Wysa teaches skills in a chat. CalmSpace talks with you out loud.

What is Wysa, and what is CalmSpace?

Wysa describes its app as "an interactive AI-powered space to explore thoughts and feelings, and learn skills and techniques to help manage emotional wellbeing", with tools designed by its clinical team. Its FAQ says those tools are based on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focussed Therapy and mindfulness. Wysa also sells to employers, insurers and health services, and many people get it through one of them.

CalmSpace.ai is a calm app for iPhone, Apple Watch and the web with Bliss, a voice companion who remembers you. You talk to her out loud or type. She is the voice companion in CalmSpace.ai, not a therapist and not a medical service, and she does not teach a clinical method.

How do CalmSpace and Wysa compare?

	CalmSpace.ai	Wysa
How you talk	By voice (Bliss answers out loud) or by typing	By typing; you can tap a message to hear it read aloud (App Store release notes)
Approach	A companion for everyday calm; no clinical method	Skills from CBT, Solution Focussed Therapy and mindfulness, designed by its clinical team
Memory	"What Bliss remembers": see, pin, correct, mute or delete; "Forget everything"	Has a "Memory" feature, described in a separate notice linked from its FAQ
Human support	None; Bliss points you to real help when it matters	Human coaching (audio-video or text), in some locations, at extra cost
Calm and sleep content	Breathing (alone or with up to 6 people), sleep stories and sounds, meditations, yoga, journal	A "care library" of evidence-based exercises
Where it runs	iPhone, Apple Watch, and the web (any browser). No Android app.	Android, iOS and the web; the App Store also lists Mac
Price	Free (10 minutes of voice a day); Premium USD 12.99 a month or 59.99 a year, 14-day trial	Talking to Wysa is free; Premium and coaching are paid in-app (the App Store lists several plans)
Crisis	Crisis lines for your country; not an emergency service	Its site says Wysa is "not designed to assist with crises" and points to your country's hotline

What does Wysa do better?

• Structured skills. If you want to learn and practise CBT-style techniques step by step, Wysa is built around that, and its exercises are written by its clinical team.
• Research. Wysa publishes peer-reviewed research on its app. CalmSpace makes no clinical claims.
• A human when you want one. Wysa offers paid coaching with a person. CalmSpace has no human coaches.
• Anonymity and reach. Wysa says it does not ask for your personal data, and it runs on Android as well as iPhone and the web.
• Through your employer or health service. If your employer, insurer or health service offers Wysa, the Premium version may cost you nothing.

What does CalmSpace do differently?

• A voice, not a text box. Tap and speak, and Bliss answers out loud. At 2am, saying a worry is often easier than typing it.
• She remembers, and you can see it. Bliss remembers what matters to you, and you can read, correct or delete every memory.
• Calm you can share. Breathe together with up to 6 people from one link, guided by Bliss's voice on every device. Send a short voice note of kind words, recorded in her voice.
• Sleep. Sleep stories, 25 sleep sounds and 10 mixes, and a gentle morning alarm.
• Apple Watch. Breathing paced by your heart rate, and, if you turn it on, Bliss can tell whether your heart rate is settling while you talk.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Wysa if you want structured self-help skills, the option of a human coach, or if your employer or health service already provides it.

Pick CalmSpace.ai if you want to talk things through out loud with a companion who remembers you, and to breathe, wind down and sleep in the same app. Neither replaces care from a professional.

Where do these facts come from?

Wysa's details come only from its own pages, checked October 2026: wysa.com, the Wysa FAQ and Wysa on the App Store. Where their pages do not say something, we leave it out. Prices and features change; check their pages before you buy. CalmSpace's details are from the app as of version 1.11.0, October 2026.

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