Psychology app for iPhone
Learn how your mind works, ten minutes at a time.
Psychly turns a psychology degree's worth of topics into short reads, from first-year basics to clinical and social psychology. When you need a break from reading, meditate, breathe or start a focus timer.
Courses · Famous experiments · Book summaries · Meditation · Mood calendar
Free to download. The first three items of every list are free, and so are the practices and the mood calendar. Premium unlocks the rest.
Learn Psychology
The topics of a psychology degree, in your pocket.
Courses are grouped the way a university would teach them. Each one is a focused read you can finish on the bus.
- Psychology 101 19 courses
- Social 26 courses
- Developmental 20 courses
- Cognitive 30 courses
- Clinical 26 courses
- Organizational 27 courses
- Statistics 31 courses
Recommended Articles
19 longer pieces on everyday questions, such as dealing with anxiety or building emotional intelligence.
Life Experiments
112 experiments that shaped psychology, from famous studies to the ones that would never pass an ethics board today.
Cult Book Reviews
24 summaries of books worth knowing, such as Sapiens, Flow and The Art of Loving.
Raise Awareness
Put the reading down and practice.
Four short exercises sit right on the home screen, all free.
Meditation
Set a timer, pick a calm background and one of three tracks, and sit.
Meditation tracks: Focus · Peace · Deep
Imagine
A guided visualization exercise. It flashes the screen, so skip it if you have epilepsy.
Pomodoro
A focus timer from 1 to 60 minutes. The app suggests 25, the classic pomodoro.
Breathe
Breathe in, hold, breathe out, four seconds each, with a circle that shows you when.
Take A Breath · Hold Your Breath · Exhale
One tap a day for how you feel.
Your profile holds a mood calendar. Pick one of five moods for the day, and the month fills in with color so patterns are easy to spot.
Moods stay on your iPhone. The calendar shows the current month and starts fresh when a new one begins.
- 😔 Sad
- 😰 Stressed
- 😕 Unsure
- 😊 Happy
- 😍 Grateful
Learning about the mind is not therapy.
Psychly is for education and self-reflection. It does not diagnose anything or replace a psychologist, psychiatrist or doctor. If something is weighing on you, a professional can help in ways an app cannot.
If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, call your local emergency number or a crisis line now.
A few things to know
Is Psychly free?
You can download it for free. The first three courses of each category, and the first three articles, experiments and book summaries, are free, as are meditation, Imagine, Pomodoro, Breathe and the mood calendar. Premium unlocks everything else, and the app shows the plans and prices before you choose one.
Do I need to know any psychology first?
No. Psychology 101 starts at the beginning, and every course stands on its own, so you can read in any order.
Can Psychly diagnose me or replace therapy?
No. The courses explain how psychologists think about the mind, including disorders and treatments, but reading about a condition is not a diagnosis. The wellness score at the end of onboarding is a summary of your own answers. Talk to a professional about your mental health.
What happens to my mood entries?
They stay on your iPhone. You need no account, and the moods you pick are not sent to us or to our analytics services. The calendar shows the current month and starts fresh each month.
Was Psychly called something else?
Yes. It was Psychpedia, and on the App Store it is listed as UP⁺ until the new name ships. It is the same app.
Which languages does the app speak?
English, German, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese.
Start with Psychology 101.
Download Psychly and read your first course tonight.