Mendly vs Woebot: what replaces a chatbot that shut down

Woebot's consumer chatbot app shut down on June 30, 2025, and there's no way to import old conversation history into a new app. Mendly isn't a replacement chatbot — it doesn't converse. It replaces the underlying habit of checking in with one tap, which is a narrower but more durable thing to rebuild.

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Feature comparison

MendlyWoebot
Core mechanicTap to log a thought, no conversationAI chatbot conversation using CBT techniques (while the app was live)
Current availabilityLive, iOS, ongoingConsumer app shut down June 30, 2025; Woebot Health continues in enterprise/health-system deployments only
Conversation historyN/A — Mendly logs timestamped entries, not conversationsDownloadable only through June 30, 2025 (transcript requests closed July 15, 2025); account data was anonymized after July 31, 2025 and can't be recovered now
Evidence baseNot independently studiedA 2017 RCT (Fitzpatrick, Darcy & Vierhile, JMIR Mental Health) found reduced depression symptoms in college students after two weeks of use vs. a self-help ebook control
Price$7.99/mo or $59.99/yr — 7-day free trialN/A — app no longer available to new or existing consumer users
PlatformiOS onlyN/A — consumer app discontinued

Who each app is for

Mendly is better for

Mendly fits former Woebot users looking for something to fill the daily check-in habit, not the conversation itself. If what you valued was a reliable, low-effort place to put a thought regularly, a one-tap log is more likely to survive being used that way for years than a new chatbot relationship you'd have to rebuild from scratch.

Woebot is better for

Nobody, currently — Woebot's consumer app is shut down and isn't accepting new users or preserving old accounts. If a conversational AI format is specifically what you're after, an active chatbot-style app (Wysa or Youper, for example) is the closer analogue; Mendly is a deliberately different, non-conversational tool.

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Common questions

Can I still use Woebot or recover my old conversations?
No. Woebot Health shut down its consumer app on June 30, 2025. Conversation transcripts could be requested only through July 15, 2025, and account data was anonymized after July 31, 2025 — there's no way to recover a Woebot history now, in Mendly or anywhere else.
Is Mendly an AI chatbot like Woebot was?
No. Mendly doesn't converse, ask follow-up questions, or generate responses. It's a one-tap logging tool with an hourly and weekly pattern view. If you specifically want a conversational AI companion, that's a different category of app than Mendly is built to be.
Did Woebot actually work, or was it just a nicer-feeling chatbot?
There's real evidence behind it — a 2017 randomized controlled trial found Woebot users showed a significant reduction in depression symptoms after two weeks compared to a control group reading a self-help ebook. Its shutdown in 2025 was a business decision (a strategic pivot to enterprise deployments), not a verdict that the approach didn't work.

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