#1 · Woebot (DISCONTINUED June 2025)
Best for: (Used to be: learning CBT systematically through a chatbot)Stanford-built CBT chatbot, RCT-evidenced — consumer app shut down June 30, 2025.
Was the best CBT chatbot in the category — the decision-tree approach kept the CBT teaching accurate and consistent — but Woebot Health retired the consumer app on June 30, 2025. Listed to document the gap. For a live replacement, Wysa's free tier is the closest CBT chatbot and MindShift the most clinically credible free option; see our Woebot alternatives roundup.
Strengths
- +(Historical) Built by Stanford clinical psychologists
- +(Historical) Published RCT evidence (multiple studies since 2017)
- +(Historical) Free for consumer use
- +(Historical) Decision-tree consistency meant CBT was taught accurately
Where it falls short
- −DISCONTINUED — Woebot Health retired the consumer app on June 30, 2025; not downloadable in 2026
- −(Historical) Scripted — limited responsiveness to specifics
Pricing
(Was free; consumer app discontinued.)
Platforms
(Discontinued)
vs. ILTY
Woebot is no longer available to consumers. Historically it won for systematic CBT teaching; ILTY uses CBT principles but isn't a CBT curriculum.