The App

The Optimistic Brain App

The 4-Steps™ approach, with lessons and guided practices on your phone.

Guided exercises, courses and articles you can use anywhere, even without an internet connection. It installs from your phone’s browser in a few taps, with no app store needed.

The Optimistic Brain App home screen on a phone, with cards for Exercises, Courses and Bookmarks

What’s Inside

Everything you need to learn the four steps and practice them every day.

The app home screen on a phone

Everything in One Place

Exercises, courses, bookmarks, blogs and daily tips, one tap away.

The Exercises screen of the app on a phone

120 Guided Exercises

Find a practice by step or by type: meditation, writing, mirror work, visualization and more.

A guided exercise in the app on a phone

Press Play and Practice

Choose a 5-minute or 15-minute version and follow along.

The Courses screen of the app on a phone

Step-by-Step Courses

A free Intro Course, the 31-day Core Program, and seven 7-day add-on courses.

Free and Premium

Free

  • The Intro Course
  • 34 exercises
  • 36 blogs and audio lessons
  • Daily Tips and the latest news

Premium

$2.49 per month, billed annually at $29.99 USD per year. First-time subscribers get 1 month free.

  • Everything in the app for one low yearly fee
  • All 120 exercises
  • Every course: the 31-day Core Program and all seven add-ons
  • All 83 blogs, including the audio lessons
  • Bookmarks, so what you use most is one tap away
  • Offline access: bookmarked items play without an internet connection

Add It to Your Phone

There is nothing to download from an app store. First open app.optimisticbrain.com on your phone, then follow the steps for your phone and browser. It opens full screen, like any other app.

iPhone or iPad, in Safari

  1. Tap ··· at the bottom of Safari, then tap Share
  2. Tap View More
  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen

iPhone, in Chrome

  1. Tap the Share button at the top of the screen
  2. Tap View More
  3. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen

Android, in Chrome

  1. Tap the menu (three dots) in Chrome
  2. Tap Install app or Add to Home screen

Android, in Samsung Internet

  1. Tap the three dots at the bottom right of the screen
  2. Tap Add page to
  3. Tap Home screen
  4. Change the name if you want, then tap Add
  5. Tap Add again to put it on your home screen
A green seedling growing from soil, the Intro Course icon

Start With the Free Intro Course

A taste of the 4-Steps™ approach, with several guided exercises.