OCDly · OCD support app
OCDly is an OCD support app designed to help people practice Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), use practical CBT tools, manage compulsions, plan exposures, and track progress between therapy sessions.
Built to complement professional OCD treatment, OCDly provides structured tools for the moments when putting what you've learned into practice can feel most difficult.
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A calm, guided space you can open in the moments that matter.
How it works
Each part of OCDly is built around evidence-based OCD care, so support is there before, during, and after an exposure.
Challenge Ladder
Build a personal OCD exposure hierarchy: list the situations you fear or avoid, rate each challenge from 1 to 10, and work up the ladder at your own pace. OCDly suggests the most appropriate tools for every step.
Anchor tools
When anxiety spikes, knowing what to do can be difficult. The Anchor tools help you refocus without reinforcing compulsions: Sensory Grounding, Guided Breathing, Sensory Reset (5-4-3-2-1), and Think in Categories.
ERP Hub
The OCDly ERP Hub provides guided Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) tools to help you plan exposures, delay or resist compulsions, stay with anxiety, practice uncertainty, and reflect after each exercise. Every session has a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Situational Exposure
Create OCD exposure exercises for the places, objects, activities, people, and everyday situations you've been avoiding, then progress gradually while tracking your confidence over time.
Cognitive Labeling
A CBT tool for OCD that helps you name the thinking pattern driving anxiety by recognising one of ten common cognitive distortions, so intrusive thoughts become easier to tell apart from reality.
CBT Worksheet
A guided three-step CBT reflection, Prepare, Practice, Debrief, that helps you plan an exposure, work through it, and turn a difficult moment into something you can learn from.
Exposure Vault
Store exposure images in encrypted storage on your own device, with a built-in three-view limit that supports ERP practice while reducing repeated reassurance checking.
New to this work? Read our guides on how Exposure and Response Prevention works and how to build an OCD exposure hierarchy.
Progress
Reflection and tracking that stay gentle, private, and useful over the long term.
Capture intrusive thoughts, urges, and reflections freely, with no templates or structure to work around.
Record a baseline assessment, monthly check-ins, and your OCD history, and export a PDF summary you can share with a therapist or healthcare professional.
Track OCD progress across 1, 7, 30, and 90 day views, surfacing patterns in tool usage, ERP consistency, compulsion resistance, and anxiety trends over time.
Not sure what to record? How to track progress during ERP walks through it.
OCDly is designed to complement professional care and is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment by a qualified mental health professional.
Receive thoughtful daily messages that encourage consistency, persistence, and self-compassion throughout your recovery journey.
Why OCDly
Many mental health apps offer relaxation exercises or mood journals. OCDly is designed specifically around OCD, bringing structured ERP practice, CBT-based tools, exposure planning, compulsion delay and resistance, reflection, and progress tracking into one experience that supports you between therapy sessions.
OCDly is not a meditation or mood app with OCD content added on. Every tool is shaped around evidence-based OCD care: structured ERP practice, CBT-based tools, exposure planning, and compulsion management in one place.
Support is there before an exposure while you plan it, during it when the urge to perform a compulsion is strongest, and after it through reflection and progress tracking.
Progress in OCD work depends on repeated practice, most of which happens between therapy sessions. OCDly helps you return to ERP regularly, keep a record, and stay engaged over time, complementing professional care rather than replacing it.
Wondering how the two approaches fit together? See ERP vs CBT for OCD or browse all OCD resources.
We'd love to hear from you, whether it's feedback, a question, or an interest in bringing OCDly to your clinic or practice.
