Free · Private · Offline · Coming soon to iOS
Know your patterns.
Run your experiments.
An iOS app for figuring yourself out the way you'd figure out anything else: pick a thing you keep doing on autopilot, try it differently, write down what actually happened. Everything stays on your phone.
Not a medical device. Not a replacement for clinical care. If you are in crisis, call or text 988.
Ask a question in tomorrow's standup
← Away from valuesIf I ask, everyone will think I should already know this.
I'll get a short answer and a weird look.
Two other people had the same question. Nobody acted weird.
I'm not the only one who doesn't know things.
How it works
Four steps to knowing yourself better.
You don't learn who you are by thinking about it. You learn by trying things and writing down what actually happened.
Say what matters to you
Pick the things you actually care about — connection, honesty, courage, whatever fits. Everything else gets measured against this. Not what you're supposed to want. What you actually want.
Notice a loop you're in
A loop is a thing you keep doing without deciding to: a trigger, an urge, the move you always make. Avoiding the email. Checking the lock again. Naming it is half the work — you can't change something you can't see.
Try something different
Pick the loop. Guess what'll happen if you don't do the usual move, and how hard it'll feel. Then actually try it. The point isn't to be brave — it's to find out which of your stories about yourself are true.
Write down what you learned
What actually happened? Did you like it? Could you do it? Was it as bad as you predicted? Over time you build a private record of who you are when you stop guessing and start checking.
What I won't compromise on
A few ground rules.
These are the reasons I built Anagnori instead of using something that already exists. If any of them ever stop being true, that's the day I stop calling it Anagnori.
Works without wifi
The whole app runs on your phone. You shouldn't have to find out your mental-health app needs an internet connection in the middle of a hard moment.
No account
No email, no password, no cloud. Open the app and start. If sync ever exists it'll be optional, never required.
Stays on your phone
What you write lives in local storage on your device and never leaves it. No analytics tool sees the actual text — just anonymous counts of which screens get used.
I'm not a doctor
I'm not qualified to treat anything, and Anagnori isn't either. It's a tool for noticing and trying. If you need real help, the app points you toward people who can give it.
988 is one tap away
The 988 Lifeline is reachable from every screen, no login. If you need a person, the last thing you need is friction.
Built on real research
Every part of how the app works comes from published psychology research — mostly ERP and ACT. If I can't point to a study, it doesn't go in.
Free · private · yours
No pricing page. No account. No catch.
Anagnori is a personal project, not a business. It's free because it costs me almost nothing to run — everything lives on your device, so there's no server to pay for, no database to protect, and no subscription to justify.
Your data stays on your phone
Patterns, experiments, intensity ratings, and reflections are stored locally on your device. No cloud sync. No backup to a server. No database that could be breached, subpoenaed, or sold.
No account. Ever.
No email, no sign-up, no password to forget. Open the app and start. Delete the app and your data is gone with it — that's the whole design, not an afterthought.
Nobody reads what you write
No analytics SDK sees the text of your experiments. No language model is trained on your reflections. No therapist gets a copy. The only person reading your notes is you.
I built Anagnori because I wanted it to exist, not because I wanted to sell it. If that ever changes, I'll tell you plainly on this page. Until then — it's just free.
If you are in crisis, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) or go to your nearest emergency room. Anagnori is not a crisis intervention tool.
If you need a real person
An app can do some things. A therapist can do others.
These directories are free to browse. If anything you're working through feels bigger than what an app should hold, please use them.
Psychology Today
Therapist directory with filters for anxiety and OCD specialists.
IOCDF Therapist Finder
International OCD Foundation directory of OCD-specialist therapists.
Open Path Collective
Affordable therapy sessions ($30–$80) for those without insurance.