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Emochi
Voice journal to understand yourself through art and science
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Voice journal to understand yourself through art and science
227 followers
Emochi turns your voice notes into a living, generative character that reflects your emotional world. Vent about your day, untangle a thought, or check in with yourself. Your words are transcribed instantly, helping you notice patterns in how you feel. Built by a doctor, a designer, and two AI engineers, Emochi brings affective science and playful art to private, non-clinical self-reflection. Start with a voice note. Meet your Mochi.
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I'm Cynthia, a doctor and researcher in psychiatry. With my co-founders Mawuli, Vanessa, and James, I built Emochi, a voice journal grounded in affective science.
As a doctor, I've always recommended journaling. Expressing our feelings helps us make sense of them (Pennebaker & Beall, 1986), and talking may work at least as well as writing (Esterling et al., 1994). But after a long shift, a blank page felt exhausting, and a 1–10 mood scale felt shallow.
Emochi is built on three ideas from research:
1️⃣ Naming emotions calms the noise. Putting feelings into words is linked to a calmer brain and body response (Lieberman et al., 2007).
2️⃣ Specifics help. People who can tell their emotions apart tend to regulate them more readily (Barrett et al., 2001).
3️⃣ Noticing matters. Regular mood check-ins boosted self-awareness in young people (Kauer et al., 2012). Emochi turns your entries into shapes so you can see your patterns.
Non-clinical, private, and judgment-free. Emochi supports your personal growth.
We'll be here all day reading your feedback! 💙
@cynthia_atwork will definitely give it a try. I've been experimenting with different journaling and mindfulness methods; at least from what I've learned, the idea is always to name and describe the emotion to dissociate it from us as beings. Giving it an image probably makes it even easier!
@knolladrian thank you so much! Yes it’s amazing how a seemingly straightforward thing can help our emotional wellbeing. We also thought making it cuter would help make this science-backed strategy easier to adopt for our users 😊
The idea that Mochi gets lopsided because feelings are messy really landed for me. Curious: when the app detects a mix of emotions, how do you decide which one Mochi shows most strongly? And can users nudge it if it feels off?
Speaking your mood out loud and getting a little piece of art back is such a warm idea, and having a doctor behind it makes the reflection part feel much more grounded than the usual journaling apps!