Routine emotional check-ins
People who want a lightweight prompt to record mood, anxiety, and context consistently.
Independent tool overview
Earkick is an active iPhone and Apple Watch self-care app for mood and anxiety check-ins, AI conversation, grounding exercises, and habit tracking. It is a general-wellness tool—not therapy, a medical device, diagnosis, treatment, or an emergency service.
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Overview
Earkick combines conversational AI with mood, anxiety, and emotion check-ins. Its current Apple App Store listing also describes breathing and CBT-inspired exercises, a panic button with grounding tools, progress statistics, habits, soundscapes, and optional alerts to trusted contacts.
It is best treated as a structured self-reflection aid: a place to notice patterns, practice a short calming exercise, and prepare observations to discuss with a qualified professional. The verified distribution surface in this review is Apple's U.S. App Store, where the app supports iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and iMessage.
Earkick explicitly says it does not provide diagnostic measurements or treatment advice and is not designed for emergencies. Its headline improvement figures come from a vendor-run observational analysis of people who kept using the app—not an independent randomized trial—so they should not be read as proof that Earkick caused a clinical outcome.
Use cases
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
People who want a lightweight prompt to record mood, anxiety, and context consistently.
Users who want to summarize patterns or questions for a licensed clinician without treating app output as diagnosis.
People seeking breathing, grounding, or soundscape tools during ordinary stress—not an acute crisis.
Capabilities
Chat with a selectable companion style for reflection and general wellness support.
Record how you feel and view changes over time in progress statistics.
Use brief breathing, grounding, and CBT-inspired exercises when stressed.
Open grounding tools quickly and, when configured, alert trusted contacts; this is not a replacement for emergency services.
Build and review routines alongside emotional check-ins.
Complete check-ins and breathing exercises from a supported watch.
Access calming audio and a knowledge hub for self-care topics.
Process
Step 1
Save local emergency and crisis contacts outside the app. In immediate danger, use those services rather than waiting for an AI response.
Step 2
Read the current app privacy label and linked Elomia policy, check age rules, inspect permissions, and use available tracking or training opt-outs before sharing sensitive information.
Step 3
Start with a narrow purpose such as a daily mood check-in or a short breathing routine.
Step 4
Use a repeatable schedule, but reduce or stop tracking if it increases rumination, guilt, or distress.
Step 5
Try breathing or grounding for ordinary stress while keeping professional and emergency resources available.
Step 6
Verify consequential suggestions and never change medication, treatment, or safety plans because of an app response.
Step 7
Share useful observations with a licensed clinician and seek care if symptoms persist, worsen, or disrupt daily life.
Cost
Earkick is free to download, with Premium and chat-related in-app purchases. Apple's U.S. listing currently shows several weekly, monthly, and annual SKUs, so the in-app paywall—not a single catalog price—is the source of truth for the offer presented to an individual user.
$0 to install
Provides access to the app with feature limits determined in-app.
Examples include $3.99/week or $14.99/month in the U.S. App Store
Unlocks paid functionality through an auto-renewing Apple subscription; pricing can vary by country and offer.
$0.99 listed in-app purchase
A separate chat-related purchase appears in the current U.S. App Store catalog.
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Earkick is a consumer self-care app that combines AI conversation with mood and anxiety check-ins, progress views, habits, breathing, grounding, soundscapes, and Apple Watch support.
No. Its current disclosures say it is not a medical device, cannot diagnose or treat, and cannot replace a therapist or other qualified healthcare professional.
Do not wait for Earkick or another AI. If you may harm yourself or someone else, or are in immediate danger, call local emergency services now. In the U.S., call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline; outside the U.S., use your local crisis line or emergency number.
It is free to install. As of August 31, 2026, Apple's U.S. listing shows Premium options including $3.99 weekly and $14.99 monthly, several annual SKUs, and a $0.99 chat-related purchase. Confirm the exact offer and renewal terms in-app.
Do not assume every feature is local-only. The current App Store page contains strong privacy marketing, but Apple's privacy label and the linked Elomia policy also disclose tracking usage data, cloud processors, retention, and limited anonymized conversation sampling. Read the controlling disclosures for your exact feature set before entering sensitive information.
No product-specific randomized proof was identified in this review. Earkick's cited improvement figures come from its own observational analysis of continued users, which explicitly cannot establish causation. Research on standalone mental-health apps as a category finds modest average effects, not proof for this particular app.
Parents should not rely on the App Store's 9+ content rating as a clinical recommendation. The linked terms instruct children under 13 not to register or share personal data; confirm current eligibility, privacy, and supervision requirements with the provider before use by a minor.
You can use recorded patterns as discussion material if the current app/export settings permit, but a clinician should interpret symptoms and make treatment decisions. Review the privacy implications before exporting or sharing sensitive records.
For an Apple purchase, manage or cancel the subscription through the Apple account used to subscribe. Check the renewal deadline shown by Apple; deleting the app alone does not necessarily cancel a subscription.
Bottom line
Earkick is a thoughtfully packaged self-reflection and coping toolkit for people who understand its boundaries. Its useful check-ins, exercises, and Watch support are offset by consequential privacy questions, ambiguous in-app pricing, and limited product-specific evidence. Use it for general wellness, minimize sensitive disclosure until you understand the applicable data flow, and keep licensed and crisis support outside the app.
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