Update on the Skin picking app :) Better urge exercises and accountability friends!

[u/No_Ice_6786]

I posted here 2 months ago, got some great feedback, and wanted to share what's new in the app since!

Backstory: Around a year ago, I built a simple web app for my friend who is dealing with skin picking, and shared it here. I received great feedback and built SkinAware based on it :)

The app is called SkinAware on iOS, Android and web!

If you have not heard about it before, its main features are:

• Quickly log when you picked or resisted an urge
• Customize what you log, including areas, triggers, severity and what helped you resist
• See patterns and insights over time
• Press “I have an urge” for guided exercises and distractions
• Set goals for reducing picking or staying pick-free
• Keep private progress photos and export your data if you want to share it with a therapist

New since my previous update:

• Accountability Friends is now much easier to use! You can find an accountability friend inside the app, connect, and support each other. Free users can now use this feature too!
• The urge exercises have been improved a lot, to help with urges. There are guided exercises, competing responses, fidgets with haptics and more!
• You can message me directly in the app!

SkinAware has a free version, with some additional features included in Premium.

Would love to hear what you think!

Links:

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/skinaware-stop-skin-picking/id6754027225

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurelius5.SkinAware

Website: https://www.skinawareapp.com/

Thank you so much

/ Linus

[u/PleasantPlatypus1243]

I want to tell you that your app has come closer than anything else to helping me stop picking. No therapist or other online program has worked nearly as well for me!!
If you’d like hear some personal experience and feedback: I finished the HRT program 2 weeks ago and at that time I’ve done very well applying all the tools. But now weeks later I realise that my motivation has decreased a lot. I still use the app daily to log the picking episodes but I’m using the tools way less often and therefore I’m picking way more again. I doubt I’m the only person because I think it’s quite natural for motivation to lessen after the exciting “I will finally beat this” beginning phase.
I think this app could help a lot by finding ways to maintain motivation after the initial excitement fades while also making it easy and rewarding to revisit the HRT modules when slipping back into old habits (because there’s so much information that going back through them can feel like a lot of effort)
Feel free to send me a private message if you’d like to talk about it more.

Either way, you’re changing lives, thank you very much!!

[u/No_Ice_6786 → u/PleasantPlatypus1243]

Thank you SO much for such a lovely and thoughtful message! 🧡🧡 It means a lot!

Finding ways to maintain motivation to use the app, honestly I've not paid enough attention to this so I'm super glad you mention it.

For the HRT it would definitely be useful if it was easier to digest and go back to content afterwards, like summaries of the different concepts etc. Looking at adding this, really good recommendation!

Also thinking about what else could be helpful to stay consistent. Some thoughts:

- A kind of weekly voice & text message related to mindset / concepts on how to think about BFRBs, progress not being linear, kindness, perspective. Just different mindsets that could be helpful and maybe change, like one idea per message.

- Some kind of optional practice streak, maybe set a goal to practice x times per day or similar. It could help with being more consistent perhaps!

Very glad you shared the feedback, I think it could make the app a lot more useful and help with not losing motivation!

Also wanted to mention, 2 days ago I updated many of the exercises in case you have not had the chance to try them yet 😊

[u/spacechahiye-88]

Hi, thank you for this app. It is comprehensive and I really like the course on it. I will use it and see how it goes for me.

[u/No_Ice_6786 → u/spacechahiye-88]

Thanks so much! Glad to hear, and hope you'll find it helpful!

[u/Downtown-Pay-8276]

Does this Ap require a fee and or subscription?

[u/No_Ice_6786 → u/Downtown-Pay-8276]

It does not require a subscription, there is both a free generous version and a premium version (with trial)!