About Andy

Who Andy is for, what it helps with, how it works toward its benefits, the science behind the content, its important limits, and how it is funded.

1)Who Andy is for

Andy is for adults who want to keep track of their mood, anxiety, and stress, whether that means the occasional rough week or ongoing anxiety. It's also useful if you're working with a therapist and want a simple record to bring to sessions. Carers and health professionals may also find it useful to recommend as a complement to care.

Age: Andy is intended for people aged 16+.

2)What Andy helps with

Andy addresses the everyday management of anxiety and stress: noticing how you feel, spotting patterns over time, and building a small daily habit of checking in with yourself. Andy is a self-monitoring and wellbeing tool. It does not diagnose or treat any condition.

3)What Andy is designed to do

  • Simple self-monitoring: log your mood on a 5-level scale, tag feelings and activities, add optional notes
  • Self-management: review your timeline and weekly/monthly charts to understand your own patterns
  • Preventive habit-building: daily check-in reminders and streaks as light motivation
  • Support for professional care: export your history (PDF or data file) to share with your therapist or doctor

4)The benefits you can expect

Used regularly, Andy can help you: become more aware of your emotions and their intensity; identify patterns and triggers (which days, activities, or situations affect you); keep an accurate record instead of relying on memory; and have better-informed conversations with the professionals who support you. Andy supports your wellbeing. It is not a treatment, and results depend on your own use and circumstances.

5)How Andy works toward those benefits

Andy relies on three techniques with a long track record in psychology: self-monitoring (the daily mood log, a core tool of cognitive-behavioural approaches), paced breathing exercises (guided inhale/exhale timing to settle the body's stress response), and psychoeducation (short reads that explain how anxiety, stress, and mood work). No AI interprets your data; your charts show only what you logged.

6)The science behind the content

Andy's educational content draws on established, peer-reviewed psychology. Key sources include:

  • Cognitive-behavioural model of anxiety: Beck, A.T., Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders; Beck's cognitive triad
  • Self-monitoring in CBT: Cohen, J.S. et al., "Feedback of monitoring data in psychotherapy"
  • Affect labeling: Lieberman, M.D. et al. (2007), "Putting Feelings Into Words", Psychological Science
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: Segal, Z., Williams, M., Teasdale, J., MBCT for Depression
  • Graded exposure: Craske, M.G. et al. on exposure therapy principles
  • Paced breathing and the physiological stress response: Zaccaro, A. et al. (2018), "How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life", Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Panic attack criteria: American Psychiatric Association, DSM-5
  • Zeigarnik effect and task rehearsal: Masicampo, E.J. & Baumeister, R.F. (2011)

Content last reviewed: July 2026 by Arnau Ros (Macu Studio).

7)Important limits

Andy does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and does not replace care from a health professional. If you're struggling, a qualified professional is the right place to get help. Andy works best alongside that care, not instead of it.

No professional approval is needed to use Andy. If you have a diagnosed mental health condition, we recommend using Andy as a complement to your treatment and mentioning it to your clinician.

Andy is not a crisis tool. If you are in crisis or having thoughts of harming yourself, contact your local emergency services (112 in Europe), the 024 suicide prevention line in Spain, or your local crisis service now. The app also detects crisis-related content in entries and shows immediate support resources.

Known limitations: logging frequently is helpful for most people, but if you find that tracking increases your focus on symptoms or distress, ease off or discuss it with a professional. Charts are descriptive only, not clinical scores.

8)Cost and funding

Andy is completely free: no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and every feature is available to everyone. Andy is self-funded and independently developed by Macu Studio (Barcelona). We have no sponsors, no advertisers, and we never sell your data.