The School of Life

In-app purchases
4.0
738 reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 16
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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”
Updated on
Jun 10, 2025

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

4.0
715 reviews
dorisa kooshki
January 22, 2025
The app looks great and definitely has a lot to offer, but it would have been nice if they dont lock all the features with a subscription for someone who is new to the features so that they can see if they can get used to the app and if they would use it everyday, a 3 day or a week trial would not be a good option to feel the "get-used-to". For a platform thats teaching people life lessons, one life lesson is to be in control of the money you spend and the app does not give you that opportunity
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The School of Life UK
January 28, 2025
Hello Dorisa, thank you for your feedback. We do offer a free trial, if you subscribe via the Google PlayStore we do offer a 3-day and 7-day free trial, this allows you to try everything out before deciding.
Mary Butler
May 11, 2025
I have just been charged for a second year subscription when I had cancelled. Be careful with this site. It doesn't let you remove credit vard details...and clearly doesn't honour the unsubscribe button...... update 10/5/25..I have still been unable to unsubscribe after multiple attempts. NEVER pay for this app. totally unethical. de Botton should be ashamed
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The School of Life UK
June 2, 2025
Hi Mary, we’re so sorry for the upset and confusion this has caused. Your subscription was cancelled in January, and we confirmed this in a follow-up on 12 May. We completely understand how frustrating this must have felt, and if anything is still unclear, our support team is here to help at [email protected].
Chris Wright
April 9, 2024
I've paid £30 for this app for a year and don't regret it. There's a lot of quality content covering a wide range of topics: mostly written, some in the form of short videos/spoken monologues. The quality of the writing is high and, whilst not everything is relevant to me, I'm finding the material helpful, challenging in places, and enlightening.
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The School of Life UK
May 14, 2024
Thank you so much for your review Chris :)