Where do you draw the free/paid line in a mental-health app?
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I ship an anxiety journal, and the pricing question turned out to be harder than the product.
My line: everything you need during a panic attack is free permanently — breathing, grounding, crisis lines, unlimited records, GAD-7/PHQ-9/BAI.
Paid is the analysis afterwards: filters, date ranges, PDF for a doctor, the longer clinical scales.
The argument against it is obvious — the free tier is good enough that plenty of people never convert. The argument for it is that paywalling a breathing exercise from someone mid-attack is not a business I want. Curious how others in health or wellness drew theirs, and whether anyone regretted giving away too much.
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