Mann
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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

  1. Privacy is structural, not a marketing claim. Mann is encrypted in a way that makes it impossible for us to read your entries — even under court order, even by mistake. If you forget your password, your entries can't be recovered. By design.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Mann is not therapy. We say this often because it matters. Mann is a journaling tool. It complements therapy, doesn't replace it. If you're in crisis, please call iCall or Vandrevala — those numbers are one tap from anywhere in the app.

What's coming

  • More regional languages (Punjabi, Gujarati, Malayalam) — Q3 2026
  • Family plan (4 accounts, ₹399/month) — Q3 2026
  • Apple Health and Google Fit integration for sleep + mood correlation — Q4 2026
  • On-device reflection so even content previews stay on your phone — pending iOS 18 capabilities
  • Web app — date TBD; mobile is the priority

Contact

Press, partnerships, feedback, complaints — all of it goes to hello@mannjournal.app. For privacy and data requests, use privacy@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