HMARA vs Dotted

Sometimes the clearest way to understand what you're feeling is to talk it through. HMARA is an emotional support companion that helps you make sense of what's going on in your life. Tell it about your day, a conflict, a fear, a thought you can't shake, or a feeling you can't quite name. HMARA helps you slow the moment down, look at it from another angle, and see what might be going on underneath. THE MORE YOU TALK, THE MORE YOU SEE The same trigger, thought or reaction can show up in very different situations. As your conversations add up, HMARA helps you connect the dots and notice the themes and emotional patterns that are hard to spot in the moment. Seeing a pattern is often where changing it begins. TALK TO HMARA WHEN YOU'RE • Replaying a conversation in your head • Stressed or overwhelmed • Wondering why something hit you so hard • Noticing the same relationship pattern again • Stuck on a hard decision • Carrying an emotion you can't put into words • Just needing a private place to think out loud HMARA asks questions, reflects back what you share, and helps you work out a clearer next step. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF You don't have to explain everything from the beginning each time you need support. HMARA is built for ongoing conversations, so what you share becomes part of a bigger picture, and later chats feel more personal and closer to what you're actually going through. TALK OR TYPE Write when you want space to think. Speak when saying it out loud is easier. Choose the communication style that suits you: calm and supportive, reflective, structured, encouraging and more. SEE YOUR JOURNEY Every conversation is saved to Journey with a title and the topics it touched, so you can come back to it any time. • Mood trend: how you've been feeling across recent conversations • Weekly insight: one observation about your week and one small step for the next • Month in review: your mood over the month, where your attention went, recurring themes and what shifted PRACTICES FOR QUIET MOMENTS The Practices tab collects small things you can do for yourself, and shows what's ready for you today. Sound healing: 50 sessions of singing bowls, gongs, chimes and other real instruments over soft nature sounds, with no voice to follow. Pick a mood (ease stress, unwind deeply, fall asleep or gather focus) and a length from 10 to 60 minutes. Sessions keep playing with your screen locked, and sleep sessions fade out gently. It's a simple way to relax. Affirmations: choose a focus for today from topics based on what's been on your mind, or put it in your own words. HMARA writes an affirmation for you and reads it aloud in a calm voice over gentle music, highlighting each line. Pause it from your lock screen, or open it as text if you'd rather read. Creative practices: sometimes it's easier to draw a feeling than to name it. Each month you get three drawing practices picked for you, and no drawing skills are needed. Draw in the app with brushes and a full color palette, or photograph a drawing on paper, then answer a few gentle questions by typing or speaking. Your drawings are seen by you alone, and your answers make your chats, weekly insight and month in review more personal. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Add HMARA widgets: quote of the day, your latest affirmation, this week's focus, your month in review and creative practices. IMPORTANT HMARA is a self-help and emotional support tool. It does not replace professional diagnosis or treatment. If you're in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line. HMARA can also point you to support resources in your language. Talk about what happened. Understand how it made you feel. Notice what keeps repeating. Work through it, and move forward understanding yourself a little better.

Dotted is a calm, beautiful period and cycle tracker that keeps your data completely private — and is genuinely helpful in the moment. Private by design • Everything stays on your phone, encrypted. No account, no servers, no tracking. • No ads. No data selling. Free, always. • Move your data between phones with a passphrase-encrypted backup — nothing ever touches a server. Predictions that adapt to you • Learns your own rhythm from your last cycles — shown as honest ranges, never a fake exact day, and widening when your cycles vary. • Estimates ovulation from your own ovulation tests and cervical-mucus logs, so it doesn't just assume "day 14." • Personal symptom patterns: when cramps tend to hit, when PMS usually shows up. In the moment • A big cramp-relief button with quick, evidence-based relief and craving swaps. • Tap any day to log flow, pain, mood, energy, sleep and more — in one quick screen. • A cycle wheel, a phase-colored calendar, and home-screen widgets. Gentle reminders, your way • Phase changes, period due/late, PMS, fertile window, pill, daily check-in — each toggleable, scheduled locally on your device. Dotted's predictions are estimates, not contraception or medical advice.