No. Walking is one option among many. Most people use it driving or commuting. It also works fine at the sink, folding laundry, or waiting in the pickup line.

Socrates is built hands-free and will never ask you to look at your screen. Set it up before you pull out, keep your eyes on the road, and just talk. Anything you need to save comes at the end, once you’re parked.

As long as you have. A quick one runs five minutes. A full one runs the length of a commute.

Nothing. Socrates is free while we’re in beta, with no end date set and no card required. You’ll need your own Claude account, which has a free tier.

Pricing hasn’t been set yet. But everyone who joins as a beta tester gets a full year free from the day we launch — whatever we end up charging. Join now and that’s locked in for you.

About five minutes, one time. After that you open it and say “Hey Socrates.”

Hey Socrates runs on Claude. It’s a carefully written set of instructions you paste into your own Claude project once. From then on, you open that project, say “Hey Socrates,” and he takes it from there — on your phone, in the car with voice mode on, or at your desk.

Nobody but you. Your sessions live in your own Socrates project, inside your own Claude account. Dr. Belton has no access to them — she can’t read them, and she never receives them. Nothing you say becomes a clinical record.

Deleting is yours to do too: remove a single session or the whole project from your account whenever you want. How your account handles your data is covered by Anthropic’s privacy policy.

Two things. First, an ordinary platform never gets better for you — it’s the same on day one and day one hundred. Socrates compounds: it knows you a little more every week, so the help gets sharper the longer you use it.

Second, there’s nothing to study. You don’t learn a platform or figure out the right way to ask — you just talk, and you get the help you need. The structure does the rest: one question at a time, a specific ending, and continuity between sessions. Most people who try both notice the difference in the first ten minutes.

No. Socrates is a thinking tool. It is not therapy, not treatment, and not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. Dr. Belton built it, but using it does not make her your psychologist and nothing you say is a clinical record.

If you’re in crisis or dealing with something that needs real clinical support, please reach out to a professional or, in the US, call or text 988.

Socrates is built to notice. If what you say crosses a line — talk of hurting yourself, being in danger, or using him in place of care you actually need — he drops the session format, says so plainly, points you to a person and to 988, and stays with you. He won’t interrogate you, and he won’t pretend to be a clinician. He’s a thinking partner, and part of being one is knowing when the moment needs someone else.