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Your most vulnerable thoughts deserve better than a terms-of-service agreement. Here is why privacy in apps that track emotional patterns is not a feature — it is a prerequisite.
Tracking apps are good at showing you correlations — sleep and mood, weather and energy. Fewer are built to show you something that just keeps recurring, with no clean variable attached.
You know the feeling. Nothing dramatic happened. Work is roughly the same. Sleep is roughly the same. But something is heavier. And you can't point to why.
Not a feature list. A walkthrough of what actually happens between a check-in and a pattern surfacing — so you can judge whether the mechanism holds up.
A single hard day doesn’t tell you much. But the same hard day, recurring, in roughly the same shape — that’s something different. Here’s how to tell which one you’re in.
You say you're fine. You mean it. But your "fine" has quietly become something different from what it used to mean — and you have not noticed the shift.