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Mind Is Medicine
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The Situation
The founder’s approach treats stress, anxiety, poor sleep and unexplained physical symptoms as one shared pattern: a nervous system that has learned to stay on alert. They wanted an app that helps people understand that pattern and gently retrain it, with guided practices, regular check-ins to show change over time, and immediate help on a bad day.
The Constraint
The app had to feel calming from the first screen. Many users arrive tense or overwhelmed, so a long sign-up questionnaire would lose them. It also had to stay clearly on the wellness side, without diagnosing anyone, while still giving people in real distress a fast route to professional help
What we did
We built the iOS and Android app and its Firebase backend.
Feel it before the questions: onboarding explains the idea in a few short screens, then guides the user through a 90-second breathing reset before asking anything. Users feel the difference first, so they’re more likely to finish the check-in that follows.
Starting-point check-in: a short assessment covers stress, anxiety, mood, sleep, emotional reactivity and physical symptoms. Every screen says it is not a diagnosis. Users are reminded to check in again every 15 days, and their scores are charted so they can see change over time.
Personal 8-week journey: users pick the values and things that make them feel alive, and the app builds a guided plan from those choices and their check-in. Daily reflections and streaks help keep the habit going.
Help on a hard day: an SOS button opens a calming video straight away. A “You’re not alone” screen lists crisis lines such as 988 and Crisis Text Line, plus emergency numbers for nine countries, each one tap away.
MIMI, the in-app assistant: users can chat with an assistant that suggests sessions from the library. It runs through a server function, so no AI keys are stored on the phone.
Content and access: audio sessions keep playing in the background, alongside video and text sessions, favourites, search and filters. The team can update the SOS video and the app’s themes without releasing a new version. Subscriptions run through RevenueCat.
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The trade-off
Check-in results are shown as personal scores and trends, not clinical labels like “moderate anxiety”. That keeps the app firmly a wellness tool and avoids frightening people who are already anxious. The cost is that a user can’t hand their results to a clinician as a formal screening. We accepted that, and pointed anyone in real difficulty to the crisis resources instead.
Outcome
| Metric | Value | Source | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guided journey length | 8 weeks | App source | Jun 2026 |
| Wellbeing areas measured | 6 | App source | Jun 2026 |
| Check-in cycle | Every 15 days | App source | Jun 2026 |
| Countries with one-tap emergency numbers | 9 | App source | Jun 2026 |
| Languages | 2 (English, French) | App source | Jun 2026 |
| Commits | 928 | Repository history | Oct 2025 to Jun 2026 |
| Members | 100 + | - | - |
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Clear Mind
WellnessMobile app engineering · QA as a service · App growth marketing
Maintained for around five years · 100,000+ monthly active users · React Native
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Vigisea
Digital MarketPlaceMobile app engineering · QA as a service · UI and UX design
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