Cognitive trainer.

Cognitive trainer - web based application for managing depression, stress and anxiety. This complicated web project, created by Magora's developers, can be used as a personal anti-stress tool.

Client: US mental-health web tool client (client unnamed)
Industry: Healthcare and Fitness apps

Services: Design · development
Delivery: Magora London
Domain: Healthcare and Fitness apps

Built by Magora

This Cognitive trainer project was designed and built by Magora. We are a London software development company (since 2010) building healthcare and fitness apps for UK businesses, from a free working prototype to launch and support.

Healthcare app development → Free working prototype in 5–10 days

01 / Brief

Depression and anxiety are well-known social scourges. Nowadays modern psychological therapy can give the power to overcome these conditions. CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) is a scientifically proven system of psychotherapy that helps people identify and then challenge the distorted thinking that feeds depression. So, our American client wanted to create an effective depression-fighting web-tool based on CBT. The website to be built had to be responsive, as it was intended for both desktop and mobile use.

02 / Solution

To work out a functional application our team integrated the best CBT strategies with recent web technologies jQuery, CSS3, HTML5. We used a Gumby Framework to make the website design responsive. The web tool we built is an intuitive self-help application that encompasses such features as tracking your thoughts and feelings, a cognitive thought diary to learn to challenge stressful thinking, a screening test to monitor depression severity, and retraining of your brain. The Cognitive Trainer is designed to help users feel better and regain one’s place in the world.

Project facts

Cognitive trainer, at a glance.

Self-help web application based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for depression

Client

US mental-health web tool client (client unnamed)

Sector

Healthcare: mental health

Platforms

Responsive web (jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, Gumby framework)

Scope

Features: thought and feeling tracking, cognitive thought diary, depression-severity screening test, brain-retraining exercises; responsive for desktop and mobile

Typical budget for this scope

£10k–£25k

Typically 6–8 weeks · Magora pricing guide · 2026 prices

Results

An intuitive CBT self-help tool for desktop and mobile that helps users track, challenge and retrain stressful thinking.

ServicesDesign · development

Client review

What the client says.

Feedback from the client team on this project.

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Personal-use Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tool for managing depression, stress and anxiety

— Tech stack

Built with what holds up at scale.

AWS

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