Untwist your emotions.
Untwist your emotional pain with neuroscience. Pretzel is a small daily practice for the moments your mind twists itself up — notice where it went, remember who you are, and come back to the present. Created by psychotherapist Yisroel Roll.
Open Pretzel on the web Coming soon to the App Store
Available for Android testers on Google Play
The method
Pretzel is built on one simple observation about the mind — and one repeatable way back.
The only place you can actually make a decision is right now. The past is memory, the future is prediction. Pretzel calls the present your Bandwidth — the zone of choice — and most of us spend the day sliding out of it without noticing.
That's not weakness — it's wiring. Every time a trigger has sent you down the anxiety run or the depression run, that groove got a little deeper, and the brain follows the tracks that are already there.
Pretzel doesn't try to fix your circumstances or argue with your feelings. It gives you an anchor: three character strengths you genuinely own, written as your Identity Statement.
"I am grounded, persistent, and dependable."
When the mind spirals, the question is never "what am I feeling?" — it's "who am I choosing to be right now?" Every return to your Bandwidth is a rep that lays down a new track — until coming back is something you can do at will.
Something happens — a message, a memory, a look — and your mind leaves the present. Tap where it went: future or past.
A short guided return: breathe, feel your feet, name what happened, and remember the person you have decided to be.
Choose one small action that expresses your strengths — then move on with your day. That's the rep that untwists.
The app
Check in with your Bandwidth, sit with a guided meditation, keep an Identity Journal, and see how the pieces fit on the Identity Compass — on the web today, on your phone soon.
Tap where your mind is right now — future, present, or past — and see your Identity Statement waiting underneath. No scores, no judgment.
Three short guided meditations, voiced by Yisroel Roll, to settle your body and prepare you to meet your own identity.
A daily check-in in your Identity Journal — where your mind went, what pulled it, and how you came back. Proof the reps are adding up.
An interactive map of the whole move — trigger, emotional network, reasoning network, and acting from who you are.
Private by design. Anonymous usage counts only — no ads, no trackers, never your words. Your journal, your story and your check-ins stay on your device — read the privacy policy.
Coming soon to the App Store · Available for Android testers on Google Play
Free & Pro
The daily practice is free, forever. Pretzel Pro adds the guided depth from Yisroel Roll's books — and a coach that knows your journal.
Free
$7.99 / month or $79.99 / year
Everything on the free plan stays free. Subscribe or cancel any time from inside the app.
The founder & the books
Pretzel is the practice behind Yisroel Roll's books. The app distills the Bandwidth, the Identity Statement and the return into something you can do in a hallway — and Pretzel Pro brings the books' deeper work along with it.
Yisroel Roll is a psychotherapist and author whose work centers on one idea: you are not your feelings — you are the person choosing what to do with them.
The book the app is built on — anxiety, depression, the Bandwidth, and the way back.
Why the hunger for approval keeps us stuck, and how identity turns it into contribution.
Retiring the "not good enough" story — the work behind Pretzel Pro's Story feature.
Legal & privacy