Hayley: Your Thinking Companion - An insight, a pattern, one question worth sitting with.
Speak for 60 seconds. No prompts, no structure, just say what's on your mind. Hayley reflects back three things: an insight about what you're really saying, a pattern detected across your sessions, and one question worth sitting with.
Not a chatbot. Not voice notes. Not therapy. A thinking companion that pays close attention, session after session.
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Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
The framing of "thinking patterns" rather than "mood tracking" lands well — it changes the relationship with the data from confessional to analytical. I work on DishRoll on the meal-planning side and we noticed something similar: the moment we shifted from "log your food" to "see your patterns," engagement looked very different. Curious whether you see the same dynamic between daily users and weekly reflectors.
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@samir_asadov Really appreciate this framing, Samir, and the parallel with DishRoll is spot on.
"Confessional vs analytical" is exactly the tension I kept running into when positioning this. The moment it feels like you're being judged or assessed, people stop showing up. Calling it thinking patterns rather than mood tracking removes that weight entirely.
On your question: early signals suggest daily users get more out of the pattern detection, which makes sense, more data points means Hayley can surface themes that aren't obvious in a single session. But weekly reflectors seem to use it more intentionally, almost like a debrief, and the insights tend to be sharper because they've had time to let things accumulate.
I suspect the sweet spot is something like 3-4 times a week, frequent enough for patterns to form, spacious enough that each session has something new in it.
Curious how you handled that frequency question on the DishRoll side, did you nudge users toward a cadence or let it emerge naturally?
@hayleyapp The 3-4x/week sweet spot rings true — on DishRoll we landed somewhere similar by accident. We didn't push a cadence; we just made the experience cheap enough that opening it daily had near-zero friction. What happened was users self-selected into two camps: a daily "what's tonight" check-in cohort, and a Sunday-only "plan the whole week" cohort. The Sunday people gave us deeper feedback (clearer themes) but the daily people had higher retention. Different value pockets for the same mechanic.
For Hayley I'd guess the natural-emergence path is right — nudging a journaling tool toward a cadence risks reintroducing the "being assessed" weight you removed by reframing as patterns rather than tracking. Maybe the win is making the daily-vs-weekly split visible to the user as an insight rather than a setting they have to choose.
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@samir_asadov The DishRoll split is a really clean way to see it, same mechanic, two different value contracts. The Sunday cohort giving clearer themes makes sense; distance compresses things into signal.
Your point about cadence reintroducing the assessed weight is exactly the line I've been trying not to cross. The reframe from tracking to patterns only holds if Hayley never starts feeling like homework. The moment there's a streak counter or a suggested frequency it becomes a thing you're either doing or failing at.
Making the split visible as an insight rather than a setting, that's the right instinct. Not "you're a daily user" as a badge, but Hayley noticing "your Thursday sessions tend to run longer" or "you usually come back after something unresolved." The pattern card could carry that without it ever feeling like a nudge.
Something worth building toward.
"Thinking Patterns" really lured me into the post and thank god it did. I can definitely see myself using this throughout my chaotic work day.
One quick question - how personalized are the questions? are they based on previous interactions or does it use a generalized framework to generate responses?
@hayleyapp Congratulations on the launch!
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@satwik_karnati Thank you, glad it landed.
The short answer: both, and they shift over time. The insight and question from your first session are generated from what you actually said, the specific words, the thing you circled back to, the thing you didn't quite finish.
That's session-level.
The pattern card is different. Hayley builds that across sessions, it starts noticing what recurs, what you avoid, what keeps coming up in a different coat. The longer you use it, the more specific that card gets.
So early on it's close listening. Over time it becomes close memory. That's the part most people find useful, not the single reflection, but the one that says "third session this shape."
The framing of "one question worth sitting with" is doing something genuinely different from most AI productivity tools, which tend to optimize for throughput. Hayley seems designed for the opposite — slowing the thinking loop down rather than speeding it up. I'm curious how you calibrate what makes a question "worth sitting with" vs. one that just closes a loop quickly. Is the curation coming from the AI reading the pattern in your inputs, or is there a user-set intention layer — something like "I want to think about X this week" — that guides which observations surface?
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@eran_shayshon This is such a thoughtful read of what we’re trying to build.
Most AI products today are designed to collapse thinking into answers as quickly as possible. Hayley is intentionally exploring the opposite direction, using AI to create more space for reflection, not less.
Right now, the “questions worth sitting with” come from a mix of signals:
recurring tensions or thought patterns,
contradictions in how someone talks about a situation,
things they keep circling back to,
and moments where there seems to be unfinished thought rather than a resolved conclusion.
We’ve found the most meaningful prompts usually aren’t the ones that produce immediate clarity, they’re the ones that create a pause.
And on the intention layer: right now it’s mostly emergent rather than explicitly configured. Some people naturally start journaling around themes like identity, relationships, burnout, creativity, or decisions, and Hayley begins reflecting patterns around those over time rather than steering them directly.
We’re being careful not to over-direct the experience though. One of the risks with AI journaling is that it can start sounding overly certain or therapeutic. We want Hayley to feel more like a thoughtful mirror than a coach with answers.
Curious where you think the balance should sit, should AI actively guide reflection, or mostly create the conditions for people to guide themselves?
Very cool, I was trying to find an app like this. Where my voice would be sent tho? Where do you store all data?
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@fberrez1 Great question, and honestly one of the most important ones to get right.
Your voice never leaves your phone. Transcription happens fully on-device, so the audio itself is never sent anywhere.
The only thing that goes to our server is the text transcript, which is sent securely to generate your reflection. We don't store it long-term, it's used in the moment and then the insight is returned to you.
The patterns Hayley builds over time are stored locally on your device. You're in full control, delete any session, or wipe everything, at any time.
No voice. No audio storage. No selling data. That was a hard design constraint from day one.
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no android app?
Hayley: Your Thinking Companion
@hiya_chaplot1 Not yet, iOS only for now while we get the core experience right. Android is hopefully launching this week and it's the most common request we're getting today, so it's moving up the priority list fast.
If you want a heads up when it's ready, follow us here https://www.instagram.com/hayleyapp_com/ page followers will be the first to know
AccountyCat
Hey, love that idea! This is gold for when thoughts are full! Two questions
- What model does it use under the hood, and will there be a BYOK option?
- Is there a way to export everything to markdown? (I have a notes app already, I would like to have it there as well)
Thanks!!