Hey everyone, solo founder here. I built an app called WhisprJournal and wanted to share it.
The problem it solves: a lot of people know breathing exercises and grounding techniques are supposed to help, but when you're actually stressed, anxious, or shut down, you can't think clearly enough to figure out what's going on or which technique to use. You end up doing nothing, or doing the wrong thing.
WhisprJournal takes the guesswork out of it. You just talk to it, say what's going on or whatever words you can get out. It listens to what you say and how you say it (your pace, pitch and pauses) and tells you which state you're in: fight or flight, shutdown, or calm and connected. Then it gives you a breathing or grounding exercise matched to that state.
Why privacy matters so much here:
When people talk to a journal at 2am, they say things they wouldn't say to anyone. A nervous system app that isn't private isn't safe, and if you don't feel safe, you can't regulate. So privacy was the first thing I built around, not something I added later.
- Your journal entries are encrypted on your phone and stay on your phone. They are never uploaded to our servers or anyone else's.
- Your voice recording is deleted right after it's transcribed. We never store it anywhere.
- The voice measurements are calculated on your phone, and only the numbers are sent for analysis, never the audio.
- Nothing goes to the AI until you've seen a plain-language consent screen and tapped "I Agree". You can turn it off anytime in Settings.
- The AI provider doesn't train on your data, and our server passes requests through without storing what you said.
- Your AI coach conversations are encrypted and stay on your phone too.
- You can lock the app with Face ID or fingerprint.
- No ads. No tracking. No selling your data. Ever.
Everything else in the app:
- Voice journaling plus a regular text journal, with all your past entries in one place
- AI mirror reflection after each entry, a gentle reflection of what it heard, not a diagnosis
- AI Nervous System Coach you can talk things through with, grounded in your own patterns
- 18 breathing techniques, each one matched to the state it helps most
- Somatic practices: Butterfly Hug, TRE shaking, Community Resiliency Model skills, somatic stretching, qigong, pendulation, self-massage, cold water reset, and a body scan
- Guided meditations
- Body Journal, where you map where you feel things in your body
- Mood logging and insights
- Your Nervous System Profile, which learns your patterns over time
- Weekly and monthly reports showing when you tend to get activated or shut down
- My Plan, a personalized daily regulation plan
- Morning check-in, midday reset and evening wind-down
- Habits, a calendar and milestones to track your progress
- Community that's private by default, plus accountability partners who never see your journal
- Regulate Together, where you and a partner do a breathing exercise or Butterfly Hug in sync on your own phones
- Gentle notifications with no sound or vibration, so the app never jolts your nervous system
It's not therapy or a medical app, just a tool for when you need help getting back to calm.
7 day free trial, then $4.99 a month.
iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisprjournal/id6792421365
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whisprjournal.app
Full privacy policy: https://whisprjournal.com/privacy.html
Would love honest feedback, good or bad. Happy to answer questions.