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Guides8 min read

The Best Apps for Social Anxiety in 2026

Social anxiety disorder affects an estimated 12.1% of U.S. adults at some point in their lives, making it the most common anxiety disorder after specific phobias. The apps claiming to help have multiplied just as fast — but most were built for presentation polish, not for the specific experience of dreading a conversation.

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Science7 min read

How to Practice Conversations When You Have Social Anxiety

The advice people with social anxiety hear most often is some version of "just put yourself out there." It's not wrong, exactly, but it's incomplete in ways that matter. Not all exposure is therapeutic — and the difference determines whether you make progress or entrench the anxiety further.

June 5, 2026
Guides6 min read

Convo vs. Wellspoken: Which AI App Is Right for You?

Both Convo and Wellspoken use AI to help you get better at talking. Both give you a score after each session. Both have iOS apps with subscription pricing. The similarity ends there — because they're solving different problems, and which one is right for you depends entirely on which problem you have.

June 4, 2026
Science5 min read

Why talking out loud is the only way to build real confidence

Most people try to get better at social situations by thinking about them. They rehearse scripts in their head, they read books on body language, they watch YouTube videos. None of it transfers. Here's why.

June 3, 2026
Guides7 min read

The 5 social situations that make people most anxious

Social anxiety doesn't hit evenly. Most people are fine one-on-one with someone they know but fall apart in specific situations. These are the five that come up most — and how to practice your way through them.

May 28, 2026
Product4 min read

What the Convo Index actually measures

When you finish a session in Convo, you get a score between 0 and 1000. It's called your Convo Index. But what does it actually measure? And should you care?

May 15, 2026
Habits5 min read

How 10 minutes of practice a day changes how you show up

The daily warmup in Convo takes about 60 seconds to 3 minutes. It feels too small to matter. Users who do it every day see results that feel disproportionately large. Here's why that's not surprising.

May 5, 2026