The School of Life

The School of Life UK

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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”

Ratings and reviews

I love it. The level of insight school of life brings to viewers is appreciated, and it's nice to know people have somewhere to go when desiring answers. My most crucial complaint is the subscription barrier. I understand the need to have some form of income flowing. Nothing is free, after all. But others, including myself, struggle maintaining routines while on a journey of self-help. Spending money on something you don't know you can commit to is deterring. Maybe consider a free trial or ads?

Good content, but I was disappointed to find that most articles are not available for audio consumption. I listen to audiobooks or podcasts (or The Economist) while driving, or while working out, and The School of Life articles would be perfect to integrate in these situations. If all the content was available to listen to (with a playback speed setting) as well as to read, I would resubscribe to this app in a heartbeat.

Given how much I love The School of Life, it almost feels wrong to be critical of the app, but I believe it makes one critical mistakes in term of presenting subscription-locked content. It is only when you have committed time to set up your app, stated your preferences, browsed through the categories, and clicked on an appetinzing article that you are faced with the fact that essentially all the content is behind the paywall. Really they should be more up front about this.