Nook: Calm, Breathe & Sleep
A guide for stress & anxiety
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Some days your mind won't quiet down and you're not sure how to make it stop.
Open Nook, say or type how you're feeling, and a warm voice answers and stays with you for a few minutes. It listens to what you actually said, then walks you through something to help you settle: a few slow breaths, or a small exercise to ground you, always at your own pace.
Everything the voice says is a response to you in the moment, so each session fits where you actually are. You don't have to figure anything out or remember any steps. You just follow along.
Sometimes it guides you through gentle bilateral stimulation. You follow a slow side-to-side rhythm for a little while, the same kind of gentle back-and-forth, inspired by EMDR (a technique used in psychology), to help your body and mind ease off. It's simple, and that's the point.
Nook also helps you build your own place of calm and keep it close: a good memory, an image, or a single word that steadies you. The voice guides you through it the first time, and after that it's saved. The next time a day gets loud, you already have somewhere to go back to.
What you can do with it:
• Say or type how you're feeling, and a live voice takes it from there
• Slow, guided breathing for winding down, sleep, focus, or shaking off a hard day
• Gentle bilateral stimulation (a gentle technique inspired by EMDR) that helps the calm settle in
• Build a private place of calm you can come back to anytime
• Use your voice or stick to typing, whichever feels easier
Use it to fall asleep, to steady yourself before something you've been dreading, or just to take a quiet minute that's yours.
It's private by default. There's no account to set up, and whatever you say or write stays on your side.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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• Talking is easier: the mic turns on by itself when it's your turn, and you can clearly see when it's listening.
• The guide no longer talks over you: it finishes speaking before listening, and gives you time to think.
• You now get one free guided session every day.
The developer, laugonz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Laura Gonzalez Lopez
- Size
- 16.4 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 8 more
- English, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
Health or Wellness Topics
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Nook Pro · Yearly $17.99
- Nook Pro · Weekly $2.99
- Copyright
- © Laura González López