Questions and answers
about the Mindfit app

Mindfit is for anyone who wants practical tools to take care of their mental health in everyday life.

Maybe you seem fine on the outside, but struggling with stress, negative thoughts or self-criticism. Or maybe you simply feel tired, empty, low on energy or find it difficult to unwind.

You can use Mindfit to understand yourself better, find calm when you need it and train yourself to notice what’s good. Small steps over time can help you improve your self-esteem and feel more resilient when stress and negative thoughts take up too much space.

Mindfit is designed to be simple to use and easy to keep in your pocket, so you can use the tools whenever and wherever you need them.

Mindfit includes different techniques that can help you calm down when you need to. Breathing exercises, EMDR-inspired techniques, mindfulness and relaxation exercises can help regulate your nervous system and reduce stress.

A breathing exercise can help calm your body, while a relaxation exercise can reduce tension and racing thoughts.

Over time, exercises like My Good Things and My Successes can help train your attention towards what’s good, improve your self-esteem and build a mental buffer against stress and negative thoughts.

Mindfit has different tools that can help you with negative thoughts.

An important part of Mindfit is training yourself to notice what’s good. As you record what you achieve, appreciate and are grateful for, you train your attention to notice more of the positive things in your life. This can help negative thoughts and feelings take up less space.

You can also learn to recognise thinking traps and challenge negative thoughts. This can help you see situations from different perspectives and find new ways to approach challenges.

Mindfit has tools that can help you improve your self-esteem and become less self-critical.

In My Successes, you collect the things you’ve achieved and are proud of. By writing them down, you collect concrete experiences that show what you’re actually capable of – including the things your inner critic tends to overlook.

On days when you don’t feel good enough, you can look back and remind yourself of everything you’ve actually achieved. The My Symbol technique also helps you bring forward a quality you need to feel stronger in yourself.

Mindfit is more than a traditional journal.

In Mindfit, you train yourself to notice what’s good. You’re encouraged to write down positive experiences, things you’ve achieved, what you’re grateful for, praise and kind words from others, and things you like. This becomes your buffer against stress and negative thoughts.

You also get tools that help you understand yourself a little better, recognise your reaction patterns and take small steps towards what you want to change.

Mindfit is based on methods from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Positive Psychology and EMDR-inspired techniques.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses, among other things, on how our thought patterns affect our feelings and reactions. In Mindfit, you get tools that help you become more aware of negative thought patterns, challenge them and see situations in new ways.

Positive Psychology is reflected in exercises that train you to notice what’s good and what you’ve achieved.

EMDR has inspired several of the techniques in Mindfit, including working with thoughts, feelings and physical reactions, the use of symbols and bilateral stimulation. Eye Movement Bar and Butterfly Hug are examples of EMDR-inspired techniques in the app.

Mindfit was developed in Norway in collaboration with a clinical psychologist specialist.

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Mindfit is a self-help app and does not replace psychological treatment or therapy. Many people use Mindfit on its own, while others use the app alongside therapy as part of their daily mental wellbeing routine.

Mindfit is based on methods from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Positive Psychology and EMDR-inspired techniques, and was developed in collaboration with a clinical psychologist specialist.

If you’ve been struggling for a longer period of time or your symptoms feel overwhelming, we recommend talking to your doctor or a psychologist.

You don’t need to spend a lot of time on Mindfit. A few minutes can be enough.

Mindfit is designed for small moments in everyday life. You can write down something good, do a breathing exercise, or work with a thought or reaction – depending on what you need.

What matters most isn’t how long you use the app, but that you use it regularly.

Mindfit includes different tools and techniques you can use depending on what you need:

For thoughts and reaction patterns

• Tools to understand your reaction patterns
• Mood tracking
• Challenge negative thoughts and recognise thinking traps
• Calm racing thoughts
• Train your attention

For self-esteem and noticing what’s good

• My Good Things and My Successes
• My Symbol
• Set goals
• Daily Reflections

For finding calm and reducing stress

• Breathing and relaxation exercises
• Mindfulness and calming sounds
• EMDR-inspired techniques such as Butterfly Hug and Eye Movement Bar

You can try Mindfit free for 7 days.

During the free trial, you get full access to all the tools and techniques in the app.

If you don’t want to continue, you need to cancel your subscription before the trial ends – otherwise, payment will start automatically. You can easily cancel through the App Store or Google Play.

You can try Mindfit free for 7 days. After that, you can choose the subscription that suits you:

• Monthly
• Quarterly
• Yearly – best value

You’ll see all prices in your local currency before you subscribe – both in the app and in the App Store or Google Play.

Your subscription renews automatically until you cancel it. Purchases and payments are handled through the App Store or Google Play.

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You cancel your subscription in the App Store or Google Play.

For App Store (iPhone):

1. Open Settings on your phone
2. Tap your name at the top
3. Select “Subscriptions”
4. Select Mindfit
5. Tap “Cancel Subscription”

For Google Play (Android):

1. Open the Google Play app
2. Tap your profile icon in the top right
3. Select “Payments and subscriptions” → “Subscriptions”
4. Select Mindfit
5. Tap “Cancel subscription”

You don’t lose what you’ve added. You can still see your journal entries, “My Good Things” and “My Reaction Pattern” – even after your subscription has ended.

The techniques, exercises and the ability to add new entries are locked when your subscription ends – but nothing you’ve saved is deleted.

If you start again later, everything will still be there waiting for you.

Note: Your content is stored only locally on your phone. If you delete the app itself, everything you’ve saved will also be deleted.

Everything you enter in Mindfit is stored only on your own phone. You don’t need to create an account, and we have no access to who you are or what you write.

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Mindfit was launched in 2014 and was developed in Trondheim, Norway, by sisters Hilde Amundsen and Janne Ekeberg Amundsen.

Janne is a clinical psychologist specialist and EMDR trainer with extensive experience in trauma and sports psychology. Mindfit is based on methods from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Positive Psychology and EMDR-inspired techniques.

It all started when Hilde needed a tool that didn’t exist.

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The easiest way to reach us is by email: mindfit@mindfit.no