Curable Arvostelua 

This app's claim to manage and reduce pain feels like snake oil.

Curable touts itself as a way to manage and reduce chronic pain. It uses a psychological approaches to supposedly address the underlying cause (or fuel) for long-term pain: stuff like depression, anxiety and fear of the pain itself, or hyper-vigilance from things like violent trauma.

Curable's methods aren't doing it for me. My pain has not changed during six months of using the app. I've been meditating, learning, writing. The app says these "exercises" will re-train my brain to stop hyper-fixating on the pain, which only makes pain worse. But the techniques the app uses are what I'd call abstract and not helpful in any way. I'm frequently asked to picture myself in "stress free" places like the beach. Or to write a letter to someone I've been made at for a long time, but not to mail it. It's meant to be a therapeutic kind of letting go. It wasn't a terrible thing to do, but I also don't feel like it did anything to help me reduce my fibromyalgia and joint pains.

Curable claims many people find relief in 6 to 9 weeks. I'm now into 6 months of doing these things, and I don't feel any mentally or physically different. If I had known this app was going to be alot of deep breathing and mediation, I could have found a free app for that.

Curable just isn't working for me. My pain has not improved at all over 4 months of use. They say don't expect pain while you use the app, because if pain relief is your goal then it won't work. Except the app is FOR pain relief, which is what I'm hoping and paying for. {$100 for the year during a "half off" special."} While I don't expect pain relief miracles after a few months, I feel like I have NO tangible tools or new skills to even manage or slightly reduce my chronic pain.

I've been doing one of their exercises daily, repeating alot of them (as directed.) There are 4 categories: Meditation, Education, Brain Training, and Writing. The Education sessions are decent. They explain how different factors (anxiety, trauma, PERFECTIONISM or workaholic issues) can contribute to chronic pain. But everything else has been absolutely no help to me.

The Meditations are useless, IMO. And they make up a huge chunk of how Curable works. A recent example had the title "Identity Mediation." The intro to the exercise referenced how chronic pain can impact or take over many/all aspects of your life: ability to work, socializing with family and friends, sleeping, finances/paying for Dr appts.) Sounds like a great topic, right? It's very relevant for me. But... the mediation then focused on visualizing myself as a tree. It tells me to just put all these pain problems to the side. Imagine having deep roots. Let all my problems just pass by , like clouds. Lots of silence in the session to think about... being a tree?

If I could just imagine all my pain and problems away, I wouldn't be using Curable. If it were that easy, I'd have no use for the app. But I'm here, and visualizing myself as a tree isn't providing me with any real resources. Previous Meditation exercises have had me visualizing myself on a beach, relaxing to the smells, sounds and sights. Or visualizing myself in a big control room with knobs and levers, where I can just turn down the pain with the controls inside the big room.

None of it has helped. I need real solutions here. Tips and resources for stress management, resolving anger about how pain has robbed me of a full life, recommendations for times when I'm anxious about high levels of pain and flare ups. They mention all of these under Education. In 4 months I've found no suggested solutions.

This isn't worth the $100. The money would be better spent with a real, live session with a human being like a therapist or a health coach. There is a whole library of recordings with therapists and doctors giving talks, offering advice, providing information. But you have to *pay EXTRA for those. A bunch of stuff inside Curable is behind yet another (internal) pay wall.

My advice on Curable: don't waste your time or money. I'm stuck with the bill for the entire year. I plan to cancel a month before renewal. I hope I don't have any problems with that. I refuse to waste any more money.

Do not get involved with this company. I had signed up for one of their special deals but canceled a few days later. The agent assured me it was available for the month I had paid for and I would not be charged again. Surprise surprise June 18 I get a charge for 206.94 for an unauthorized renewal. I am livid as I’m trying to get a full refund. It’s a fight with my credit card company and Curable. DISHONEST COMPANY.

I found this app an excellent tool in my recovery. Easy to use, neuroscience explained in simple terms, backed by research, you can find whole new community who goes through similar situations like you, very very supportive in journey of healing. Explains how pain gets you in a vicious cycle of experiencing more pain if you don't retrain your brain and get stuck in a fear mode. Compared to other programs helping with chronic pain/ME/CFS I found this the cheapest and I'm very happy with resources which are available at the touch your hand.

I tried ot 3 times and it was not useful. I thought I would have a monthly cancellation option, but they automatically charged me for the year. It seems to be a Money-grab to get you to try it and then not give you your money back. The app set up is hard to find the cancellation process.

Finger weg von diesen Betrüger!!!
Mir wurden von meiner Kreditkarte 82,87 Euro abgebucht, obwohl ich weder diese Company, wenn man sie noch so bezeichnen darf, gekannt, noch ihre Website besucht habe.
Ich kontaktierte sofort meine Bank und leitete eine Reklamation ein. Die Bank antwortete mir, dass zuvor eine Abbuchung von 0,00 Euro stattgefunden war und weil ich nicht reagiert habe, wurde ein Abonniment gestartet. Diese Abbuchung von 0,00 Euro habe ich leider nicht mitbekommen.
Also, Vorsicht geboten!

I thought I canceled the app - when I hadn't used it in 1.5 years. I got an auto renewal charge and contacted them and they refused to credit my account for 144.00. :(

Rubbish. Difficult to navigate; not helpful generic-generated info. Auto bills you and can't get a refund.

Curable changed the Privacy Policy, which now says they can disclose ALL of your personal information—including your sensitive medical condition information—to anyone they like for "scientific or other research." Curable has not responded to any requests for support with this egregious bait-and-switch within their stated response SLA.

Update: Curable did eventually revert back after almost a week providing the requested prorated refund. Upgrading review from 1 to 3 stars.

Signed up for the free trial and learned--YEARS later--that I was being charged annually. The renewal email told me to check my subscriptions on my apple phone. It did not appear in my subscriptions. I asked for a refund and was told "no," but that I should make good use of the app until my cancellation kicks in. This is a SCAM.

As others have said, they don't care about people's health, just about making money. I signed up once for a free trial and then decided not to use the app, now three years later find out they have been taking a subscription from me all that time - when I asked for a refund they said 'sorry but good luck with your healing journey'!! I received one email from them about the subscription renewal, never a receipt or any other communication for three years, and I don't even have the app on my phone. Not an ethical company.

Jake was so understanding and listen to what I wanted

I signed up for the free introductory offer and maybe opened it once or twice, never really using it. I just discovered they renewed it four times at a cost of $99 for each period of three months (which is ridiculously high, particularly considering there are many free meditation apps). I contacted their customer service and was told they'd refund two of those, but not the other two since I'd opened the app. I reported this to the Better Business Bureau and then got back to the company to say they're required by their state law o notify a customer about the renewal. I'm not sure, but it's also possible they need a signature to go ahead and renew. I've now gotten the refund but I don't respect their business practices.

I gave this a go for many months and like the philosophy behind the app. Found the app itself difficult to navigate, specifically the bot who choses your path for you. I would have liked to see all options presented by topic and been able to chose the assignment that I believed was best for me. Unfortunately the app doesn't work that way. The thing that has helped me the most in coping w my pain and anxiety is renewing my relationship with God (His love for me and His desire to help me in all aspects of my life). Nothing has been more freeing and made my life more joyful than that! I wish all of you struggling to cope with or alleviate pain that you find the path that works for you. This life can be difficult and life with pain more so.

Absolutely the worst app ever. Steer clear, it's nothing but a scam. They make it virtually impossible to cancel the subscription, don't have any customer service and ignore complaints. My girlfriend tried to cancel this two years ago, didn't work, got charged for the app even though she hadn't used for months. Just now got another email saying they were going to renew the subscription! It's unbelievable. The whole experience really upset my girlfriend and cost her a lot of money. It doesn't help with pain, it just creates more pain in your life and lines the pockets of the people who run the scam. AVOID!

Charged me $71.88 out of the blue. I was supposed to get a month for free. This is no where NEAR the price of a subscription ($11 a month). Insane. Calling my bank on Monday to report fraud.

This app is terrible. I have a very similar condition to MS. And so, I was desperate for help and healing. After seeing the conventional medical doctors, I was even more hopeless and vulnerable me and my family wanted me to get better more than anything else.

So then, I found this app “curable”. The website is very good at marketing it as being “proven” and having good results. And they have all these doctors who have studied the mind-body connection.

I initially had a year subscription, and I had not seen any result at all with an improvement in my symptoms. I should have cancelled the subscription altogether.

But instead, I was so desperate and still sold on the “hope” that Curable sells you. Like a lot of cults, they sell you on “hope.” I thought I wasn’t trying hard enough and needed to continue doing mediations, so I got the lifetime subscription. Now, I regret that purchase, but at that time, I was still sold on hope.

The app Curable was created at a very low consciousness. Their understanding of Pain, energy, and Spirit is low. These doctors don’t understand what they are trying to convince you is the way to heal themselves. They are stuck in their intellect and have podcasts where they give you information that is apparently meant to “cure” you.

Their understanding of “healing” is low. It uses a lot of psychology, and some mediations talk about emotions and energy, but the perspective is still limited. It only touches the surface. I am pretty sure the left-brain doctors making the podcasts need to heal first before they should intellectualise and tell others what healing is.

So, I am at the point now where I have this lifetime subscription to this app, but I have no desire or need to use it. The money has been spent. But I do warn other members before joining that they don’t just spend money straight away and fall for the clever marketing.

I hope they don't charge me automatically for a 2nd year. Just read this has been a problem for some on here. I found some of their approaches harsh. When you've been in a lot of pain for years, a program needs to boost your self-confidence that you can heal. That needs to be done in a nurturing and hopeful way. Not tell you that if you think you are doomed to suffer for the rest of your life, then this program (or "I) cannot help you. Such a total turn off and a lot of pressure. Not going to do this program now at all.

The app treatments are valuable but they kept charging me a year after trying to cancel. They don’t answer emails and even when you cancel the app they keep charging. They never respond to put it right.

Actually, despite the negative reviews, when my account was charged for a renewal I messaged their customer support and charges were canceled instantly. In this day and age of scammers trying to squeeze every dollar from you and sign you up for hidden offers, this was such a wonderful experience that I would definitely sign up again if I felt the need.