Track DBT diary cards in 30 seconds/day.
Log urges, emotions, intensity, and skills—fast, private, and therapist‑ready.
Optional: AI Coach + weekly insights (Premium).
DBT Pal is built for people actively practicing Dialectical Behavior Therapy. It removes the friction from daily diary cards while staying aligned with core DBT principles: awareness, emotion regulation, skill use, and consistency between sessions.
What DBT Pal Helps You Do
• Quick daily diary (under 30 seconds)
Log urges, emotions, intensity, and skills without digging through menus.
• Urges + skills are core (not an afterthought)
Track urges (and whether you acted), then log the skills you tried—so progress is visible even on hard days.
• Today’s Progress
See at a glance if your diary is complete and keep your routine on track.
• Reminders & streaks
Gentle prompts help you stay consistent—without guilt trips or pressure.
• Fully customizable
Add, remove, or edit your own urges, emotions, and skills to match your DBT program.
• Guided exercises
Paced breathing, grounding, and mindfulness exercises you can use in the moment.
• Export & share (therapy‑ready)
Generate clean PDF summaries for therapy sessions or personal reflection.
• iCloud backup (optional)
Keep your diary safe and restore if you change devices.
Optional (Premium): AI Support
If you want extra guidance, DBT Pal includes optional AI features:
• AI DBT Coach
Chat with a supportive AI coach trained in DBT skills—helpful for working through tough moments and reinforcing practice between sessions.
• AI Weekly Insights
Personalized summaries that highlight patterns in your tracking and suggest areas to focus on next week.
Why People Choose DBT Pal
• Fast: diary cards in seconds, not minutes
• DBT‑specific: built around urges, emotions, and skills (not a generic mood journal)
• Therapist‑friendly: exports that are easy to review
• Privacy‑first: designed to minimize data collection and keep you in control
What’s Included in Premium
Unlock the full DBT Pal experience:
• AI DBT Coach + AI Weekly Insights
• Unlimited custom urges, emotions, and skills
• Guided meditations and breathing exercises
• iCloud backup & restore
• PDF exports for therapy sessions
Subscription Options
• Monthly: $5.99 / month
• Annual: $39.99 / year
Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscription in your App Store account settings.
Privacy & Safety
DBT Pal is designed with privacy in mind. Your entries are stored on your device by default. Optional backups use your personal iCloud when enabled. Optional AI features process your diary data to generate responses; we don’t store more than what’s necessary to provide the feature.
Terms of Use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
Privacy Policy: https://dbtpal.app/privacy-policy.html
My only wish is that the skills in the daily journal would have descriptions to go along with them. The skills section is mostly meaningless to me right now as I don’t know what 3/4 of them are. However, it’s a great tool to manage and log emotions in one centralized place. The premium was worth it for me to be able to have everything centralized in one app.
The latest update is great.
brockdenton
Highly recommend for anyone tracking emotions for DBT therapy!
Premium not working
Sunflowers150
I upgraded to premium yet it keeps telling me to enroll in the free trial. I can’t get it to work with the premium features
Developer Response
Thank you for upgrading and for letting us know about this issue. We identified a bug where the app could briefly load without recognizing your premium status, causing it to show the free trial prompt instead. A fix is on the way in our next update. In the meantime, closing and reopening the app should resolve it. If you continue to have trouble, please reach out to us at support@dbtpal.app and we'll make sure your account is sorted out right away.
Update please
dahlkea
I love it. I can’t tell if there is a limit to items on the diary card but every time I try to add it crashed. Please fix bugs.
Developer Response
Thank you for the review! We have released an all new version. Version 1.3.2 is a complete rebuild of the app and fixes long standing issues with the app making it no longer compatible with newer versions of iOS. Please try out the new and much improved DBT Pal and let us know if you have any issues.
The developer, Benjamin Fox, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Benjamin Fox
Size
63.6 MB
Category
Health & Fitness
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
