Emotional support for people living with a long-term condition
- 12-week programme
- Developed with King’s College London
- Just 10 minutes a week
Is Orbi for you?
If any of this sounds familiar, Orbi was made for you.
Orbi supports people with a wide range of long-term health conditions.
What Orbi users say
“It did make me really think about how I was feeling. I really liked the way that it made me think about, is this a thought? Is this thought linked to your mood? Because sometimes you think you’re doing okay and then you realise actually you’re not.”
“The Orbi app is a game changer. We’ve never had anything like this at all. I was using it every day, and I loved the meditations and the stories because I could actually relate to them and try the strategies myself — and they worked.”
10 minutes a week. 12 weeks. Real tools for real life.
Download Orbi
Get the app and sign up in under a minute.
Tell us what feels hardest
Start with Getting Started, then complete Map My LTC to build your personal model.
One short topic a week
13 topics across 12 weeks, each with short audio sessions you can do anywhere.
See how far you’ve come
Follow your progress, and come back to the tools whenever you need them.
See what Orbi can do
Short check-ins, steady progress and gentle prompts, all in your pocket.
Built on research, not guesswork
Orbi is based on rigorous research at King’s College London into the emotional side of living with a long-term condition.
Professor Rona Moss-Morris
Professor of Psychology as Applied to Medicine, King’s College London
Professor Moss-Morris is an internationally recognised leader in health psychology whose research has transformed our understanding of how people adapt to long-term conditions. Her work has informed psychological interventions used internationally, including COMPASS.
Dr. Joanna Hudson
Research Associate, King’s College London
Dr. Joanna Hudson develops, tests and implements digital psychological therapies for people experiencing anxiety and depression alongside physical long-term conditions. She is passionate about translating research into routine clinical care and evaluating how evidence-based interventions can improve everyday support for people living with long-term conditions.
Orbi adapts approaches tested in the COMPASS Programme.
One price. No subscription.
Most apps lock you into a subscription that renews automatically. Orbi doesn’t. You pay once, and if you want another year, you choose to buy again.
- ✓12 months of full access to Orbi
- ✓All 13 topics and audio sessions
- ✓No auto-renew. We’ll never charge you again without asking.
Questions people ask
No. Orbi is a self-guided emotional support programme. It uses approaches developed by psychologists at King’s College London, but it doesn’t replace care from your GP, specialist or a therapist. If you’re struggling, please speak to a healthcare professional.
Orbi is designed for adults living with a long-term health condition, such as hypertension, COPD, diabetes, chronic fatigue, cancer, generalised pain, IBS, fibromyalgia and more. The tools focus on the shared challenges of living with a condition, so they work across many diagnoses.
About 10 minutes a week. There are 13 topics over 12 weeks, and you can go at your own pace.
That’s fine. Pick up where you left off whenever you’re ready.
£1.99 for 12 months of access, paid once through the App Store or Google Play.
No. Orbi doesn’t auto-renew. After 12 months your access ends, and you can choose to buy again if you want to continue.
Your access ends. You keep everything you’ve learned, and you can buy another 12 months at any time.
Your data is used to run the programme and personalise your path. We don’t sell your data.
Yes. Orbi follows UK GDPR.
Work with a charity, pharmacy, clinic or patient community? Let’s bring Orbi to the people you support.
Work with usOrbi in a nutshell
Orbi is an emotional support app for adults living with a long-term condition such as diabetes, arthritis or MS.
- What it helps with
- The worry, stress, low mood and loss of confidence that often come with a long-term condition.
- Based on
- COMPASS, created at King’s College London with King’s Health Partners and partly funded by the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre. Developed by Avegen Limited under licence.
- Cost
- £1.99 for 12 months of access, paid once through the App Store or Google Play. It doesn’t auto-renew.
