A slow, on-device home for mood, sleep, breath, voice journaling, CBT reframing and a bloom garden — quietly surfacing the patterns between them, all built to get out of your way. No accounts. No upsells. Nothing tracked but what you tell it.
Thursday, August 20
Good morning.
Young plant · Log 14 of 30
14 day streak
Today's factors
Logged, tap to update
Today's intention
Be patient with the slow parts.
Most wellness apps want your attention. They send notifications. They keep streaks like creditors. They turn rest into a metric and sell the metric back to you.
BareMind is the opposite. Small, slow, quiet. A garden you tend on your own time. The streak forgives a missed morning. The data never leaves your phone. One small price, then it's yours — no subscription, no upsells, no ads.
— a note from the person who built it
Mood, sleep, breath, the words you write — logged separately, read together. After a couple of weeks BareMind surfaces the links between them in plain sentences, and a gentle coach points at the days that may run rough. No charts to decode, no dashboards to maintain.
"Low-energy days tend to cluster around short nights." "Mornings logged before nine read brighter." "You mentioned overwhelm three times this week." Sentences, not graphs — the kind of thing a thoughtful friend might notice, said gently and only to you.
And it stays that way. Every pattern is worked out on your phone — rule-based, no LLM, no cloud — and never sent anywhere. The understanding is yours alone.
Most take less than three minutes. Each one optional. Each one stays on your phone. (Plus a quiet library — meditation, cycle, exposure ladder, worry tree, behavioural activation, gratitude, three-goal tracker, sixteen badges, values bullseye, safety plan, coping cards, urge surf, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, progressive muscle relaxation, self-compassion break, wind-down, naps, stretches, water, steps, screen time, pain and headache logs — when you want them.)
Five seconds, five blooms. Pick how today feels, name a couple of feelings, jot a sentence if a sentence comes. No upsell. No "great job!" screen.
This is where it all comes together. After a couple of weeks the garden notices — mornings before nine, short-sleep dips, which contexts brighten the days, the phrase you keep writing — and tells you in plain sentences, not charts that need translating. A quiet coach even flags likely-rough days ahead. Rule-based, no LLM, no cloud: every link is worked out on your phone and stays there.
A sleep score, an estimated sleep-rhythm chart, a smart alarm and one observation about how last night might be touching today. Syncs sleep and steps from your wearable — Health Connect on Android, Apple Health on iOS. (Overnight mic recording is Android-only; on iOS you log the night by hand or let Apple Health fill it in.) No leaderboards. No optimization.
Box. 4-7-8. Coherent. Wim Hof — or drop the pacing and just sit with a plain timer. The screen darkens. The animation breathes. You breathe. That is the whole feature.
Ten distortion patterns. Thirty Socratic prompts. For/against. A kinder version. The thought stays on this device — never logged anywhere else.
One plant, grown from your daily logs. It grows through nine stages over a year, blooming in twenty-one species, some rarer than others. A companion keeps it company — one of six, and it lives its own small life beside the plant. Tap either one and it responds.
Voice journal that transcribes on-device on Android, in English, French and Dutch. One speech model (about 875 MB, shared by all three languages) downloads once and is the only thing BareMind ever fetches; after that it runs with the radio off. It needs a phone with 4 GB of memory or more. The recording and its transcript are saved encrypted on the phone — nowhere else — and you can delete them the moment you're done. Voice journaling is Android-only — the iOS app requests no microphone access at all.
Five short prompts, plus a few drawn from the week's own data. Open it whenever the week feels done — Sunday evening, Monday morning, whenever. The app surfaces what shifted; you write the rest. Archived to your phone, never sent over the wire.
Mood. Sleep with smart-alarm. Voice journal with on-device transcription. CBT. Cycle. A living plant that grows with your steady weeks. Built around calm — and designed to disappear when you're done.
One bloom. A couple of feelings, optional. A sentence, optional. The garden gets a leaf.
A leaf for each log. Blooms arrive as it grows through nine stages over a year, in twenty-one species shaped by your moods, some rarer than others.
After a couple of weeks, plain-language patterns emerge — which mornings run bright, how a short night lands the next day, the contexts that lift you, a phrase you keep writing. Not charts that need translating, sentences. A quiet, rule-based coach even flags likely-rough days ahead. Every link is worked out on your phone and never leaves it.
Five standing prompts and a few seeded by the week's own data — sleep dips, mood shifts, a phrase you wrote twice. You answer the ones that pull, whenever you get to it. Not a dashboard. Not a notification storm.
Bright, loud, designed to keep you inside. I made the opposite — closer to a small allotment garden you visit on the way home.
Not to me. Not to advertisers. Not to "anonymous research partners." I don't have the keys, the servers, or the appetite. Mozilla's *Privacy Not Included reviews of mental-health apps kept landing on the same finding — I built around the opposite assumption.
AES-256-GCM encryption at rest, on by default on both platforms — mood notes, journals, voice transcripts, reframes and your safety plan are sealed with a key held in the device's own secure storage (Android Keystore, iOS Keychain), never derived from your PIN and never synced to iCloud. Face or fingerprint unlock. Screenshot blocking on Android. The key never leaves your phone.
BareMind is a self-tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat anything and is no substitute for professional care. If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line — the app keeps a list for your locale, offline, one tap from anywhere in it.
BareMind launches on Android and iOS together, at $4.99 once, in English, French and Dutch. There is no mailing list to join and no account to make — nothing to sign up for, here or in the app. Check back, or find it on the stores when it lands.