A curated catalog
Apothecary, audio & hi-fi, kitchen, fashion, furniture, tabletop, makeup, games — hundreds of products, every one of them quietly considered. Browse by category, search, filter, sort.
Therapy through shopping.
No bills.
A simulated shopping experience — browse a curated boutique catalog, fill the cart, check out, watch the parcel ship — without spending a cent or sharing a single byte.
Download on the App StoreA few moments with the catalog
What it is
Online shopping, the ritual without the receipt.
Open the app and you're handed a synthetic persona — a believable name, address, and demo card — so the checkout forms have something to fill them. Everything you'd be asked to enter on a real shopping site is already there, made up. The credit card is fake. The order is fake. The "delivery" is a sequence of polite local notifications about a parcel that doesn't exist.
Hundreds of products across apothecary, audio, kitchen, fashion, furniture, and more. Every product has a name, a brand, a price, photos, specs, and customer reviews — all generated, all clearly fictional. Filter by price, sort by rating, save favorites to a wishlist, browse editorial collections like "Cozy at home" or "First apartment."
Features
Built for the pacing, not the purchase.
Every detail is designed to extend the experience, not to monetize it. The small affordances that make a shopping site feel real are all here, working exactly the way they would on a site where the bag actually arrives at your door.
The Retail Therapy Card
Apply for a simulated store credit card, watch the brief review window, get approved. Charge orders against it, pay it down whenever, close it and apply again. No interest, no late fees, no real money.
Slow-shipping simulation
Orders move through real shipping stages — acknowledged, packed, in transit, out for delivery, delivered. Each milestone arrives as a polite local notification. The parcel doesn't exist; the pacing is the point.
A persona, not your name
Auto-generated name, address, phone, demo card. The checkout forms are pre-filled and non-editable, so no real information can ever land in them. Reroll the persona whenever you'd like a different one.
Wishlist & collections
Heart anything you'd come back to. Browse editorial collections — "First apartment," "Hi-fi starter kit," "Cozy at home," "Personal ritual" — that cut across the catalog the way a magazine spread would.
Everything stays on your phone
No account, no login, no cloud sync. Your wishlist, cart, persona, order history, card simulation — all stored locally. There's no server because there doesn't need to be.
Privacy by design
Nothing about you ever leaves your phone.
Retail Therapy is built privacy-first. There is no sign-up, no server, no cloud sync, no third-party analytics, no advertising network. Your wishlist, cart, persona, order history, and credit-card-simulation state are stored locally on your device. They never travel anywhere.
If you delete the app, every trace goes with it. Nothing is held server-side because nothing is collected server-side.
Read the full privacy policyNo ads, ever
There's nothing to sell — and we don't.
Retail Therapy doesn't run advertising. It doesn't sell user information. It doesn't share data with brokers. There aren't sponsored products in the catalog or third-party tracking SDKs in the binary. The simulation is the entire product.
No advertising
No banner ads, no sponsored placements, no affiliate links to outside retailers. The catalog is fictional and self-contained.
No data sale
Even if there were a market for "fake-shopping behavior," there's nothing to package — your activity never leaves the device.
No tracking SDKs
No analytics, no telemetry, no third-party libraries that phone home. The Privacy Nutrition Label reflects this: Data Not Collected.
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