About
A journal for the way Indians actually live.
Why we exist
One in seven Indians lives with a mental health condition. Therapy waitlists in the metros run to months. Most digital tools that try to fill the gap were designed somewhere else, for someone else. The prompts assume free time, the crisis screens list American hotlines, and nobody mentions joint families.
Mann is built for a specific person: a 24-year-old in Bangalore, a 31-year-old in Pune, a 28-year-old in Delhi who’s tired of pretending. Someone who’d talk to a therapist if there was time and money and someone they trusted, but who in the meantime needs a quiet place to put down what they’re carrying.
Our principles
Privacy is structural, not a marketing claim.
Entries are encrypted on your device, and we store ciphertext. A few things stay in the clear on purpose: a short preview (the first 100 characters, for your timeline) and small bits of metadata like mood and word count. When you ask for a reflection or use Go Deeper, the full text is processed in flight by our AI provider and never retained. The key that unlocks your entries is generated on your phone and held in the device keychain. We never receive it, so we have no way to read your entries or move them for you. By design, and we say so in detail on the privacy & security page rather than letting you assume more than we deliver.
The AI works for you, not the other way around.
Mann doesn’t demand engagement. No streaks designed to manipulate you. No notifications designed to bait you back. The reflections are short. They quote your own words. They ask one good question.
Indian context is not a feature flag.
It’s in the prompts, the languages, the categories (“family pressure,” “marriage anxiety,” “izzat” are not afterthoughts), the price points, the crisis numbers, and the way we talk about emotion.
Mann is not therapy.
We say this often because it matters. Mann is a journaling tool. It complements therapy, it doesn’t replace it. If you’re in crisis, please call iCall, Vandrevala Foundation, or NIMHANS; those numbers are one tap from anywhere in the app.
What’s coming
- More regional languages (Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam), targeted for Q3 2026
- Family plan (4 accounts, ₹399/month), on the roadmap for Q3 2026. Not sold or billed anywhere today.
- Apple Health and Google Fit integration for sleep and mood correlation, targeted for Q4 2026
- On-device reflection so even content previews stay on your phone, pending iOS 18 capabilities
- Web app: date to be decided, mobile stays the priority
Contact
Mann is built by MZEUS LABS LLP. Press, partnerships, and feedback all go to support@mannjournal.app. For privacy and data requests, write to our Grievance Officer at grievance@mannjournal.app. Real humans answer.
Want to read more?
Our blog has longer pieces on why we built Mann, how the AI works under the hood, and 20 journaling prompts written specifically for Indian life.
Read the blog