crisis support is always free — on every plan.
Auto-renewing subscription billed to your Apple ID. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in iOS Settings. See terms.
No. Quietoak is a self-help tool based on the DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) model. It is not therapy, not a diagnosis, and not a substitute for professional care. It's designed to work alongside therapy, or while you're learning the skills on your own.
No — your companion is an AI guide. It says so, it never claims to be a therapist or a person, and it points you toward people and professional help when that's what's needed. It's there to help you practice skills, not to be something you lean on instead of real support.
Both. You can have a hands-free voice conversation — tap to talk and your companion answers in a warm spoken voice — or stay in text; it's your choice every time. And you can switch between the six companions whenever you like. Your saved talks and what your companion remembers carry over, so you never start from scratch — and that's free. A premium, more natural voice is part of Quietoak Plus.
The Crisis Survival Kit is one tap from anywhere in the app, always free, never paywalled, and works offline — 988 (call or text, US), 741741 (text HOME), and your local lines. If you're in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. Quietoak is not an emergency service.
Your diary and practice are stored on your device, and we keep no diary on our servers. There's no account and no login. We don't run ads or third-party trackers against your diary or chat. To generate replies, your messages are sent to our backend and an AI provider — together with a short recap of your last 7 logged diary days, including your urge ratings and the first 120 characters of each day's note, so the reply fits your week. Your conversations are saved there — tied only to a random device ID, never your name — so your chats carry over between sessions. You can delete them anytime, and the full data flow is in our privacy policy.
The whole app is free to use: the DBT skills library, the diary card and trends, all six companions, your saved conversations, the crisis kit, and daily companion chat (5 messages a day; a message with a photo attached counts as three, because the image goes through a separate safety check first). Quietoak Plus ($9.99/month or $59.99/year) raises that to 100 messages a day, on the smartest version of them — and adds a premium companion voice (the on-device voice stays free for everyone) and a clinician-ready PDF of your diary card. Crisis support is never limited and never behind Plus.
Adults (18+) who want to practice DBT skills in a calm, private space — whether you're in therapy and using it as an adjunct, on a waitlist, or learning the skills on your own.
iPhone first. It runs on iPad in iPhone-compatibility mode for now; a native iPad layout, Android, and Mac aren't committed yet.
Quietoak is coming to iOS. Leave your email and we'll let you know when it's ready — and crisis support will always be free.
Get early accessQuietoak teaches DBT skills and is not therapy, medical treatment, a diagnosis, or a crisis service. Your companion is an AI guide, not a person or a substitute for professional care. If you're in crisis, call or text 988 (US) or your local emergency number. 18+.