steadySay the thought that keeps coming back out loud, and hear it lose its grip. No waiting list. No diagnosis. No appointment.
Free · No sign-up · 60 seconds · Adults 18+ · Not therapyDid I lock the door?
Checking it again.
Then the doubt comes back.
steadyPractice previewYou don’t have to answer it
right now.
Don’t take our word for any of it. This is the actual product, not a video. One minute, no sign-up, no download — speak to Steady, or type if you’d rather.
Getting Steady ready…
The relief lasts about a minute. Then the doubt is back, and it is a little louder than it was.
They tell you. It helps for an evening. By Tuesday you need to ask again, and you can hear yourself asking.
Forty tabs deep, and every answer makes a new question. It feels like research. It is the loop wearing a lab coat.
None of that is a character flaw. It is a loop, and loops have a shape you can learn.
Seventh time round the same thought.You don’t have to argue with it on your own.
Two things, and nothing else. You talk, and the loop gets a shape.
Then, only when you say so, one small practice step.
You talk. Steady helps you put the trigger, the thought and the response into words.
Choose a practice together. Begin when you’re ready, with room to pause or stop.
“We can take this
one moment at a time.”
No sign-up, no download, nothing saved. Just say the thing.
Start with what’s on your mind. You don’t have to
know how to explain it.
Talk about what keeps coming back. Steady listens and helps you describe the pattern.
Connect the trigger, the thought and what you do next. Your experience, in your words.
When you’re ready, work towards a small, agreed practice. You decide when to begin.
Three things the research keeps finding. Every one of them is linked to the paper it came from.
For adults with OCD, the first thing NICE tells clinicians to offer is CBT including exposure and response prevention — facing the feared thing in graded steps, without the escape move.
NICE guideline CG31, recommendation 1.5.1.1“The mismatch between expectancy and outcome is critical for new learning… The more the expectancy can be violated by experience, the greater the inhibitory learning.”
Craske et al., Maximizing Exposure Therapy, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2014“Safety signals alleviate distress in the short term, but when they are no longer present, the fear returns.” The checking, the asking, the phone in your hand.
Craske et al., 2014, on the removal of safety signalsSaid plainly: the evidence backs the approach, not any app, and certainly not a promise about you. Steady is a practice companion. It is not therapy, not treatment, and not a diagnosis.
Read the whole thinkingYour map and practice history give you somewhere to pick up from. Come back to the next conversation with a little more context.
Get to know SteadysteadyYour journeyFound my words
Named the loop
Chose a practice
There is no perfect pace.
There is your pace.
Clear boundaries are part of the experience.
Mapping your thoughts never quietly becomes a practice. Readiness and consent come first.
A practice is a step you agree to. You stay in control of when it begins and ends.
Understand how your information is used before you begin. Read our privacy promise.
Your session notes are yours. You can see what Steady remembers and make it forget any of it, whenever you want.
Privacy promiseNo. Steady runs one thing: a structured practice built on exposure and response prevention, the approach NICE recommends first for adults with OCD. It will not reassure you, because reassurance is what feeds the loop. A general chatbot will happily tell you the door is locked. Steady will not, and that is the whole point.
Fair. So do not decide from a description — press the button above and say one sentence to it. Sixty seconds, nothing saved, no sign-up. If it feels wrong, close the tab and you have lost a minute.
Applying is free and the early trial is free. There is no card, and you will not be charged without being asked first.
Nine short questions, about two minutes. If your answers meet the current access criteria you go straight into the app — there is no email waiting list and nobody calls you. The questions also explain who the early trial is not suitable for.
No. Mapping a loop and practising with it are deliberately separate. A practice is a step you agree to out loud first, and you can pause or end it at any point. Nothing starts without your explicit go-ahead.
In the app, yes — the whole method works on the channel the loop lives on. On this page you can type instead if you would rather start there.
Plenty of people use Steady as the thing between sessions, when the loop turns up at eleven at night and the next appointment is Thursday. It does not replace professional care. Tell your therapist you are using it.
The taster on this page is not saved at all. In the app you can see everything Steady remembers about you and make it forget any of it, on the spot.
Less checking. Less asking. Less one in the morning looking for the answer that never lands. The loop gets quieter, and the hours it was taking come back to you.
See how it worksStart with the ones you have.
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