Youper

If you're reading this because Youper is still on your phone, stop reading and go export. The service discontinued on September 30, 2026, and Youper's own notice says remaining user data is deleted from October 1. There is no migration path, no successor product, and no reason to wait — Settings, then "Request my data" was the documented route. What Youper did well is worth naming, because it shapes what to look for next. Mood logging happened through conversation instead of checkboxes, and the app maintained a written suicide and self-harm prevention protocol: distress detection, a refusal to generate content that reinforces self-harm, and hard-coded referral to 988 and the Crisis Text Line. Few consumer mood apps document their crisis routing that explicitly. What it never did is equally important. Youper was not a crisis service, not a medical device, and not FDA-cleared or approved. All responses were AI-generated with no licensed clinician review. If those boundaries sound like dealbreakers, they should — Youper was a reflection tool, not treatment. For replacements, match the job, not the branding. Want fast, low-friction daily logging that persists for years? Daylio and Stoic both do that and are still operating. Want structured CBT-style exercises? Look for tools that name a clinical framework and a real clinician on staff. Want talk therapy? A chatbot is the wrong category entirely, whatever its onboarding claims. In practice, the people hurt most here are long-tenured users with a multi-year journal they never exported. Conversational interfaces feel ephemeral, so it's easy to forget you're accumulating a data asset you'll want later. That's the lesson to carry to whatever you pick next: check whether your journal exports in a readable format before you