First, the thing most comparisons won't tell you: Youper is shutting down on September 30, 2026. It's already been pulled from the App Store and Google Play, and user data is scheduled for deletion on October 1, 2026. This page is kept for anyone still searching — here's the honest historical comparison, and where to go instead.
⚠️ Youper is shutting down. Its own site now carries a wind-down banner: the service ends September 30, 2026, and user data is deleted on October 1, 2026. The app has already been delisted in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Brazil — the App Store and Google Play listings both return a 404 — and new subscriptions are disabled. If you are still a user, export your data before September 30. If you came here to choose between the two, the closest living replacements are Wysa for CBT-flavored chat and a dedicated tracker like Daylio or Bearable for the mood analytics — see best free mood trackers.
Historically: Youper was an AI-powered emotional health assistant that combined mood tracking with conversational CBT techniques. It helped you monitor emotional patterns over time.
The app used quick check-ins and brief conversations to identify how you were feeling, then offered targeted exercises. It was efficient and data-driven, and the emotion-pattern view was genuinely one of the best in the category.
Youper published peer-reviewed research on its effectiveness, and that research stays in the record. Like Woebot before it, the shutdown reflects how hard direct-to-consumer mental-health software is to sustain as a business — not a failure of the mood-tracking-plus-CBT approach.
ILTY focuses on conversation depth rather than tracking. Instead of brief check-ins, it offers full conversations where you can explore what you're feeling and why.
Multiple AI companions provide different approaches—some gentle, some more direct—so you can choose the style of support that fits your moment.
Conversations end with actionable steps. ILTY helps you process and move forward, not just log how you feel.
Youper
No. Delisted from the App Store and Google Play; service ends September 30, 2026 and accounts are deleted October 1, 2026.
ILTY
Yes. Live on iOS, actively developed.
Better for: ILTY (Youper is being discontinued)
Youper
Mood tracking + brief CBT conversations. Data-driven emotional monitoring.
ILTY
Deep conversation for emotional processing. Dialogue-driven support.
Better for: Youper was better for tracking, ILTY for processing
Youper
Brief, focused interactions. Good for check-ins, less for deep exploration.
ILTY
Full conversations designed for thorough emotional processing.
Better for: ILTY
Youper
Was excellent at identifying emotional patterns over time with data visualization — but the charts go away when the accounts are deleted.
ILTY
Helps you see patterns through conversation, but no formal tracking.
Better for: Youper historically; today use a dedicated tracker like Daylio or Bearable
Youper
Single AI assistant.
ILTY
Multiple companions with different approaches and personalities.
Better for: ILTY
Youper
Quick—most interactions took 2-5 minutes.
ILTY
Flexible—conversations take as long as you need.
Better for: Youper for quick check-ins, ILTY for deeper sessions
Youper
(Was free basic features with a premium subscription; new subscriptions are now disabled.)
ILTY
$12.99/mo or $99.99/yr (7-day trial).
Better for: Not comparable — Youper can no longer be downloaded or subscribed to
Who wrote this: ILTY publishes this comparison, and ILTY is one of the two apps in it. We rank ourselves below competitors where they genuinely win — you’ll see several of those calls below. Read it with the bias in mind and check the other side’s claims too.
The honest headline: this is no longer a live choice. Youper is shutting down on September 30, 2026, it's already been pulled from both app stores, and accounts are deleted the day after. If you still have data in there, export it now — that's the only genuinely urgent thing on this page.
Youper was good at what it did: quick emotional check-ins with CBT techniques, and the best mood-pattern visualization in the category. It had real published research behind it. We're not going to retroactively trash an app that helped people.
Its limitation was depth. When you were really struggling with something, a 3-minute check-in wasn't enough — you needed to actually talk it through. That's the gap ILTY was built for: when a mood tracker asks 'how are you feeling?' and the answer is complicated.
But if what you actually want is Youper's mood analytics, ILTY is the wrong replacement and we'd rather say so — ILTY doesn't track moods. Use a dedicated tracker (see best free mood trackers; Daylio and Bearable are the closest on pattern detection), or Wysa if the CBT chat was the part you valued. Two of the AI-therapy apps we've compared against have now shut down inside fourteen months — pick your next one knowing that's the category's baseline risk, and keep your own copy of anything that matters.
No. Youper is shutting down on September 30, 2026. It has already been delisted from the Apple App Store and Google Play in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Brazil, new subscriptions are disabled, and user data is scheduled for deletion on October 1, 2026. If you still have an account, export your data before September 30. For replacements, see our list of the best free mood trackers, or Wysa for CBT-style chat.
Not anymore. That used to be a good pairing — Youper for daily mood tracking, ILTY for the deeper conversation — but Youper is being discontinued on September 30, 2026. If you want the same split today, use a dedicated mood tracker (Daylio, Bearable, How We Feel) alongside ILTY.
Youper isn't an option in 2026 — it's shutting down September 30. Historically it helped you track anxiety patterns and offered quick CBT exercises; ILTY helps you talk through anxious thoughts in depth. If you want the tracking half back, pair a mood tracker with ILTY, or use Wysa for structured CBT exercises.
Not currently. ILTY focuses on conversation rather than tracking. If mood tracking is important to you, ILTY is not a Youper replacement — use a dedicated tracker like Daylio or Bearable for the charts and ILTY for the conversation about what's behind them.
Youper's shutdown notice says user data is deleted on October 1, 2026, with an export option available until then. If you want to keep your mood history, export it before September 30, 2026 — after that it's gone, and no other app can retrieve it for you.
The best way to know if ILTY is right for you is to try it. Free to download, with a one-week free trial.
Where to go for the mood analytics Youper was best at.
Wysa is still live — the closest CBT-chat replacement.
The other AI therapy chatbot that shut down — retired June 2025.
How ILTY helps with anxiety specifically.
Using AI support alongside therapy