Breathing
Four protocols. About four minutes each. Box, 4-7-8, diaphragmatic, simple deep. Pick one when the body is louder than the thoughts.
Pick a feeling. Get a tool that fits.
Support
Pick a feeling. Get a tool that fits.
Tap a feeling — I'm being too hard on myself, I can't stop worrying — and the app opens onto the tools built for it. Eight situations, sixteen clinically-grounded tools. No therapy-speak required.
A few of them
- Challenge Your ThoughtsCognitive Restructuring
- Kind ThoughtsCompassionate Thought Diary
- Sort Your WorriesWorry Sorting & Postponement
- Test Your BeliefsBehavioural Experiment
Plus twelve more, each named the way you'd actually ask for help.
A worry, sealed until tomorrow.
Worry Box
A worry, sealed until tomorrow.
- Write what you can't stop thinking about.
- Lock it in.
- Choose when the box opens — not before.
- Most worries lose their grip in the meantime.
Opens in1h 15m
What else is inside.
What else is inside.
Journal
Write it out. Tag entries with a feeling — Calm, Anxious, Hollow. Search by feeling, not date. Encrypted on your phone.
Insights
Patterns, not performance. Mood, sleep, and which tools helped. Useful enough to bring to therapy. Quiet enough on a hard week.
The clinic behind the app.
The clinic behind the app.
Den Krøllede Hjerne was founded in 2017 by Christoffer Kølgaard, autoriseret psykolog. The practice now spans three clinics on Zealand — Frederiksberg, Lyngby, Hillerød — and a team of nine licensed Danish psychologists. The app extends the practice: the same methods, the same voice, available in the moments between sessions.
It takes a curly brain to help someone with a curly brain.
— Christoffer Kølgaard, founder
Featured in Woman.dk, Kristeligt Dagblad, P3. Certified by Sygeforsikringen Danmark.
Things people ask.
Things people ask.
Is this really free?
Yes — free to download, free to use. No ads. We don't sell your data. If we add a paid tier later, the current core stays available.
I'm already in therapy. Is this for me?
Especially for you. The behavioural-experiment + scheduled-follow-up loop is built for structured between-session practice, in the same methods your therapist uses — CBT, ACT, self-compassion.
How is this different from Headspace or Calm?
Those calm you. They don't address the thought that comes back five minutes later. This is built for the thought.
Why not just journal?
Journaling is here too. But on the days when “write what you feel” is one step too many, the app gives you a structured prompt — Challenge Your Thoughts, Sort Your Worries — that does the prep-work for you.
Is my data private?
Your journal entries, worries, and check-ins are encrypted locally on your phone (SQLCipher). Login is email-only — no password to leak. We don't sell anything.
Is it in English?
Yes. Built in Danish, written fresh in English.
When is this not the right thing?
If you're in acute crisis. This app is a practice tool, not a hotline. If you need to talk to someone now, the resources below are.
Room to think. In your pocket.
Room to think. In your pocket.
Free to download. Free to use today.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.