Drop anchor when urges hit.

The techniques therapists use for compulsive patterns — Acceptance and Commitment Therapy — brought into the moment an urge pulls at you. No streaks, no scoreboards, no shame. A quiet place to land until it passes.

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For iPhone · Coming soon
Tap the screen — real shots from the app. The ocean behind it shifts with your local time; right now it’s morning.
WithAnchor home screen — the Drop Anchor button at the centre.
An urge is weather.
You don’t argue with weather.
You notice it. You let it move through. You stay where you are until it passes — because it always passes.
The method · ACT

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, in your pocket.

ACT is one of the most studied behavioural therapies for compulsive patterns. The premise is quiet but radical: the urge isn’t the problem. Fighting it is what hands it power.

WithAnchor brings the core ACT skills into the moments you actually need them — a few unhurried minutes on your phone, not another habit to maintain.

Grounding
Come back to your senses and your body when the moment spins up.
Defusion
Step back from a thought so it stops being the only thing in the room.
Values
Remember who you’re doing this for, in your own words.
Self-compassion
Meet a setback the way you’d meet a friend’s.
The practices · Six tools

Techniques therapists use, ready when urges hit.

Each one is short, specific, and built for the moment. Use one, use them all — there’s no order, no progression, no badge at the end.

01
Drop Anchor
When an urge rises, a short grounding sequence brings you back to your senses, your body, and the present moment.
02
Urge Surf
An urge isn’t a command. Ride it like a wave — notice it rise, crest, and pass on its own, without acting on it.
03
Choice Point
See the small forks where one move carries you toward the person you want to be, and one carries you away.
04
Leaves on a Stream
A defusion practice: set each thought on a leaf and watch it drift past, instead of being carried off by it.
05
Passengers on the Bus
Thoughts and cravings ride along. They don’t drive. You learn to keep both hands on the wheel.
06
Self-Compassion
Setbacks are part of recovery, not the end of it. The work is in how you meet yourself the morning after.
See the whole thing

A place to land, not another screen to manage.

Coming back after time away — nothing reset, your days are still yours.
Your week in WithAnchor — patterns, not verdicts; progress that only adds up.
Your profile — the pledge in your own words, with your drawn signature.
In your hand

One tap from wherever you are.

When the urge hits, Drop Anchor is one tap away — no hunting through menus while it builds.

Home & Lock Screen
A widget that drops anchor without opening the app.
The Action Button
One press on the side of your iPhone, straight into grounding.
“Hey Siri, drop anchor”
Hands-free, out loud, wherever you are.
Back Tap & Control Centre
Two taps on the back of the phone, or one from Control Centre.
WithAnchor home screen — Drop Anchor one tap away.
A personalised plan that mirrors your answers back and names your pattern.
Your plan

It learns your pattern, then meets you there.

A few gentle questions at the start build a plan in your own words. It mirrors back what you said, names the pattern without judgment, and points you to the techniques most likely to help — starting you somewhere quiet, like Setting Sail.

It notices when you tend to be most vulnerable and plans around it. And when you come back after time away, it meets you without shame — because progress here is cumulative, and a slip never resets it to zero.

Inside the app

A practice, not a streak counter.

Everything is built to be there when you need it and to disappear when you don’t.

One gentle reminder
A single daily nudge, timed to the slot you choose. Never a second ping, never a guilt trip.
Home & Lock Screen widget
Drop anchor straight from your Home or Lock Screen — and Control Centre — without opening the app.
Hands-free, in the moment
Siri, the Action Button, and Back Tap all reach the tool. “Hey Siri, drop anchor,” and you’re grounding.
Morning & evening check-ins
A small intention to start the day, a quiet reflection to close it. Two minutes, no scoring.
Progress that never resets
The time you’ve reclaimed and the moments you showed up keep adding up — a slip can’t wipe them out.
A living ocean
The water moves with the time of day, dawn to night, so the app feels like a place rather than a screen.
What it isn’t

Recovery isn’t a game.
We don’t treat it like one.

No streaks to break
No levels to grind
No warrior metaphors
No shame, ever
Just the techniques therapists use, ready when you need them. Recovery is progress. That is the whole arc.
Privacy

What you work on here stays yours.

Read the full privacy policy →
No ads, no trackers, no fingerprinting — not one.
Nothing sold or shared with third parties. Ever.
Your notes and reflections never train any AI.
Works on-device; optional sign-in with Apple or an email code — no password.
Sync is encrypted, and Delete Account erases everything, in one tap.
Questions

Quietly answered.

ACT (said like the word “act”) is a contextual behavioural therapy with decades of research behind it. Instead of fighting difficult thoughts and urges, you learn to make room for them and keep choosing what matters to you. WithAnchor takes the core ACT skills and brings them into the moments you actually need them.

Stay grounded.
One urge at a time.

Begin when you’re ready. There’s nothing to sign up for — the app and this page arrive together. For iPhone, on the App Store.

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App Store