Case Study: Sanvello delivers a seamless mental health app experience with Ionic

The #1 mental health app in the app stores shares their secret to delivering an award winning user experience

Sanvello, a mental health app founded by Dale Beermann and Chris Goettel, needed a way to rapidly prototype and launch a consumer product without the time and complexity of building separate native apps. The team wanted a flexible platform that could support both fast iteration and future native integrations while helping them create a functional, beautiful, and easy-to-use experience. Ionic provided the hybrid app development platform used to meet that challenge.

Using Ionic and Cordova, Sanvello built its first version in just three months and launched on both iOS and Android much faster than a native approach would have allowed. Ionic enabled the team to iterate quickly based on user feedback, add complex features like audio recording and waveform rendering, and build with HIPAA-compliance and security in mind from the start. The result was strong product growth, with Sanvello reaching 950,000 registered users and helping thousands of people manage stress, anxiety, and depression.

Sanvello

Chris Goettel

Founder