Now in TestFlight · iOS 17+

A quiet ritual
for after the
conversation.

Clarity is a five-minute, structured debrief you do alone — after the argument, the awkward call, the text you almost sent. Not a chatbot. Not a journal. A container.

Download for iOSSee the 5 steps
On-device, by default 5 minutes No streaks. No mascot.
9:41
Step 3 of 5 · The Feeling & Need
Name the feeling. Then the need underneath.
Feeling
Unheard, more than angry.
UnheardFrustratedTired
Need underneath
To feel taken in, before being fixed.
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The Debrief · five steps

A finite ritual,
not a feed.

Five screens. One question each. You don't pick from a menu, you don't get prompted to start a streak. You sit down, you finish, you leave.

01 · 60–90s
The Flash
What happened, in one paragraph. Just the facts, like a security camera saw it.
FREE-TEXT · ~120 WORDS
02 · 20s
The Body
Where is this sitting in your body right now? Tap a region, set the intensity.
BODY MAP · 1–5
03 · 60s
The Feeling
Name the feeling. Then the need underneath it. Pick from a wheel, or write your own.
FEELING + NEED
04 · 60–90s
The Reframe
A story you're telling yourself. One other story that could also be true.
TWO-COLUMN TEXT
05 · 30–60s
The Next
Small Move
One thing you want to do, say, or not-do in the next 24 hours. Optional reminder.
FREE-TEXT + REMINDER
The whole thing takes about 5 minutes.
Hard ceiling at 8. Median user at 11pm on their couch can't do 15.
Try a Debrief
What's in the app

The structure does most of the work.

Patterns, quietly noticed

After a few entries, the same need keeps coming up.

Clarity tags every Debrief with the feeling, the need underneath, and who you wrote about. Three or four entries in, you start to see the same word — respect, space, care — surfacing again. Not a dashboard. A line you can read.

  • Recurring feelings, needs, body regions, and people
  • “When are you at your clearest?” — by hour, by day
  • Optional Apple Health cross-reference (sleep, HRV)
Most common need · last 8 weeks
Feeling unheard.
Appeared in 7 of your last 14 Debriefs — usually with Sam, after 7pm.
MAR 12APR 23
Privacy as the whole product

Your reflections never leave your phone, by default.

The structure of the app — not just a setting buried in a menu — keeps your writing on-device. Backups are end-to-end encrypted to your own iCloud. We can't read your entries. Neither can anyone we hand the database to, because there isn't one.

  • On-device storage, no account required
  • Face ID lock and “hide from recents”
  • Voice-to-text uses Apple’s on-device speech, never the cloud
  • Export everything as Markdown, JSON, or PDF, anytime

Stays on this phone.
Stays only with you.

What's actually shared, by default:

Your Debrief textstays
Feelings & needs you tagstays
Voice transcriptson-device
Anonymous crash logsopt-in
Anything elsenever
Three ways in

Reach for the app at the moment, not the next morning.

The app is built for the jolt — the ten minutes after a hard text, when most journaling apps feel like the wrong tool. Open from the home screen, share from Messages, or whisper into a voice memo on the walk home.

  • Share Sheet from Messages: “Clarity on this conversation”
  • Home screen widget — one tap into a fresh Debrief
  • Siri shortcut: “Hey Siri, open The Debrief”
7:42 PM · Tuesday
7:38
“It's fine, do whatever you want.”
7:39
You start drafting a reply. Delete it. Draft again.
7:42
You open Clarity instead.
From the TestFlight beta

People who reach for it at 11pm.

“I stopped having the same argument three times because I finally saw it was the same argument.”
J
Jules R.
Beta · 4 months in
“My therapist asked what I'd been writing in. I told her, and she asked if she could use it too.”
M
Mara K.
Beta · 2 months in
“It's the first app I've ever opened where the answer is 'finish, then put the phone down.'”
D
Dev S.
Beta · 6 weeks in
Pricing

Free to write. Pay to notice the patterns.

We don't gate the ritual. Every Debrief you write stays yours forever, on the free plan. Premium opens up the longitudinal view — what's been repeating, across months.

Free

Everything to keep the habit.
$0
forever
No credit card. No trial timer.
Get the app
  • 5 Debriefs per month
  • All entries stored forever
  • Last-3-Debrief summary
  • Up to 3 custom labels
  • On-device voice-to-text
  • Export as Markdown / PDF / JSON
  • Encrypted iCloud backup
Most chosen

Premium

For when the habit sticks.
$4.92
/ mo, billed yearly
$59 / year · or $6.99 monthly
Try free for 7 days
  • Unlimited Debriefs
  • Pattern detection across all entries
  • “When you're clearest” — time-of-day insights
  • AI “go deeper” reflection (10 / month)
  • Unlimited labels and Prompt Packs
  • Apple Health cross-reference (sleep, HRV)
  • 24-hour “Close” follow-up screen
No trapdoors. Cancel any time and keep every reflection you've ever written. Pause for two months instead, if you want.
Questions worth answering

Things people ask, honestly answered.

No. It's a reflection tool. It doesn't diagnose, treat, or coach. It's the structured 5 minutes you'd spend writing in a notebook anyway, with a little more shape. If you're in a crisis, please call or text 988.
Free, with five Debriefs a month. Premium is $4.92/mo if you pay yearly ($59/yr) or $6.99 monthly. The 7-day Premium trial doesn't ask for a card; we'll only charge if you tap “subscribe” after.
No. Your Debrief text never leaves your phone unless you tap “go deeper” with the AI feature on Premium — which sends only the structured fields (feeling, need, body region) to a model, and only for that one query. We never store the AI exchange on our servers, and we don't have a copy of your raw entries to read. There is no admin tool that lets us look.
For now. The privacy posture is built around Secure Enclave, on-device speech, and end-to-end encrypted iCloud backup — all of which work cleanly on iOS. Android is on the roadmap; we'll do it properly or not at all.
Clarity is intentionally single-player. The point is that you don't have to negotiate “can we use this together” in the middle of a fight. Both of you can install it; the app never tries to connect you. A separate Clarity Together tier is on the long-term roadmap, but it'll be opt-in and clearly partitioned.
You keep every Debrief you've ever written, view-only, forever. Pattern detection and the AI feature pause until you re-subscribe. Or pause for two months without losing anything — there's a real button for it inside Settings.
Journaling apps give you a blank page. Clarity gives you a container, for one specific moment — the one right after a hard conversation. The five steps come from work in NVC, DBT, CBT, and the Gottmans' research on repair attempts. You don't have to know any of that to use it.
No. We don't have it to sell. We don't run ads. We don't share with brokers. The business model is the subscription. Read the privacy policy in plain English below.
Not yet. The hard moment we built this for happens on a phone, in a kitchen or a parked car at 11pm. We're building the mobile experience to a high standard before splitting our attention.
A small team — two designers, two engineers, one therapist on retainer. We're independent. No VCs. We answer support emails ourselves, usually within a day. Hi. Hello.
Get the app

Open it the next time you don't know what to do with the feeling.

Free to start. The whole ritual fits in five minutes. No streaks, no notifications you didn't ask for, nothing to recover from.

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iOS 17+ On-device 34 MB
1
Install from the App Store
No account, no email, no card. Open and you're in.
2
Set Face ID lock & pick your reminder rhythm
Three nudges a week, evenings. Never weekends, never before 8am.
3
Do your first Debrief next time you need it
Five steps, ~5 minutes. After three or four, the patterns start to show.
Step 1 of 5
What happened, in one paragraph?
From your Notes
“We were cleaning up after dinner and I said, sharper than I meant to…”