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
12 Oct 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

797 reviews
Warrick C
12 December 2021
Great content but I have been plagued by technical glitches from the beginning. Despite having paid for 12months a few months ago, I can no longer access any content. My subscription was never really recognized from the beginning. I was constantly prompted to upgrade. Have uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. Have flagged this on several occasions and heard nothing. Recently the app reset and wiped the progress and saved content that I had. Will be seeking refund.
60 people found this review helpful
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The School of Life UK
15 December 2021
Hi Warrick-We've sent you several emails in past days but don't seem to have had a reply. You subscription (+saved content) is all safe under your account with a gmail address. You since seem to have created a new account using a .au address. If you log-in with your gmail account all should work. Pls. email appsupport@theschooloflife.com if not.
Alana Thomson (Lanilou15)
16 November 2022
The app looks fantastic and looks like it contains amazing content. But pretty much 90% of it is locked unless you pay 85 bucks a year for it. Some of us don't have that kind of money and hence want a platform such as this to support our wellbeing, we can't afford therapy, but we could afford this if it were available even at a cheaper price.
34 people found this review helpful
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The School of Life UK
22 November 2022
Thank you. We're asking customers for a contribution in order to fund the production of our content. We are constantly looking into ways of lower our prices on our joint subscription for the articles and our App whenever we can. Please check our website and/or ask our customer support.
Klay Wanielista
05 November 2022
I like the concept of this app but it seems like a user is better off buying real physical things from the School of Life store rather than putting monthly or yearly purchases into this app. Main issue I have with this is assuming you have a day where you don't want to subscribe anymore you lose all of your data or access to all the things you may have brought into your life. A one time purchase would be a more viable option for many people, as well as maybe offering more than a week trial.
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The School of Life UK
08 November 2022
Hi there, thank you for trying out our app and for the helpful critique! We're always looking for way to improve and refine ourselves and we'll certainly take on-board your comments to make further improvements! Thank you!

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.