Too much in your head tonight?

It helps you understand what you are feeling and why, one evening at a time. You talk for a couple of minutes; Leeway gives the evening a name, shows your emotional reserve and your mental load, keeps your words, and hands you one small step for tomorrow. After a few entries, it shows what keeps coming back and what helps.

A journal keeps what you wrote. Leeway reads it back to you. It estimates the emotion in your voice and in what you describe, follows your reserve and your load from one entry to the next, and connects your entries into patterns you would never spot by rereading. You also leave each evening with one thing to do, not just a page.

That is the point. You don't name anything. You say what happened and what took your energy. Leeway does the naming, from how you speak and what you say, and you can correct it. If you would rather not talk, write instead.

Reserve is the room you have left, from “Running low” to “Ample”. Load is what is still turning in your head, from “Light” to “Heavy”. On their own they are two numbers. Watched over a week, they show which days drain you and which refill you, early enough to do something about it.

Patterns starts answering three questions with your own sentences and dates: what weighs on me, what helps me, what am I doing differently. The small steps you kept turn into habits. And when there isn't enough to tell, Leeway says so instead of inventing a pattern.

Neither. A mood tracker asks you to rate your day; Leeway listens to it. A therapy app treats; Leeway helps you understand and manage your emotions day to day, in your own words. It is not a diagnosis and not a substitute for care.

Two or three minutes in the evening, a minute in the morning. Leeway opens on iPhone first; joining the list gets you one email when it does.