If you searched for "an AI to talk to", you were probably not looking for a product category. You were looking for somewhere to put a thing you can't say to the people around you. The thought that would worry your mother, bore your friends by week three, or get repeated at the next family function. You want to say it once, in full, to something that won't flinch and won't tell.
Mann is built for exactly that, and this page is the honest description of it. Honest means saying what it isn't as clearly as what it is, because the internet is full of AI that will happily be whatever you want it to be, and that is not what we made.
What Mann is
Mann is a private journal that writes back.
You write the thing. In English, Hindi, Hinglish, or whatever mix it arrives in. When you save it, Mann says back the one thing in what you wrote that seemed to be carrying the most weight, the thing you might not have noticed while you were writing it. Then it stops. No summary, no advice, no "have you considered", no question. One thing, said back, and the entry is yours.
That's the centre of it. Everything else is built around getting you to write and getting out of the way afterwards.
There is also a chat. In the app it's called "Talk to Mann", and it's for the nights when you can't write a full entry yet and need to say something first. In chat, Mann listens more than it talks, asks one question at a time, never a list of them, follows you if you switch languages mid-sentence, and knows when it's late. If it's past nine in your part of the world, it doesn't tell you to just go to sleep. It's 10 messages a week on the free plan, on purpose: the product is the writing, not the conversation.
What Mann isn't
It isn't a therapist, and it won't pretend to be one. It never diagnoses, never hints at one, never uses the jargon. That holds in every language it speaks. If what you write sounds like a crisis, it stops reflecting and gives you the helpline numbers instead (they're at the bottom of this page too). A lot of people search for a "chatbot therapist". Mann is not one, and we'd rather lose that search than mislead the person typing it.
It is a place, not a person. It doesn't message you first unless you set a reminder yourself, and nothing in it is built to pull you back. There is a streak counter, and nothing anywhere that punishes you for breaking it. There's no "we haven't heard from you". The point is that you leave it lighter, not that you stay.
It isn't an endless conversation, and that's deliberate. On the free plan, the chat is 10 messages a week. That number is small on purpose. If you find yourself wanting more chat than that, the honest thing Mann can do is hand you back to the page, because the writing is where the understanding happens. An hour of chat can feel like processing. Ten minutes of writing more often is. Premium makes chat unlimited for people who want it, and adds Go Deeper (a question mid-entry when you're stuck) and voice journaling, but the free plan is not a teaser. Writing is free, as much as you like, with one reflection a day, forever.
What it's like, concretely
Say it's 11pm and the thing is about your job. You open Mann. It offers a single opening question, tuned to the hour, in your language. You write four paragraphs, angrier than you expected, half in Hinglish. You save.
Mann says back something like: the entry spent three paragraphs on your manager and one sentence, near the end, on the fact that you haven't told your parents you want to leave. That sentence was carrying the weight. Then it stops.
You close the app. Nothing follows you. Tomorrow the entry is there if you want it, and nothing asks you to look.
That's the whole interaction. If you wanted something that keeps replying, this will feel too quiet. If you wanted somewhere to say the thing, it's usually enough.
The part built for here
The reason this exists at all is the sentence most of us grew up with: log kya kahenge. What will people say. In a lot of Indian homes, the true version of what's on your mind has nowhere to go. Family will worry, or lecture, or remember. Friends might laugh, or repeat it. So it stays in, and what stays in circles.
Mann has been built to understand that context, not as decoration but in how it reads what you write: joint families, the salary comparison, the rishta conversation, the guilt of wanting something for yourself, the loneliness of being surrounded by people. When you write "Papa said the usual thing about the job", it doesn't need the usual thing explained. And it replies in the language you wrote in: English, Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, or Marathi.
What it stores, plainly
This is where a page like this has to be exact, so here it is.
Your journal entries are encrypted on your device before they're stored. Our servers hold ciphertext. Your words are read in flight, not at rest: a private safety screen reads every finished entry once, and the AI reads it when it writes your reflection. Tapping Go Deeper sends your draft the same way, and on Premium a finished entry is sent once more for the longer note. Nothing is kept.
Chat is different, and you should know that before you use it. Chat messages aren't encrypted yet. Mann needs to read them to remember what you told it, so they're stored as plain text on our servers. Encrypting chat is on the roadmap, and the features page will keep saying so until it ships. If the thing you need to say is the kind you'd want encrypted, write it as an entry, not a chat.
We never sell, rent, or trade your data, and your entries aren't used to train any model. You can delete everything, permanently, from inside the app. The full model is on the privacy and security page, and there's a longer piece on how the AI part actually works, including where it gets things wrong.
When it's more than something to say
Mann handles the thing you can't tell anyone. It does not handle everything, and it's built to say so. If what you're carrying is getting heavier rather than lighter, if it's been weeks, or if it tips into feeling that nothing matters or into thoughts of harming yourself, that is a conversation for a person, tonight: please call iCall at 9152987821 (Mon to Sat, 8am to 10pm) or the Vandrevala Foundation at 1860-2662-345, which is free and answers 24/7. Journaling sits well alongside therapy; it doesn't replace it, and it's a writing practice, not a treatment.
Mann will tell you the same thing if it hears it in what you write. It's a journaling tool, not a medical device or a therapist, and it's built to say so rather than pretend otherwise.
If that's what you were looking for
Pricing, plainly: writing in Mann is free, as much as you like, with one AI reflection a day and 10 chat messages a week on the free plan. Premium (₹199/month) makes chat unlimited and adds Go Deeper and voice journaling. Two guided programs, gratitude and sleep, are free in full. Get Mann here.
Or don't. A paper notebook does most of this, and we say that on every page. The one thing it can't do is say back the sentence you buried in paragraph four. If that's the part you needed, that's what Mann is for.
Want to start journaling tonight?
Mann is free to download. Unlimited journaling, no credit card.
