DepreScan: Depression & Mood

Feeling off and not sure why? Low for weeks, or your mood all over the place, and you can't tell whether it's depression or just a rough patch? DepreScan is a private iPhone check-in: a few honest questions, a simple snapshot of how you're really doing, and small daily steps to reclaim the parts of your life that are slipping. Know where you are. Find your way back. The loop is simple: check in, understand, reclaim. DepreScan screens; it never diagnoses. It is not a clinical assessment and not a replacement for care from a qualified professional.

It asks a short series of questions about how you have been feeling, sleeping, thinking, socializing and functioning lately, then gives you a simple snapshot of your current emotional state and, more importantly, a practical plan for what to do next. It is meant to feel less like a medical questionnaire and more like someone helping you take inventory of your life. A separate, optional PHQ-9 depression screening check is free from the Home screen; it gives a screening score, not a diagnosis, and points you toward a health professional rather than standing in for one.

START WITH ONE PHOTO
Choose a photo from a moment when you felt most like yourself. That photo becomes your Anchor, the place on the road you are walking back toward. Six gentle questions reflect the distance between that moment and today, without labels, scores, or clinical language.

TWENTY SECONDS A DAY
One slider. One honest answer. No journal entry is required and there is nothing to catch up on. Your check-ins move Wick, a small lantern who carries your Anchor, along a road you can actually see. As the distance changes, the sky changes with it.

THREE SMALL STEPS
DepreScan suggests three practical actions drawn from the parts of life you said were missing: something for the body, something for the mind, something for your life outside it. On difficult days it offers one instead of three. Missing a day makes the next step gentler. There is no streak to protect and nothing to repair.

ALWAYS FREE
The daily check-in, the daily steps, the rescue action for the moments when you do not know what to do, and every crisis resource are free forever. None of them sit behind a subscription, and they stay available if a subscription lapses.

DEPRESCAN+
An optional subscription adds unlimited Road history and milestones, adaptive Steady and Beyond modes, weekly photo comparisons, and an optional sleep and step-count ribbon from Apple Health. $19.99 per year or $4.99 per week in US pricing; local prices vary. A free trial appears only for eligible Apple accounts. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled in Apple account settings.

TERMS AND PRIVACY
DepreScan+ is sold under Apple's standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://stackcurious.com/deprescan/privacy

PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE
No account, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics, and no server holding your journey. Your name, your Anchor, and your weekly photos stay on this iPhone. DepreScan does not perform face recognition, emotion detection, or photo upload: your photo is a memory, not a metric. With your permission, DepreScan reads sleep and step counts from Apple Health to draw a last-7-days ribbon on your Road. It never writes to Apple Health or uploads your health data. Manage access in the Health app. You can delete everything from Settings.

DepreScan is not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number.

Questions or something that felt wrong? Write to us at https://stackcurious.com/deprescan/support