A private three-minute spoken check-in for the end of work, or the end of a long week. Decompress helps you close the day without writing a journal entry.
Open the app, rate how stressful work feels right now, speak naturally for up to three minutes, then rate how it feels afterwards. Decompress saves the transcript and a short summary on your iPhone and shows you, gently, how speaking changed the day.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Reflections stay on this iPhone... there is no Decompress backend
• Audio is never written to a file; the microphone stream feeds transcription only
• Summaries are computed locally; on Apple Intelligence devices, the on-device Foundation Models framework improves the wording without sending anything away
• No account, no sign-in, no profile to manage
THE RITUAL
• Open Decompress at the end of work or the end of a week
• Rate how stressful it feels right now - 1 is calm and manageable, 10 is overwhelmed
• Talk through the day for up to three minutes, or stop early when you feel finished
• Rate how it feels now
• Read a short local receipt - what was said, what is parked for later, how stress moved
PATTERNS WITHOUT A DASHBOARD
• A weekly Before-and-After chart that shows how each check-in moved, not a daily score
• "What went well" - moments worth remembering, drawn from your own words
• Optional Sunday review reminder when you want to look back at the week
YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE
• Export your reflections as a JSON file from Settings → Clean Sweep
• Delete everything saved on this iPhone at any time, in one tap
• No analytics service, no remote AI service, no marketing tracking
• Free ad serving is via Google AdMob (banner only, never during a reflection) with consent shown where required
REMOVING ADS IS OPTIONAL
A one-time Ad-Free Forever purchase keeps the core ritual exactly as it is, without the banner ad. The reflection flow is always ad-free.
WHAT DECOMPRESS IS NOT
• Not therapy, coaching, or a medical service
• Not a cloud journal, productivity dashboard, or social network
• Not a streak counter... skipping a day is supported, not punished
If you need professional support, please contact a qualified practitioner. In the UK, Samaritans are available 24/7 on 116 123 or at samaritans.org.
Privacy policy: https://picksley.ai/decompress/privacy-policy
Support: https://picksley.ai/decompress/support
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