I’ve been interested in AI hypnosis for years now, so when I noticed Hypnothera sitting at the top of Google’s search results, I knew I had to try it properly. The promise of AI-generated personalised hypnotherapy is genuinely exciting to me, and any platform pushing that forward deserves attention.
I went in hoping to find something impressive, a polished experience that would validate everything I believe about the future of personalised mental wellness.
What I found instead left me genuinely disappointed.
First Impressions and Getting Started
The Hypnothera website looks fine at first glance — dark theme, purple accents, the kind of aesthetic you’d expect from a wellness app in 2026. But within the first few minutes of trying to use it, cracks started to show.
I clicked “Sign in with Google” expecting the standard experience every modern web app provides, and instead got redirected to a localhost address. For non-developers, that means the login system was pointing to a development environment rather than their actual website. This is a fundamental configuration error, the kind of thing that should be caught before any public launch, let alone on a platform that claims to have over 10,000 users on their premium tier.
I eventually got in through email signup, but my confidence was already shaken.
Things didn’t improve when I looked into their mobile app situation. Hypnothera has an iOS app, but the listing itself contains a warning telling you the app is “extremely buggy” before you even download it. Their own team is preemptively apologising for the experience you’re about to have.
The app has only a handful of reviews, which made those “10,000+ users” statistics feel increasingly questionable. There’s no Android app either — just a “coming soon” note that’s been there for a while now, which is frustrating given how much of the world uses Android.
What Hypnothera Actually Offers
To be fair, I want to acknowledge what Hypnothera gets right. The core technology is genuine AI generation, not just a library of pre-recorded sessions dressed up with fancy marketing. You type in what you want help with — anxiety about an upcoming presentation, trouble sleeping, building confidence for a new role — and the system actually creates a custom hypnosis script for that specific request.
This is the right approach, and it’s worth giving them credit for building real AI generation rather than just curating a library.
They offer multiple voices, variable session lengths from quick 5-minute check-ins to longer 60+ minute deep work sessions, and the ability to describe your situation in natural language. The fundamental building blocks are present.
Where things fall apart is in everything surrounding that core technology — the pricing, the polish, the feedback mechanisms, and the overall experience of actually using the platform day to day.
The Pricing Problem
Hypnothera uses a credit-based system that, frankly, makes very little sense the more you examine it. Their Basic tier costs $15 per month and gives you around 3 personalised sessions of up to 30 minutes each. Their Premium tier jumps to $30 per month for around 5 sessions. And their Ultimate tier? A staggering $70 per month for just 6 sessions, plus access to adult content.
Let’s pause on that pricing structure for a moment.
If I’m paying $15 for 3 sessions at Basic, then logically $30 should give me 6 sessions. Instead, Premium gives you 5. Which means if you made two separate $15 Basic accounts, you’d pay the same $30 but get 6 sessions instead of 5 — more than the tier that costs the same but is supposed to be an upgrade. The mathematics actively punish you for loyalty.
The Ultimate tier is even stranger. You’re paying an additional $40 monthly over Premium, but you only get one extra session. That’s $40 for a single additional session per month, plus some adult content features that most users probably don’t need. We’re talking over $10 per session at the top tier, for AI-generated audio that costs nowhere near that to produce.
For comparison, InTheMoment offers a genuinely free tier where you can create 2 new sessions per day, with sessions saved for 60 days that you can replay unlimited times. That’s 60 sessions a month at zero cost.
Their Pro tier at £4.99 per month gives you 5 new sessions daily, sessions up to 45 minutes, follow-up sessions that build on previous work, custom technique selection, offline downloads, and access to all playlist lessons. The value proposition is night and day.
Audio Quality and Technical Polish
I listened to several Hypnothera demo sessions to evaluate the voice quality, and there’s a noticeable artifact at the end of many sentences — a kind of digital clicking or cutting sound that tells you something isn’t quite right with how the text-to-speech engine handles sentence boundaries.
In most contexts, this might be a minor annoyance. In hypnosis, where the entire point is guiding you into a deeply relaxed, focused state, these little glitches are more than aesthetic issues — they actively break the experience and remind you that you’re listening to synthesised speech.
The technical stability issues extend beyond just audio. The OAuth configuration problems I mentioned, the iOS app bugs that the developers themselves warn you about, the missing Android support — these aren’t edge cases or minor inconveniences.
They’re symptoms of a platform that feels rushed to market before it was ready. When you’re asking people to close their eyes, relax deeply, and trust that the audio will guide them into a vulnerable mental state, that trust needs to be earned through polish and reliability.
The Missing Feedback Loop
What surprised me most about Hypnothera was the complete absence of any feedback mechanism. You describe what you want, the system generates a session, you listen to it, and then… nothing.
There’s no way to rate whether the session actually helped. No ability to provide notes on what worked and what didn’t. No system for the AI to learn from your responses and improve over time.
They call it “personalised” hypnotherapy, but true personalisation requires iteration. It requires knowing what worked last time and adjusting accordingly. Without feedback, what you actually have is one-time customisation — the AI generates something based on your initial input, but it never gets any smarter about what specifically helps you as an individual.
InTheMoment handles this differently, with pre-session check-ins that capture not just your goals but your current emotional state, your environment, what’s been happening in your life. Post-session feedback lets you rate the experience and provide verbal notes on what could be improved.
That information feeds back into future sessions. Your practice actually evolves based on what helps you, rather than staying static.
Limited Customisation Options
The only way to customise your Hypnothera experience is through a text prompt. You describe what you want, and the AI interprets that however it sees fit. There’s no control over which hypnotic techniques get used, no ability to toggle specific approaches on or off based on what you respond to.
This matters because different people respond to different techniques.
Some find visualisation incredibly powerful — imagining a peaceful place, mental rehearsal of future success. Others find direct suggestion more effective, or progressive relaxation, or certain types of breathing guidance. Without the ability to shape these choices, you’re left hoping the AI guesses correctly about what will work for you.
InTheMoment offers technique customisation so you can enable or disable individual approaches based on your preferences. There are also structured playlists that function like courses, building skills progressively across multiple sessions while staying personalised to your unique situation.
Follow-up sessions can continue where previous ones left off rather than starting fresh every time. These aren’t just nice-to-have features; they’re fundamental to making AI hypnosis actually work for someone’s long-term growth.
The Free Tier Reality
Hypnothera’s free tier offers “quick hypnosis” sessions lasting between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, plus a small number of credits to try personalised generation.
Thirty seconds. You can barely close your eyes and take a few deep breaths in thirty seconds, let alone experience anything resembling a hypnotic state.
It’s enough to get a taste of the technology, but it’s not enough to actually evaluate whether regular hypnosis practice would help you. It’s a demo, not a genuine free offering. And when the paid tiers are priced the way they are, that feels particularly constraining.
InTheMoment’s free tier lets you create 2 full sessions per day, up to 20 minutes each. Your sessions are saved for 60 days and can be replayed unlimited times. You get access to lesson playlists that guide you through skills progressively.
I’ve seen users accumulate over 1,000 minutes of listening time without ever paying a penny, because the free tier is designed to be genuinely useful, not just a teaser for paid features.
What Good AI Hypnosis Looks Like
After testing Hypnothera, I found myself thinking about what actually matters in AI-generated hypnotherapy.
Session limits that you need to carefully ration work against the experimentation that makes personalisation valuable — some sessions won’t resonate, and that’s fine, but only if you can generate more without worrying about credits.
Pre-session context matters enormously, because a session for “I need to focus” when you’re anxious at your desk should be dramatically different from one when you’re calm at home.
Post-session feedback closes the loop and lets the system actually get smarter about helping you specifically. Technique customisation respects that you know your own mind better than any algorithm. And structured learning, through progressive playlists, helps you build skills over time rather than just addressing symptoms in isolation.
These aren’t features I’m describing in the abstract. They’re what InTheMoment offers: pre-session check-ins, post-session feedback, technique toggles, follow-up sessions, structured playlists, ambient music integration, high-quality voices, web and iOS and Android apps that actually work properly, and pricing that doesn’t require you to budget which days of the month you’re allowed to practice hypnosis.
Final Thoughts
I wanted to be impressed by Hypnothera. I genuinely did. A strong competitor pushing AI hypnosis forward would validate the entire space and prove that there’s real demand for personalised mental wellness tools.
But the reality is a platform that feels unfinished — login systems that don’t work, mobile apps that come with bug warnings, pricing that makes no mathematical sense, audio with noticeable artifacts, and a complete absence of the feedback mechanisms that make “personalised” more than just a marketing term.
The core idea is right. AI-generated hypnotherapy tailored to individual needs is genuinely the future. But execution matters, and Hypnothera’s execution has significant gaps.
Maybe they’ll improve. I hope they do. For now though, if you’re interested in AI hypnosis, I’d suggest trying something that actually works as advertised.
InTheMoment offers AI hypnosis and meditation with pre-session check-ins, post-session feedback, technique customisation, and structured playlists. The free tier gives you 2 sessions daily — start here to see the difference.