Made by someone who knows it, for people who know it
See your next low coming, not just your next high
Balance is a free app for people who have lived through expansive and low stretches. It helps you see what in your life pulls you towards one, and notice the early signs you chose yourself. Everything stays on your phone, encrypted.
Your own early signs
You wrote down how your lows begin.Balance noticed it beginning again.
Your sign · Sleep
Awake at four, not falling back asleep
3 of 5
nights this week
Your sign · Days
Not out of the house before noon
4 days
in a row
Check-ins
Energy lower than your usual
−2
against your last month
Noticed
Two of the signs you wrote down for a low are back
2 of 3
a nudge to you, nobody else
What a tracker shows
“Sleep score 62. Mood 3/5.” The same numbers it shows everyone, watched for the highs if it watches for anything. Whether this week looks like the start of your last low is left for you to work out.
What Balance shows you
Two of the signs you wrote down for a low are back: waking at four, and staying in until noon. Last time, that was how it started. Here is the plan you made for this.
Illustrative. The signs are the ones you choose; Balance tells you when it sees them, and never tells anyone else.
Most of the time lost to these conditionsis lost to the lows.
So Balance takes a low as seriously as an expansive stretch, and looks for the quiet signs as carefully as the loud ones.
In the app
Small things, done every day,that add up to understanding.
Check-ins
Mood and energy in a few taps, when you want to. No streaks to keep, nothing that breaks if you skip a week.
Your story
A timeline of your stretches, low and expansive, with what was going on around them. Over months it shows what tends to pull you one way or the other.
Your warning signs
You write down what the start of a low or an expansive stretch looks like for you, in your words. Balance watches for those, not for someone else's.
Gentle nudges
When several of your signs show up together, Balance tells you. Only you: it never alerts family, friends, or anyone else.
Your plan
What you decided, on a good day, that you want to do when the signs come back. It's there when the nudge arrives.
Journal
Write as much or as little as you like. Your journal stays on your phone, always, including if you contribute data.
On your phone, by default
Check-ins, readings, your story and your journal live on your phone. Using Balance sends nothing anywhere.
Encrypted
Stored encrypted on the device. If you choose to contribute, what you share travels encrypted too.
Never sold, no ads
Your data is never sold and never used for advertising. There are no advertising SDKs in the app.
Nudges reach only you
Balance never alerts anyone but you. Not family, not an employer, not a care team.
The project · optional
If you want, contribute your signalsto a project that belongs to you.
Contributing is separate from using the app, and off until you turn it on. Pseudonymous, de-identified daily signals go to a shared project owned by the people who contribute. They are never sold and never used for advertising, only to build models that are given back to you. Stop and erase everything whenever you like.
What leaves the phone, if you contribute
- Sleep timing and duration
- Movement, as daily totals
- Daily rhythm: when days start and end
- Phone use, as aggregates
- Mood and energy check-ins
- Voice features such as pace and pitch
What never does
- Voice recordings
- Journal text
- Contacts
- Location traces
- Your name, email or phone number
- Which apps you use, or what you type
Free, and early.Made for the people who know it.
iPhone builds go out through TestFlight; on Android you install the app directly. Both are early, and both keep everything on the phone.