When anxiety hits, come back to your senses.
Grounded walks you through the therapist-recommended 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique — guided by touch, sound, and your own five senses. Under four minutes. Anywhere. Anytime.
people worldwide live with an anxiety disorder
Your chest tightens. Thoughts spiral. The room feels smaller. You know this feeling. And you know that telling yourself to "just calm down" has never once worked. You don't need another meditation app with a 7-day free trial. You need something that works right now, in the moment, when it matters most.
The technique
The 5-4-3-2-1 method is a clinically-backed grounding technique used by therapists and psychologists worldwide. It works by redirecting your attention from anxious thoughts to your physical senses — activating your parasympathetic nervous system and interrupting your brain's fight-or-flight response.
The evidence
Sensory grounding engages your prefrontal cortex, interrupting the amygdala's anxiety response and restoring rational thought. It shifts attention from internal rumination to external sensory input, activating your parasympathetic nervous system — the one responsible for rest, calm, and recovery. Studies show grounding techniques produce significant improvements over traditional treatments alone.
“Anxiety lives in the future. Grounding brings you back to now.”Foundational principle of sensory grounding therapy
Inside the app
Before you begin, log how you're feeling. No judgment. Just awareness. This becomes part of your progress story.
Five immersive, gesture-driven stages guide you through seeing, touching, hearing, smelling, and tasting. Each one is designed to physically pull your attention into the present moment — not just tell you to be mindful.
Check in again after. See the difference. Over time, your progress tab builds a picture of how grounding changes how you feel — day by day, week by week.
Built different
Swipe to confirm what you see. Hold to feel. Drag to breathe. Each sense has a unique, physical interaction — not a checkbox.
Rich haptic patterns pulse through every step. Gentle ascending chimes mark your progress. You don't just see it working — you feel it.
Before/after mood check-ins. Weekly charts. Monthly calendar. Day streaks. Watch the pattern of you getting better at getting better.
Rain, ocean waves, forest birds, brown noise. Layer in calm while you ground, or use them anytime you need to soften the world.
No internet required. No loading screens. No server dependency. It's on your phone, ready the second you need it.
No accounts. No onboarding. No notifications guilt-tripping you to come back. Open, breathe, feel better, close. That's it.
One time. Forever yours.
We believe you should own the things you buy. Not rent access to your own mental health. Not get nickel-and-dimed when you're at your most vulnerable. Every feature, every update, one price. The way software used to be.
Built for the moments when your chest tightens, your thoughts race, and you need something that actually works — right now.