Your pocket emotional
support animal.

Stoaa is a regulation app with therapist approved tools that help you find relief from unwanted emotions and build helpful habits.

Coming soon toApp StoreComing soon toGoogle Play
  • Free, with no ads and no microtransactions
  • Privacy first. No account needed, everything is stored on your phone
  • Works offline
The Stoaa home screen, asking how are you feeling, with four modes and a large card reading I need help right now.

What is Stoaa and how
it can help you.

  1. Something that will help you quickly

    Breathing, bilateral, grounding, tapping. Wheel for naming what you feel when the word will is too much. A place to untangle a thought that will not let go. If one thing does not work for you, the next one might.

  2. Nothing stands between you and help

    The help button is right there when you open the app. No sign-in, no streaks, and it will never ask you where you have been. It works with no signal, so it is there wherever you are.

  3. It stays on your phone

    Everything is encrypted on your device, under an anonymous ID instead of your name. Anything you write, you can delete forever. And if you would rather it did not look like what it is, it does not have to.

  4. It gets better the more you use it

    After each session it asks one small question: did that help. Over time the things that work for you come first, and the things that do not quietly fall away.

Eight things why
you should download it.

Nothing stands between you and relief

No sign-in, no scrolling, no deciding. The help card sits on the home screen and is never gated. A double shake anywhere brings up crisis options. It works fully offline.

It asks what you can handle, then hides what would make it worse

Tell Stoaa what you can do and what is off the table - if you can keep your eyes open, maybe walking is not an option. Stoaa will give the best options that fit the moment.

Four ways to ground yourself without talking

Breathe, Bilateral, Ground, Tap. Each one runs through touch, sound and light independently, so you can switch off any channel that is too much. Nothing asks you to explain yourself.

Say how you feel without talking

Nineteen feelings on the home screen, not six. A wheel that goes three layers deep from six core emotions, and you can pick as many as fit.

You decide what to do

Soothe the feeling. Address the situation. Accept the feeling, or straight up say that you don't know - it is a valid answer. When dealing with spiralling thoughts that won't stop, you can use Untangle to understand what you can do about your situation and what is outside of your control.

You can make Stoaa yours

Turn off any section of the home screen or make the help button bigger. Stoaa has a night mode, and you can choose voices. All input settings are customisable. You can even change the app icon to something neutral like a calculator, if you don't want to reveal that you are using it.

Even when you are doing great, exercises matter

Build your daily training routine, keep your diary and review what the app has learnt about you. Training and preparation will help you do better on a bad day.

Your thoughts and battles stay private

All of your thoughts and experiences are locked and encrypted on your device. Stoaa uses an anonymous ID instead of your name. You can easily delete them forever. Works without an account unless you want to migrate your data.

Come, sit on our couch, let's be friends.

And if you can, support us with a donation.

Buy us a coffeeWhere your support goes

Stoaa was built by people who needed it.

Mental health apps lost me in the first week, because it was a chore that gave even more anxiety. Therapy once a month gave no progress, because I am unable to keep notes between sessions. The exercise list on a sheet of paper was gone 3 days after each session. I felt like a failure.
Laima Ērkšķe-KreicbergaFounder, Stoaa Health SIA · in active treatment for ADHD and anxiety

Several of us have spent time on the wrong side of our own mental health, so we know what it is like to go through it, and how hard the getting better part is.

Getting better is the one thing in life where there is no upside to it being harder than it needs to be. We have been shamed for missing a streak. We have been asked to pay for a feature that was supposed to help us. That is what made us build Stoaa.

Mental health apps lost me in the first week, because it was a chore that gave even more anxiety.

Proudly made in Latvia. The app is in English at launch, with Baltic and Nordic language coverage coming next.

Viktorija Kātiņa

Artist

Viktorija Kātiņa

Each and every bunny, bear and element you saw here is made by her. You will be able to meet them on the app and the more functions get released the more encounters with them you will get.

Is this you?

Someone Somewhere

We need help with translations, keeping everything fresh and up to date and many, many more.

Whisper in our e-mail and you might be our next team mate.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Every tool in the app is free, there are no ads, and there is nothing to buy inside it. If you want to help pay for translation and voice recording, there is a Buy Me a Coffee page, and that is the only place money is ever mentioned.

Do I have to make an account?

No. You can open the app and use everything straight away. You get an anonymous ID that looks like STA-1234-5678, which identifies your app and not you. An account is optional and only exists if you want backup across devices.

Where does what I write go?

It stays on your phone, encrypted. Your journal, thought logs and crisis contacts are never synced anywhere. If you switch on backup, what goes up is sealed on your device first, so we hold something we cannot read.

Does it work without internet?

Yes, all of it. The voice recordings are inside the app rather than streamed, so a session sounds the same on a train, in a stairwell, or in flight mode.

Breathing exercises make my anxiety worse. Is this app for me?

Yes, and you can say so. One of the options when the app asks what you can handle is that breathing makes it worse. When you pick it, breathing work is taken out of what you are offered rather than pushed at you anyway. The same happens with slow body scans during dissociation and panic.

Can someone see it on my phone?

You can change the app icon and name, so what shows on your home screen does not have to say what it is. You can also set a passcode on the parts that hold your writing.

Is this therapy?

No. Stoaa is a self-regulation support tool. It does not diagnose or treat anything and it is not a substitute for professional care. It is for the hours in between, not instead of.

How is this different from Calm or Headspace?

Those are libraries of content, and they assume you are calm enough to pick something. Stoaa asks what state you are in and what you can handle, then gives you one thing. It is built for the moment when choosing is the part that has stopped working.

What languages is it in?

English at launch. Latvian is next, then the rest of the Baltics and the Nordics. Translation and voice recording are what the Buy Me a Coffee page pays for.

iPhone or Android?

Both. The same app, built once, arriving on the App Store and Google Play together.

It is free and will stay free

No account, no email, no card. Take the tour when you install it, so you know how to find help before you need it.

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Buy us a coffee

It pays for translation, voice recording, and later for real help in places that have none.