does anyone actually reply?

in the week ending 17 august 2026, six people posted and the community wrote 61 replies — roughly ten replies for every new post. that is a weekly ratio taken from our production database, not a per-post guarantee: some of those replies landed on posts from earlier weeks, and we cannot promise that any individual post gets answered.

how fast do replies come?

we do not publish a response-time figure, because we do not yet measure it reliably enough to put a number on a marketing page. when we can stand behind one, it will appear here with its source like every other figure on this page.

who is replying — therapists or other users?

mostly peers: other people who have been through something similar. resolv also lists licensed therapists, and some answer questions in the community. replies are from real people, not chatbots. one exception is honest to name: if the app detects language suggesting immediate risk, an automated safety response surfaces crisis resources straight away. that one is a machine, deliberately, because it should not have to wait for a human.

is posting anonymous?

it is pseudonymous, which is the part people actually mean. you post under a handle you choose, and that handle is all any other member sees — no real name and no phone number is ever asked for. creating the account does take an email address, which is how you sign back in, and it is never shown to another user.

do i need an account to read the research?

no. all 251 published research summaries are free to read on the web with no account, each with its primary source, its trust score, and the reasoning behind that score on the page.

nothing. resolv is free for people seeking support — no premium tier and no card. the paid side of the business is a listing for therapists, not a fee for the people posting.

what actually happens when you post on resolv

the question everyone asks before they type anything real is the same one: will anybody actually answer? most apps dodge it. here is our answer, with the number attached — including the part of the number that is not flattering.

the number, and its date

in the week ending 17 august 2026, 6 people posted on resolv and the community wrote 61 replies. that is roughly ten replies for every new post.

two honest qualifications, because the number is worth more with them than without. first, it is a weekly ratio, not a per-post promise — some of those 61 replies landed on posts from earlier weeks. second, it comes straight out of our production database on a fixed schedule, not from a marketing spreadsheet. it is the same report we use internally to decide what to build.

why the ratio is that high — and why it will fall

here is the part most apps would bury: the ratio is that good because resolv is small. 1,103 people have registered and about 40 were active in the month that report covers. six posts in a week is not a boast. it is a small room.

but a small room is exactly why your post gets read. on a large forum your post competes with thousands of others posted the same hour, and the honest outcome for most of them is silence — you write the hardest paragraph of your month and watch it slide off the front page in nine minutes. here, yours was one of six. people have the attention to spare, and they spend it.

that trade is real, and it cuts both ways. a bigger community would mean more people who have been through your exact thing, and a worse chance that any one of them sees you. as resolv grows, this ratio will come down. we will keep publishing it anyway, including the year it stops being impressive.

what we are not promising

we are not promising that your post gets a reply. we cannot, and any app that does is guessing on your behalf about strangers' free time. what we can tell you is what happened last week, dated, so you can decide with a real number instead of a mood-board.

we are also not promising therapy. resolv is peer support. licensed therapists are listed here and some answer questions, but a reply from a stranger who has been where you are is not treatment, and we would rather say so on this page than let you find out later.

what you post as

you post under a handle you pick. that handle is all anyone else sees — no real name, no phone number. signing up takes an email address, because that is how you sign back in, and it is never shown to another member. we say pseudonymous rather than anonymous on purpose: the second word would be doing work it has not earned.

you do not have to post at all

plenty of people never write a word, and that is a legitimate way to use this. the research library is free to read on the web without an account: 251 published summaries, every one citing a named primary source, each carrying a trust score calculated from recorded facts about the paper — study design, funding, journal, sample size — rather than typed in by someone. a retracted paper scores zero and cannot be published at all.

if you want to see the standard before you trust the summaries, the scoring rubric is public, including the parts that do not flatter us. or just browse the library and check our work.

if you are in crisis right now

please do not wait on a peer reply. call or text 988 (suicide & crisis lifeline) or text HOME to 741741 (crisis text line). both are free, confidential and staffed 24/7 by trained counselors. resolv is not an emergency service and we will always point you at one rather than keep you here.

what actually happens when you post