New: wins and cope-ahead check-ins help you notice progress, plan for hard moments, and choose your next step before urges take over.
Neurture is the #1 app for managing urges and cravings and a Counselor's Choice Award winner, built for the moments when an urge or craving starts to take over. Open the app, choose a quick tool, and get no-shame support for riding out the hardest minutes instead of acting on autopilot.
Whether you are cutting back on alcohol, quitting smoking or vaping, reducing screen time, changing adult content or gambling habits, managing food cravings, shopping less, or changing another unwanted habit, Neurture helps you understand the trigger, pause the pattern, and choose your next step.
WHY PEOPLE USE NEURTURE
CRAVING & URGE TOOLS
* Use breathing, grounding, urge surfing, thought reframing, affirmations, and values-based check-ins
* Get quick support when a craving feels loud, stressful, or automatic
* Build a menu of tools that fits your real life
TRACK PATTERNS
* Log urges, triggers, outcomes, and reflections
* See what tends to happen before and after cravings
* Notice progress without all-or-nothing pressure
CHANGE HABITS WITH COMPASSION
* Work with evidence-informed methods from CBT, ACT, mindfulness, self-compassion, and relapse-prevention skills
* Keep going after a slip with practical reflection instead of shame
* Build a plan for alcohol, nicotine, screen time, adult content, gambling, shopping, food cravings, or other unwanted habits
PRIVATE, PRACTICAL SUPPORT
* Use Neurture in the moments between conversations, commitments, and quiet self-reflection
* Choose quick tools when you only have a few minutes
* Return to your goals with more clarity and less judgment
Cravings pass. Urges rise and fall. Neurture helps you stay with yourself long enough to choose what comes next.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://neurtureapp.com/terms
I haven’t used that many apps like this but I have used a couple. One thing I didn’t like about one of the others was that in tracking habits it kept resetting your progress if you wavered. That’s not how this app works. The AI aspect always has uplifting suggestions and support to help you reach your goals. New meditations keep being added. Journaling is simple. And while data support across devices is not yet supported (maybe a data security aspect), I find it easy enough to copy and paste in a note from my iPad to my phone, so my journaling can be available to me to review as needed. I see this app as being something I will use to reach many of my goals and manage my habits.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the review! We're working on syncing data across devices so stay tuned... If you have any other feature ideas then send them on over to feedback@neurtureapp.com
Helps me feel less overwhelmed
Beef-cake4
I feel overwhelmed pretty often, and the Breathwork feature in Neurture honestly helps a lot. Gives me a good guide to using different breathing techniques that are effective and that I didn’t even know about. And the UI itself is pretty calming, which also helps
Built with intention
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You can tell Brady has a wealth of experience building useful software solving mental health needs. The app is easy to use and get started on your journey. The UX feels welcoming, calming and comfortable. Its a safe space to validate my feelings and get the help I need. Highly recommend to anyone struggling with addictive behaviors like me.
Reps build strength but Neurture builds growth
First-game
This app helped calm my urges and instill the will power to tackle them. I use the app not just as a one time deal but frequently into my daily routine.
Come back to your patterns with less friction. This release makes emotion check-ins easier to review and understand, with clearer history previews, a more focused detail view, and improved disclosure controls around the emotion map.
Planning and reflection feel smoother too: Cope Ahead history now opens into a detail modal, journal search and filters are easier to scan, anchor cards have cleaner context, and win history previews show more useful detail.
We also polished the practice experience with a calmer breath loader, smoother plan-session resume behavior, haptics on save actions, clearer achievement progress, and fixes for home check-in and bounce-back completion flow edge cases.
Version 1.0.39
The developer, Neurture LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
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Information
Seller
Neurture LLC
Size
93.4 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
