Virtual MotivAider:
The Behavior Prompting Tool

Turn Your iPhone Into a Behavior Changing Tool

Virtual MotivAider is designed to help users of all ages make desired changes in their own behavior and habits.

The app is intended to replicate much of the functionality of the MotivAider®, an ingeniously simple dedicated electronic device invented by a clinical psychologist. Since 1987, the MotivAider® device has helped thousands of people in over fifty countries make a wide range of desired behavioral changes.

Like the MotivAider device, Virtual MotivAider relies on a simple proven method for changing behavior and habits. It corrects for a largely overlooked glitch in the design of the human mind—the lack of a dependable mechanism for keeping good intentions on the front burner of your mind. By repeatedly sending you signals or prompts that remind and urge you to act in accord with any chosen behavioral objective or goal, the app prevents your good intentions from getting lost in the shuffle.

We developed Virtual MotivAider to allow smartphone users to experience some of the benefits of the MotivAider Method for changing behavior and habits. However, incorporating MotivAider functionality into a smartphone requires sacrificing some effectiveness for the sake of convenience and economy.

To achieve maximum effectiveness with the MotivAider Method, feeling, hearing or seeing the app's signal must make you nearly effortlessly think the personal message you've associated in advance with the signal. While the dedicated MotivAider produces a special high-wobble private vibration signal that's been proven to create the strongest possible association between the signal and any chosen behavioral objective, a smartphone is likely to be less effective in creating this association.

Easy to Use

To use the app, you first devise a brief personal message—a word, phrase or image—that serves as a trigger to remind and urge you to take a specific action required to achieve your goal.

Next, you simply associate your personal message with the app's signals or prompts, so that whenever you receive the prompt, you'll automatically think your personal message and be reminded and urged to take the desired action.

Then, you set the app to send you prompts—and therefore your personal message—as often as it takes to get the best possible results.

No Bells and Whistles to Distract You

By design, Virtual MotivAider is simple and straightforward. It's all business. It contains no extraneous fluff to distract you from its singular purpose, which is to keep your attention focused on making whatever change in behavior you decide to make.

You're in Control!

Virtual MotivAider lets you:

Although Virtual MotivAider allows you to create and save a number of behavior change projects, we strongly recommend that you work on only one project at a time. That's because we believe you'll get far better results if you do. Once you've made one desired change on your list, you can move on to the next project. There's no limit to the type or number of changes you can use virtual MotivAider to help you make.

Privacy: Virtual MotivAider® requires no internet connection and does not share any personal data.

Free Resources: Users of the app have access to the same free resources developed to help users of the dedicated MotivAider device achieve great results.

How to Get the App

Virtual MotivAider: The Behavior Prompting Tool is available at the Apple App Store

Click here if you have the previous iPhone app and need help.

Virtual MotivAider splash screenVirtual MotivAider project screen

Virtual MotivAider signal screenVirtual MotivAider session screen

Virtual MotivAider My Projects screenVirtual MotivAider status screen