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Learn proven strategies to feel connected, confident, and thrive socially. Developed by psychologists.
Feeling invisible in a crowded room? Struggling to connect, even when surrounded by people?
The longer it lasts, the harder it feels to break the cycle.
The good news? Loneliness isn’t weakness or shameful. It’s your body’s signal - just like thirst or hunger - telling you to take action. Ignore it, and the pain only grows. Listen to it, and you can restore the connection your mind and body crave.
Just 3–5 minutes a day: The platoniq app breaks down the complex psychological mechanisms behind friendships into simple, relatable lessons.
Struggling to understand your loneliness? Our app reveals hidden patterns holding you back and helps break through them.
Social challenges transform insights into action. Practice in small steps to build confidence and authentic connections.
Relationships grow like plants. Each gesture grows your digital friendship plant, visualizing your efforts and celebrating your social progress.
"Truly useful! The app helps me reflect on my social behavior and steer it in a more positive direction. Great idea and well-executed :)"
"A really good app for better understanding and reflecting on your social relationships. The individual learning content encourages you to think more deeply about your own social skills and encourages you to enter into new relationships or to maintain existing ones if they are beneficial to you. [...]"
"Great app, does a good job. My relationship garden keeps growing and growing :), the learning units are excellent, and the feedback on how good certain contacts are creates awareness."
We combine CBT, daily micro-lessons and real-life challenges to break the loneliness cycle.
Understand why social connections are essential for your wellbeing and how they help you manage stress. Discover which values matter most to you in relationships and how many connections you truly need to feel fulfilled.
Learn to take the first step and use everyday situations to make new connections. Through practical exercises, you'll overcome shyness, master small talk, and handle potential rejection constructively.
Real connection happens when you show who you are. This module builds your confidence, challenges limiting beliefs, and helps you create closeness through openness.
Develop the art of true listening and learn how appreciation and support build deeper connections. Discover what keeps relationships balanced and how to actively fill your 'relationship account.
Conflicts are part of every relationship. What matters is how you handle them. This module helps you stay calm, communicate clearly, and turn conflict into deeper connection.
Learn to say no lovingly and honor your own needs without offending others. Strengthen your self-worth and find a healthy approach to being alone.
Imagine feeling truly seen and having people who’ve got your back.
As a Ph.D. psychologist and scientist (Oxford university, HU Berlin, FU Berlin), Silvan develops the scientific foundation of platoniq. He ensures every method is evidence-based and effective. His vision: taking social health as seriously as physical and mental health.
With a background in Industrial Engineering (TU Berlin) and three years of strategy consulting experience at Siemens, Lara ensures platoniq grows sustainably. What matters most to her is developing a product that truly makes a difference in our users' lives.
Daniel holds a degree in computer science (HPI, FU Berlin). As our Tech Lead, he’s passionate about ensuring you have a seamless app experience while taking the utmost care to keep your data safe and secure at all times.
Curious but not quite sure yet? Here's the fine print.
Loneliness isn’t just about lacking contact with others. It often stems from unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors.
Our app addresses this directly: it combines proven techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with science-based exercises that have been shown to reduce loneliness and strengthen your relationships.
You’ll learn how to build new friendships, deepen existing ones, reduce shyness and improve your social skills all in a practical, evidence-based way.
Yes, loneliness is a completely normal emotion that most people experience at some point in their lives. Among young adults, nearly one in two people report feeling lonely on a regular basis.
Wishing for new friendships or deeper connections doesn’t mean something is wrong. Just like hunger or fatigue, loneliness is a signal. It shows you need more social connection. And that’s something you can actively work on.
Loneliness can have many causes and often has little to do with the number of people around you. You can feel lonely even when you're surrounded by others, especially if you lack the feeling of being understood or emotionally connected.
platoniq helps you understand what exactly is triggering your loneliness and what you can do to change it.
Yes. Our app is grounded in clinical psychology and cognitive behavioral therapy. It was developed by our in-house team of psychologists in collaboration with established partners, including Humboldt University of Berlin.
platoniq.health is co-funded by the State of Berlin and the European Union, ensuring our content and tools are not only evidence-based, but truly effective.
We want you to feel comfortable with platoniq. If you realize the course isn’t right for you, you can request a full refund within 14 days.
No questions asked, no hard feelings.
No, platoniq is not a matching or meetup app. You won’t chat with strangers or join random group events. Instead, you’ll learn the real-life skills that help you connect more deeply with the people around you: friends, coworkers, or even someone new you meet offline.
Perfect! The course is designed especially for introverted and shy people. You’ll move at your own pace, and the challenges are crafted to gently guide you out of your comfort zone without ever overwhelming you.
Loneliness can impact both physical and mental health. Studies show that it can increase the risk of depression, anxiety disorders, sleep problems, and even cardiovascular disease.
That’s why it’s so important to take action. Our app helps you build healthy relationships, strengthen your social skills, and improve your overall well-being whether you're seeking new connections or looking to deepen the ones you already have.
Social competence is the ability to connect with others, build relationships, and navigate social situations effectively. It includes active listening, expressing yourself clearly, showing empathy, and setting boundaries.
The good news: social competence isn’t a fixed personality trait. It can be trained through structured exercises. These well-researched methods reduce social insecurity, and they help you make and maintain friendships.
Our platoniq app offers interactive exercises to help you strengthen your social skills step by step.
Making friends is challenging, especially if you've just moved to a new city or started a new job. From many conversations with users, we’ve seen that the real challenge isn’t making first contact, but turning it into a real friendship.
platoniq, our app against loneliness, supports you with exactly that. It helps you build new friendships, strengthen trust, and deepen social relationships step by step.
We’re here for you. Just send an email to kontakt@platoniq.health and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.