Q3 2026 · Last verified August 2026
Every AI Mental Health Tool, Mapped for Clinicians
A map is more useful than a ranking. Every tool here is sorted by where it lives in the mental health ecosystem, what it actually does, and what it gives the person using it. Nothing on this page is a score, an endorsement, or a review. CouchLoop appears on this map. We build it.
Changelog
- 2026-08-31: Initial map published with 23 tools.
Clinician-Facing Tools
Documentation & Scribes
Assessment & Triage
Risk & Quality Signal
Outcome Tracking
Practice Management & EHR
The Clinician-Supervised Bridge
Clinician-Supervised Platforms
Client-Facing Tools
Structured CBT Companions
In-the-Moment Support
Voice Companions
Open Companions
Self-Guided Wellness
Care Delivery, Not Tools
Care Delivery
Retired
Retired
The Full Index
Clinician-Facing Tools
Documentation & Scribes
Purpose-built therapy scribes that record or summarize sessions and draft progress notes for the clinician to review. Several extend into treatment-plan drafting.
- Mentalyc: Therapy notes drafted for your review. Purpose-built AI scribe that records or summarizes sessions and drafts progress notes in therapy-specific formats.
- Upheal: Notes plus session analytics. AI note taker for therapists that pairs drafted notes with session analytics such as talking ratios.
- Eleos Health: Enterprise behavioral health documentation. Enterprise-grade AI scribe built for behavioral health organizations and community mental health settings.
- Frontera: ABA assessment reports in hours, not weeks. Automates assessment report writing for autism care teams and applied behavior analysis providers.
Assessment & Triage
Intake and assessment tools that screen and triage referrals for clinical services, under the service's clinical governance.
- Limbic: Clinical intake and triage at scale. Intake and assessment chatbots used by health systems to screen and triage referrals under clinical governance.
Risk & Quality Signal
Tools that analyze conversation or voice data to flag risk or measure treatment quality. This group deserves its own consent conversation, because the analysis runs on the client's words and voice.
- Lyssn: Session quality measured from conversation. Analyzes therapy conversations to measure treatment quality and fidelity and to flag risk.
- Kintsugi: Depression and anxiety signals from voice. Voice biomarker technology that screens for depression and anxiety from short speech samples.
Outcome Tracking
Measurement-based care platforms built on questionnaires like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7, increasingly paired with AI-drafted documentation.
- Blueprint: Measurement-based care plus AI notes. Attaches AI-drafted notes to questionnaire-based outcome tracking built on measures like the PHQ-9 and GAD-7.
Practice Management & EHR
Mainstream practice platforms now shipping built-in AI note features, which turns a standalone purchase decision into a comparison with what your existing platform already includes.
- SimplePractice: The EHR with AI notes built in. Mainstream practice management platform that now ships built-in AI note-taking features.
- TherapyNotes: Practice management with AI assistance. Widely used therapy EHR adding AI note features on top of scheduling, billing, and records.
The Clinician-Supervised Bridge
Clinician-Supervised Platforms
Platforms where the client uses an app between sessions but a licensed clinician assigns the work, sees the output, and stays accountable for the care. Evaluating these means borrowing questions from both sides of the map.
- CouchLoop: Between-session work you actually see. Practice platform where clinicians draft notes with AI, assign between-session work, and see what comes back.
- Jimini Health: AI support with therapists in the loop. Pairs its therapists with an AI assistant that supports clients between sessions, with conversations visible to the care team.
- Sibly: Human coaches, AI assisted, always on. Text-based support from Quarvis Health where human coaches work alongside AI, offered mostly through employer programs.
Client-Facing Tools
Structured CBT Companions
Structured, CBT-informed apps with published research behind them.
- Wysa: Clinically studied CBT companion. Structured, CBT-informed wellness chatbot with a large body of published research behind it.
- Youper: Emotional health checkups by chat. CBT-informed emotional health assistant with research-backed symptom assessment.
In-the-Moment Support
Apps focused on real-time support during spikes of anxiety or panic.
- Earkick: Panic moment support in real time. Focused on in-the-moment support during spikes of anxiety or panic.
Voice Companions
AI companions that work by voice, including over an ordinary phone call.
- clare&me: A calming voice on the phone. AI voice companion for anxiety that works over an ordinary phone call, around the clock.
Open Companions
Chatbots built specifically for open-ended emotional support conversations.
- Ash: Open-ended emotional support chat. Consumer chatbot from Slingshot AI designed specifically for open-ended emotional support conversations.
Self-Guided Wellness
This bucket stretches well past conversation into self-guided wellness content: generated audio sessions, meditation libraries, and companions layered onto them.
- OpenSynaps AI: Hypnosis and wellness sessions on demand. Pairs an AI chat companion with generated hypnosis, sophrology, and meditation sessions.
- Headspace: Meditation library with an AI companion. Folded an AI companion into what began as a meditation and mindfulness app.
Care Delivery, Not Tools
Care Delivery
Not software a practice adopts. These companies deliver care with AI underneath. If one crosses your desk you are evaluating a referral destination or a benefits vendor, not a tool for your chart.
- Spring Health: Employer mental health benefits at scale. Sells mental health care through employers and health plans with AI-powered matching underneath.
- Legion Health: Insurance-based psychiatry, AI underneath. Psychiatry service where AI handles scheduling, routine refills, and risk triage while clinicians keep every prescribing decision.
Retired
Retired
The category sheds names as fast as it adds them. Tools that mattered and are gone stay on the map as a reminder that shelf life here runs short.
- Woebot: Consumer app retired June 2025. For years the best-known consumer mental health chatbot; its consumer app retired in 2025.