Free browser-based ACT exercises developed by Fergus Kane, building on a different project which is not quite ready for release. No account, payment, or installation needed; they are designed for use ion desktop or tablets, but also mostly work on phone. They can be used alone or in session.
Each of the tools has been carefully designed so it provides only psychoeducation and places to reflect, rather than tailored advice. This keeps the tools away from being 'medical devices' - they are mostly just interactive versions of what could be a worksheet.
Psychmap.app/tools is a broader library, which includes CBT and psychoeducation tools (thinking traps, responsibility pie chart, stress bucket, emotion wheel, the fight-or-flight response) and breathing and grounding exercises.
Philosophy behind the tools.
-To make tools which are both helpful but also not 'compelling' in that they don't unnecessarily draw the user back to them and the devices they run on.
-To make them freely available. After all, they are mostly adaptations of other people's ideas.
-To make them available worldwide and with translations. The idea was to provide free tools that could be used by anyone and which include machine translations, so that they are also available to non-English speakers. The tools library has, as a work in progress, the ability for human reviewers to double check the machine translation.
-To keep any confidential data on the user's device, rather than on the cloud. This has some usability tradeoffs, but it's the approach for now.
Use of AI/Large Language Models: The tools have been built on an initial human-made codebase, but have since mostly been written using Anthropic's Claude Code.
The ACT tools have mostly been adapted from existing tools developed by the ACT community. These currently include:
- Values Card Sort — sort a deck of values cards into Not important / Important / Very important, then narrow them down to a small set of core values. Card decks adapted from Miller, C'de Baca, Matthews & Wilbourne's Personal Values Card Sort (2001), Russ Harris's Values Checklist (2010), and Schwartz's basic values (2012).
- Values Bullseye — mark on a bullseye how closely you are living by your values in different areas of life, then choose a next step. Adapted from Lundgren and Dahl's Bull's-Eye Values Survey.
- Defusion Techniques — a short walkthrough of fusion and defusion, followed by a reference deck of defusion techniques. Adapted from classic exercises in the ACT literature (e.g. Hayes, Strosahl & Wilson; Russ Harris).
- ACT Matrix. from Kevin Polk's original idea and design. This one is not quite ready for release, but I'll make it available soon.
In terms of data, no confidential user data is sent to a server: work is stored in the browser only and can be saved to a file on the user's own device. The interface can be displayed in other languages. The tools' about page provides more info on data processing.