OCD is a YMYL (your-money-your-life) topic where confident wrong information can cause real harm. We took extra care: every app's clinical claim was verified against its public-facing methodology page; pricing was checked the day of publication; and we explicitly flag where apps are clinical treatment tools versus adjunct tools versus general anxiety apps that mention OCD.
Test protocol: each app evaluated across five dimensions: ERP (exposure and response prevention) implementation quality, intrusive-thought response (does the app reinforce reassurance-seeking, which makes OCD worse), accessibility (waitlists, geography, cost), clinical evidence (peer-reviewed studies on outcomes), and crisis handling.
Honest disclosure: ILTY is included at position 5 because the search-intent overlap is real — users searching 'OCD apps' sometimes want general support, not clinical ERP. We put NOCD at #1 because it is, in fact, the standard for app-based OCD treatment. We're not the right primary tool for OCD; we're an adjunct.
Disclosure
ILTY is the publisher of this roundup. ILTY is one of the apps reviewed; we are positioned at #5, not #1. ILTY is NOT an OCD-specific treatment app and we don't recommend using it as a primary OCD intervention. We include ourselves because users searching 'OCD apps' include some who want general anxiety/intrusive-thought support, not clinical treatment. For diagnosed OCD, please use NOCD or work with an ERP-trained clinician directly. Our price checks cover commercial facts only: whether each app still exists, its pricing, platforms and store ratings. They do not re-run the hands-on testing protocol described above, so hands-on impressions date from the original testing round; we say that plainly rather than letting a fresh date imply a fresh test. What the August 13, 2026 check found across the site: Sanvello's consumer app is discontinued (delisted from both stores; sanvello.com no longer resolves), Youper was shutting down on September 30, 2026 (already delisted; it has since shut down), and GG OCD was renamed to OCD.app.
Prices, platforms and availability last checked October 20, 2026 against each app's App Store and Google Play listings and its own website.
The research behind this
Rankings on this page draw on The 2026 State of AI Mental Health Apps, our own study of 15 apps across 8 criteria. Crisis handling was tested by hand: the same four escalating messages typed into every app, screenshots kept. Three of them never produced a crisis number. Every score is published with the reasoning behind it, including ILTY’s, and the rubric is CC-BY if you would rather score apps yourself.