The School of Life

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About this app

🫵 Know Who You Are. See Others Clearly. Live More Intentionally.

The School of Life app is your daily companion for mental wellbeing, emotional development, and self-discovery – a thoughtfully designed space to help you develop your mindset, explore your inner world, and build better relationships with yourself and those around you.

Rooted in psychology, philosophy, and decades of teaching emotional intelligence, the app offers bitesize guidance to help you understand your feelings, reflect on your past, and respond to life with greater clarity, calm, and resilience.

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🤔 Why Self-Knowledge Matters

Anxiety. Frustration. Loneliness.
Emotions like these point to deeper patterns. But few of us have ever been shown how to listen to them clearly.

The School of Life is your guide to that inner education: a wisdom-rich toolkit for managing emotions, finding calm, and creating emotional clarity. It’s not just about feeling better – it’s about becoming wiser.

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What You’ll Discover Inside
🎯 A Personalised Discovery Feed
➤ Your home screen evolves with you – offering relevant, therapeutic content based on your quiz results and reading behavior.

💬 Emotional Intelligence Lessons, Daily
➤ Understand your moods, regulate difficult emotions, and grow in empathy and maturity.

🎧 Audio, Podcasts, Videos, Essays
➤ Bitesize content across six themes: Relationships, Work, Sociability, Calm, Self-Knowledge, and Leisure, designed for meaningful, mindful screen time.

📚 Guides to Self-Knowledge
➤ Learn how your thoughts, wounds, and behaviours connect – through articles and self-reflective tools grounded in psychology and philosophy.

🧠 CBT-Inspired ‘Emotional First-Aid’
➤ Practical tools for managing emotions, reframing negative thought patterns, and softening self-criticism.

📝 Journaling Prompts & Quotes
➤ Daily mindfulness quotes, affirmations, and reflective exercises to support emotional growth and inspire self-care.

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🧘 Not Just Another Self-Care App
Most apps aim to quiet your emotions. This one helps you understand them.

This is not a quick fix – it’s a journey into your personality development, a companion for growing your emotional wellbeing day by day.

➤ With every scroll, you learn something.
➤ With every session, you grow a little wiser.

This is screen time with substance. A mindful, intentional space where reflection replaces distraction – and healing begins with discovery.

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🧑‍🎓 What You’ll Learn
➤ How to grow your emotional intelligence and mindset – not to suppress your feelings, but to understand and integrate them
➤ How to trace struggles back to their origin and break destructive cycles
➤ How to build better relationships through clear, honest, emotionally mature communication

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🔎 Who This Is For
➤ Anyone seeking more than quick fixes – who wants meaningful emotional support
➤ People curious about their past, their patterns, and their emotional future
➤ Those who believe mental health starts with self-awareness, not suppression
➤ Anyone who wants to grow – intellectually, emotionally, and relationally

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🌐 Join a Global Community of Learners
Over 9 million people have begun their journey toward emotional self-knowledge through The School of Life’s books, card games, films, therapy sessions, events and in-person retreats. Now, our most powerful tools are gathered here, in one app – designed to meet you wherever you are.

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📍 Begin Your Journey Inward
Download The School of Life app today and start your free trial (3-day or 7-day options available).

🧠 Built for daily use
🎧 Designed for your mindset
📝 Powered by wisdom
💛 Made for you

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "...There is something valuable for anyone who wants to understand how to be more accepting of self and others – by learning how humans really operate."
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Life-changing, really”
Turn screen time into growth: daily self-care, wisdom & emotional insight
Updated on
Oct 12, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    App info and performance and Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Messages and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

796 reviews
Richard Jackson
May 11, 2023
Very enjoyable indeed. Life improvements definitely achieved. 👏 I wonder if a slightly discounted 'couples' package would be an idea? Especially considering the themes discussed. There is something a little sad about all this (consumed) content being lost if a subscription isn't renewed after a year term. I guess that's the nature of digital.
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The School of Life UK
May 16, 2023
Thank you for your amazing review and kind words! A couple's package is certainly a great idea! We're looking to update the range of packages and offers for the app so watch this space! :)
Benjamin King
August 3, 2022
It's like having a social media app that is actually good for your mental health. I've gained a lot from replacing time spent scrolling Instagram. Maybe a bit expensive, but if you break the annual price down it's one cup of coffee every two weeks. I think that's probably worth it for ad free, well curated content like this. I would give 5*, but as others have pointed out it could be clearer about costs before you sign up, and it would be nice not to hide the home/back buttons so often.
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The School of Life UK
August 16, 2022
Thanks Benjamin - Thank you very much for this review we're really happy to have you with us! We'll review when home/back buttons appear throughout the app for you.
Chris Wright
April 9, 2024
I've paid £30 for this app for a year and don't regret it. There's a lot of quality content covering a wide range of topics: mostly written, some in the form of short videos/spoken monologues. The quality of the writing is high and, whilst not everything is relevant to me, I'm finding the material helpful, challenging in places, and enlightening.
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The School of Life UK
May 14, 2024
Thank you so much for your review Chris :)

What’s new

A new, improved player for all our audio and video.
- Pick up where you left off. Stop mid-lesson and come back to the exact spot, listening or watching.
- When one lesson ends, the next one starts on its own. Put your phone in your pocket and carry on.
- Play, pause and skip straight from your lock screen, and your playback speed stays as you set it.