Looking for a Felt alternative that's free and not iPhone-only?

Felt is a genuinely well-designed app for rejection sensitive dysphoria, which research describes as a core, well-documented feature of ADHD specifically^[2], and it stands out in one specific way: it's the only app of its kind found to say, plainly, which AI it uses. That transparency deserves real credit before getting into where it differs from a free, web-based tool.

What Felt actually does well

Its in-the-moment toolkit is generously free: a 10-question screener grounded in Dr. William Dodson's and CHADD's published work, an episode logger, breathing and grounding exercises, and crisis resources, none of it behind a paywall^[1]. It's also the only product found in this category to name its AI model directly: Felt states that it uses Claude to review a week of entries and surface patterns in plain language, rather than leaving "AI-powered" vague the way most competitors do^[1]. A Trusted Person Sharing feature, sharing a read-only summary of your patterns with someone you choose, is a thoughtful detail aimed at making it easier to be understood without having to explain everything in the moment.

Where it stops

Felt is iOS only, with no Android or web version, so it isn't reachable from a laptop or any phone that isn't an iPhone^[1]. It's also very new: its own App Store listing shows a single rating as of October 2026, so there isn't yet much independent signal on how it holds up over time^[1]. The deeper features, pattern dashboards, AI weekly insights, the coping-strategy library, and communication scripts, sit behind a $9.99 Felt Pro purchase; the free tier covers the in-the-moment toolkit and the screener only^[1].

Does a tool need AI to help in the moment?

Not necessarily. Felt's free toolkit itself, the validation statements, the breathing exercise, the episode timer, works the same way with or without the Pro features: it's a structured sequence, not a conversation. The AI in Felt shows up afterward, in the weekly pattern review and the generated scripts, which is a genuinely useful way to look back at a pattern over time once you have one logged. Both approaches sit in the same broader category, structured, self-guided support, a recognized kind of help, separate from clinical care^[3]. A free tool that covers the in-the-moment half on any device right now, without needing an app install, is simply solving a narrower, more immediate part of the same problem.